White now has access to more cards that synergize with the other main archetypes in the cube. The goal is to pull drafters into white for reasons other than just aggressive creatures and removal.
Green's 1-mana ramp options have been reduced and replaced with 2-mana variants. The goal is increase the difficulty of ramping out a 3-drop on turn 2 and also to add more synergistic variety to the ramp cards. To accommodate this change, green's creature suite has been re-tooled to reduce the number of 3-drops.
Black has received a power boost and support for a reanimator archetype. The reanimation has been limited to turn 3 in order to minimize non-games.
Changing the ramp package to reduce the number of 1-mana elves and boosting delirium.
Bringing white into the lands archetype.
The Aetherspark just looks cool.
This is the first change I've made to the cube in a while. Some of the changes came from a desire to add more "synergy" to the cube while other cards were cut for being unnecessarily complex or too generically powerful.
Swaps- Maelstrom Colossus
- Raffine, Scheming Seer
- Grim Flayer
- Bitter Reunion
- The One Ring
- Springheart Nantuko
- Anje's Ravager
- Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- Carnage Interpreter
- Ancient Imperiosaur
- Dress Down
- Headliner Scarlett
- Expressive Iteration
- Shark Typhoon
- Kess, Dissident Mage
- Portable Hole
- Detective's Phoenix
- Gnarled Professor
- Urza's Saga
- Sentinel of the Nameless City
- Mishra's Factory
- Perilous Myr
- Sylvan Library
- Umezawa's Jitte
- Scavenging Ooze
- Kess, Dissident Mage
- Dress Down
- Shark Typhoon
- Gnarled Professor
- Raffine, Scheming Seer
- Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
- Carnage Interpreter
- Headliner Scarlett
- Portable Hole
- Anje's Ravager
- Umezawa's Jitte
- Maelstrom Colossus
- Sentinel of the Nameless City
- The One Ring
- Grim Flayer
- Sylvan Library
- Scavenging Ooze
- Bitter Reunion
- Detective's Phoenix
- Springheart Nantuko
- Ancient Imperiosaur
- Expressive Iteration
- Perilous Myr
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- Urza's Saga
- Mishra's Factory
Removing cards that have gone unpicked for several drafts, cards that are consistently powerful in ways that take away from other cards’ archetypes, and too many red 3-drops.
- Maelstrom Colossus
- Hallowed Fountain
- Watery Grave
- Blood Crypt
- Stomping Ground
- Temple Garden
- Steam Vents
- Overgrown Tomb
- Sacred Foundry
- Breeding Pool
- Simic Growth Chamber
- Sunbaked Canyon
- Underground Mortuary
- Fiery Islet
- Selesnya Sanctuary
- Sheltered Thicket
- Canyon Slough
- Undercity Sewers
- Restless Anchorage
- Mayhem Devil
- Grief
- Raugrin Triome