This cube aims to recreate gameplay patters of modern's golden age with synergy driven decks that win by playing to the board. Relive the glory days of iconic cards like Siege Rhino and Jace, the Mind Sculptor or teach opponents why Skullclamp is going to stay on the banlist.

The draft environment is centered around cards that are good on rate, but excel when surrounded by the right support and payoffs. This raises the power floor of decks and highlights cards that work well together. Your goal when drafting this cube should be fair decks with unfair draws. Think control decks with Gifts Ungiven and Unburial Rites, midrange decks with Birthing Pod chains, or aggro decks running Tribal Flames to close out the game. Even if you're not a modern aficionado, drafting good cards in 2 colors will leave you with a strong deck, but if you pay attention to the synergies you will find the hidden gems that take your deck to the next level.

Most multicolor cards are intended as archetype payoffs. If you are lost in the draft a mid to late gold card is a good sign that a particular archetype is open.

Thanks for reading! I'll go over specifics below, but leave you with this: The best p1p1 is the card you've been wanting to play. Taking a Siege Rhino and abusing the etb with blinks and reanimates, casting a Bloodbraid Elf and cascading into Liliana of the Veil, or blind flipping a Delver of Secrets are the plays that made me build the cube in the first place. If you see a card and it sparks an idea for a deck, its probably supported.

• Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage or Mirage Mirror
• Grove of the Burnwillows + Punishing Fire
• Temporal Manipulation + Eternal Witness or Archeomancer + Blink effects
• Gifts Ungiven + Unburial Rites + Big creatures
• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Restoration Angel or Zealous Conscripts
• Valakut, the Molten Pinacle + Scapeshift or Primeval Titan + Dryad of the Elysian Grove if needed
• Field of the Dead + Scapeshift or Primeval Titan
• Blossoming Tortoise + Lavaclaw Reaches
• Stitcher's Supplier + Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
• Mox Opal + Artifact Lands

• All basics are snow, with 2 of each non-snow basic included for Gifts Ungiven and Field of the Dead drafters
• The 5 cycles of duals are fetches, shocks, triomes, manlands, and a grab bag of horizon/manland/utility lands
• Splinter Twin may be unbanned in our hearts, but after a series of 0-3s it has been removed to make UR decks better (womp womp)
• 2cmc mana rocks were excluded to push resource generation due to synergy
• There are no cards with mechanics that require outside tracking like day/night, the ring, and energy. Reading the card explains the card with few minor exceptions, like Textless Cryptic Command which I find funny
• Art and foiling in the list is accurate
• Temporal Manipulation is an alternate art replacement for Time Warp because the secret lair version is gorgeous