Momentum
(360 Card Cube)
Momentum
Cube ID
Art by Clint CearleyArt by Clint Cearley
360 Card Pauper Budget Cube0 followers
Designed by Curssis
Owned
$43
Buy
$52
Purchase
Mana Pool$87.33
Overview

Summon horrors from your graveyard, equip powerful artifacts and loot your way to madness!

Momentum melds unusual archetypes and focuses on synergy. It looks to push pauper's boundaries in regards of synergetic deck building with efficient and value-oriented gameplay in mind.



Themes

Discard / Madness
u - b - r - (g)
Graveyard / Threshold
b - g - u
Artifact / Metalcraft
w - u - r - (b)
Enchantments
w - g
Equipment
w - r
Prowess
u - r - (w)


Design Goals
  • Reward synergistic deck-building (no 'good-stuff' decks)
  • Meld archetypes that don't normally go together (less parasitic)
  • Support value oriented 'legacy-lite' gameplay
  • Offer enough tricks/instants to keep combat interesting
  • Retain a learning curve with a low floor and a high ceiling
  • Support two player gameplay (Jumpstart, Sealed or Winston draft)
  • No infinite combos or locks

Jumpstart

Jumpstart are boosters available. Primary sort by tags to view them.

To assemble Jumpstart boosters, organize the boosters as shown and add basic lands until you have 20-card boosters. It is recommended to choose 1 of 3 boosters and then another 1 of 3 others.

Shuffle the two chosen boosters together and start playing!

In the future, I'd like to add a tooltip in order to see the deck lists.


Challenges

The design challenge here is adapting very different archetypes and therefore potentially very parasitic draft choices into a more homogeneous cube with archetypes that blend into each other and support one another.
Madness, equipments and auras being the most parasitic as they require two types of cards to do something. These are good examples of where I hope more cards would overlap with other strategies.


Acknowledgements

This cube is heavily inspired by Spectrum. In fact, most of the cards (and even this intro!) were taken from that list so be sure to check it out.