Cube History:

1. This cube was originally designed as a Tempo Microcube (originally cloned and then edited from Ryan Overturf's Tempo Twobert - http://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/1jd3).

2. After playing and tinkering with the cube for about a year, I expanded on the cube to make it 360 cards and include cards along the entire axis of Aggro>Midrange>Control, rather than just focusing on Tempo.

3. A lot of this inspiration comes from Andy Mangold's "Bun Magic Cube" (https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/andymangold) and listening to Lucky Paper Radio (https://luckypaper.co/podcast/).

Cube Goals:
I share many of Andy's goals and design principles (decision-rich, lean, interactive, diverse). The "pitch" for the gameplay of this cube that I use is that it is designed for decks to feel like interactive, stack-focused, and often tempo-oriented Legacy games. Games often revolve around sticking a threat, protecting the queen, and/or disrupting your opponent from doing the same. Although there are unique synergies and interactions between cards, games are generally going to be won with creatures in combat. Mana fixing is plentiful, but not free in course of actual gameplay (Ex: Shocks and ETB Tapped Lands over Duals).

General Themes Within Colors:

1. White - Protects its creatures, utility effects stapled to creatures, removal that deals with anything.

2. Blue - Cantrips galore for spells based strategies of any color and delve-fuel, counterspells and stack interaction, access to the strongest card draw.

3. Black - Hand disruption, the ability to deal with any creature no matter the size, life loss theme for Death's Shadow and friends.

4. Red - Delirium, spells-matter, burn that goes to the face.

5. Green - Access to the only ramp in the cube, big (and little) green men, lands based strategies.

Drafting:
This cube is designed to be drafted with 6-8 players with 3 15 card packs.