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I've been grappling with the graveyard challenge with black. I like the graveyard theme, but facing off against Gutterbones or Gravecrawler or even Reassembling Skeleton would get frustrating with Death Baron in play to give them deathtouch. So at a minimum, I'm switching to Lord of the Accursed...

I tried drafting your cube a few times, and the lack of keywords didn't feel at all limiting. My last one produced a pretty strong deck, starting with a first pick Spell Queller. I was initially thinking control deck with counter magic. Then I saw a ton of small evasive creatures and ninjas...

Thanks for this feedback - that gives me some useful stuff to chew on. I have to process a few of those things, but here are some initial reactions. Master of Diversions is something I had considered at one point and then forgotten to switch in. I like its flavor better than a dinosaur that...

If these were mixed in with my real cards and the only way to get rid of them was to pay $5, I would pay.

I've updated a few things in the beginner cube. Disenchant is always a sideboard card, and the number of important targets isn't that big. Replacing with Guided Strike. Kitesail Freebooter has 7 lines of rules text and flavor isn't especially resonant. Replacing with Gurmag Swiftwing...

You're not wrong. I was just looking for good enough stats to pull somebody into the colors, but really, 4/4 for 4 mana is still fine in this cube. I'll switch to the Raging Regisaur. That's a pretty good card design that would probably be good in any RG deck this format can muster. I overlooked...

Thanks for the kind words! Ok, I'll go with two sets of tri-lands. I was trying to increase the number of lands that can support a given 2 color deck, but having 20 tri-lands is probably a good setup. I suppose that also supports more of a normal draft experience for teaching purposes. I've...

I've had the nagging feeling that this cube has too many wordy cards, too many tokens, and some unneeded keywords for a cube that purports to be as simple as possible. But it seems to be balanced enough to be worth keeping around, so I made a new ultra simple version that addresses my gripes...

Yeah, that's a bit of a goofy design. It's presumably in the set as a landfall enabler. You can cast it T1 and not attack until later turns. It would be speedy in a deck with a lot of 1 and 2 drops. If you had a 2 land hand, you could use the land bounce to still cast a 2 mana and a 1 mana...

I was thinking about that, and one solution would be to use side loading inner sleeves for double faced cards. The rest of the cube could still use a more secure type of inner sleeve.

Makes sense - thanks. I hadn't even considered flipping them in sleeves. That actually bothers me less than using helper cards. These cards are appealing enough to have me considering some inner sleeve options now. One could also stick with the inexpensive cards and just buy replacement copies...

Reducing non-games does hold a great deal of appeal. How does double sleeving the cube make these viable for you? I am trying to figure out the connection, but I'm coming up blank.

What's everybody's feeling on double faced cards in general? The ugliness of needing a helper card in the draft is a big downer for me. I do really like the concept of a modal land/spell card, though.

Cube events cost $10 a pop on MTGO. The prizes consist mostly of points to play more events. Your expected value is about 78% of the entry cost with a 50% win rate, and you would need a 63% win rate to play for free indefinitely. In general, good players can spend money more slowly at drafting...

Excluding one color and doing the rest of the combinations is the only way I can think of to get to 6. (edit: without arbitrarily excluding or adding anything assymetrically) You could do that, except give them all the land type of that missing color, similar to Murmuring Bosk. For example, a...

That's pretty irritating! That answers the question of which card I was missing out of the 162 card list.

Did you see that CubeCobra has just released a grid drafting feature that includes a 2 player local mode? Now it's easy to host a grid draft. The host shares their screen and clicks the appropriate rows for Player 2, then sends a link to the deck after the draft. Player 2 goes to that link and...

Many of these reprints tickle my artifact neurons in pleasing ways but wouldn't go so well in a cube. But reprints are always nice. The expected value looks like it will be good enough to make people crack lots of packs for singles, so we should see some nice price reductions. Vengevine and...

This modified 360 card copy of The Elegant Cube's core cards costs about 10 tickets on Magic Online. https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/mtgobudgetelegant This thread exists to discuss card choices for the cube. Budget MTGO Cube Thread...

Restoration Angel -> Glimmerpoint Stag Shivan Dragon -> Flameblast Dragon I like all of the dragons you mentioned. Flameblast Dragon might be too much of an auto win card, which is why I didn't put it in my list, but I do like its ability help one catch up from behind. Stonecloaker and...