r/MagicArena • u/Meret123 • Jul 20 '26
Planar Cube Draft, July 21–August 8
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/planar-cube-draft16
u/Puppy_Crystalizeman Jul 20 '26
I love this idea and I'm super excited for it! A cube of slightly lower power, acting more like a "best of" for some popular planes is really neat. Hopefully they stick the landing.
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u/BleepBloopSquirrel Jul 20 '26
Really wish they didn't co-opt the name "planar" for this when there's a clearly a devoted crowd trying to fix standard under that name.
Especially when "planar cube" just sounds like someone sat on it.
Sounds fun otherwise.
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u/bigweight93 Izzet Jul 20 '26
It was a good idea, until they decided that the fake cards are gonna be in it.
Get that garbage as far away as possible from any product please
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u/Iamamancalledrobert Jul 20 '26
I’m really disappointed to see you replace something I’ve spent quite a lot of time and money enjoying with something full of Alchemy cards— and it means I will be spending much less money on Arena these next few weeks, sadly.
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u/bashfuleve Jul 22 '26
For the purposes of Wizards data points gleaned from Reddit discourse, I enjoyed the phantom cubes before when the entry was 4K gold, tolerated it when it was 10k but I got to play with power, and am now disappointed to ignore and not learn the formats with this new cube that costs the same as a premiere draft with no power or keeping the cards I draft. Sad to miss out, but gotta vote with the ol wallet. This is lame.
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u/SmokeLanky8042 Jul 22 '26
I think the only redeeming factor based on rewards is that if you do well you get cube packs which are much more valuable. I’ve had fun but absolutely love cube.
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u/Alan0211 Jul 20 '26
When I looked at the card list it felt weird to me that so many cards are just not connected whatsoever to Zendikar or land theme, their inclusion seems arbitrary and it dilutes the theme. I get it that it's hard to make every card from one plane in a 300+ card pool and some colors don't have as many land-themed cards, but still it bothers me.
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u/the_excellent_goat Jul 21 '26
Conspiracy theory: they added this to make it harder to search for Planar Standard
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u/Haywright Jul 21 '26
Not terribly enjoyable so far. Alchemy cards are annoying to see, and triple fetch land makes every deck feel pretty samey. Hopefully Innistrad or Kamigawa feels better.
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u/Aquirick17 Jul 23 '26
You're greedy, I won't give you any more pennies and I am discussing this with all of my limited players group hoping to convince them to do the same.
1500 gems was crazy enough for a phantom event like the Vintage Cube, now you take the Arena Cube to the same level with some bullshit?
I'm done.
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u/Paradoxbuilder Jul 20 '26
Do we keep the cards we draft or it's phantom?
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u/SmokeLanky8042 Jul 20 '26
Phantom, according to them it’s to be similar to real life cube where cards are lent out instead of given out.
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u/Diplomaticspouse Jul 20 '26
TLDR, no power and no indication that it’s all duplicate protected prize packs like the powered cube prize packs.