Welcome to The Dynasty CubeA collaborative, living draft format
The Dynasty Cube is a combination of several ideas, none of which are required knowledge:
- Rotisserie Draft, where players make draft pick selections publicly, one at a time.
- A Fantasy Sports League, where each team is matched up against one other team per week, culminating in "playoffs" where the teams with the best records play an elimination tournament to determine a champion.
- Blaseball, an online horror-baseball-sim league that evolved over time as a result of collaborative efforts of the members of the different teams.
How The League Works
In The Dynasty Cube League, Teams of players draft through the history of Magic, beginning with (nearly) all of the first 500 or so unique cards contained in the earliest Magic sets, and replacing undrafted cards with new cards in chronological set order as The League goes on.
Drafts are done rotisserie style through a Google Sheet, and typically last for up to two weeks. Each Team will be matched up against one other Team in The League per week, with games to be played via Cockatrice. After 5 weekly matchups, the top Teams face off in a playoff bracket to determine a Champion.
As each Season progresses, the decisions made by each Team continue having an affect on The League. After each Season, Teams will vote on new rules to enact and other changes that will take effect in the next Season.
Season 1 of The Dynasty Cube began on Oct 24th. and completed December 28th with the Theros Demigods claiming the Championship!
Season 2 is scheduled to begin January 9th 2025 - This list currently reflects the Draft Pool for Season 2.
League Calendar
How Draft Pool Curation & Rotation Works
Cards (currently) excluded from The Draft Pool
- Cards referencing either "ante" or "banding".
- Cards banned in Vintage.
Cards (currently) added to The Draft Pool
- Duplicates - A small number of cards will be added to The Draft Pool as duplicates if they require multiples to achieve their designed effect. Single cards that work best in duplicates will generally be added as 4x, while different cards that work together will generally be added as 2x each.
- Rats - A few unexpected Rats infested The Draft Pool while it lay dormant and untended for several years. In Season 1, The League chose not to exterminate the Rats, and they've now made their home in The Dynasty Cube.
Rotation
- When cards go undrafted, they are removed from the Draft Pool to make room for new cards from the next chronological set to be added.
- As an exception to the above, if a card has been drafted more frequently than it has gone undrafted, it will get a limited number of opportunities to be drafted in a future Season.
- Cards to be added to The Draft Pool in the next Season can be found in The Chamber
Getting started with The League
- Join a Team on the Discord Server and start collaborating with your new teammates, or you can simply be a "Spectator" which gives you some extra access that you won't otherwise have without a Team affiliation.
- If you're not sure which Team best suits you, you can ask the different Teams to give you their sales pitch in the #team-recruitment channel.
- If you give yourself the Spectator role, you can always remove it and give yourself a specific Team role later on, but it's much more difficult to leave a Team once you've joined it.
Meet the Teams🌟 Alara Shards 🌟
"Why not both?"
⛩ Kamigawa Ninja ⛩
"Omae wa mou shindeiru."
🧟 Innistrad Creeps 🧟
"Graveyard, Gatekeep, Girlboss"
🌞 Theros Demigods 🌞
”The Fates will decide”
🔗 Ravnica Guildpact 🔗
“A Championship is won and lost before ever entering the battlefield”
👽 Lorwyn Changelings 👽
”Expect the unexpected”
💠 Zendikar Hedrons 💠
"Good Vibes, No Escape"
🐲 Tarkir Dragons 🐲
"No cost too great"
If you want to learn more about The Dynasty Cube or join a Team and participate, all details and League organization are kept in Discord