General Fun Budget Cube Cards

Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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I am looking for fun cards for a draft environment, for under, say, 50 cents each. I want to build a stock "starter cube" list that can be built for ~$100.
 
Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor

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After a cursory look:


Elite Vanguard
Steppe Lynx
Kami of Ancient lawand variants
Stormfront Pegasus (I imagine his brother is more annoying just for being so old, comparatively)


Harm's Way
Mana Tithe
Disenchant
Journey to Nowhere
Oblivion Ring

Merfolk Looter
Unsummon
Mana Leak
Withdraw
Tidings
Confiscate
Take Possession

Diregraf Ghoul
Oona's Prowler
Vampire Nighthawk
Nekrataal
Skinrender
Shriekmaw
Duress
Doom Blade
Terror
Profane Command

Gore-House Chainwalker
Kruin Striker
Mogg Flunkies
Lightning Mauler
Torch Fiend
Plated Geopede
Stormblood Berserker
Pyreheart Wolf
Avalanche Riders
Zealous Conscripts
Incinerate
Searing Spear
Volcanic Hammer
Brimstone Volley
Earthquake
Wildfire

Llanowar elves
Arbor Elf
River Boa
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Nest Invader
Kozilek's Predator
Wickerbough elder
Acidic Slime
Indrik Stomphowler
Rampaging Baloths
Pelakka Wurm
Rampant Growth
Explore
Farseek
Cultivate

Izzet Signet(And it's ilk, Mind Stone etc)
Spined Thopter
Porcelain Legionnaire
Juggernaut
Steel Hellkite
Terramorphic Expanse
Evolving Wilds
Icy Manipulator

Plumeveil
Lyev Skyknight
Spike Jester
Blightning
Qasali Pridemage
Trostani's Summoner
Tidehollow Sculler
Jilt
Prophetic Bolt




Thats the once-over from my cube, mostly leaving out anything worth more than 1.50$
 
T

Tanner K.

Some of my favorite cheap cards from my cube that (hopefully) haven't already been posted:

Cloudgoat Ranger
Cloistered Youth
Daring Skyjek
Intrepid Hero
Fiend Hunter
Geist-Honored Monk
Odric, Master Tactician
Divine Deflection
Arrest

Stonewright
Rakdos Cackler
Burning-Tree Emissary
Hellspark Elemental
Pillar of Flame

Looter il-Kor
Man-o'-War
Mist Raven
Mulldrifter
Aethersnipe
Power Sink
Shelldock Isle
Force Spike

Hypnotic Specter
Gatekeeper of Malakir
Tragic Slip

Ambush Viper
Strangleroot Geist
Wall of Roots

Scuttlemutt
Stuffy Doll
Bonesplitter

Qasali Ambusher
Unflinching Courage
Ghor-Clan Rampager
Rubblehulk
Evil Twin
Agony Warp
Boros Charm
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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+ extort
 
CML

CML

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revised duals + your printer

panoramas are anything but etb

the answer beyond that is "it depends," like the defects range from tolerable (IA / AP painlands) to "shoot me" (cloudcrest lake and friends). there's also the relatively cheap LOR tribal ones like murmuring bosk and gilt-leaf palace

edit: darkwater catacombs and fungal reaches also have cycles

i would be interested in how a pauper cube would look based on the common design principles we set out here. for me, my cube is not my cube without the fetch and the dual

anyone tried tendo ice bridge?
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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CML said:
revised duals + your printer

panoramas are anything but etb

the answer beyond that is "it depends," like the defects range from tolerable (IA / AP painlands) to "shoot me" (cloudcrest lake and friends). there's also the relatively cheap LOR tribal ones like murmuring bosk and gilt-leaf palace

edit: darkwater catacombs and fungal reaches also have cycles

i would be interested in how a pauper cube would look based on the common design principles we set out here. for me, my cube is not my cube without the fetch and the dual

anyone tried tendo ice bridge?
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I don't really find Pauper to be interesting. I'm not rarity restricting, but price is certainly a concern. The audience for such a thing is somebody who has never owned a cube before. Maybe it's a gift to a 15-year old or a broke college student. $100 for all the drafting you can get. So things like Murmoring Bosk are way to exorbitantly expensive. This is a price-matters exercise. I'll run 25c Mythics.
 
Rob Dennis

Rob Dennis

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It's not unreasonable that fixing in this format are things like clue stones, and other 3rd-tier mana rocks. Mono-colored aggro has been the intro deck of choice for so long that maybe the pool should be constructed around that assumption.
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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Rob Dennis said:
It's not unreasonable that fixing in this format are things like clue stones, and other 3rd-tier mana rocks. Mono-colored aggro has been the intro deck of choice for so long that maybe the pool should be constructed around that assumption.
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It's not unreasonable, but I wonder if the set isn't better served by Guildgates and Bouncelands and the like. I'd also like 10-card cycles if possible.

Right now I have:
10x Guildgate
10x Bounceland
5x Vivid
5x Panorama
Terramorphic Expanse
Evolving Wilds
Transguild Promenade
Rupture Spire
Mirrodin's Core

Other land options are the fetchlands:
Flood Plain
Bad River
Rocky Tar Pit
Mountain Valley
Grasslands

and stuff like Kazandu Refuge.

35 fixers feels like a decent density for a starter cube.

Also, the Shard lands are way too expensive for this.
 
Chris Taylor

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Cheep sweepers will mostly be red.


Breath of Darigaz
Hurly-Burly
Rain of Embers
Rolling Temblor
Rupture
Steam Blast
Tremor
Volcanic Spray
Yamabushi's Storm
Rough // Tumble (This is a find!)

Over 28c


Pyroclaysm
Whipflare (Why is this 70c?)

Sadly the mirage fetches are 45c each, which is actually really pricy. The refuges work, the commander decks dropped their price a bit.
Cloudcrest Lake is a whopping 9 cents! Get em in there! There's EVEN TWO CYCLES!!!
When dross like Tremor is still 20c, we need to dig deep on cheap cards, since very little is going to fall below that average.

Ice bridge is pretty alright, considering. It's almost 1$ though (87 on TCG player)

For reference, here's all lands cheaper than your average:
Scabland is on that list, and I think could make a decent name for this cube :p

And sad as it is normally, the bouncelands are all around 25-30c, they might make good here
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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Chris Taylor said:
Sadly the mirage fetches are 45c each, which is actually really pricy. The refuges work, the commander decks dropped their price a bit.
Cloudcrest Lake is a whopping 9 cents! Get em in there! There's EVEN TWO CYCLES!!!
When dross like Tremor is still 20c, we need to dig deep on cheap cards, since very little is going to fall below that average.

Ice bridge is pretty alright, considering. It's almost 1$ though (87 on TCG player)

For reference, here's all lands cheaper than your average:
Scabland is on that list, and I think could make a decent name for this cube :p
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Do you think Cloudcrest, Scabland and co. are better than the lands that I already have?
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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Chris Taylor said:
You're at 10% manafixing right now, maybe it could use a bump.
Maybe the refuges
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Yeah, but I wonder if there might be more "fun add" by tossing in some Innistrad spell lands.

I will also have some assorted artifact fixers (possibly more than these):

Prophetic Prism
Prismatic Lens
Wayfarer's Bauble
Sphere of the Suns
 
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