If your are not familiar with "FOCUS" abbreviation, it is a tool to help you draft any cube. I suggest you watch the video on FOCUS here. Further description of this cube follows the FOCUS strategy.

This is a cube dedicated to my love for colors of magic, multicolored decks and golden cards. In it, you will find:

• 10 colorless cards
• no signets
• no talismans.

To improve mana fixing I broke the singleton rule for non-basic lands. There are 90 non-basic lands in total (15,62% of all cards):

• 2 sets of fetchlands
• 2 sets of shocklands
• 2 sets of trilands (triomes and capenna lands)
• 1 set of true duals
• 1 set of checklands
• 10 other dual lands

Those are usually:

• colorless cards
• monocolored cards that have broad application.

Despite this cube being a multicolored environment with a strong emphasis on synergies, it still contains plenty of:
Low cost monocolored cards with broad application.
Examples: Lightning Bolt, Preordain, Counterspell, Path to Exile.

Black: Reanimate, Life//Death, Animate dead, Victimize
Green: ChannelElvish Piper, Rishkar's Expertise, Selvala's Stampede, Monster Manual
Blue: Bribery
Red: Sneak Attack
Colorless: Quicksilver Amulet

To better understand what strategy, archetype, style, theme, etc mean, here is the link to: How to Organize your Archetypes and General Cube Design.

Macro Archetypes Microarchetypes

There are no strict microarchetypes that are supported. Tribal archetypes are not supported. If you find cards like Likeness Looter or Legion Warboss, they are here because of their abilities not their subtypes.

Themes

List of themes:

• ETB & Blink
• Graveyard strategies
• +1/+1 counters
• Lifegain
• Tokens
• Spells matter

Synergy
A phenomenon in which two or more cards/spells played together produce on effect that is greater than sum of their text/abilities/stats. Challenge for achieving synergies is to have both cards played in the right time while either card has too little value on its own. To enable this I have carefully picked only the best anchor and reward cards (with most value on their own) and excluded all the synergistic cards that can't bring immediate value to the board without another card

• Anchor (setup) - card that has basic value that allows it to be played on its own; and has a synergistic effect with other card(s) (setup).
• Reward (payoff) - card of questionable value on its own that has a great effect (reward) when played with an anchor card.

ETB effects = "Enters the Battlefield" triggered ability on creatures
Blink = effect that exiles a creature and returns it to battlefield thus triggering the ETB effect (again).

ETB effects (setup): in creatures of all colors
Blink effects (payoff): and
Return to hand (to cast again)(payoff):
Reanimation (payoff):

There are 2 main types of graveyard strategies: Reanimation and "creatures in graveyard matter". Both share the same setup which is putting creatures in graveyard somehow. Reanimation is about cheaply returning one big creature from the graveyard. Creatures in graveyard matter is about playing a creature that is stronger the more creatures there are in graveyard.

Graveyard setup (ways to put cards in graveyard):

• Looting (draw and discard): in
• Rummaging (discard and draw): in
• Mill (from library to graveyard): in and

Big creatures: in all colors

**Reanimation (payoff): in and
Creatures in graveyard matter (payoff): in and

+1/+1 counters.

Very Varied theme both in setup and payoff. All colors have effects that place +1/+1 counters on creatures, mostly and .

Anchor/setup

• effect places +1/+1 counter(s) on creature
• effect places +1/+1 counter(s) on all creatures

Reward/payoff

• creatures with +1/+1 counters gain abilities
• placing +1/+1 counters triggers an ability
• effects depend on number of +1/+1 counters or power
• removing +1/+1 counter(s) is payment for activated ability

Lifegain.

The easiest theme to explain. Gaining life is both setup and anchor. Various

Anchor/setup

• direct lifegain: {B
• lifelink:
• lifedrain:
  Reward/payoff

Tokens, Aristocrats and Sacrifice

All colors are capable of creating tokens but and half most such effects.
has majority of sac outlets, while both and provide some form of value from creatures dying.
Anchor/Setup:
- token generation:
- sac outlet:
Reward/Payoff:
- stronger tokens:
- dies, reward: