Philosophy

This is a 2 player peasant cube with the following restrictions:

• Only cards printed at common or uncommon (online rarities included)
• No cards that forces shuffling of libraries
• No double faced cards
• Preference towards cards with simpler rules text (e.g. Unburial rites rather than Animate dead
• Some cards are banned for gameplay reasons (full list at the bottom)

When drafting with two players, the card pool that the players see will be smaller than in an 8 player draft. This means that cards need to be flexible and wanted by several archetypes. For instance supporting mono coloured aggro with 7+ one drops would be impossible without sacrificing needed support for several other archetypes.

Lands that only produce 2 types of mana are excluded, as these have a lower probability of being useful. For fixing there are 16 lands that may produce any color.

Drafting

Each player gets 5 tokens and 15-18 packs of 5 cards. Both players open a pack and pick 1 card. The remaing 4 cards are passed to the other player which then picks 1 card. At any time a token can be spent to pick an additional card from the pack.

With 15 packs, each player will end up with a draft pool of 35 cards. 150 cards out of 240 will be used for the draft, improving the probability of archetypes coming together.

Sealed

Each player get 120 cards and have to build two 40 card decks with a sideboard of up to 10 cards. With the increased card pool compared to 90 card sealed, the decks become stronger and certain strategies are more likely to come together.

Archetypes

- Blink
- Control
- Aggro, sacrifice
- Beatdown
( - Tokens, +1/+1 counters)
- Aristocrats
- Graveyard value
( - Midrange, tempo)
- Spells matter
- Aggro/go wide

- Blink
- Reanimation midrange/value
- Reanimation control/combo

Alternative rules (under testing)

To spice up the draft, I’ve made a list of rare/mythic cards that can be included for variance. This

https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/1a30

For 120 card sealed: Each player gets 8 cards and can include up to 3 in each deck.
For grid draft: Each player gets 5 cards and can include 3 in their final deck.

Current banlist

Mother of Runes
Crystal Shard
Hymn to Tourach
Behemoth Sledge
Skullclamp
Isochron Scepter
Loxodon Warhammer
Grafted Wargear
Fire Covenant
Curse of Shallow Graves
Curse of Predation
Control Magic
Swords to Plowshares
Path to Exile