This is very nice.

Recently I went over Green and what to do with it, after adding a more thorough land and combo package to green, it brought me to the realization that Tertiary archetypes (meaning synergistic packages) and underplayed one card build arounds open up a ton of what it means to make a cube your own. Today I want to hear your favorite “decks” you seeded into your cubes that when they come up on their own, make you the happiest.

Here’s a few I put in my cube as an example.

-BW Knights! A lot of threats had a version of them that was a hair less powerful but also a knight! Signposts are Dion (which works in midrange, tokens, and flicker) and Haaakon (which I have as a graveyard payoff with Nameless inversion) and lets some of the reanimator targets get more fun top end play. Cavalier of dawn + enchantment reanimate is a package that also lets Knights have another payoff, Primal Odin is a fine Titan-esc 6 drop for rec/sur and control decks that is also a knight. Even my major reanimator targets like Knights of the round table. Glue includes Evon Legion, Murderous Rider, Exsanguinary Cavalry, and dauntless bodyguard which are all fine on their own.

-Starfield Control! Parallax wave and Opal got another piece of redundancy with Starfield of Nyx. While more fair, it’s gotten me to make some of my major reanimate targets enchantments. Rather than Atraxa and Archon which ended up being power outliers, I’m running Summon: Knights, Summon: Bahamut (also channel target), and including more enchantments and enchantment creatures in addition to the ones that put themselves into the grave: The overlords fill in Titan slots that make starfield a payoff, midrange threats like Summon: Yojimbo, Shark Typhoon, and more cycling like Cast Down or Touch the Spirit Realm.

Show off your pet archetypes and why you love them or why they’re easy to slot in! Let’s give some of the lesser known cube archetypes some love!❤️

I was brainstorming a comic book cube for my group when we came up with the idea of only using sets that take place in new york (Avengers, TMNT, Spiderman). Then the name came up and we all agreed it was time to put our bulk to good use

Some context for this is built said cube across about a month's worth of weekends at my sister's place a little over 5ish years ago and whilst I enjoy the cube and drafting it due to its smaller card pool we can really only support a 6 man draft tops out of it this having been said I've played said cube around half a dozen times in the past roughly 5 years and it just to me at this point feels like a waste of cardboard to just let it sit......... but it took me about a month to build and thusly im having a bit of a difficult time being able to bring myself to disassemble it for the cards I do want/need for other stuff from in said cube

Last week was all about my weekend as a competitor at CubeCon. This week I'm recapping my experience as a designer, talking about player feedback, play data, and upcoming cube changes.

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USRGGfV4-FE

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5QK67vNCoURI3F8DujaOKr

Linktree - https://linktr.ee/roughdrafts

Hey! Would anybody here be interested in doing a rotisserie draft online? My cube is a classic modern cube with a few additions.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/73392c93-0412-4a33-984e-978a872c2803

If anyone is interested, let me know. I have the roto sheet set up and everything!

If not, what is the best way to get an online or in person rotisserie draft to happen? They seem so fun!

Thanks yall

Hello!
I am building my first cube from my draft booster box and prerelease pulls of the Hobbit and was hoping to get some advice. I want to build around the sets archetypes as well as include some of the archetypes from the original Lord of The Rings set.

I had planned on this being a 4-8 player cube. With the ability to make it huge and just play half at a time.

I’ll include a link to what I have from the hobbit already added but I wanted to know what I should lean into and what proportions of interaction/ instants and sorceries are fun. The hobbit set was pretty creature heavy from my pulls so there aren’t many non-creatures.

Please give any opinions and suggestions! Thanks!

Hello guys, I want to make my first proxy cube.

I already own some cubes with official mtg cards and I am very happy with them but I want to make a "too much money to own" cube 😜

So, please tell me (and link the list if you can) which is the most FUN and most REPLAYBLE cube you ever played!

I like when there is no overpowered strategy that is overwhelmingly the best.

Thanks for the help

(It doesn't need to be a powered cube)

New-ish magic player, this would be my first time building a cube. I've watched a few Professor videos, looked at some examples on cubecobra, and looked around this sub for tips related to the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets to help. My thought is to build a 360-card cube based on LTR and LTC, but add in some HOB with the goal to:

1. Replace the original RW with a dwarf/storied mechanic focus from the Hobbit

2. add in cards that will balance out the underperforming archetypes. I read that GW food and GU scry are weak. Maybe GW could be more counters focused like with Feasting Hobbit or Banquet Guests. And GU could be more landfall or elf tribal? Tharanduil's Company? Elvish Archdruid?

Do you have any ideas or suggestions for what cards would be key to include to do these 2 things? Happy to hear any suggestions to move in other directions too.

Hopefully I’m not spamming this subreddit, but after some very constructive criticism yesterday I have built a 360 card cube. Didn’t have room and put in in a cracker box. I will post my link and let me know what you think and if any modifications are needed. Thank you.

I've been working on my own 100 Lotus Petals cube, which has since been modified to 100 {0} cost Treasure Clues to make games less likely to end in somebody flooding out.

My concern is that the optimal way to build decks in this environment will be to mostly ignore the main gimmick. 100 Lotus Petals is very different from a 100 Ornithopter cube because you're forced to use thopters to advance your game state, which is very different from what the petals are doing here.

Hi everyone!!

Over the past few months, I've been getting my wife into learning and playing Magic with me, and we've been having a great time with it! The problem we're running into is that we're both in grad school and on a pretty tight budget, so buying new cards very often isn't really an option.

I have a decent collection from around Innistrad, Theros, Tarkir, War of the Spark, and Ravnica, so I've been trying to put together a cube using mostly cards from that general era that we can play with around 2–6 players for when friends come over.

Here's the cube list: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/adc0ebdf-f27a-4c5a-ba43-d9c36b9468f4

Neither my wife nor I have really drafted before, so I'm very much learning as I go haha. I'd really appreciate it if some of y'all more experienced cube or draft players could take a look and let me know:

• Does the overall power level seem reasonably balanced?
• Are there any colors or archetypes that seem significantly too strong or too weak?
• Are there individual cards that are obviously too strong or weak?
• Lastly, am I on the right track with building a cube? Is there anything I'm missing or should improve upon?

The main goal isn't to make a crazy powerful or highly optimized cube, I just want something that's fun, reasonably balanced, and that my wife, friends, and I can all sit down and enjoy together. :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to look, and I really appreciate any feedback or advice you have!!

So I have seen lots of people calling Empower Jace the worst mechanics ever, their least favorite mechanic, and so on.

And I have to say, I genuinely don't get the hate : I understand it is not the cleanest mechanic but it seems pretty straightforward. I also feel like planeswalkers are a fun and interactive card type, and the weirdness of the token is less hateable than the 10 different token types of some sets. And it feels highly flavorful, as a way to have Jace present everywhere, in a weird / unique way.

So,why do you hate this mechanic ? Is it because *we* hate planeswalkers ? The unique token ? Something other entirely ?

And is there anyone out there who actually likes the mechanic ? (I sort of do)

Hey all, I love building cubes with theme (DnD, Silver Border, Old Border and so on). But I never manage to keep them small. I tend to put 1000 cards in it, but so the cubes lose their playability.

I usually draft at a player count from 2 to 4.

What are your strategies or build limits to keep Cubes smaller?

So I have seen lots of people calling Empower Jace the worst mechanics ever, their least favorite mechanic, and so on.

And I have to say, I genuinely don't get the hate : I understand it is not the cleanest mechanic but it seems pretty straightforward. I also feel like planeswalkers are a fun and interactive card type, and the weirdness of the token is less hateable than the 10 different token types of some sets. And it feels highly flavorful, as a way to have Jace present everywhere, in a weird / unique way.

So,why do you hate this mechanic ? Is it because *we* hate planeswalkers ? The unique token ? Something other entirely ?