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I tend to think of my occasionals as cards with higher ceilings than the core of the cube, but they fit in a narrower range of decks. The opposite of glue, as it were. I'm currently running a 13/2 split in packs. The cube occasionals are often the highlights of decks and the cards that make a...

There are a few cards that I like from Marvel but only one that's a good fit for my cube:

Putrid Detonation {1}{B} Instant Target creature's controller sacrifices it. Each of that player's opponents loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Stitcher's Anesthetic {U} Instant Tap target creature. Put three +1/+1 counters and three stun counters on it. Two cards with...

Two more drafts to report on. Both of these were online drafts with friends from the Chicago cube group, some of whom are far better than me at winning at Magic the Gathering. I'm really appreciating how this cube rewards thoughtful and clever drafting, there's no winning formula of "pick the...

Alright Riptiders. I'm here to present two MORE ways you can utilize double-printed cards for your cube designs. 4: Back-To-Back Rare Module for Double Variance This is similar to (3) but gives you more flexibility with numbers. If you want to offer a variety of "cube occasionals" without...

I've observed this too, and the sore losers (often men who expected to beat the woman at the table) make that woman feel bad about winning and bad about competition in general. This goes beyond Magic and beyond women - all sorts of folks have had the joy of competition poisoned for them by sore...

I agree that iteration D of Crimson Copse is the cleanest. They all remind me of Nimbus Maze, maybe completing that cycle is an option. Other ways to discourage 5c while still helping 2-3c decks succeed include lands that have a drawback unless you control x or more basic lands, and lands like...

I've been scheming about manafixing cycles that both fix your colors and smooth out flood and screw. Cards like Revitalizing Repast and Lórien Revealed that add some flexibility to a player's draws and also help decks include all the the simple staple effects of their colors. The first cycle...

(Don't mind me, just taking notes here) Concepts I eventually want to work into my overview: - Making the fun thing the strong thing. - How the rare slots hook you into novel strategies by being exciting, narrow cards with high ceilings. Using floor and ceiling to make players try new things...

Some big changes to the list! Broad goals are to diversify the curve a bit (was overly focused on 2-drops and 3-drops), to make interaction more interesting, to support some undersupported strategies and remove others. Notable changes involve a lesson / learn package (3 learn cards / 11...

I also want to support Tidecaller and Maestro by having spells in UR worth spending five mana on. Both Opus cards are just fine in a more cantrip spellslinger deck, but I like the dream of going big (with mana rocks or green to help). Currently have This Town Ain't Big Enough, Occult Epiphany...

I've been making a lot of Universes Within variants of Universes Beyond cards for my cube (and for other people's cubes). Wanted to show you all, full images for printing are also all available on MPC Autofill. Also it seems I'm capped at 20 images per post, so I'll only be showing off a few of...

The Hall of Mirrors / Cube Core / Possible Adds Daydream Stirring Hopesinger Eternal Student Flashback Molten-Core Maestro Pest Rescuer Planar Engineering Applied Geometry The Hall of Mirrors / Cube Occasionals / Possible Adds Informed Inkwright Exhibition Tidecaller Tragedy Feaster Arnyn...

I built my first "use all sides of the game object" cube and I didn't even print proxies for it. It's a mono-red bar cube where any card flipped to have the Magic cardback face up in the sleeve is a mountain: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/caldera When I do MPC orders I often pick up a few...

I really like the idea of using this to print a 360-card set cube! 3x of each common but one common in each pack gets flipped to a rare adds good variance. Print each rare multiple times on the back of different commons, so if you see the rare, you don't know which common is a 2x rather than a...