Size = 540 ... 8-12 regular drafters
Section Sizes = 72 for Mono-Color, Lands, and Artifacts. 36 Multicolor. (Sections dividable by 9 for binder during updates)
Powered = Fully!
Proxies = None (unless testing spoiled card prior to release).
Un-Cards = No ... because of silver border.
Portal = 1 & 2 Yes, Three Kingdoms & Starter No (White Border)
Snow = No
Avg cmc = 3.02 (scewed slightly with our reanimate/tinker targets)
"Pimp" = Black border is all we want (and I'm finished ... 100%:D). No foreign cards (don't work for many in our group). No foils (they all can't be foil so ... none).
Black Based Reanimater. (With some support from Blue/Green and a little from the rest ... with emphisis on big fatties in Gold Section for targets)
Blue Based Artifacts. (lets Blue do something else ... that is still busted good ... good ol' blue)
Some Combo. (We run run some Combos and try to include usable tutors to help)
Since we fully draft our cube, mono-color (or mostly with a light splash) is fairly typical for our generic Aggro decks. The mana is much more reliable early (obv.) and this influences our shying away from Green aggressive 1 drops, and allowing the good CC costed beaters. They curve out at 4 almost without fail, so anything over 4 will need to be useful in a Control or a Midrange style we prefer.
Red Aggro is easy to assemble with all the burn available, which often allows 2 drafters.
White really needs multiple equipment and a bomb or 2 in Armageddon or Elspeth, Knight Errant and therefore typically can't support more than 1 drafter.
So our Red section has more slots allocated for Aggro than White since it better supports multiple aggro Drafters!
Shalazar! Might I ask what happened to your old cube? I thought you regularly drafted it at full capacity. Not that I'm objecting to the new one - I'm also reducing my cube size, at a rate somewhat slower than yours, apparently!
I might comment a bit more later, but after skimming your list I'm seeing a lot of unique choices that you seem to have carried over from the old one. Could be interesting if you talked about some of the less played options you're currently using.
The old cube of 900 was for a theoretical draft group of 20. In reality, we only got 12-16 in the same room for drafts. So I cut cube to 720 at first. Over the past year, I've lost 2 regulars to college, 1 to a mission, and a brother that moved out of State. I also decided not to invite back another fairly regular drafter. That put numbers down to 9-13ish for drafts. I have to be careful I don't overinvite to achieve max of 12. So far that's worked. The choices we use are based on my Drafters playstyles. We regularly get 1-2 R/x aggro decks, 1 B/wg aggro, 1 Ramp, 1 Tinker/Reanimate, 1 Blink/Recursion, 1 WW, 1 U/x Aggro Control, 1-2 U/X Control, 1-2 Naya Beats, 0-1 Prison, 0-2 random ComboControl.
So some odd picks are purely because they excel in one of those archetypes. Feel free too inquire about any of the choices, and I will happily give reasons!
Size = 540 ... 8-12 regular drafters
Section Sizes = 72 for Mono-Color, Lands, and Artifacts. 36 Multicolor. (Sections dividable by 9 for binder during updates)
Powered = Fully!
Proxies = None (unless testing spoiled card prior to release).
Un-Cards = No ... because of silver border.
Portal = 1 & 2 Yes, Three Kingdoms & Starter No (White Border)
Snow = No
Avg cmc = 3.02 (scewed slightly with our reanimate/tinker targets)
"Pimp" = Black border is all we want (and I'm finished ... 100%:D). No foreign cards (don't work for many in our group). No foils (they all can't be foil so ... none).
Blue Based Artifacts. (lets Blue do something else ... that is still busted good ... good ol' blue)
Some Combo. (We run run some Combos and try to include usable tutors to help)
MultiColor Lands (72)
Mana Fixing
WU
Tundra
Hallowed Fountain
Flooded Strand
Celestial Colonnade
Glacial Fortress.
UB
Underground Sea
Watery Grave
Polluted Delta
Creeping Tar Pit
Drowned Catacombs.
BR
Badlands
Blood Crypt
Bloodstained Mire
Lavaclaw Reaches
Dragonskull Summit.
RG
Taiga
Stomping Ground
Wooded Foothills
Raging Ravine
Rootbound Crag.
GW
Savannah
Temple Garden
Windswept Heath
Stirring Wildwood
Krosan Verge.
WB
Srubland
Godless Shrine
Marsh Flats
Isolated Chapel
Fetid Heath.
UR
Volcanic Island
Steam Vents
Scalding Tarn
Sulfur Falls
Cascade Bluffs.
BG
Bayou
Overgrown Tomb
Verdant Catacombs
Woodland Cemetery
Twilight Mire.
RW
Plateau
Sacred Foundry
Arid Mesa
Clifftop Retreat
Battlefield Forge.
GU
Tropical Island
Breeding Pool
Misty Rainforest
Hinterland Harbor
Flooded Grove.
WUBRG
Vivid Meadow
Vivid Creek
Vivid Marsh
Vivid Crag
Vivid Grove
City of Brass
Gemstone Mine
Grand Coliseum
Undiscovered Paradise
Reflecting Pool
Evolving Wilds
Terramorphic Expanse
Utility
Nephalia Drownyard
Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
Kessig Wolf Run
Gavony Township
Vault of the Archangel
Desolate Lighthouse
Grim Backwoods
Slayer's Stronghold
Achemist's Refuge
Mana Fixers/Accelerators (15)
0
- Black Lotus
- Lotus Petal
- Mana Crypt
- Mox Diamond
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Saphire
.1
- Mana Vault
- Sol Ring
.2
- Coldsteel Heart
- Grim Monolith
- Mind Stone
.3
Coalition Relic.
Utility (23)
0
Zuran Orb.
1
- Black Vise
- Brittle Effigy
- Meekstone
- Sensei's Divining Top
.2
- Chaos Orb
- Isochron Scepter
- Scroll Rack
- Winter Orb
.3
- Crucible of Worlds
- Forcefield
- Mimic Vat
- Oblivion Stone
- Ring of Gix
- Tangle Wire
.4
- Erratic Portal
- Icy Manipulator
- Neviyrral's Disk
- Smokestack
.5
- Memory Jar
- Panoptic Mirror
.6+
Equipment (13)
1
- Bonesplitter
- Skullclamp
.2
- Lightning Greaves
- Mortarpod
- Umezawa's Jitte
.3
- Grafted Wargear
- Loxodon Warhammer
- Sword of Body and Mind
- Sword of Feast and Famine
- Sword of Fire and Ice
- Sword of Light and Shadow
- Sword of War and Peace
.5
Batterskull.
Creatures (10)
2
Phyrexian Revoker.
4
- Lodestone Golem
- Masticore
- Molten-Tail Masticore
- Solemn Simulacrum
.5
Precurser Golem.
6+
- Triskelion
- Wurmcoil Engine
- Myr Battkesphere
- Sundering Titan
.Dust Bowl
Gargoyle Castle
Library of Alexandria
Maze of Ith
Mishra's Factory
Mutavault
Rishadan Port
Strip Mine
Tectonic Edge
Wasteland
Creatures (45)
1
- Elite Vanguard
- Isamaru, Hound of Konda
- Mother of Runes
- Savannah Lions
- Steppe Lynx
- Student of Warfare
.2
- Accorder Paladin
- Knight of Meadowgrain
- Knight of the White Orchid
- Kor Skyfisher
- Leonin Relic-Warder
- Lone Missionary
- Nearheath Pilgrim
- Serra Avenger
- Soltari Monk
- Soltari Priest
- Soltari Trooper
- Stoneforge Mystic
- Thalia, Gaurdian of Threban
- Wall of Omens
- War Priest of Thune
.3
- Blade Splicer
- Fiend Hunter
- Flickerwisp
- Mirran Crusader
- Pianna, Nomad Captain
- Porcelain Legionaire
- Silverblade Paladin
- Soltari Champion
- Spectral Procession
.4
- Academy Rector
- Calciderm
- Hero of Bladehold
- Ranger of Eos
- Restoration Angel
- Sublime Archangel
.5
- Baneslayer Angel
- Cloudgoat Ranger
- Karmic Guide
- Reveillark
.6+
Non-Creature (25)
1
- Enlightened Tutor
- Land Tax
- Mana Tithe
- Path to Exile
- Swords to Plowshares
.2
- Balance
- Journey to Nowhere
- Temporal Isolation
.3
- Ajani, Caller of the Pride
- Oblivion Ring
.4
- Ajani Goldmane
- Angelic Destiny
- Armegeddon
- Day of Judgement
- Elspeth, Knight Errant
- Faith's Fetters
- Moat
- Parrallax Wave
- Wrath of God
.5
- Elspeth Tirel
- Gideon Jura
- Rout
.6+
- Austere Command
- Catastrophe
- Martial Coup
.Creatures (24)
1
Delver of Secrets.
2
- Auger of Bolas
- Gilded Drake
- Looter il-Kor
- Phantasmal Image
- Snapcaster Mage
- Spellskite
.3
- Man-o'-War
- Sea Gate Oracle
- Serendib Efreet
- Vendilion Clique
- Wake Thrasher
.4
- Dungeon Geist
- Glen Elendra Archmage
- Phyrexian Metamorph
- Sower of Temptation
- Venser, Shaper Savant
.5
- Meloku the Clouded Mirror
- Mulldrifter
.6+
Non-Creature Spells (45)
0
- Force of Will
- Misdirection
.1
- Ancestral Recall
- Ancestral Vision
- Brainstorm
- Force Spike
- Mystical Tutor
- Ponder
- Preordain
.2
- Arcane Denial
- Counterspell
- Into the Roil
- Mana Drain
- Mana Leak
- Memory Lapse
- Remand
- Time Walk
.3
- Capsize
- Crystal Shard
- Forbid
- Frantic Search
- Intuition
- Jace Beleren
- Psionic Blast
- Thirst for Knowledge
- Timetwister
- Tinker
- Vedalken Shackles
.4
- Control Magic
- Cryptic Command
- Dismiss
- Fact or Fiction
- Gifts Ungiven
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor
.5
- Devastating Tide
- Jace, Memory Adept
- Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
- Tezzeret the Seeker
- Treachery
.6
- Confiscate
- Upheaval
- Volition Reins
.X
- Condescend
- Power Sink
- Repeal
.Lands
Creatures (30)
1
- Diregraf Ghoul
- Gravecrawler
- Sarcomancy
- Vampire Lacerator
.2
- Blood Artist
- Bloodghast
- Dark Confidant
- Dauthi Horror
- Nantuko Shade
- Oona's Prowler
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Skirsdag High Priest
.3
- Bone Shredder
- Gatekeeper of Malakir
- Geralf's Messenger
- Hypnotic Spector
- Liliana's Specter
- Vampire Nighthawk
.4
- Abyssal Persecutor
- Braids, Cabal Minion
- Nekrataal
- Phyrexian Obliterator
- Sewer Nemesis
- Skinrender
.5
- Bloodgift Demon
- Shriekmaw
.6+
0
Snuff Out.
1
- Blackmail
- Dark Ritual
- Disfigure
- Entomb
- Inquisition of Kozileck
- Raven's Crime
- Reanimate
- Thoughtseize
- Vampiric Tutor
.2
- Animate Dead
- Bitterblossom
- Chainer's Edict
- Demonic Tutor
- Diabolic Edict
- Distress
- Doom Blade
- Exhume
- Go for the Throat
- Hymn to Tourach
- Smallpox
- Terror
- Victim of Night
.3
- Dismember
- Liliana of the Veil
- Murder
- Necromancy
- Necropotence
- Recurring Nightmare
.4
- Barter in Blood
- Consuming Vapors
- Damnation
- Diabolic Servitude
- Lashwrithe
- Liliana of the Dark Realms
- Nether Void
.5
Liliana Vess.
6+
- Sorin, Markov
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
.X
- Mind Twist
- Profane Command
.Creatures (33)
1
- Goblin Guide
- Goblin Welder
- Greater Gargadon
- Grim Lavamancer
- Stromkirk Noble
- Vexing Devil
.2
- Hellspark Elemental
- Kargan Dragonlord
- Keldon Marauders
- Lightning Mauler
- Plated Geopede
- Stormblood Berserker
- Torch Fiend
.3
- Chandra's Phoenix
- Fire Imp
- Hell's Thunder
- Keldon Vandals
- Manic Vandal
- Squee, Goblin Nabob
.4
- Avalanche Riders
- Firewing Pheonix
- Flametongue Kavu
- Goblin Ruinblaster
- Hellrider
- Hero of Oxid Ridge
- Keldon Champion
- Oxidda Scrapmelter
.5
6+
1
- Burst Lightning
- Chain Lightning
- Faithless Looting
- Firebolt
- Flame Slash
- Forked Bolt
- Gamble
- Lightning Bolt
.2
- Arc Trail
- Incinerate
- Magma Jet
- Pyroclasm
- Searing Blaze
- Shrine of Burning Rage
- Searing Spear
- Volcanic Hammer
.3
- Brimstone Volley
- Chaos Warp
- Char
- Pillage
- Slagstorm
- Staggershock
- Sulfuric Vortex
- Wheel of Fortune
.4
5
Chandra Naalar.
6+
- Fireblast
- Form of the Dragon
.X
- Bonefire of the Damned
- Devil's Play
- Earthquake
- Red Sun's Zenith
- Starstorm
.Creatures (47)
1
- Birds of Paradise
- Fyndhorn Elves
- Joraga Treespeaker
- Llanowar Elves
- Noble Hierarch
- Ulvenwald Tracker
.2
- Fauna Shaman
- Lotus Cobra
- Mayor of Avabruck
- Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Scavenging Ooze
- Skinshifter
- Strangleroot Geist
- Tarmogoyf
- Viridian Emissary
- Wall of Blossoms
- Wall of Roots
- Werebear
.3
- Dungrove Elder
- Eternal Witness
- Great Sable Stag
- Omnath, Locus of Mana
- Troll Ascetic
- Uktabi Orangutan
- Viridian Shaman
- Wolfir Avenger
- Yavimaya Dryad
.4
- Blastoderm
- Master of the Wild Hunt
- Obstinate Baloth
- Thrun, the Last Troll
- Vengevine
- Wickerbough Elder
.5
- Acidic Slime
- Genesis
- Indrik Stomphowler
- Thragtusk
- Vorapede
- Wolfir Silverheart
.6+
- Hornet Queen
- Krosan Tusker
- Pelakka Wurm
- Primeval Titan
- Silvos, Rogue Elemental
- Terastodon
- Woodfall Primus
.1
- Berserk
- Exploration
- Rancor
- Vines of Vastwood
.2
- Constant Mists
- Explore
- Farseek
- Life from the Loam
- Survival of the Fittest
- Sylvan Library
.3
- Awakening Zone
- Beast Within
- Cultivate
- Kodama's Reach
.4
- Bithing Pod
- Bramblecrush
- Creeping Mold
- Garruk Relentless
- Garruk Wildspeaker
.5
- Garruk, Primal Hunter
- Primal Command
.6+
Tooth and Nail.
X
Green Sun's Zenith.
Allied Pairs (15)
WU
- Azorius Signet
- Geist of Saint Traft
- Venser, the Sojourner
.UB
- Baleful Strix
- Psychatog
- Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
.BR
- Blightning
- Sarkhan the Mad
- Olivia Voldaren
.RG
- Bloodbraid Elf
- Huntsmaster of the Fells
- Kird Ape
.GW
WB
- Lingering Souls
- Sorin, Lord of Innitrad
- Vindicate
.UR
- Electrolyze
- Fire // Ice
- Prophetic Bolt
.BG
- Maelstrom Pulse
- Pernicious Deed
- Putrify
.RW
- Ajani Vengent
- Figure of Destiny
- Lightning Helix
.GU
GWU
Empyrical Archangel.
WUB
Sphinx of the Steel Wind.
UBR
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker.
BRG
Broodmate Dragon.
RGW
Wild Necatl.
WUBRG
Engineered Explosives
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=385729
Typically Black splashing Red or Green.
It runs cheap threats and seeks to lock-up game using abusive mana denial.
Key lock cards include Winter Orb, Braids, Cabal Minion, Smokestack, Strip Mine/Crucible of Worlds, Nether Void, and/or Tangle Wire.
Red adds Land Destruction and Burn is efficient removal against your biggest fear ... Aggressive Creatures.
Green adds Life from the Loam ...
Since we fully draft our cube, mono-color (or mostly with a light splash) is fairly typical for our generic Aggro decks. The mana is much more reliable early (obv.) and this influences our shying away from Green aggressive 1 drops, and allowing the good CC costed beaters. They curve out at 4 almost without fail, so anything over 4 will need to be useful in a Control or a Midrange style we prefer.
Red Aggro is easy to assemble with all the burn available, which often allows 2 drafters.
White really needs multiple equipment and a bomb or 2 in Armageddon or Elspeth, Knight Errant and therefore typically can't support more than 1 drafter.
So our Red section has more slots allocated for Aggro than White since it better supports multiple aggro Drafters!
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=385729
I might comment a bit more later, but after skimming your list I'm seeing a lot of unique choices that you seem to have carried over from the old one. Could be interesting if you talked about some of the less played options you're currently using.
My Cube (DeckStats)
My Pauper Cube: 540 (CubeTutor link!)
Level 1 Judge
So some odd picks are purely because they excel in one of those archetypes. Feel free too inquire about any of the choices, and I will happily give reasons!
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=385729