About this cube

As of 2023/04/17, this cube is (still) being updated.

Once upon a time,
there was happy little cube that was a love letter to Magic: The Gathering Limited Edition Alpha. It wanted to create a home for the creatures without one, be a showcase of cute synergies from the past, and be an inviting place for newcomers to play. This cube wants to tell many stories of heroes and adventures galore!

Goals of this cube:

• To introduce newer and inexperienced players to drafting.
• To use cards and mechanics that evoke the spirit of Limited Edition Alpha.
• To minimize dark and creepy themes and maximize cute and whimsical themes.
• To have a lower power level allowing games breathe a little more.

Shout-outs to to @Myagic for their May's Fae Cube, which was really what got me started down this road. I had been looking for a beginner-friendly cube that had a strong theme or feel, that wasn't just a bunch of simple cards, and I really liked where they were going. Even though not very much of their cube survived my edits, they really gave me the framework, and I hope the spirit is still here in my cube.

Cube Features:

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Kicker

Kicker is a keyword ability that allows the player to pay an additional cost when casting a spell to achieve an additional effect. Kicker is one of the classic mechanics of Magic, so much so that the joke is "every mechanic is kicker." Kicker is a heavy theme mostly in blue, red, and green.

Adventure

Adventure is a spell type, a subtype seen on instants and sorceries attached to creature. You can play the instant/sorcery portion, exile the creature, and you may cast it later. You can also just play the creature as is. This is the main complex mechanic in this cube.

Party

Party is a combination of up to 4 of each wizard, warrior, cleric, and rogue. Changelings can count as any member but only 1 member. This lets the tribes blend together a bit more.

Cycling

Cycling just means you can discard this card from your hand to draw a card. Landcycling let's you grab a land of the specified type instead!

Champion

Champion is where you exile a creature of the specified type as you play this spell. When the creature is removed from play the exiled creature returns to play.

Featured archetypes:

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• Tempo
• Mill
• Turbo fog
• Token go wide decks
• +1/+1 Counters
• Draw matters
• life gain

subtype signposts:

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• party matters
• humans
• goblins
• faeries
• wolves
• elves

Tokens:

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• White: Humans
• Blue: Faeries
• Black: Goblin Rogues
• Red: Goblins
• Green: Wolves, Elves
• Colorless: Food

Cube Goals:

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• Usual draft format(3 x 15 for up to 8 people)(pancake for 2)

• Games should be a bit on the slower side focusing on incremental advantage.

• The gameplay should be simple and clean focused around subtypes.

• Several 1 off mechanics are fine, but they have to have reminder text so it's new player friendly.

• The cube is intended to be played by players at any skill level.

• It should reward skilled players while not oppressing newer players.

• It's a heavy flavor focused cube based around Folklore, Fairy tales, and "modern" story telling tropes/worlds.

• Signposts are more centered around how the subtypes/themes interact rather than just guild signposts.

• token diversity should be low. (under 10 kinds of tokens.)

Notes:

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• Aggro, while supported, isn't going to be the strongest archetype in this cube. Midrangey value decks should be the dominate strategies.

• subtype matters should be incidental with self contained cards (see Sling-Gang Lieutenant, imperious perfect, and etc.)

• The fixing should be slow like the format even though 3 color cards are included.

• graveyard shenanigans are kept very light in this cube.

• removal won't be premium.