General [Contest] 72-card Nanocube

ellogeyen

ellogeyen

For those grasping for any kind of inspiration during these last few days, here are cards with interesting effects considering a 15-card format.



- Sphinx of Foresight has close to a 50/50 chance of hitting, and provides unique play patterns just by adding it to your deck. Leylines, as were mentioned before, are awesome for many the same reasons. Opening hand shenanigans are wild.
- Out of the Tombs was made for commander. It's so much better in 15-card formats: it completely shifts your game around it, and is highely abusable in the right deck.
- Beacon of Destruction can be cast again, and again, and again. It's not the only card enabling this! The beauty of this kind of cards is the 1-card buildaround potential it has.
 
LadyMapi

LadyMapi

OK, I actually bothered to track down my Cube Cobra login info, so I did up a proper nanocube:


The idea here is simple - it's a monowhite cube where both players get a copy of this fine card:

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This cube does not use the rule change that prevents you from losing due to decking out - fortunately, Fasting extends the number of turns you get to play with from ~7 to ~12, which should be more than enough. I might write up a proper cube primer at some point, but I probably won't - like a lot of my cubes, I essentially built it in a single stream of consciousness and it's more about the discovery than any preexisting plan.
 
haganbmj

haganbmj

The Shops Experience - A Nano 72 Cube
>> CubeCobra <<

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Overview:
  • Artifact-centric cube with an underpinning of Vintage mana acceleration and historical threats.
  • Exclusion of some notable Vintage Shops staples that might create too imbalanced of a play/draw incentive (eg. Trinisphere).
  • Predominately colorless, with some Blue and Green inclusions and a selection of Phyrexian-cost cards.
  • Focus on a quick draft, deck-building process, and generally quick games.

Guidelines:
  • Players must build exactly 15 card decks.
  • All basic land types are freely available.
  • Players do not lose the game due to failure to draw from an empty library.

Deck Pictures:
This cube has only been physically drafted twice, so I'm a bit short on lists.

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TheLameSauce

TheLameSauce

Alright, I found out about this yesterday evening and my ADHD brain kicked in and I finally narrowed down the final cuts for this blazing fast nano-cube beauty. Here's my entry, the "Rakdos" Nano Cube.
- Basic land box is only Swamps, Mountains Blood Crypts and the R/B M10 Painlands
- You CAN lose to drawing from an empty library, but good luck lasting that long
- Everything is castable in a RB deck, but having access to the other colors significantly improves the value of your off-color cards.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/f059a56d-a53a-49dc-8719-40e60e24e870
 
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Zerdan

Here's my submission, this one will take the optional rule that decking does not kill you.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/NanoNoManLand

Already had a recent micro cube so tightening it down to Nano was a fun way to see how it keeps together, without playing this I have no idea if this would be fun or extremely boring but there are various ways to win the game even without animating your noncreature permanents and just beating you opponent to death.
 
P

Parallel

ellogeyen said:
There's going to be a small change in the deadline structure. We'll have a soft deadline and hard deadline this time.

February 2nd: Soft deadline
Use this deadline if you want a thorough review by me! I Won't be reviewing or voting for you cube if you miss this one, but just like last time there'll be enough others voting to not affect your chances too much.

February 9th: Hard deadline
I'll set up the poll on February 9th. You cannot submit anymore when the poll's gone up. The exact time will follow.
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I must say I'm looking forward to the reviews, getting a deeer look into all the submissions should be interesting!
 
Mown

Mown

I kind of want to change the cube to have more copies of Feldon's Cane as the only recursion method so there isn't any actual looping and you instead have an explicit limit of resources, but I don't hate what I ended up with. I might do that at some point as a personal project though.
 
LadyMapi

LadyMapi

I found this contest way harder than the last one. "What if cube, but small?" apparently doesn't get my brain firing as much as "what if many copies of one card?" Useful information to have!
 
TrainmasterGT

TrainmasterGT

I was possessed by a Demon and built a Death and Taxes Mirror Match Micro-Cube. This Cube is focused on interactions between different Death and Taxes mirror-matches. You can play several famous variations of Death and Taxes, including Eldrazi and Taxes, Blood and Taxes, and Yorion and Taxes. The goal is to provide an authentic Death and Taxes experience while still allowing for a diverse range of decks.

You can't lose by drawing from an empty library and are required to play a 15-card deck unless you are using Yorion, Sky Nomad as your companion. The land box does not provide access to basic Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests. Instead, the players can use their choice of Plains and the four ABU dual lands that produce White mana.

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Main Archetypes:
{W}: Basic Taxes
{W/U}: Spirits and Taxes
{W/B}: Hand Hate and Taxes
{R/W}: Blood and Taxes
{G/W}: Endurance and Taxes

Side Archetypes:
{W}{B}{c}: Eldrazi and Taxes
{W}{W/U}{U}: Yorion and Taxes
{W}{G}: Chill Guy Gaddock Teeg
 
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ellogeyen

ellogeyen

ellogeyen

ellogeyen

So the first deadline has passed, any entry added now won't be included in my personal feedback.

However, those who want to can still submit entries until next week!

If you've already submitted an entry, and want to change it, you can! I just won't add feedback myself :)
 
vennythekid

vennythekid

I wanted to make a space slow enough for Trading Post to be a core engine. Introducing, the Eldrazi-Post Nano-72 Cube:
https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/f56b9453-9ccd-4b1f-bf14-d59fe0bbadc5

The Eldrazi-Post is a slow, mostly colorless micro-cube centered around resource accumulation, deck recycling, and alternate win conditions.


Rules:
- Decks must be exactly 15 cards.
- Players lose to decking.

Core Engine: Trading Post as a draw and ramp engine with recursive elements. There are 4x each of these cards.


Eldrazi win conditions: Eventually, a deck should be able to produce enough mana for the Eldrazi Titans. They can be used with Trading Post to recycle a player's deck as well. The aim is that decks will not typically be able to effectively cast an Titan on their first cycle-through of the deck, as it will be spent drawing lands, setting up engines, and stockpiling treasures.


Since the environment is so slow, I wanted to play with some cards that I think are cool and slow.






Proliferate Control










Elite Elocutors










U Hedron Alignment








 
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TrainmasterGT

TrainmasterGT

Onderzeeboot said:
Sir. That’s cheating.
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Yorion and Taxes has been the most prevalent version of D&T in the 2020s, so not having it in the Cube felt like excluding something important. In order to play Yorion, you'd have to add 18 lands to your deck to get to 35 (assuming you drafted Yorion and 17 other spells– if you had a Wasteland or something, you'd be playing even more lands!). I think saying "no Yorion companion" (like in Commander) is lame, and forcing someone to play a deck with more lands than spells to accommodate a Sky Noodle is very funny and should lead to cool gameplay.
 
Mown

Mown

Seeker said:
I think Yorion in 15-card-minimum is hilarious and we should let people be forced to play 35 card decks if they are deranged maniacs who love the bird snake

(like me)
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Well, you are forced to play a 35 card deck if you use Yorion, the rules only say you need a 15 card minimum. Having a different maximum depending on whether you have a companion or not is however a custom rule.
 
Onderzeeboot

Onderzeeboot

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Mown said:
Well, you are forced to play a 35 card deck if you use Yorion, the rules only say you need a 15 card minimum. Having a different maximum depending on whether you have a companion or not is however a custom rule.
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Yorion gives you a different card minimum though, not a different card maximum. There is no maximum!
 
Onderzeeboot

Onderzeeboot

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I made the original cheating comment as a total joke, hur all this time I assumed your deck should be exactly 15 cards, but it’s the cube size that’s set (and 72). So at running Yorion requires you mess up your spells to land ratio. That’s actually funny XD
 
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