Oh mine is a urza legacy and earlier cube. So plow under et al aren’t really ‘legal’. I do have dark banishing, terror, swords though. Not sure if there should be more removal.
I’ve found that the most powerful turn 1 play in this cube is black lotus, land, juzam djinn.
But the most powerful deck is UR artifacts, with goblin welder, tinker and transmute artifact as enablers, grim monolith, time vault, phyrexian colossus and voltaic key as sorta payoff cards.
I don’t play enough of other people’s cubes to know if mines too good stuff. Is there a way to theoretically see if it’s synergistic or more good stuff?
Hmm.. I think I get what you mean. There’s no right way to make a cube, and the drafting mechanic makes it less unbalanced in general.
In making archetypes tho, I figured it’s more interesting to have colours act in a particular way. Sorta like having white as a weenie colour, and blue as a control colour and so on. I’m worried that all drafted decks would end up looking like mid range goodstuff decks.
I looked up a few cubes, and took some ideas from them. Then i looked at my collection, and realised i don't have everything on those lists. the only real solid strategy so far is Bx reanimator, GU eureka/show and tell.
So I figured it's about time that i built myself a cube, since i've been playing for a while, and have some cards all over the place. The problem is that i'm not really sure where i should start. So far, having taken apart some number of decks and chucked them onto a pile. So far, the pile looks like this:
So it's not 360 cards yet. And I'm not really sure what i should do to continue. Does anyone have any good ideas? Should this be more like an old school cube? or should it be the broken cube? Or something else?
Also, do you guys generally start by differentiating strategies in specific colours? or not? I wasn't sure how to move forwards. I was thinking there could be a blue/black storm combo, UG show and tell/eureka combo, a grixis reanimator, RG lands, WR aggro, UR tempo, UW control, and some sort of artifact prison/aggro. Is that doable?
Hope that works. It's not an amazing cube, but it sure is tough to draft a good deck. I'm not very good at drafting aggro weenie strategies with it.
On the other hand Bx (usually UB or BW) prison is pretty good.
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
I’ve found that the most powerful turn 1 play in this cube is black lotus, land, juzam djinn.
But the most powerful deck is UR artifacts, with goblin welder, tinker and transmute artifact as enablers, grim monolith, time vault, phyrexian colossus and voltaic key as sorta payoff cards.
I don’t play enough of other people’s cubes to know if mines too good stuff. Is there a way to theoretically see if it’s synergistic or more good stuff?
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
In making archetypes tho, I figured it’s more interesting to have colours act in a particular way. Sorta like having white as a weenie colour, and blue as a control colour and so on. I’m worried that all drafted decks would end up looking like mid range goodstuff decks.
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
Green cards
So this is the list i've gotten up to so far. For multicoloured cards, i had the 5 elder dragon original guys (nicol bolas, chromium et al), progenitus and I'm not sure what else. Maybe a lady orca, sivitri scarzam and princess lucrezia.
I looked up a few cubes, and took some ideas from them. Then i looked at my collection, and realised i don't have everything on those lists. the only real solid strategy so far is Bx reanimator, GU eureka/show and tell.
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
So I figured it's about time that i built myself a cube, since i've been playing for a while, and have some cards all over the place. The problem is that i'm not really sure where i should start. So far, having taken apart some number of decks and chucked them onto a pile. So far, the pile looks like this:
1 mox emerald
1 mox sapphire
1 mox ruby
1 mox jet
1 mox pearl
1 time walk
1 time vault
1 ancestral recall
1 scrubland
1 volcanic island
1 tropical island
1 underground sea
1 plateau
1 taiga
1 bayou
1 badland
1 tundra
1 savannah
1 flooded strand
1 misty rainforest
1 polluted delta
1 scalding tarn
1 bloodstained mire
1 marsh flats
1 verdant catacombs
1 wooded foothills
1 windswept heath
1 arid mesa
1 cascade bluffs
1 fetid heath
1 flooded grove
1 rugged prairie
1 twilight mire
1 fire-lit thicket
1 graven cairns
1 mystic gate
1 sunken ruins
1 wooded bastion
1 temporal manipulation
1 timetwister
1 wheel of fortune
1 time spiral
1 mox diamond
1 chrome mox
1 lotus petal
1 mox opal
1 tabernacle
1 gaeas cradle
1 phyrexian tower
1 tolarian academy
1 transmute artifact
1 griselbrand
1 jace, the mind sculptor
1 vendilion clique
1 true-name nemesis
1 shallow grave
1 reanimate
1 animate dead
1 worldgorger dragon
1 drain life
1 emrakul, the eons torn
1 sneak attack
1 show and tell
1 gamble
1 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
1 dark depths
1 karakas
1 karn liberated
1 karn, the silver golem
1 library of alexandria
1 bazaar of bagdad
1 juzam djinn
1 recurring nightmare
1 survival of the fittest
1 aluren
1 dwarven thaumaturgist
1 tradewind rider
1 capsize
1 mana drain
1 counterspell
1 force of will
1 force of negation
1 chalice of the void
1 trinisphere
1 static orb
1 tangle wire
1 thorn of amethyst
1 ethersworn canonist
1 stoneforge mystic
1 sword of fire and ice
1 sword of light and shadow
1 batterskull
1 shaman en-kor
1 nomads en-kor
1 soltari monk
1 soltari priest
1 soltari visionary
1 balance
1 chains of mephistopheles
1 invoke prejudice
1 crucible of worlds
1 cursed totem
1 hurkyl's recall
1 null rod
1 aether vial
1 mishra's workshop
1 moat
1 chaos orb
1 falling star
1 the abyss
1 drop of honey
1 candelabra of tawnos
1 nether void
1 eureka
1 guardian beast
1 imperial seal
1 vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 demonic consultation
1 lions eye diamond
1 concordant crossroads
1 exploration
1 burgeoning
1 channel
1 jackal pup
1 ball lightning
1 lighting bolt
1 chain lightning
So it's not 360 cards yet. And I'm not really sure what i should do to continue. Does anyone have any good ideas? Should this be more like an old school cube? or should it be the broken cube? Or something else?
Also, do you guys generally start by differentiating strategies in specific colours? or not? I wasn't sure how to move forwards. I was thinking there could be a blue/black storm combo, UG show and tell/eureka combo, a grixis reanimator, RG lands, WR aggro, UR tempo, UW control, and some sort of artifact prison/aggro. Is that doable?
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom