MTG Salvation

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The purpose of this cube was to create a fun, different alternative to our normal 450 cube as well as to make a cube that we wouldn't have to worry to much about at events, the LGS etc. To that end, we wanted to make a multicolor cube with the following restrictions.

1 - All cards must be actually or functionally multicolor (that is, you can cast them for 1 color but you wouldn't want them in a deck that wasn't both colors. What this means is cards like arctic aven and kird chieftain, that care about lands in the other color, cards like trench wurm that have an off-color activated ability, and mana-producers in the right colors are considered multicolored for this cube.

2 - All cards should be less than $3.00 mid on TCG player. This is a softer rule, and can be broken for very cool multicolored cycles like the avatar cycle from lorwyn and the demigod cycle from journey. It has also been slightly broken for fixing purposes.

The tri-color sections are incomplete as I am still assembling Khans cards (I haven't snagged a woodland cemetery either which is why there's currently a random mumuring bosk (I think) standing in). Also, I would love suggestions for older "color matters" cards that don't show up in multi-color searches on gatherer etc, like the old battlemage cycle. I also am less than thrilled with the obelisks/banners and the keyrunes (really don't like 3cmc fixing that isn't 5 color), but I haven't found good replacements for them. Stuff like the talismas would be great, but the cycle is incomplete and I don't want to unbalance the fixing across sections. Suggestions for more 5 color fixing options would also be welcome.

Alright, so let's get to the list! First, here's the cubetutor link: http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/1649













Thanks all!

This is a really cool cube idea! There are so many great and cheap multicolored cards that just can't make the cut in most cubes because gold sections are so tight, so making a cube out of them seems like a really elegant solution. One thing that strikes me is that you'll probably want as many 5 color fixers as you can get, and you don't have very many.

Here are some 5-color mana rocks that fit your budget rule:

Mana Cylix
Prophetic Prism (this was a really high pick in DGM-GTC-RTR block draft)
Paradise Mantle

2CMC fixers that ramp

Coldsteel Heart
Fellwar Stone (this should work better than usual in your cube as fixing)
Pentad Prism
Prismatic Lens (I've been very happy with this in my cube)

3CMC mana rocks:

Alloy Myr
Chromatic Lantern (TCG mid $4 - pushing it)
Coalition Relic (TCG mid $5 - definitely pushing it, I know)
Manalith
Opaline Unicorn
Phyrexian Lens
Scuttlemutt
Spectral Searchlight
Vessel of Endless Rest

You could easily pick your favorite ten of these and swap out the entire cycle of Banners and Obelisks, and you may even find that you need less. At least, that's what I found when I replaced the Signets in my cube with 5-color and colorless mana rocks.

You probably want more 5-color lands, too. These have all been working out well for me and are in or near your budget range, and most are available even cheaper in World Championship Editions if you're OK with gold-bordered cards:

City of Brass
Gemstone Mine ($4 on Troll and Toad
Paliano, the High City
Undiscovered Paradise ($5.39 on Troll and Toad)
The Vivid cycle


One multi-colored mechanic you might want to include some cards with is Sunburst - some of them are pretty good, like Engineered Explosives, Sawtooth Thresher, Solarion, and Skyreach Manta.

One cool 5 color creature that's dirt cheap you might get a kick out of in Chromanticore.

Hope all this helps, and happy cubing!

Thanks! I am going to pick most of those up.

And yeah, I have a chomanticore but a friend is borrowing it and I keep forgetting to pick it up lol.

Had a successful weekend of opening/trading!

More changes! Cut all banners/obelisks, put in more 5 color fixing, in addition to adding some new cards!

Changes here - http://www.cubetutor.com/cubeblog/1649

Finally got around to adding some fate cards, just in time to have to get Dragons cards.

changes here as always - http://www.cubetutor.com/cubeblog/1649

Updated to go to 450!