Art by Mark TedinSummon horrors from your graveyard, equip powerful artifacts and loot your way to madness!
SPECTRUM melds unusual archetypes and focuses on synergy. It looks to push pauper's boundaries in regards of synergetic deckbuilding and efficient/value-oriented gameplay.
Discard / Madness
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Graveyard / Threshold
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Artifact / Metalcraft
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Enchantments
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Smaller synergies:
Prowess - -
Equipment -
Artifact Creatures -
š„Drafting Affinity w/ commentary
š„Drafting Madness + Reanimator w/ commentary
- reward synergistic deck-building (no 'good-stuff' decks)
- meld archetypes that don't normally go together (less parasitic)
- support value oriented 'legacy-lite' gameplay
- offer enough tricks/instants to keep combat interesting
- retain a learning curve with a low floor and a high ceiling
- support two player gameplay (Jumpstart, Sealed or Winston draft)
- No infinite combos or locks
Jumpstart boosters available. Primary sort by tags or use this link to view them: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/spectrum?s1=Tags
To assemble Jumpstart boosters, primary sort the list by tags, organize the boosters as shown and add basic lands until you have 20-card boosters.
I recommend choosing 1 of 3 boosters and then another 1 of 3 others.
Shuffle the two chosen boosters together and start playing.
| Cube Stats | out of 10 |
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| Price | 2 |
| Size | 3 |
| Start difficulty | 3 |
| Skill cealing | 6 |
| Grindiness | 3 |
| Parasitic | 5 |
The design challenge here is adapting very different archetypes and therefor potentially very parasitic draft choices into a more homogeneous cube with archetypes that blend into each other and support one another.
Madness being the most parasitic option as it always requires two types of cards to do something is a great example of where I still wish more cards would overlap with other strategies. Blood tokens and disturb cards that are enchantments are already a great embellishment for this environment. Hopefully there is even more to come!