This is a budget 4-6-8 player Commander cube, which focuses on recreating the spirit of casual commander games. Many cards have multiple purpose and the spread is pretty even among the colors. The purpose of this cube is just for personal use and casual game nights. I'm still revisiting some of the colorless options but overall I'm pretty pleased with the state of this list!

As a budget costraint I tried to keep the majority of the cube under 1,00 € (excluding a couple of personal favourites) with a hard cap under 2,00 €.

This cube was heavily inspired by BEDHC (Budget EDH Cube) 4-player from AvalancheMaster, and their series of articles about building a budget commander deck.

Important draft information:

• Meant to be drafted by 4, 6 or 8 players in 3 packs of 20 cards.
• Played in either a 4-person pod, or two 3-person pods.
• You pick two cards with each pick.
• Packs are fully random but seeded with 1 land picked at random from the ones in the cube.
• Two copies of The Prismatic Piper are available to all players, per player.

Important deckbuilding information:

• Decks + Commanders are 60 cards total, no more, no less.
• Staring life is 40.
• Commander damage rule does apply.
• All cards in your deck have to follow your Commander’s color identity.

Commanders Selection

There are 70 Commanders in this cube. 20 of those have "Partner" and can be partnered with other commanders that have "Partner" (or with The Prismatic Piper).

• There are 4 Partner commander per color.
• There are 50 Commanders with more than one color in their color identity.
  • 3 Commanders per each guild for a total of 30
  • 2 Commanders per each tri-colored clan (Abzan, Mardu, Sultai, Jeskai, Temor) for a total of 10
  • 2 Commanders per each tri-colored shard (Grixis, Jund, Bant, Esper, Naya) for a total of 10

Environment & Archetypes

This is an aggressive cube where games are usually won through combat damage, and attacking is incentivized through various means. Each color keeps their strong identity and most of the cards are not narrow in their use and can go into multiple decks, serving different roles under different commanders.

Tokens, bolstering and attacking for value is a strong theme across each color. There's also a small theme of cheating cards into play from the deck or graveyard, copy effects, and extening your hand with casting from exile.

You'll find an emphasis on Multiplayer Matter cards, either with cards that directly reference multiplayer (Custodi Squire, Frontier Warmonger), cards that get better when facing numerous opponents (Gray Merchant of Asphodel), and cards that encourage politics at the table (Fact or Fiction, Sin Prodder).

The Average Mana Value (CMC) of the cube is ~3.5. Most cards are in the 2-5 mana Range, but you'll find more high drops in this cube, than you'll find one drops.

Curses! Monarchy! Sagas! Loyalty!

I wanted to include in this cube some of my favorite multiplayer mechanics and type of permanents that I really like. Each color has one curse card that incentivize targetting your opponents and one "court" card to bring the monarch token in play. There are also other cards that can affect the monarch in each color such as Palace Jailer or Custodi Lich. Both of these mechanics encourage a combat centric environment.

I included also a bunch of sagas and some classes! When sagas first came out I really enjoyed the value one could get by playing them (History of Benalia, Kumano Faces Kakkazan), and I see classes as another evolution of that. These cards can grant you some costant effects and value in this heavily randomized environment. These are also in line with some of the card that give the player multiple options to choose and adapt to the situation.

Speaking of multiple options, each color has 2 planeswalker cards in this list! Planeswalker in commander can be less strong that in a normal game of magic, but in this environment you're not granted an immediate response so these can be a win condition or open your way to your next bg drop. This being a budget cube means that the planeswalker cards featured are different from the usual names one could expect!