Hey guys, I really enjoyed the Microsealed Format that was eplaines in Jason's Article on CfB with very tiny tweaks like just using the normal lands from my cube. But I wasn't quite pleased with the feeling. My cube, like most here, is designed to give consistency and redundancy to certain archetypes, so a 90-card pool could easily have enough to support 2 or 3 
sacrifice decks, which felt boring. Also, the constructed-like consistency of the decks allows for more niche and focused strategies than you average singleton cube. You can kinda implement constructed decks into this limited format.
So I decided to build a cube, a small one, just for this format.
Here is what I laid out as rules:
- 180 cards (This way every card will be in the pool all the time, minimizing the cards needed for a viable strategy)
- 28 per color, 20 colorless (4 five-color-fixing lands), 10 gold, 10 hybrid
I started still with 10 archetypes for each color pair, looking for stuff that might not be possible in larger singleton cubes, but I still want to get as much variance in the mix as possible. So I just want to add at maximum 10 cards dedicated to each for those archetype, and also try to have a some of them be useful for others as usual. For example, here is everything I added specifically so far for my archetype:
If you end up with 5 or 6 cards of those, that's already two thirds of your needed playables, so you can just fill out the rest with useful cards and fillers and get a deck that feels focused and streamlined like a constructed deck.
But I think you can get even more niche in this format. My archetype looks like this:
That's pretty doable with 15-card decks and a pool that is split in half among both players. But I want to go even more fancy. I already have a infinite combo (I know of) with Presence and Midnight Guard, but I'm not just looking for this kind of stuff.
I want to add as many cool 2-card combinations as possible, like Kor Skyfisher + Oketra's Monument, as well as cool constructed decks, that could finally be integrated into a limited cube format. But I am just as curious, what you guys think of this idea, to create a format specifically for a 2-man Microsealed.
For reference, here is the list I'm working on: http://www.cubetutor.com/cubeblog/149765
sacrifice decks, which felt boring. Also, the constructed-like consistency of the decks allows for more niche and focused strategies than you average singleton cube. You can kinda implement constructed decks into this limited format.So I decided to build a cube, a small one, just for this format.
Here is what I laid out as rules:
- 180 cards (This way every card will be in the pool all the time, minimizing the cards needed for a viable strategy)
- 28 per color, 20 colorless (4 five-color-fixing lands), 10 gold, 10 hybrid
I started still with 10 archetypes for each color pair, looking for stuff that might not be possible in larger singleton cubes, but I still want to get as much variance in the mix as possible. So I just want to add at maximum 10 cards dedicated to each for those archetype, and also try to have a some of them be useful for others as usual. For example, here is everything I added specifically so far for my
archetype:If you end up with 5 or 6 cards of those, that's already two thirds of your needed playables, so you can just fill out the rest with useful cards and fillers and get a deck that feels focused and streamlined like a constructed deck.
But I think you can get even more niche in this format. My
archetype looks like this:That's pretty doable with 15-card decks and a pool that is split in half among both players. But I want to go even more fancy. I already have a infinite combo (I know of) with Presence and Midnight Guard, but I'm not just looking for this kind of stuff.
I want to add as many cool 2-card combinations as possible, like Kor Skyfisher + Oketra's Monument, as well as cool constructed decks, that could finally be integrated into a limited cube format. But I am just as curious, what you guys think of this idea, to create a format specifically for a 2-man Microsealed.
For reference, here is the list I'm working on: http://www.cubetutor.com/cubeblog/149765
