The goal is to have a small portable cube to take to tournaments with me and play in between rounds with friends that supports up to 4 players. Cards are meant to be as powerful as can be and support as many archetypes as possible similar to my normal 450 card cube. The only restriction for this travel cube is to limit the budget to no card above $20, so that I don't mind playing it in open spaces where card can potentially become lost. No pimping whatsoever whereas my main cube is completely pimped out. It is still plenty powerful and has alot of very cool synergies and archetypes and good color balance.
I dedicated the day to getting updated cube pictures! But this time, instead of taking group shots, I took pictures of each individual card, cropped/edited them, uploaded them to CubeTutor, and you can now see images on CubeTutor that are exact photos of the cards I draft with from my list! So check out the visual spoiler and do some mock drafting checking out all the updated photos. Visual spoiler can be seen here: http://www.cubetutor.com/visualspoiler/170 .
I'm loving the signed cards and miscut cards you have there, beautiful!
I'm not a fan of the P3K Lu Xun after people keep asking me what does Horsemanship do...during the draft.
I love how the Commander version of Lu Xun has reminder text on Horsemanship, so that's the version I'm running for practicality purposes.
That brings up an interesting aesthetics question, where on a cube card is the best place to get an artist signature? Also what color is best?
Below are 6 possible placement spots that I've gotten signatures on my cards from high to low (pictures below)
1) Bottom of artwork
2) On the card type line
3) Top of the text box
4) Over the text box with a thin sharpie
5) Bottom of the text box
6) Over his own name on very bottom of card
After finished foiling out my Cube, alters isn't really my thing, so i'm on a quest to get my entire cube signed now. As others have already mentioned, where possible, I ask the artist to not sign over the text box so my drafters can still read the cards. Similar to you, I went all in on the Signing theme when 30+ artists showed up to GP Vegas earlier this year. And GP Seattle is going to be another big one!
Using the tags on Cube Tutor to keep track of my progress, I'm a little over 1/3 of my cube signed now. (you can see in my sig below) It's been a very fun project so far, the next 2/3 is going to be much tougher!
http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/15268
The goal is to have a small portable cube to take to tournaments with me and play in between rounds with friends that supports up to 4 players. Cards are meant to be as powerful as can be and support as many archetypes as possible similar to my normal 450 card cube. The only restriction for this travel cube is to limit the budget to no card above $20, so that I don't mind playing it in open spaces where card can potentially become lost. No pimping whatsoever whereas my main cube is completely pimped out. It is still plenty powerful and has alot of very cool synergies and archetypes and good color balance.
These are my Oath of Gatewatch Cube additions.
I'm loving the signed cards and miscut cards you have there, beautiful!
I love how the Commander version of Lu Xun has reminder text on Horsemanship, so that's the version I'm running for practicality purposes.
Zendikar Scalding Tarn vs Expedition Scalding Tarn
Below are 6 possible placement spots that I've gotten signatures on my cards from high to low (pictures below)
1) Bottom of artwork
2) On the card type line
3) Top of the text box
4) Over the text box with a thin sharpie
5) Bottom of the text box
6) Over his own name on very bottom of card
Using the tags on Cube Tutor to keep track of my progress, I'm a little over 1/3 of my cube signed now. (you can see in my sig below) It's been a very fun project so far, the next 2/3 is going to be much tougher!
Although technically a downgrade from my P3k one, but i don't care, love my shiny!