Delver Cube

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blacksmithy

https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/63d8fa567e57e60f792e542a?view=table&scale=medium

I made a shitpost elsewhere on the forums about a cube where "Legacy Delver" was the only archetype, but the more I thought about it, the more fun that cube sounded! So i've started a rough skeleton list. The basic goal is to capture as many of the MYRIAD delver (and delverless delver!) variants that have been played in Legacy (and Vintage and Modern, why not?) over the years since the little Kafka Insect Man's initial printing.

If anyone wants to post old decklists or ideas for the cube in here, please do! I plan to (eventually) proxy this whole thing up in old-border to use as an easy "travel cube" with a smaller learning curve than my wild and crazy main cube. Will probably design it as a 180-240 size cube, to mainly be grid-drafted (i am PROBABLY going to exclude white) or drafted with four players.

Thanks!
 
ravnic

ravnic

I love this. And I think it is correct to exclude white and make everything base blue. Will you stay singleton?

Some cards to consider maybe, tgat you aren't running as I'm writing that post, but that's not coming from a constructed expert:

 
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blacksmithy

ravnic said:
I love this. And I think it is correct to exclude white and make everything base blue. Will you stay singleton?
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Great card ideas! I am not 100% sure yet whether to stay singleton, that will probably be a function of how many spots i need to fill when i hit my lower limit of card quality. and yeah regardless of whether white will be excluded, this is going to be a "bluebe"
 
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blacksmithy

added a bunch of cards, we are getting there!
i believe that all basics will be snow just like i have heard they are in "real legacy"
 
Jamie

Jamie

Perhaps you'd be interested in some of the content from Paul Witzenhausen who has written / vlogged a decent bit about RUG tempo in the context of the Highlander format, e.g. his latest list at https://deckstats.net/decks/144087/1989450-rug-xerox-decktech-attached , a slightly out-of-date primer at http://highlandermagic.info/2021/03/28/primer-time-rug-tempo-100-card-singleton/ , plus a playlist of intermittent vids he's done on the topic over the last few years at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrbM07cugZKJj4qEYwGoG6aQGH5YZTgH2 .
 
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blacksmithy

finally got this thing looking very close to draftable, after much help from many wonderful folks, especially @safra who drafted it a ton and gave some great advice on cuts and adds - thanks!

i made a maybe board of white cards, white/x golds, and white/x lands that came out to about 67 cards on its own, so i decided i will cut the main cube down to about 288 (3x16 drafting) and use the white cards + a fairly even slice off the top of the other colors as an optional 8-player expansion.

still planning to do the entire cube as old-border unsleeved proxies, i think it will be a very fun travel cube!
 
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