I'm primarily a modern player with little experience in Cube.
Does anyone know any website or videos that gives a more indepth that highlights some cards in cube and explains why these cards are good or not?
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I'm actively maintaining a comprehensive article to help explain to new cube players how some complex vintage level cards work in a cube environment. Vintage Cube Cards Explained
From there I'd check out the current Power Rankings thread, where this community voted on and discussed the most powerful cards for cube.
A lot of cards that have been played over the years have Single Card Discussion threads discussing why they are or aren't good enough for cube play. Here's a link to all of them, it oughta keep you busy for a while.
A cube is more than just a collection of individual cards, though. It's a good idea to consider the archetypes and synergies you'd like to support in your cube. I recommend having a look at this comprehensive guide to cube archetypes, and keep in mind the kinds of decks you'd like your players to be able to build.
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465 card Unpowered cube thread. Draft it here and I'll be happy to return the favor.
450 card Peasant cube thread. Draft it here.
Cube lists are wildly different from one another. You can listen to reasons why Brimaz is underwhelming in combo-centric cubes, and why it's amazing in combat-centric cubes ...and both would be perfectly accurate. So it depends entirely on what kind of format the cube creator is making for you. For example, in the last three MTGO cubes:
Vintage Cube - Heavy on combo play, generic midrange bodies and attacking creatures are much worse here.
Legacy Cube - Scaling back the busted spells and fast mana makes "fair" decks that win through the red zone much better. Efficiency is at a premium.
Legendary Cube - A slow and ponderous "dragon" cube where Tsabo Tavoc is a complete house. Even though it's utter garbage in other cubes.
So card evaluation is contextual ...make sure the information you're gathering is relevant to the format you're trying to apply it to.
Does anyone know any website or videos that gives a more indepth that highlights some cards in cube and explains why these cards are good or not?
Vintage Cube Cards Explained
Here are some other articles I've written about fine tuning your cube:
1. Minimum Archetype Support
2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
5. Cube Combos (Work in Progress)
Draft my Cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/d8i
From there I'd check out the current Power Rankings thread, where this community voted on and discussed the most powerful cards for cube.
A lot of cards that have been played over the years have Single Card Discussion threads discussing why they are or aren't good enough for cube play. Here's a link to all of them, it oughta keep you busy for a while.
A cube is more than just a collection of individual cards, though. It's a good idea to consider the archetypes and synergies you'd like to support in your cube. I recommend having a look at this comprehensive guide to cube archetypes, and keep in mind the kinds of decks you'd like your players to be able to build.
450 card Peasant cube thread. Draft it here.
Vintage Cube - Heavy on combo play, generic midrange bodies and attacking creatures are much worse here.
Legacy Cube - Scaling back the busted spells and fast mana makes "fair" decks that win through the red zone much better. Efficiency is at a premium.
Legendary Cube - A slow and ponderous "dragon" cube where Tsabo Tavoc is a complete house. Even though it's utter garbage in other cubes.
So card evaluation is contextual ...make sure the information you're gathering is relevant to the format you're trying to apply it to.
My 630 Card Powered Cube
My Article - "Cube Design Philosophy"
My Article - "Mana Short: A study in limited resource management."
My 50th Set (P)review - Discusses my top 20 Cube cards from OTJ!