General Jumpstarting your cube drafts

[TrainmasterGT]

I just did one of these with my family the other day!! I had shocks and fetches in each deck (6 of which were mono-color, two of which were guild colors) to use as fixing. They were balanced so that every deck could fetch a second color from every other deck.

Spoiler: Drakes

Spoiler: Taxes

 

[Brad]

Spoiler: Under the Sea

Are theme decks cool?

 

[Humpty_Dumpty]

That looks like a near perfect Jumpstart to me, Brad.

There’s plenty of synergy within the pack, but it is open ended enough to interact with whatever it gets paired with. And it’s all tied together with a strong nautical flavour. You just need to make sure you use the Ixalan printing of Opt.

 

[Velrun]

My suggestion would be to let the Basic Islands be one of these three to go with the Ixalan Opt and the theme:

 

[Brad]

I would make sure my Islands are anything but an actual island

Is there a way to specify an art when posting card images? Other than using an [img ]?

Glad people are liking the designs, Humpty.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

Spoiler: Doggo

Obviously using this plains:

 

[Brad]

Tribal is a little harder to Jumpstart. Most of the cards are good in Wx aggro-mid kind of a deck, but you might want to cut the Banner and Sanctuary in favor of something more generic and a Vivid. You actually only have 6 Dogs in your 40 card deck. That said, I think there's a good chance we see more dogs, just as we did with dinos, in the next several sets and people will be happy to play Good Boy Aggro if we do.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

Tribal is a little harder to Jumpstart. Most of the cards are good in Wx aggro-mid kind of a deck, but you might want to cut the Banner and Sanctuary in favor of something more generic and a Vivid. You actually only have 6 Dogs in your 40 card deck. That said, I think there's a good chance we see more dogs, just as we did with dinos, in the next several sets and people will be happy to play Good Boy Aggro if we do.

It's more of a theme deck like the "under the sea" one than it is an actual tribal thing.

 

[Brad]

It's more of a theme deck like the "under the sea" one than it is an actual tribal thing.

I mean, there's four cards that are explicitly tribal.

The 5 drop tribal card seems slow for the deck and the land just doesn't pack enough punch for me, although I do love the art and theme of the land. I wish the ability cost 1 or any of those creature types were central to a +1/+1 theme.

... I'm gonna go scryfall those creature types.

EDIT: Farm themed deck not likely.

 

[Brad]

Spoiler: Disney Lawsuit

Two more cards needed but can't find more snow art easily, have these candidates:

I feel like I want more Snow White cards, but Watchdog is ANOTHER 2 drop, which seems excessive.
The deck also takes a thematic loss if you add Thrivings or Vivids.

 

[inscho]

Mirror...



on the wall?

 

[TrainmasterGT]

Spoiler: Riot

Lands:

Spoiler: Tutelage

Island:

 

[Brad]

I really like the Tutelage deck. Nice use of cards we don't typically get to play. It also has the benefit of smoothing the draws of whatever deck it gets paired with, which makes it a good match for basically any other 20.

Could maybe make use of Vista, Passage, Wilds, Terramorphic to enable Brainstorm? Memorial to Genius? Fiery Islet and Waterlogged Grove? Clever Impersonator?

 

[Brad]

Spoiler: Burn Tribal

It was a little hard to choose the burn spells. I tried to go with cards that could benefit from the variety of buffs present. It might make more sense to do a purely larger dudes and sweepers version with Tajic, Legion's Edge, etc. Or a smaller dudes and direct burn version with Satyr Firedancer. There's a lot of flexibility in the whole list.

It should pair really well with red decks, as they'll surely add some burn.

It also feels like this would want fewer taplands, but I did it this way because it seems financially realistic to not run shock-fetch if you need like 20 separate lists to get a format going.

 

[Velrun]

I think Brad hits the head on the nail.

It is important that each jumpstart deck is good to pair with basically all other jumpstart decks.

 

[Brad]

Add a house rule "lands don't ETB tapped" and you can build a ton of great mana bases for almost no money.

 

[Brad]

Spoiler: Supa Hot Fiya

Needs a cut, not sure what.

 

[Velrun]

Needs a cut, not sure what.

It maybe even needs an ‘add’ as well.


Or maybe not.. but I would personally find it interesting depending on what you decide to cut/change. Cavalcade could go bonkers with some of the things you have in here.


.

 

[Brad]

I had Cavalcade but felt like I didn't have THAT many 1 power things and didn't find it likely to pair into a second deck successfully.

Archer, Geopede, and Hellrider will give some much needed triggers while pairing well with anything else that can be aggressive.

 

[Velrun]

I had Cavalcade but felt like I didn't have THAT many 1 power things and didn't find it likely to pair into a second deck successfully.

Archer, Geopede, and Hellrider will give some much needed triggers while pairing well with anything else that can be aggressive.

You're right. I agree with you now.

 

[TekLazar]

Is this enough for tribal?

Spoiler: Tribal

Or anything here

 

[TrainmasterGT]

Needs a cut, not sure what.

Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner seems mediocre in this deck, since many of the creatures within either have a base power much greater than 2 or gain extra power whenever their trigger is met. She doesn't even support the deck's theme all that well. She's the easiest cut.

I think you should add Prismatic Vista to the deck to support Tunneling Geopede as well. Geopede isn't that great to start with, and I don't think it will be able to reach it's potential without help from fetches.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner seems mediocre in this deck, since many of the creatures within either have a base power much greater than 2 or gain extra power whenever their trigger is met. She doesn't even support the deck's theme all that well. She's the easiest cut.

You can actually activate her first ability before the power of the creatures gets pumped. I think she works great with the Pyreling, Spitfire and Torbran!

 

[TrainmasterGT]

You can actually activate her first ability before the power of the creatures gets pumped. I think she works great with the Pyreling, Spitfire and Torbran!

I guess, but her second ability doesn't work if they've been pumped, and there are multiple creatures in the deck with a power greater than two. She's fine, but I think she's definitely the easiest cut.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I'ld rather cut Tunneling Geopede to add something like Goblin Fireslinger.