Premodern Cube

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Art by Christopher MoellerArt by Christopher Moeller

360 Card Cube

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The Cube aims to play cards legal for play in the premodern format (https://premodernmagic.com/legal-sets#legal-sets). It is mainly focused on cards printed from 1995 to 2003.

Optional rule sets are available (Mana burn, Damage on the stack). Wishes get cards in exile. Some of the cards in this cube make more sense in this context.

Accumulated Knowledge and Flame Burst give you +2 copies of their respective cards when drafted.
Drafting Cunning Wish and/or Burning Wish + Mirari gives you an additional copy of the respective Wish that can only live in your sideboard.

Large update after playing the Cube a few times. I don't want to change this an infinite amount since part of the ethos of this Cube was to have something evergreen, so future updates will be lighter than this hopefully.

Additions:

  • A focus on "garage combo" - combo pieces that are powerful together but not necessarily game over, as well as multiple ways to build around them. This is the largest change.
    These include Academy Rector, Body Snatcher, Form of the Dragon, Future Sight, Goblin Bombardement, Helm of Possession, Intruder Alarm, Life // Death, Nether Spirit, Nostalgic Dreams, Pursuit of Knowledge, Sneak Attack, Zombie Infestation, Sengir Autocrat

  • Additional support for reanimator:
    Buried Alive, Scion of Darkness.

  • Improve aggro drops (generically):
    Deftblade Elite, Dauthi Horror, Erg Raiders, Goblin Bombardement, Goblin Goon, Jinxed Idol, Dega Disciple, Arcane Teachings

  • Add some iconic spells:
    Earthquake, Firestorm, Foil, Force Spike, lotus Petal, Natural Order, Oath of Druids

Ad Hoc additions:
Forbidding Watchtower, Jeweled Amulet, Lieutenant Kirtar, Nightscape Familiar, Sunscape Familiar, Thran Foundry, Voice of All, Weatherseed Treefolk, Wild Growth, Wildfire

Removal:
Most of the removals are essentially spells that didn't perform as well as expected.

Shaving cards with protection: Order of the White Shield, Silver Knight.

Repeat play pattern cards: Dwarven Blastminer, Undertaker

Some green multicolor cards got shaved to put in mono-green cards. These are: Aether Mutation, Assault // Battery, Consume Strength

Cards that were generically removed since they are less relevant than the cards added: Aftershock, Blood Lust, Compulsion, Crypt Angel, Drain Life, Field of Souls, Flash of Insight, Ghastly Demise, Giant Growth, Grinning Demon, Guided Strike, Kaervak's Torch, Kor Chant, magma Burst, Millikin, Mindless Automaton, Opportunity, Spinning Darkness, Quicksand, Rain of Salt, Rainbow Efreet, Sonic Burst, Stalking Stones, Unquestioned Authority, Suq'Ata Lancer, Crumbling Sanctuary.

Some cards got removed for optimization reasons: Dauthi Slayer (BB cost), Emperor Crocodile (more iconic G creatures available), Fallen Askari (better 1B drops added), Putrid Imp (zombie infestation), Story Circle (Voice of All leads to better dynamics)

Forced graveyard ordering of opponent: Phyrexian Furnace

Banned from premodern so removed: Land Tax