Hi, I've been a lurker here for some time and just decided to upgrade my janky cube made out of cards in my collection (although on a pretty low budget).
A lot of the more interesting cards in my collection interacted with the graveyard in some way, so the cube naturaly lended itself to a graveyard theme: cards with delve, cards that cared about having cards in the graveyard (i.e. Nemesis of Mortals), cards that wanted to sacrifice other cards/be sacrificed, even a lot of the spell-matters cards interacted with the graveyard (i.e. Finale of Promise).
Now I have decided to upgrade it for the first time with new cards and I have a budget of around 10 euros to do so. The current list showing the cube with the upgrades I have in mind is here (the first iteration that appears in the blog is the one that only include cards in my collection): https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/61117215ba78bf103986bdd1
UPDATE: After some changes the cube is starting to look good achetype-wise! I'll leave the original concerns I had in this matter so I (and anyone) can look back and see the progress.
The things that concern me now are relative to the specific cards in each color.
Things like:
-Are the mana curves in each color good? Maybe green has too much top end or too little early plays or maybe the other colors are lacking in big creatures.
-Are there any clear outliers? It is possible that Arbor Colossus is too efficient vs the threats in other colors and maybe Shambling Ghast just doesn't deserve a spot in the cube.
-Could I replace some cards for others that do their job in a more interesting way (and aren't expensive to buy)? Falkenrath Noble is good as a 4 drop that is a payoff for sac decks but maybe one Braids, Cabal Minion would be more interesting than just another draining effect.
-And of course the colorless section is still a mistery for me. I don't know what should I do with it or if it is ok in its current state.
And that's it for now, thanks to the community for the ammount of resources that are there to help noobs like me and any further help would be appreciated!
A lot of the more interesting cards in my collection interacted with the graveyard in some way, so the cube naturaly lended itself to a graveyard theme: cards with delve, cards that cared about having cards in the graveyard (i.e. Nemesis of Mortals), cards that wanted to sacrifice other cards/be sacrificed, even a lot of the spell-matters cards interacted with the graveyard (i.e. Finale of Promise).
Now I have decided to upgrade it for the first time with new cards and I have a budget of around 10 euros to do so. The current list showing the cube with the upgrades I have in mind is here (the first iteration that appears in the blog is the one that only include cards in my collection): https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/61117215ba78bf103986bdd1
UPDATE: After some changes the cube is starting to look good achetype-wise! I'll leave the original concerns I had in this matter so I (and anyone) can look back and see the progress.
-Although I would've like all the color pairs to have a sub-theme, non of the black pairs seems to differ much from the mayor archetype of each trio.
Black being the most important graveyard and sac color is a strong enough identity.
-I have ramp as a Temur thing because black big creatures seem too sinergy -focused to work well in a generic ramp deck, but izzet can't work as a ramp combo, so it is more green + red or blue.
Now ramp is green/x.
-In the same vein, the only 2 color pair in grixis that seems to work fine as pure control is Dimir, but maybe there is some possible Izzet counterburn controly-ish deck or a slower Rakdos aristocrats variant.
Now control is blue/x. Hope that I've fixed most of the color identities problems.
-Maybe there is too much power unbalance between the top end in the colors? Aetherling and Prognostic Sphinx both seems very strong and both are in blue, but maybe it is ok.
Aetherling is out, now the concern is if I have enough big creatures in non green colors.
-I didn't add any cards from outside my collection to the colorless section and I don't know if it is a bit lacking.
Black being the most important graveyard and sac color is a strong enough identity.
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Now ramp is green/x.
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Now control is blue/x. Hope that I've fixed most of the color identities problems.
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Aetherling is out, now the concern is if I have enough big creatures in non green colors.
-I didn't add any cards from outside my collection to the colorless section and I don't know if it is a bit lacking.
The things that concern me now are relative to the specific cards in each color.
Things like:
-Are the mana curves in each color good? Maybe green has too much top end or too little early plays or maybe the other colors are lacking in big creatures.
-Are there any clear outliers? It is possible that Arbor Colossus is too efficient vs the threats in other colors and maybe Shambling Ghast just doesn't deserve a spot in the cube.
-Could I replace some cards for others that do their job in a more interesting way (and aren't expensive to buy)? Falkenrath Noble is good as a 4 drop that is a payoff for sac decks but maybe one Braids, Cabal Minion would be more interesting than just another draining effect.
-And of course the colorless section is still a mistery for me. I don't know what should I do with it or if it is ok in its current state.
And that's it for now, thanks to the community for the ammount of resources that are there to help noobs like me and any further help would be appreciated!
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