Hello fellow cubers.
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Thanks a lot for all these answers.
I read a lot of things on this forum and never took the time to post something.
Thanks a lot for the welcome and the advices.
I think I see the main differences in the two approaches.
As always the correct answer seems to be to talk with my friends and define what we want as cube experience.
I do find recent set draft to be too dirigiste and too archetype defined.
My commander cube is already in this mindset so for this one I'll try to see what I can do with prioritizing balancing the theatres.
Thanks a lot for your advices, and if anyone as more insights on the subjects, I'll take them with pleasure
I would like some help from you expert cubers as I am currently reworking my cube.
My friends and I built a cube some years ago together with our most flashy/powerfull cards. I maintained it and over the years tried to improve this pile of goodstuff into a balanced, cruved out legacy cube.
Some of my friends don't play a lot of magic anymore, but with those who do we thought that rethinking the cube from the ground up could be a good idea.
One of my friend suggested we build around archetypoes for every guild and we decided on:
With the adition of having some mono colored synergies
White - Human
Blue - Arifact
Black - zombie
Red - gobelins
green - elves
My questions were:
Do you build with this archetypes in mind first or is it more important to you to prioritise the theatres (aggro/control/midrange)?
Do you clearly define an archetype as being in one particular theatre (like selesnia counters is going to be aggro and golgari dredge is going to be midrange)?
Do you restrain some colors to specific theatre? (is it possible to support both aggro and control in mono-white/white based decks? Do you always have some control cards to your red cards?)
I try to favorise cards slotting in multiple archetypes like shipwreck dowser being in prowess and reanimator to recur a spell from the graveyard, but what if these archetypes are in totaly different theatre? does this makes sense? (If my prowess archetype is aggro doesn't shipwreck droawner come too late?)
Does having highly visible archetypes like this turn drafting into an on-rail experience?
Where does plain good cards fit in these kind of cubes and aren't they too powerfull for ahigh synergy cube? (like a jace the mind sculptor?)
Where do Ramp and Combo fit in ? Is it too messy to have a splinter twin combo scattered in Jeskai even if it does not synergise with the archetypes?
I don't really want to have all decks drafted looking like midrange, I just followed the archetype, type of decks but I know some of my friends can be lost in a too complex draft environment. But while trying to had cards that fit one or multiple archetypes I find it difficult to find spots for cards like Zurgo Bellstriker.
Sorry for all the questions... but I feel like the more I try to improve and clarify our cube the more I'm lost :D.
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Basically we are going to plan some cube game throughout the weekend on the freeplay tables.
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I read a lot of things on this forum and never took the time to post something.
Thanks a lot for the welcome and the advices.
I think I see the main differences in the two approaches.
As always the correct answer seems to be to talk with my friends and define what we want as cube experience.
I do find recent set draft to be too dirigiste and too archetype defined.
My commander cube is already in this mindset so for this one I'll try to see what I can do with prioritizing balancing the theatres.
Thanks a lot for your advices, and if anyone as more insights on the subjects, I'll take them with pleasure
I would like some help from you expert cubers as I am currently reworking my cube.
My friends and I built a cube some years ago together with our most flashy/powerfull cards. I maintained it and over the years tried to improve this pile of goodstuff into a balanced, cruved out legacy cube.
Some of my friends don't play a lot of magic anymore, but with those who do we thought that rethinking the cube from the ground up could be a good idea.
One of my friend suggested we build around archetypoes for every guild and we decided on:
Azorius - Blink
Orzhov - death and taxes
Boros - Equipment
Selesnya - counters
Dimir - Reanimator
Izzet - prowess
Simic - Flash
Rakdos - sacrifice
Golgari - Dredge/graveyard
Gruul - Power matters
With the adition of having some mono colored synergies
White - Human
Blue - Arifact
Black - zombie
Red - gobelins
green - elves
My questions were:
I don't really want to have all decks drafted looking like midrange, I just followed the archetype, type of decks but I know some of my friends can be lost in a too complex draft environment. But while trying to had cards that fit one or multiple archetypes I find it difficult to find spots for cards like Zurgo Bellstriker.
Sorry for all the questions... but I feel like the more I try to improve and clarify our cube the more I'm lost :D.
For anyone interested here is the current list of the cube : https://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/24145
And here is our current state of progress on the new list: https://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/173248
Thanks a lot!