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Taking the “cube occasionals” idea and this together, I am going to pilot a simple “counters aggro pack” as an occasional in an upcoming session: Champion of the Parish Thalia’s Lieutenant Grateful Apparition Cloudfin Raptor Brineborn Cutthroat Flux Channeler Carrion Feeder Deadeye Tracker Grim...

Great responses folks! The reason for the hypothetical is, I am actually trying to downsize my full 360 design for the Evolving Wilds cube to a 180 structure. Of course, I’m not going down to 3 colorless slots, but probably 15-25. I have a lot of pet artifact cards (and smokestack is one), so i...

So, here’s a stumper hypothetical for you all: You have fully embraced the philosophy of minimalism and are cutting down your cube. The new structure allows only THREE SLOTS in your colorless artifact section (you have a separate section for utility lands). What three artifacts do you run...

I needed this article badly. i’ve been building, tearing apart, and starting over on my new cube list for at least a couple weeks, in an attempt to fit a bunch of cool archetypes into a 360 or less shell. This concept of occasionals has sparked the solution for me: a simple “core set” shell with...

One guy in my group really likes the discard-stax playstyle, so maggot has extra value for me, but i wouldn’t run him in, say, my core 180. if you’ve ever played an artifact or just straight aggro deck with Tidehollow Sculler, it’s pretty much exactly the same feeling.

There’s always these guys for supporting WB stax... You may be running some of them already Thalia, Guardian of Thraben Winter Orb Static Orb Hokori, Dust Drinker Blind Obedience Thalia, Heretic Cathar

a few i don’t see on the above list, that i personally like: Underworld Coinsmith Grim Guardian Arasta of the Endless Web Brain Maggot Destiny Spinner Lampad of Death’s Vigil Alseid of Life’s Bounty I do the occasional 2HG cube session with four players, and the Guardian and Coinsmith were...

just drafted the cube and built a fun looking mono B pile. i agree that enchantments are a good theme for this cube to include, and i think black has the best enchantment “payoffs” for a cube environment. black enchantments in general also support the devotion theme, and many go well into the...

Vastwood Hydra Genesis Hydra

okay, so after reading a really challenging post about cube architecture philosophy by Grillo in Inscho’s blog thread, and cutting some more of the unfair stuff, i’m really starting to see my drafts come together more nicely. and after about three attempts i finally made this beauty happen...

second the cycling theme. just drafted WUR fliers and flashback, but forgot until pack 2 that the black section wasn’t finished XD really want to play an RG deck in this cube!

yeah, i just specified “4 seats” as the title of the custom draft as a reminder. seems like it has a lot of Balduvian Trading Post friendly features you can build in though, which is cool. as far as the power band goes, in this iteration i do want there to be some wild stuff. the long term plan...

thanks so much for drafting! Recurring Nightmare is probably going to come out before i ever actually play a draft with real people. but i like slamming it on simulated drafts and cackling, because i have issues XD

The cube is now totally rebuilt from scratch and migrated to CubeCobra! There are still some cuts to make, and some wide power band issues to solve, but it’s eminently draftable! Please use 6 or fewer seats when drafting since it’s a small cube.

you may have figured this out but you guys are REALLY helping me make cuts as i go through my cube rebuild :D here’s probably one of the last tough decisions: Deeproot Champion Quirion Dryad

i’m running a lot of sac outlets, discard outlets, and the like in the cube, and 40 evolving wilds, so my thinking was these guys could form kind of an aggressive hatebears strategy with my white section... but maybe i don’t even need that kind of fun policing? i’m on the fence about both of...

Immolation Shaman Harsh Mentor Are either of these cube worthy?

Void Beckoner Scion of Darkness Twisted Abomination You can assume these guys will normally get reanimated turn 4 based on the package i’m going to run with them.

cut Ultimatum or Sidisi IMO. the other two are just cooler!

Here’s another one... Merfolk Looter Enclave Cryptologist Bazaar Trademage Jeskai Elder