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Tutors, specifically specific tutors such as Trinket Mage, can provide drafters with a fun “package” to draft and build around. They can even become “themeless themes” or minimalist archetypes that emerge. What tutors do you run in your cube and why? EDIT: I’ll slowly fill in mine up here...

As fun as it is to put together wild ideas for archetypes and manabases and heuristic structures for our cubes in theory, when the cards are sleeved and you’re at the table, the only thing that really matters is whether your drafters have a good time! Our own Grillo Parlante is an old hand at...

NOTE: Under construction Posting my “jumpstart packs” and play reports here. Related thread: https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/jumpstarting-your-cube-drafts.3146/ Rebuilding my Jumpstart packs from scratch now that I’m mostly finished updating my cube. All Jumpstarts I build are taken...

The new “Jumpstart” product is an inspiration to me as a cube architect. Often I see my players struggling over a draft pick, deep in the tank for minutes at a time, multiple times per pack. The same stressed expression clouds their face through the deckbuilding stage, but finally they throw...

Good morning lab maniacs! The Scry mechanic has always been really enjoyable for me and for others I’m sure. But when I started to make my Evolving Wilds cube, I got the hair of an idea to make a deck archetype that gave you a payoff for scrying and knowing what your next draw would be. The deck...

FINALLY finished the big 2020 update! Evolving Wilds are now in the basic land box for players to add as many as they wish after drafting. Draft it here on Cube Cobra (use 6 players maximum) https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/evolvingwilds Themes for each color are driven by their guild reps...

What do i do??? I sent out a group message about getting the cube back together, and suddenly my guys be all, "we want Balance and True-Name Nemesis back." Ack! Is there any way to fit Riptide principles into a SUPER HIGH POWER cube? I just wanna jam Jeskai Sage and Elixir of Immortality y'all!

Cheers, Riptiders! It's your flippant neighborhood cube architect, Blacksmithy, and i'm at it again with another really dumb cube idea. This Cube's fixing lands are all Evolving Wilds! This project is in its infancy, because a.) i have a newborn daughter and b.) i haven't touched my paper cube...

Aight Riptiders, as is my wont, i want to make another dumbass theme cube. This time around, i want to make a cube that completely commits to being a stompy dargons experience. To that end, i am going to SEVERELY RESTRICT and possibly just ban spells under a certain cmc. Also, NO ARTIFACT RAMP...

Here's a Cube that took me all of 10 minutes to make. It was inspired by JWadd's CubeTutor Champ contest. My basic thought was "Hey let's take some cool cards and put like, a squad of them, into a cube." So this is the child of that brain fart. The list is here...

Hello again, fellow Riptiders! This thread is about a new Cube that will be born from the ashes of my current Cube. First, a little history: The design concepts I'm looking to use in my new Cube are as follows: A solid mana base. My starting package is 5 cycles of guild lands: fetches...

My playgroup is pretty busy, and more often than not we don't have enough people to draft normally. But sealed sucks as a Cube format! What do? Introducing Color Draft! Here are my hastily-scribbled notes on how to do it for 2-4 players: Separate the cube into 5 monocolor stacks, 1 colorless...

Hello Riptide! Lately I've been plagued by a lack of people to Cube with. I have a small group, but they work. A lot. And so do I. However, in the absence of big draft nights, I have been able to get a person or two over every week or so to hang out and do nerd things. Most often, these are my...

I got the idea for this thread after making a 4-color monstrosity out of a sealed pool from my cube. Post a sealed pool from your cube, or comment on a posted pool. I'll start: http://www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/359172 So, in this pool, i had to leave before i could really mull over the final...

So, this card Lore Seeker is one that my playgroup has always loved, since we went in on a box of Conspiracy to draft. I've always played it as adding another 15 Cube cards to the draft when picked, but reading these forums—as well as the new CubeTutor sideboard feature—gave me an idea...

http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/32888 Here's another non-traditional cube by me. This one comes from a collection of ideas I've got on this site, culminating in a Cube where players are challenged to use their mana optimally every turn. There's lots of X spells, alternate casting costs...

Making a mono-blue cube is not my idea, but I think it'd be fun, so now I'm putting together a list. I have a general idea of what kind of archetypes to build around, but the part that throws me is the structure. How many slots (obviously this shouldnt be set in stone) should i have at each cmc...

Cubetutor: http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/15130 Size: 450 Playgroup: Usually about 6 drafters, mostly inexperienced (myself included) Restrictions: -Modern/postmodern frame with 1 exception per color (this is just aesthetic) -Singleton (also aesthetic plz don't kill me) -Unpowered obvy...