This cube is designed to play fast and still have a lot of complexity to its gameplay. An average 5 or 6 player game lasts less than 30 minutes. It feels like what commander wants to be, but faster.
1. No turn 1 interactions. Everyone can take turn 1 simultaneously.
2. Turns 3,4, and 5 feel like the first 3 turns of the game, so curve is still incredibly important. Especially since the creatures are way bigger than 1,2 and 3 drops. If you build a deck with mostly 5+ you may die before you cast much of anything. And combat gets crazy fast. There is no feeling quite like untapping with kalonian hydra casting shape of the wiitigo and icing a player for 20 out of nowhere. And thats one of many absurd possible and easy examples.
3. Not a lot of instants. Designed for you to want to tap out to maximize impact on the board. And save a lot of time by players having to deal with less in hand possible interactions and more on board interactions.
4. Weird enchantments, and not a lot of answers. This way people can pick cards like form of the Dragon and ride it to victory.
5. Because of the curve, the usual deck is 20/20 split of spells and lands. We normally draft 4 packs of 10 for tables of 6 or less and that has never led to not having enough playables. It also makes multicolor a lot easier.
6. Lots of build around themes.
7. The lands are not all bulk rares, but instead a maze's end and a ton of guildgates.
The list
cards are ordered by cmc except for morphs which are at the front of their sections.
white [85]
Creatures
1. No turn 1 interactions. Everyone can take turn 1 simultaneously.
2. Turns 3,4, and 5 feel like the first 3 turns of the game, so curve is still incredibly important. Especially since the creatures are way bigger than 1,2 and 3 drops. If you build a deck with mostly 5+ you may die before you cast much of anything. And combat gets crazy fast. There is no feeling quite like untapping with kalonian hydra casting shape of the wiitigo and icing a player for 20 out of nowhere. And thats one of many absurd possible and easy examples.
3. Not a lot of instants. Designed for you to want to tap out to maximize impact on the board. And save a lot of time by players having to deal with less in hand possible interactions and more on board interactions.
4. Weird enchantments, and not a lot of answers. This way people can pick cards like form of the Dragon and ride it to victory.
5. Because of the curve, the usual deck is 20/20 split of spells and lands. We normally draft 4 packs of 10 for tables of 6 or less and that has never led to not having enough playables. It also makes multicolor a lot easier.
6. Lots of build around themes.
7. The lands are not all bulk rares, but instead a maze's end and a ton of guildgates.
The list
white [85]
Creatures
1 master of pearls
1 hidden dragonslayer
1 weathered bodyguards
1 exalted angel
1 precinct captain
1 Opal-eye, konda's yojimbo
1 Lieutenant kirtar
1 Oriss, samite guardian
1 silverblade paladin
1 thraben doomsayers
1 pianna, nomads captain
1 mentor of the meek
1 kemba, kha regent
1 wall of reverence
1 odric, master tactician
1 loxodon gatekeeper
1 ajani's chosen
1 hundred-handed one
1 jazal goldmane
1 galepowder mage
1 false prophet
1 seraph of the sword
1 balan, wandering knight
1 emeria angel
1 magus of the disk
1 Scalelord reckoner
1 gustcloak savior
1 knight-captain of eos
1 wingmate roc
1 archon of justice
1 geist-honored monk
1 world queller
1 celestial archon
1 kalemne's captain
1 glory
1 requiem angel
1 sunblast angel
1 aegis angel
1 admonition angel
1 soul of theros
1 angelic skirmisher
1 Twilight Sheppard
1 purity
1 adarkar valkyrie
1 angel of the dire hour
1 angelic arbiter
1 Angel of salvation
1 akroma, angel of wrath
1 hoofprints of the stag
1 blind obedience
1 militia's pride
1 Godsend
1 spear of heliod
1 shielded by faith
1 promise of bunrei
1 gift of immortality
1 pariah
1 martial law
1 indestructibility
1 marshal's anthem
1 divine reckoning
1 wave of reckoning
1 increasing devotion
1 planar outburst
1 scourglass
1 evangelize
1 dictate of heliod
1 winds of rath
1 spectra ward
1 rout
1 final judgement
1 kirtar's wrath
1 sudden disappearance
1 true conviction
1 phrexian rebirth
1 feudkiller's verdict
1 akroma's vengeance
1 austere command
1 Martial coup
1 decree of justice
creatures
1 Dulcet sirens
1 Kheru spellsnatcher
1 chromeshell crab
1 vesuvan shapeshifter
1 thousand winds
1 quicksilver dragon
1 void stalker
1 overtaker
1 jace's archivist
1 cryptoplasm
1 serendib sorceror
1 cytoplast manipulator
1 sakashima the imposter
1 slithermuse
1 conundrum sphinx
1 reef worm
1 identity thief
1 forgotton creation
1 faerie artisans
1 gigantoplasm
1 dungeon geists
1 sphinx of the lost truths
1 sturmgeist
1 quicksilver elemental
1 mirror-mad phantasm
1 djinn of wishes
1 glyph keeper
1 lone revnant
1 body double
1 magus of the jar
1 aeon chronicler
1 stitcher geralf
1 prognostic sphinx
1 sphinx of jwar isle
1 magus of the mind
1 sphinx of the magosi
1 sage-eye avengers
1 djinn of infinite deceits
1 deadeye navigator
1 aetherling
1 draining whelk
1 shipbreaker kraken
1 roil elemental
1 memnarch
1 phyrexian ingestor
1 colossal whale
1 Kedrekt leviathan
1 hoverguard sweepers
1 stormtide leviathan
1 lorthos, the tidemaker
1 dictate of kruphix
1 crackling couterpart
1 copy enchantment
1 equilibrium
1 savor the moment
1 stolen goods
1 bident of thassa
1 rite of replication
1 psychic possession
1 whelming wave
1 shapeshifter's marrow
1 aether gale
1 illusory gains
1 confirm suspicions
1 sunken hope
1 parallel thoughts
1 dream leash
1 ugin's insight
1 evacuation
1 ancestral memories
1 supplant form
1 aethersnatch
1 walk the aeons
1 inundate
1 gather specimens
1 spelljack
1 Spirit away
1 Dismiss into dream
1 distorting wake
1 blue sun's zenith
creatures
1 grim haruspex
1 bane of the living
1 grinning demon
1 silent specter
1 blood scrivener
1 dusk urchins
1 dark imposter
1 cunning lethemancer
1 doomed necromancer
1 nighthowler
1 master of the feast
1 stronghold assassin
1 royal assassin
1 hypnotic specter
1 maralen of the mornsong
1 magus of the abyss
1 fate unraveller
1 crypt ghast
1 hell's caretaker
1 disciple of bolas
1 thought gorger
1 guul draz specter
1 desecration demon
1 plague sliver
1 horobi, death's wail
1 ashling the extinguisher
1 liliana's reaver
1 mortivore
1 necrotic ooze
1 ob nixilis, the fallen
1 archfiend of depravity
1 ghoulcaller gisa
1 fallen angel
1 seizan, perverter of truth
1 drana, kalastria bloodchief
1 sengir nosferatu
1 bloodgift demon
1 puppeteer clique
1 Magus of the mirror
1 ink-eyes, servant of oni
1 dark hatchling
1 skelatal vampire
1 visara the dreadful
1 reaper of the abyss
1 mikaeus, the unhallowed
1 deathbringer regent
1 overseer of the damned
1 butcher of malakir
1 Heartless summoning
1 scepter of fugue
1 necrogen mists
1 grim return
1 underworld connections
1 phyrexian arena
1 sever the bloodline
1 consuming vapors
1 gild
1 silence the believers
1 languish
1 whip of erebos
1 colfenor's plans
1 crux of fate
1 beacon of unrest
1 dictate of erebos
1 monomania
1 demonic rising
1 living death
1 ever after
1 hex
1 deadly tempest
1 life's finale
1 undercity plague
1 kindred dominance
1 necromantic selection
1 fated return
1 sorin's vengeance
1 decree of pain
1 army of the damned
1 Black sun's zenith
1 profane command
1 death cloud
creatures
1 jeering instigator
1 ashcloud pheonix
1 blistering firecat
1 fortune thief
1 akroma, angel of fury
1 ashling the pilgrim
1 goblin diplomats
1 jaya ballard, task mage
1 taurean mauler
1 izzet chemister
1 pyrewild shaman
1 tuktuk the explorer
1 firewing pheonix
1 shah of naar isle
1 rakdos pit dragon
1 goblin razerunners
1 skyship stalker
1 ogre battledriver
1 ember swallower
1 hellrider
1 jeska, warrior adept
1 cragganwick creamator
1 hound of griselbrand
1 caldera helion
1 kazuul, tyrant of the cliffs
1 wolf of devil's breach
1 torchling
1 magma pheonix
1 heartless hidetsugu
1 siege-gang commander
1 charmbreaker devils
1 runehorn hellkite
1 assembled alphas
1 flameblast dragon
1 conquering manticore
1 preysizer dragon
1 kamahl, pit fighter
1 hoard-smelter dragon
1 hellkite charger
1 hellkite tyrant
1 crater hellion
1 hostility
1 stalking vengeance
1 balefire dragon
1 angrath's marauders
1 hateflayer
1 bogardan hellkite
1 magmatic force
1 bloodfire colossus
1 mizzium mortars
1 shifting shadow
1 heat shimmer
1 goblin assault
1 urza's rage
1 hammer of purphoros
1 thunderblade charge
1 collective defiance
1 hammer of bogardan
1 flameshadow conjuring
1 elemental mastery
1 sieze the day
1 mizzix's mastery
1 awaken the sky tyrant
1 cerebral eruption
1 rekindling flame
1 heretic's punishment
1 where ancients tread
1 incendiary command
1 beacon of destruction
1 chandra's ignition
1 dictate of the twin gods
1 lightning surge
1 warstorm surge
1 rage refection
1 disaster radius
1 volcanic vision
1 rite of ruin
1 form of the dragon
1 starstorm
1 fault line
1 titan's revenge
creatures
1 den protector
1 deathmist raptor
1 thelonite hermit
1 utopia tree
1 gyre sage
1 magus of the library
1 somerwald sage
1 mirri, cat warrior
1 troll ascetic
1 mul daya channelers
1 sacellum godspeakers
1 managorger hydra
1 spawnwrithe
1 ohran viper
1 champion of lambholt
1 renegade krasis
1 forgotten ancient
1 waker of the wilds
1 cytoplast root-kin
1 spike weaver
1 wolfbriar elemental
1 ravenous baloth
1 masked admirers
1 brooding saurian
1 deadbridge goliath
1 kessig cagebreakers
1 creeperhulk
1 ant queen
1 thicket elemental
1 spitting slime
1 thornling
1 kalonian hydra
1 mycoloth
1 silklash spider
1 gigapede
1 heroes' bane
1 weatherseed treefolk
1 arbor colossus
1 Kamahl, fist of krosa
1 soul of the harvest
1 pathbreaker ibex
1 hydra broodmaster
1 rampaging baloths
1 bane of progress
1 silvos, rogue elemental
1 mossbridge troll
1 penumbra wurm
1 sandsteppe mastodon
1 tornado elemental
1 engulfing slagwurm
1 spearbreaker behemoth
1 terastodon
1 verdant force
1 stonehoof chieftain
1 skarrg goliath
1 lifeblood hydra
1 trail of mystery
1 cream of the crop
1 awakening zone
1 bow of nylea
1 bear umbra
1 abundance
1 parallel lives
1 whirlwind
1 predatory urge
1 might of oaks
1 increasing savagry
1 wolfcaller's howl
1 overwhelming stampede
2 gigantiform (for the kicker)
1 dictate of karametra
1 verdant embrace
1 lurking predators
1 nissa's renewal
1 shape of the wiitigo
1 biorythm
1 ezuri's predation
1 Primal surge
1 strength of the tajuru
1 squall line
creatures
1 armory automoton
1 summoner's egg
1 akroan horse
1 precursor golem
1 stuffy doll
1 psychosis crawler
1 steel hellkite
1 thopter assembly
1 mage-ring responder
1 myr battlesphere
1 nim deathmantle
1 neko-te
1 sword of vengeance
1 quietus spike
1 loxodon warhammer
1 deathrender
1 bonehoard
1 haunted plate mail
1 hammer of nazahn
1 hedron matrix
1 argentum armor
1 dolmen gate
1 thousand-year elixer
1 temple bell
1 grimoire of the dead
1 chimeric staff
1 nevinyrral's disk
1 veldalken orrey
1 trading post
1 otherworld atlas
1 seer's sundial
1 phyrexian processor
1 teferi's puzzle box
1 font of mythos
1 alligned hedron network
1 venser's journal
1 conjurer's closet
1 memory jar
1 predator, flagship
1 tamiyo's journal
1 staff of nin
1 mindslaver
5 color
1 maelstrom archangel
1 maelstrom nexus
1 chromanticore
1 karona, false god
1 enigma sphinx
1 nekusar, the mindrazer
1 wasitora, nekoru queen
1 meglonoth
1 numot, the devastator
1 the mimeoplasm
1 zurgo helmsmasher
1 intet, the dreamer
1 teneb, the harvester
1 sovereigns of lost alara
1 iridescent angel
1 drogskol reaver
1 invocation of saint traft
1 righteous authority
1 dimir cutpurse
1 evil twin
1 taigam, sidisi's hand
1 grimgrin, corpse-born
1 silent-blade oni
1 defiler of souls
1 malfegor
1 kaervek the merciless
1 spiteful visions
1 anthem of rakdos
1 mina and denn, wildborn
1 polis crusher
1 rubblehulk
1 dragonlair spider
1 clan defiance
1 elderwood scion
1 phytohydra
1 armada wurm
1 indrik umbra
1 collective blessing
1 teysa, envoy of ghosts
1 angel of despair
1 merciless eviction
1 debtor's knell
1 death grasp
1 mercurial chemister
1 etherium-horn sorceror
1 niv-mizzet, the firemind
1 fevered visions
1 prophetic bolt
1 reaper of the wilds
1 sapling of colfenor
1 nath of the gilt-leaf
1 spiritmonger
1 gleancrawler
1 brion stoutarm
1 tajic, blade of ghe legion
1 aurelia, the warleader
1 glory of warfare
1 assemble the legion
1 sagu mauler
1 progenitor mimic
1 experiment kraj
1 simic sky swallower
1 unexpected results
7 azorious guildgate
7 dimir guildgate
7 rakdos guildgate
7 gruul guildgate
7 selesnya guildgate
7 orzhov guildgate
7 izzet guildgate
7 golgari guildgate
7 boros guildgate
7 simic guildgate
1 arcane sanctum
1 crumbling necropolis
1 savage lands
1 jungle shrine
1 mystic monastery
1 opulent palace
1 nomad outpost
1 frontier bivouac
1 sandsteppe citadel
1 grand coliseum
1 transguild promenade
1 exotic orchard
1 zoetic cavern
1 reliquary tower
1 mage-ring network
1 winding canyons
1 mikokoro, center of the sea
1 dread statuary
1 miren, the moaning well
1 rogue's passage
1 gargoyle castle
1 stalking stones
1 temple of the false god