I'm a teacher and I'm interested in creating a budget cube for my students in Magic club. They don't really have money to draft so I thought it would be a fun and cheap way for us to play.
I personally really love the whole KTK block so I was thinking of creating a small cube of just KTK, FRF, DTK cards. I've been searching for forums for someone who's already made one, but no luck so far. What I'm really wondering about is how to get the proportions between commons/uncommons/rares right. Is there a guide somewhere that I've missed, or can anyone provide me with some advice?
As far as the proportions, there's a good article on it here. If you want it to match cracking packs, you're looking at about 6 copies of each common, 3 of each uncommon, and 1 of each rare.
Alternately, a lot of people cut a lot of rares (stuff that is so good it warps limited, stuff that's too bad to ever use, or just too constructed-focused) and drop the ratios to around 4:2:1. That's personally the route I'd go, for balance and monetary reasons.
If you're looking for more information, searching for "set cubes" and "block cubes" should get you some cool stuff.
I've been saving all my draft commons and uncommons to build a KTK/FRF/DTK cube. I really enjoyed all the sets in this block in draft. However, I'm not setting out to replicate any particular limited format. By including cards from all 3 sets together, it's a entirely new thing. That's a plus in my book; being able to draft fun cards in a new environment, that's also easy for newer players to grasp because they've played with a lot of the cards before.
Sets aren't designed with limited as the primary focus, and so I'm not as interested in replicating the set as I am creating the best possible limited environment. For me, that means the power level is relatively flat (not too bomb-heavy), the colors are roughly equal in power and depth, and there are many possible strategies (aggro, control, build-around, combos, etc.)
I am trying to run about 70-30 creatures-spells, cutting all the cards that are bad in limited. I'm probably going to do 3x commons, 2x uncommons, 1x rares (cutting down to about 80 rares), but may do 4x commons, 2x uncommons, 1x rares. The entire cube is going to be somewhere around 800 cards.
I'm a teacher and I'm interested in creating a budget cube for my students in Magic club. They don't really have money to draft so I thought it would be a fun and cheap way for us to play.
I personally really love the whole KTK block so I was thinking of creating a small cube of just KTK, FRF, DTK cards. I've been searching for forums for someone who's already made one, but no luck so far. What I'm really wondering about is how to get the proportions between commons/uncommons/rares right. Is there a guide somewhere that I've missed, or can anyone provide me with some advice?
Appreciated!
Alternately, a lot of people cut a lot of rares (stuff that is so good it warps limited, stuff that's too bad to ever use, or just too constructed-focused) and drop the ratios to around 4:2:1. That's personally the route I'd go, for balance and monetary reasons.
If you're looking for more information, searching for "set cubes" and "block cubes" should get you some cool stuff.
I hope your students enjoy the cube
Cheers!
Kinak
Sets aren't designed with limited as the primary focus, and so I'm not as interested in replicating the set as I am creating the best possible limited environment. For me, that means the power level is relatively flat (not too bomb-heavy), the colors are roughly equal in power and depth, and there are many possible strategies (aggro, control, build-around, combos, etc.)
I am trying to run about 70-30 creatures-spells, cutting all the cards that are bad in limited. I'm probably going to do 3x commons, 2x uncommons, 1x rares (cutting down to about 80 rares), but may do 4x commons, 2x uncommons, 1x rares. The entire cube is going to be somewhere around 800 cards.