General Cubing on MtgA

[XRS]

Hello. Long time lurker, first time poster.

I have built Jason Waddells original cube in paper (with liberal use of proxies) and have been cubing for about 2 years. I have been moving constantly for school and work and have had problems maintaining a consistent playgroup. MtgA has increasingly been my solution to satisfy my magic fix.

Recently they released their own sealed cube. The format is historic. For those not familiar this is Ixalan - Theros Beyond Death + Historic Anthology 1 and 2. This has been my go-to format on MtgA since its release. It is however sealed as opposed to draft and I can't construct decks and challenge friends from my playgroup as the direct challenge enforces a lower card limit of 60 cards. I took notice that you have been drafting cubes using spreadsheets and the like, constructing decks and then challenging eachother on MTGO. My hope is that this can be done using MtgA. The "pool generation" and deck construction part is already in place - the only problem is playing the games out.

Questions:
What are the riptide community's opinion of the MtgA cube? Have you tried it?
Do you have solutions to my conundrum? Constructing 60 card decks using a pool og 6 packs seems very suboptimal.
Lastly - have anyone looked at constructing cubes using only the Historic card pool?

If you have similar feelings as I do - please share, reply or like my thread on Wizards' official forum
https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/64489

Links:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articl...al/mtg-arena-cube-sealed-card-list-2020-04-03
Historic Anthology 1 https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/introducing-historic-anthology-2019-11-06
Historic Anthology 2 https://mtgazone.com/historic-anthology-2-cards/

 

[Erik Twice]

Hello and welcome!

I've been playing with the MTG Arena cube for a while. It's not great. Like most cubes by Wizards, it's more focused on playing all the "cool bombs" than it is on synergy. The average mana curve is high, with plenty of planeswalkers, and 4 and 5 mana creatures that can take over the game. In that sense, it's close to the "battlecruiser Magic" kind of gameplay.

While I've won with it, playing aggro is difficult. There's a good chance you won't have enough playables to even consider the option and going three-colours is simply not sustainable with CITP lands. The time I won cleanly was with BR aggro and cards like Rotting Regisaur, Judith and as many mediocre 1 and 2 drops I could find.

I saw a lot of people playing Thalia, Guardian of Thraben in decks with very few creatures and big targets. I fear for how people might play may own cube in real life.

 

[Rowan_CB]

Agreed that the MTGA cube is wacky. Tons of gold cards and not enough fixing means you’re often forced into three color piles with bad mana. Plus it feels like a solid 20% of the cube is low-power synergy pieces that aren’t part of an actually supported deck so will never be played.

The good news is you CAN now direct challenge with 40 card decks, so building and playing your own historic cube is feasible. In fact I’ve just finished the first draft of a peasant historic cube, here: https://www.cubetutor.com/viewcurve/165528

(Peasant so as not to strain peoples’ wild cards). I’m actually pretty excited about this project moving forward.