Intro and Philosophy

This cube is the result of combining these cubes: Randall Kieth Orton (Mancer) and Party Time 🎉

The theme: cards and archetypes that I personally love!

I've made it accessible to new cubers through the following restrictions/philosophies:

• Board-based gameplay. Plan to win every game with combat damage.
• Accessible Archetypes. It should be relatively easy to tell which cards go well together.
• Overlapping Archetypes. Most cards should offer real benefits to more than one strategy. A few narrow cards are still included as high-value payoffs.
• No double faced cards.
• No overly complex mechanics or mechanics that permanently alter the game (initiative/ring tempting/day-night/monarch).
• No planeswalkers. Sorry Arlinn :(

In general, you will draft a 2-colored deck since mana fixing is somewhat limited.
Treasure tokens, colorless fixers, and dual lands mean it is sometimes reasonable to splash for a very powerful card in a third color.
Green decks that prioritize mana fixing can often splash any colors they want.

Archetypes

Each color-pair has a few supported archetypes to draft around.
Some are generic (aggro/midrange/control), some are based around a creature type, and some revolve around a specific game action like "entering the battlefield" or "sacrificing"

Creature-Type Archetypes

Elves: + (tokens/big-mana)
Faeries: (evasion/etb)
Goblins: (tokens/sacrifice)
Soldiers: (aggro/midrange/etb/tokens)
Vampires: + (midrange/sacrifice)
Warriors: + (aggro/midrange/creatures-can't-block)
Wizards: (control/etb)

*Minor creature-type themes
Outlaws: +
Party Matters: ++
Rogues: +

Game-Action Archetypes

+1/+1 Counters: +
Flicker/self-bounce: +
Guttersnipes/Spellslinger:
Lifegain:
Sacrifice: +
Tokens:

Generic Archetypes

Aggro: /
Midrange: ++++
Control: +