A commander cube by appearance only. It drafts and plays as a typical 360x40 cube.

Goals

1. Spread the zero sum fun of stax.
2. Have a bunch of artifacts.
3. Combo pieces contain value outside combos.

Objectives

1. Define what stax is and how it can be expressed.
2. Have a bunch of artifacts.
3. A. Heavily consider combo pieces and their worth.
   B. How these cards can generate value outside of the combo.
   C. Most importantly the possibilities of interaction with the combo itself.

Beating the horse at a snail's pace.

Stax, when pedantically picked apart, is a strategic focus on defense first. Creating an advantage for yourself by prioritizing a disadvantage to your opponent. Symmetrical disadvantage can be best if you are able to reduce the "δ" (rate of change) of the disadvantage you're incurring and therefore create a relative window of advantage. It all sounds so obvious but, the foundation has to be poured somewhere and it's rarely at the end of the project.. The game should end swiftly or at the least progress towards an end meaningfully. Asymmetrical effects and/or combos that circumvent the disadvantage of symmetrical staxing effects are unbunent. Succinctly, if the δ of your disadvantage is less than the δ of your opponents disadvantage, you are staxing right. Purely Zero Sum Fun

I've never built a Cube before. I'm a mediocre magic player. I love Stax. And so should you.

Every article written about Stax has to mention Smokestacks within the first two paragraphs; so here's my Cpt. Obvious statement of the card. It's good and you hate because it's good. But what if Rhystic Study read something like

I'm forcing it, I know, That does seem a lil closer to a newer undervalued Stax piece, God-Pharaoh's Statue.

"prioritizing a disadvantage"

While Stax is defined by the brown cards in general, the rest of the colors disadvantage the your opponents also. Some colors are obviously better suited to disadvantage an opponent than others. COUwhiteGH

These are not the exact archetypes. Giving that advantage away wouldn't be a very stax thing to do.
Enchantment Control/Hate Bears
Bounce/Tap/Counter/Mill
Discard/Edict
Chaos/Land Destruction
Dorks 'n Dudes (Anti-stax? Still wandering around in this color.)

When I was a young child, my mother would get so upset while doing the laundry because I would spend my outside play time filling my pockets with treasures. By treasures I mean metal objects, rocks, and garbage. By garbage I mean mostly cigarette butts. No one in my family smoked. I was a really fucking weird kid.

Everyone gets a Mind Stone before the draft. Custom Draft is a thing.

The Pythagorean Theorem is a product of the occult.

Numbers are had and when you start trying to cube them, - yeesh

If I stick with the the draft form I have now, I need 48 colorless cards. if I round up to 50, the 2 card variance could be nominal. 60 would not be nominal. There's a sweet spot somewhere inbetwixt I'm sure. After a major land drop into the cube that it has been needing, I think this is the beginning of it being pretty playable. Quick quirks update. you must play 10 Persistent Petitioners if you draft and choose to play it. Testing could change this number. may be busted. Drafting a Myr Servitor includes a buddy for him.