If you’re interested in getting a sneak peek of changes that could potentially happen to the cube, make sure to check out https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/airbornemoxenafterdark - This is where I post testing changes before committing them to the main build of the cube.


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• Type: Eternal Peasant Cube utilizing Rare Lands
• Identity: Iconic and powerful common and uncommon cards across Magic’s history
• Plays: Up to 10
• Speed: The Peasant+ Cube is a fairly fast environment, especially in the context of peasant cubes
• Variance: As a 450 card list, there is light-to-moderate variance in an 8 player draft.

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1. Quick Reference Guide
2. Overview and History
3. Design Considerations
4. Archetypes
5. Other Cubes
6. Resources
7. Changelog

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• Power Outliers: The Peasant+ cube embraces the Vintage cube ideology of embracing the highest power level of cards that stand above the rest within the context of a peasant environment. While the most powerful uncommons and commons aren’t as notable as Black Lotus or Ancestral Recall, they are still fun cards to cast and deserve an environment to shine in.
• No Bad Cards: One of the primary goals with The Peasant+ Cube is to provide many independently powerful cards to the drafter and allow them to craft the deck of their choosing. While certain strategies are more explicitly supported, there are multiple decks and archetypes players can explore.
• No Singleton Breaks: The Peasant+ cube is a singleton cube. Cards with different names may share similar effects.
• Complexity: The Peasant+ Cube can be a fairly complex environment
due to it's focus on powerful gameplay first
• Land Cycles: Fetches, Shocks, Surveil, M10 Duals. Other fixing lands are also included.

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The Peasant+ Cube is a 450 card peasant cube that uses rare lands for mana fixing. The Peasant+ Cube aims to provide a high powered environment, much like an unpowered Eternal cube, but through the lens of a peasant restriction for non land cards. This facilitates the inclusion of more power outliers than are typically found in peasant cubes, which results in a greatly increased speed and power level of the format.

The Peasant+ cube was originally built in 2012, starting as a copy of Eric Klug's The Original Common/Uncommon Cube. It eventually evolved into a separate draft environment and grew to a 450 card cube in 2015. In 2018, it again grew into a 540 card cube. This cube proved to be a great draft experience, but was too large for our playgroup and resulted in inconsistent drafting. The cube was reduced to 360 cards during 2020 and the decision to add rare lands into the mix was made. The addition of rare lands helps increase deck consistency by reducing the number of lands that enter the battlefield tapped. This change assisted decks in becoming more powerful and consistent as well as assisting aggressive strategies. Following CubeCon 2022, the cube was increased to 450 cards where it remains today. The added variance provided three benefits: it increased the replay-ability of the cube by providing variance in drafts, additional cards were added to help support smaller archetypes within the cube, and because not every card is drafted anymore, certain archetypes that were borderline too powerful have been weakened.

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• Card legality is determined by a card having a printing at Common or Uncommon rarity. Rarity shifts upward or downward (e.g. rare to common or common to rare) are allowed
• Non-basic lands printed at Rare or Mythic rarity are allowed but must be in the spirit of Peasant rarity. Cards such as Shocklands are included while creature lands like Celestial Colonnade are excluded.
• No set restrictions, supplemental sets are legal
• A + B combos are generally not allowed. Three card combos are of an acceptable power level.
• Non-foil cards are preferred, extended art and showcase cards are preferred when possible but evaluated on a case-by-case basis
• The following cards are banned from this cube environment:

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Header image by @petiteperson

Much thanks to the Madison and Milwaukee cube communities for assisting with feedback, playtesting, and listening to me explain why Strip Mine is an okay card to play with.

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02.09.2025 Version 1.4 Primer updated, banned cards expanded, updated archetype images
09.25.2024 Version 1.3 Updated primer for CubeCon Submission lock date
04.23.2023 Version 1.2 Updated archetypes for submission to CubeCon

10.15.2022 Version 1.1 Updated archetypes
09.11.2022 Version 1.0 of the primer

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