Art by Bruce BrenneiseWe are going to draft in the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!
The intention of Space Cube is to provide a cultivated limited environment in which players duke it out within the confines of a science fiction episode. Each draftable archetype looks to evoke the established conventions of Science Fiction story telling - to play upon the cliches and norms of your favourite science fiction properties.
The pre-play blurb:
Slivers are present, but you will struggle to build an entire deck around them.
VERY MUCH Working archetypes:
White: Board presence matters: Metalcraft, Tokens, Equipping. Highest quality single removal.
Blue: Suspend, and exile/time manipulation. Largest card pool right now.
Red: Artifact Reanimator, and the largest pool of creature removal
Black: Artifact centred Aggro
Green: Making ALOT of Bodies, and Counters matters.
WR: Support for both Equipments and Vehicles as a focus
UGB: Mutants Matters
UWR: Time Travel and Suspend
I have drafted this exact list with 2-4 a bunch, usually with grid drafting: https://luckypaper.co/resources/formats/grid-draft/ so you don't necessarily need to change the list.
If you do want to cut it down I don't have any specific advice other than keeping the densities of effects roughly equal as you pare down. If I were making a 180 version of this list I would also probably cut the biggest power outliers, like Lurrus, Uro (and maybe the other titans), and Fable of the Mirror Breaker.