🥉 Welcome to CLASSIC! 🥉

560 Cards · Old Frame · Est. 2019 · Last Updated: 26 Aug 2022
My Other Cubes: 🥇Prime · 🥈Best-of-the-Rest 

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Behold my personal time machine that lets drafters experience the golden age of MTG!

The design rule is '97 card frame only, so my list draws from 🌴 Mirage – 🐲 Scourge, plus timeshifted oldies from ⏳ Time Spiral. No Retroframe reprints from TSR / MH2 / Promos. Only the original card pool that's no longer expanding.

I'm very proud of this environment, as it transports players into a simpler, fondly remembered era in Magic's history. And despite the less complex pieces, the cube still features fantastic gameplay that feels streamlined by today's standards. Hope you like it 👴 !

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KEY INFO

• ⚖ NO FAST MANA – Broken rocks are excluded, since the answers are too weak.
• ✔ NO COMBO – Old-fashioned slugfests are the norm. Synergy is rewarded.
• ⛰ MODERN LANDS – To help playability, I use old-framed proxies of modern nonbasics.
• 🤷‍♂️ LOOSE ARCHETYPES – 90's Magic had no signposts, so decks are more freeform.
• 📷 IRL PICTURES – Check out these beautiful old cards!

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ARCHETYPES

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1. ENCHANTMENT CONTROL 🔗 Example Deck
Neuter them with sweepers, counters, defensive removal and control magic while leveraging enchantment recursion.

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2. REANIMATOR CONTROL 🔗 Example 1 · 2
Cycle or loot away a finisher, then resurrect it ahead of schedule. Draft the reanimates first!

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3. BLITZ AGGRO 🔗 Example Deck
The cube's most aggressive creatures and excellent removal, along with recursion tools .

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4. PONZA MIDRANGE 🔗 Example Deck
Accelerate into land destruction using your mana elves, while deploying cheap threats. Ensure a critical mass of mana denial cards (8+ ideally), not forgetting those that are lands / artifacts.

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5. GO-WIDE MIDRANGE 🔗 Example 1 · 2
Muster a wide board with tokens, then pump and swing. Early plays are mana elves or tappers usually.

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6. REMOVAL-HEAVY CONTROL 🔗 Example Deck · 2
Generate card advantage by destroying their creatures with 2-for-1's and utilize recursion engines to dominate the late game!

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7. BURN TEMPO 🔗 Example Deck
Knock down life totals in big chunks with burn, control the game with counters.

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8. THE ROCK 🔗 Example Deck
Pulverize the opposition with value-heavy plays, resilient threats and stellar removal.

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9. WEENIE AGGRO 🔗 Example Deck
A flood of angry little bodies, complemented by anthems and burn. Goblin tribal payoffs!

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10. TEMPO MIDRANGE 🔗 Example Deck
Plenty of interaction coupled with robust / evasive beaters and countermagic.

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11. SPELL-BASED RAMP 🔗 Example 1 · 2
Purge the board with sweepers, while ramping into late-game monsters.

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12. MONO WHITE WEENIE 🔗 Example Deck
All about that 1, 2 , 3 aggro curve-out, powered by anthems. Pick mana disruption highly!

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13. MONO BLUE CONTROL 🔗 Example Deck
Draw-Go, with copious counter spells, control magics and smugness! Big flyers to mop up.

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14. MONO BLACK MIDRANGE 🔗 Example Deck
Necropotence, the deck. Plenty removal, threats and recursion. Just don't bleed to death.

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15. MONO RED AGGRO 🔗 Example Deck
Maximum speed, maximum consistency, maximum goblins. 20 to 0, you know the drill.

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16. MONO GREEN STOMPY 🔗 Example Deck
Bulky threats, ahead of schedule. Very limited interaction, so end things quickly.

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🦁 BASED IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
We have a great community of players, many of whom remember playing these cards in Type 2 long ago! The Classic Cube owes its existence to their continued support and enjoyment of the format.

✨ (ALMOST) FULLY FOILED
A absolute thrill to draft in real life. Old-bordered foils are extremely beautiful and playing with exclusively classic framed decks is a joy. Sleeved and sealed in Dragonshield Copper Mattes, to tonally match the brown card back.

📚 DESIGN INFLUENCES
The original design was informed by the following lists: TRK27's Mirage to Apocalypse, darkquarterer's Nostalgic Dreams and blakfishy's Old Border Cube. Thanks to the creators! More recently, I've taken inspiration from Glyptonychus's Middle School Cube. And as always, shout out to Nick from mtgcube.blogspot.com, whose writing helped me understand the importance of tempo in Cube.

🤹‍♂️ DRAFT WITH US!
If you're in town, definitely get in touch and we'll assemble a pod! Very welcoming to newcomers and crusty veterans alike!

Please consider giving a quick Playtest! Thanks for looking :) !
Roland 😄