For the Lesbians
A cube made almost entirely of cards with hot ladies (and genderfuckers) in the illustration, as judged by one lesbian, who finds undercuts and Geigeresque Phyrexian stuff hotter than any cleavage window, but nevertheless holds a deep appreciation for cleavage.
Big props to the Scryfall Tagger community for sparing me the work of sifting through dozens of versions of thousands of cards, as well as @hotbutchdrafter's Hot Butch Cube for bringing my attention to specific ones.
Where most cubes begin with a mechanical theme and fill up to 360 (or however many) cards by searching for related effects, I made this one in the opposite direction, first finding 700ish cards based on illustration and then designing the draft mainly through cuts. As a result, this is the least synergistic / most "good stuff" cube I've made. I did try to find some draft archetype statues within the marble block of the card pool, but they're not the most pronounced. There is also a card for each combination of 3 colors, which are more individual build-arounds rather than factoring into archetypes.
Draft archetypes
Colors | Major Theme | Minor Theme | Example card |
---|---|---|---|
![]() ![]() ![]() | Hardware Butch (Artifacts) | Flicker | Ethersworn Shieldmage |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Undercut the Competition (Self-mill) | Flashy Faeries | Snooping Newsie |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Ode to Camilla (Vampire Spectacle) | Sacrifice | Olivia, Crimson Bride |
![]() ![]() ![]() | WUBRG-Hauling (Fast mana) | Power Boost | Jolene, the Plunder Queen |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Strap the Power On (Auras) | 1/1 creatures | Pollenbright Wings |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Feeling Disposable (Sacrifice) | Life gain | Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Witchy Vibes (Prowess) | Artifacts | Third Path Iconoclast |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Goth GF (Grave recursion) | Tokens | Tribune of Rot |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Sword & Labrys (Equipment) | Wide attacks | Bladehold War-Whip |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Bar Crawl (Big mana) | +1/+1 Counters | Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner |
Highlights
Below is a selection of what I believe are the hottest illustrations in the cube. They do not necessarily represent the most prevalent mechanical themes.