A little while ago, we played our fourth session of the Collaborative Cube. Thank you to Dan, Noah, Kyle, Garrett, Tavish, and Nick for attending this playthrough, and congratulations to Nick for his victory! We had a variety of interesting decks, so let’s get into the breakdown.

Nick won the day 3-0 with his Uw (but really, mostly mono ) Tempo control deck focusing heavily on counter magic like Force of Will (since removed) and Counterspell. The deck had something like seven instances of counter magic paired with some flash creatures and a minor spirit sub-theme (e.g. Drogskoll Captain) to disrupt and pressure the opponents.

Kyle went 2-1 and took second with a 5-color () Worldknit deck. He played most of the off-color basic cycle (e.g. Wight of the Crimson Order [Crawling Filth in the card list]) to good effect, losing only to Nick in the final round. Another nice showing by the maestro!

Newcomer Dan went 0-0-1 and took third on first foray. Unfortunately, he had to leave before I could get information on his deck, but I think it was a UB-based control deck. What an ambitious choice for a newcomer!

Garrett went 1-2 and took fourth with a Mardu () exile deck. Despite being plagued by consistent mana issues, he managed to scrape together a few good games, such as the one wherein he managed to drop a turn 5 Ulamog’s Despoiler with processor to Armageddon the board!

Tavish went 0-2-1 to claim fifth place with his GRw (mostly splashing ) Token value deck. Cardinal of Autumn (Blessing of Leeches) and Sproutback Gladekeeper (Skullsnatcher) were the two cards that most stood out from a deck that could attack from multiple angles. I’m surprised his record wasn’t better given what I saw from him.

Finally, Noah went 0-1 with a BW () midrange deck after losing his first match to Kyle and needing to retire early.

As a result of these finishes, Nick will swap four cards, Kyle will swap three cards, Dan will swap two cards, and Garrett, Tavish, and Noah will each swap one card. As of this writing, Nick and Kyle have already made their swaps, so only Dan, Garrett, Tavish, and Noah will make further swaps from this session.