Thank you for your suggestion.
I just finished my first cube with the cards I own.
It's composed only from cards from Kamigawa block + cards from core sets 8 and 9 (since they are mostly "vanilla" I think they don't ruin theme so much).
If I want I can quickly recognize and remove core set cards since they are all white bordered.
In the end I needed 2 copies only of about 25 cards mostly blue because it was heavily underrepresented.
I will try it with my friends and let you know how it plays,
Thank you again
Hi,
I've recently bought a bulk of cards (common and uncommon) and I want to build some cubes out of them to use for draft.
I care about lore and theme so my first thought was to build cubes with cards of the same block but I don't have enough singleton to reach 360.
Since I don't have enough cards what do you suggest?
a) Don't limit cards to be singleton but allow multiple copies for each card of the same block (to balance colors I might need 3x for some cards).
b) Build cubes with cards from 2 subsequent blocks (e.g. Ixalan (+rivals) + Amonkhet (+ hour of dev)), filling with closest core set if needed.
c) Build cubes based on the planes in witch they take place
(e.g. "Mirrodin Cube": Mirrodin Block (2004) + Scars of Mirrodin Block (2010). "Ravnica Cube": Ravnica (2005) + Return To Ravnica (2012) + Guilds of Ravnica (2012))
Thematically I would prefer option (c) but I'm not a real MTG expert so I worry that mixing cards so far distant in time would lead to an imbalance and older cards (e.g. Creatures) being to weak to be picked in draft.
I just finished my first cube with the cards I own.
It's composed only from cards from Kamigawa block + cards from core sets 8 and 9 (since they are mostly "vanilla" I think they don't ruin theme so much).
If I want I can quickly recognize and remove core set cards since they are all white bordered.
In the end I needed 2 copies only of about 25 cards mostly blue because it was heavily underrepresented.
I will try it with my friends and let you know how it plays,
Thank you again
I've recently bought a bulk of cards (common and uncommon) and I want to build some cubes out of them to use for draft.
I care about lore and theme so my first thought was to build cubes with cards of the same block but I don't have enough singleton to reach 360.
Since I don't have enough cards what do you suggest?
a) Don't limit cards to be singleton but allow multiple copies for each card of the same block (to balance colors I might need 3x for some cards).
b) Build cubes with cards from 2 subsequent blocks (e.g. Ixalan (+rivals) + Amonkhet (+ hour of dev)), filling with closest core set if needed.
c) Build cubes based on the planes in witch they take place
(e.g. "Mirrodin Cube": Mirrodin Block (2004) + Scars of Mirrodin Block (2010). "Ravnica Cube": Ravnica (2005) + Return To Ravnica (2012) + Guilds of Ravnica (2012))
Thematically I would prefer option (c) but I'm not a real MTG expert so I worry that mixing cards so far distant in time would lead to an imbalance and older cards (e.g. Creatures) being to weak to be picked in draft.
What do you think?
Thank you