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One of the hardest parts of building a cube is that we build them for other people. And those people may have a different perspective or see things differently from you. Cards we like or archetypes that seem obvious to us may not be for others or not seem fun to them at all. So here's an...

I can't be the only one who doesn't like certain cards because they are ugly. For example, there are many reasons to run Chromatic Star over Chromatic Sphere. But I don't because the former is ugly: Chromatic Star Gurmag Angler would normally be a clear win for my cube. It ties in with...

I'm pretty sure this has been proposed before, but it seems interesting. As you know, there are many cards in Magic that work with additional copies. Accumulated Knowledge is the best example, as are Kindle and Legion Conquistador Accumulated Knowledge Kindle Legion Conquistador Now, these...

Ah Storm. The posterchild of parasitic archetypes. The deck that makes your cube worse and that leads to silly, uninteractive games and awful draft experiences. But some of us love it. To me, it's the most fun, interesting of all combo archetypes. It's a complex, non-deterministic puzzle that...

Not all cards we add to our cubes work as well as we think they will. Sometimes they are too powerful or too centralizing while others, they simply don't work in an actual deck. Which cards have you regretted adding to your cube than you thought would be great but simply weren't?

BACKGROUND I no longer play Magic. I used to, back when Extended existed as a format and Ravnica was just one block instead of three. I was attracted to the creativity of the game, the nifty interactions and the deckbuilding. I spent days building decks for formats I didn't even play and...