Preferred's Halloween Cube
(360 Card Cube)
Preferred's Halloween Cube
Art by Jason A. EngleArt by Jason A. Engle
360 Card Unpowered Vintage Cube1 follower
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The goal of this cube is to be silly and Halloween-y, and to not just be Duskmourn Cube. It's a monster mash, a chance to turn some spiders and wolves sideways, to go all John Carpenter, or to go over the top of all that with spirits. It's cute, it's creepy, it's art forward, and I really do hope that there are some surprising synergies and strategies in there.

I won't go too into detail about what archetypes there are, but:

W/x Spirits (mainly Jeskai, but also Mardu, Esper. There's lots of possible splashes for spirits.)

WB Reanimator (Persist/Kederekt Leviathan like it's 2008)

UB Zombies (Lords and other payoffs, go mono for aggro or UB for value.)

RG Wolves (less about the lords than Zombies, more about how good individual wolves are.)

UR Spellslinger (Festival Crasher, Thermo-Alchemist, etc.)

G/b Spiders (Really wants Ishkanah, but has some nice ones even if reanimator snipes it.)

Not all themes are evenly supported, like Food is only really going to pay off if you open Greta. None of the vampires care if you're a vampire.


FAQ:

"Why no rooms?": Duskmourn has 417 cards, and if I allowed in too many Duskmourn mechanics, this would just be a Duskmourn cube. (Same reason Silent Hallcreeper isn't in there.)

"Okay but Broodspinner is like, the posterchild for this." Agreed. If googly eyes did not freak me out, I would add him.

"Why no mutate cards?": I wanted this to be accessible to people cubing at, say, a halloween party. People can google what delirium is if they've not played in a while, but I'd like someone who played 10 non-consecutive years of Magic to not be overwhelmed by how Krangled everything is.

"You have two triomes.": This is not the most color-balanced cube; those two triomes are to indicate especially supported shards/wedges.

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