Yep. It’s a creature-only restriction cube. And it works a lot better than you might think.

Creature Cube - Intro

Simply put, every card in this cube is a creature.

(The litmus test is Umori, the Collector's companion requirement; if a card would mean that Umori isn't a free pick, it doesn't have a place in the cube.)

The only concession to the theme is a fairly standard Fetch/Dual manabase to ensure quality, clean mana (and a double set of fetches to help support Landfall).

Despite the design constraints, the Creature Cube has slowly morphed to replicate a high power, combat-focused limited format. Given the lack of cheap interaction (Lightning Bolt, Swords to Plowshares, Doom Blade, etc.) maintaining board presence and tempo is much more important... WIP

Spell-like effects are rare in the cube, and often come in the form of Evoke, Adventure, & effects akin to Channel/Cycling (Bloodrush/Reinforce/etc.), and are often prioritized by drafters.

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Design Considerations [WIP]

High Power, but not maximum power. (No Initiative, etc.)

Designed with interactivity in mind.

Designed to prevent board stalls and encourage attacking/trading. Creatures with higher toughness than CMC are generally fairly rare (outside of green).

Color Pairing Archetypes

These are all archetypes that I've intentionally tried to support, but please note there are many other ways to draft and build a deck. Some additional supported combos, packages, and deckbuilding gameplans are noted further below.

Other Supported Combos/Packages:

Overlord Flicker - Abusing Overlords with Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd/Flickerwisp/etc. Particularly nasty with the on-color Overlord of the Mistmoors.

Persist Combo - Any Persist creature (Kitchen Finks etc.) loops with a sac outlet & an enabler. Enablers include Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit, Luminous Broodmoth, Arwen, Weaver of Hope, Warden of the Grove, & Metallic Mimic.

Soultrader Combo - Gravecrawler/Forsaken Miner loops with Warren Soultrader & Blood Artist effects.

Kiki-Jiki Combo - The only two card, immediate, win-the-game combo enabler in the cube. Targets include Restoration Angel/Felidar Guardian/Zealous Conscripts.

Nadu Landfall - Nadu, Winged Wisdom can be abused particularly well via Bristly Bill, Spine Sower/Scythecat Cub, Springheart Nantuko, Unctus, Grand Metatect, and/or Sylvan Safekeeper.

Titania Land Sac - Titania, Protector of Argoth; Sylvan Safekeeper’s other primary role.

Clocknapper Locks - Lock opponents out of their Uptap/Draw steps with Clocknapper & Soulherder/Emiel the Blessed/Kogla, the Titan Ape/Springheart Nantuko/Temur Sabertooth

Artifacts - A soft artifact subtheme is supported in UW, with various artifact token generators and some stand-out cards like Urza, Lord High Artificer, Illustrious Wanderglyph & Unctus, Grand Metatect.

Yorion Companion - Yorion, Sky Nomad/Witty Demon: Just in case there’s a drafter who’d actually rather be playing a 60 card format.

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Banned/Retired Cards:

Serra’s Emissary
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
Weathered Sentinels
The Initiative Mechanic