TL;DR

• This list can be used for regular drafting or quickdrafting.
  The later works like this:
• Draft FOUR packs of 20 cards
• Pick 2 cards at a time
• Minimum deck size is 60 (59/58 + Commander(s))
• Starting life totals are 30 (CMD damage remains 21)

Regardless of drafting style, these house rules apply:

• The Prismatic Piper can Partner with any monocolored or colorless legendary creature. There are 15 copies of it in the Cube (as well as 3 Partners of each one color, and 1 Partner of each color pair).

• Some 'safer' EDH-banned cards are listed in the Cube. A few generic staples like Command Tower have multiple copies that can all be drafted.

• First mulligan free as usual. Other EDH rules are also unchanged. House rules can be accorded.

• This Cube is a Work-in-Progress. Suggestions are appreciated.

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Welcome to Arkheda's rendition of Caleb's rendition of Tom's Commander Cube (lol)!

Below will be a brief primer of the cube that gives an overview, highlights the key archetypes present, and explains the alternate rule sets that this cube is designed around.

OVERVIEW

I wanted to make a draft experience of commander without taking the longer amount of time/cards needed to make a 100 card deck and also allowing for newer players to have a fun drafting experience with many options to pick from. There is a lot of higher-power edh cards in the cube, but with a typical draft this is part of the fun as getting bombs can make/break your deck. Creature combat is a priority in the cube with many cards like monarch to encourage attacking.

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Partnering Monocolored CMD's with Prismatic Piper

The most important custom rule for drafting. There are 15 copies of The Prismatic Piper, and aside their normal use for color fixing, you can use them to Partner with any Monocolored or Colorless partner, regardless if it has Partner or not. Grab a Piper and live the dream with Izzet Spellslinger Talrand, Sky Summoner Boros Artifacts Oswald Fiddlebender, or even ramp to 10 with mono-green Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and more!

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Banned in Commander Cards Allowed!

A number of cards that are Banned or not legal in Commander are found in the cube. I'm not too worried about their power levels as decks are much more inconsistent due to being drafted rather than constructed. There are only a handful of cards and they honestly feel pretty fair.

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ARCHETYPES

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Cast creatures through the Blind Eternities as a powerful aethermage.

The classic blink deck. Abuse blink effects for insane value. This deck has some sweet tools to utilize creatures and other permanents with amazing "enters the battlefield" effects.

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Send in operatives to turn your opponents' strongest spells against them.

The somewhat control-centered colors are focused on taking things that don't belong the them. Use Lazav, Dimir Mastermind or Volrath, the Shapestealer to steal and copy other peoples' spells.

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Harness pain magic that cause as much suffering to your opponents simultaneously.

No pain, no gain. Use Zo-zu the Punisher to chastise the table (and even yourself, you little masochist), or grind away your opponents with Nekusar, the Mindrazer. Many cards will have the entire table grumbling about the constant onslaught of pings or discard coming their way.

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Call upon the world to your aid. Crush your foes with the very land beneath your feet.

Obvious generals are Mina and Denn, Wildborn and Omnath, Locus of Rage. This deck wants to rinse, reuse, recycle land cards by discarding, sacrificing, or bouncing them to then replay them for those awesome Landfall triggers.

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Unite the many and overrun your enemies with the power of the largest army.

Go wide with commanders Rhys the Redeemed and Rith, the Awakener to create a board state that is impossible to contest. Populate and Convoke cards really reward this game plan.

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Sacrifice the unworthy and beckon their spirits to do your bidding.

This aristocrats style of play wants you to generate tokens or play creatures with sweet death triggers and play around with sacrifice shenanigans. Use Extus, Oriq Overlord or Ghave, Guru of Spores to helm this deck.

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Become a mad scientist and assemble unorthodox combos that shock your way to victory.

Whether you are weilding a Kykar, Wind's Fury or a Mizzix of the Izmagnus, there are tons of synergistic cards to be found in this archetype. If you like playing solitaire while your opponents stare in impending doom, this is the deck for you.

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Control the very circles of life. All things must die and new creatures will consume the remains.

This is the reanimator/morbid strategy. Discard and self-mill to fill your board with commanders like Sidisi, Brood Tyrant or reanimate with Meren of Clan Nel Toth. While somewhat different strategies, one thing in common is that they want to see lots of cards in the graveyard.

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If violence isn't solving all your problems, you aren't using it enough! Master the arts of combat with extra combat steps and powerful equipments, control the battlefield with goading and combat tricks, or clear it with boardwipes to take back the initiative.

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Grow your creations and wield evolutionary sciences.

Use Experiment Kraj or Atraxa, Praetor's Voice to reap the benefits of building powerful threats with +1/+1 counters.. Tons of creatures will reward you for counter manipulation and making tokens!

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A theme to bring the entire cube together is tokens. Various cards will care about tokens in one way or another. Whether it be "junk" tokens such as food, treasures, and clues, or creature tokens. You can make token copies of powerful creatures or tap them to copy spells!

This strategy has some very deep veins you can explore and there is so much more you can do even outside of the main archetypes. Maybe you want to build a group hug deck with Selvala, Explorer Returned. Maybe you want to gain life and go tall with Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn, or recur artifacts with Osgir, the Reconstructor, and even pick enough of the scattered tribes of Dragons, Angels, Vampires, Humans and more, to build a Morophon, the Boundless deck. This cube has a near endless number of possibilities!

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DRAFT/COMMANDER RULES

Players draft from 4 packs of 20 from the cube and build a deck of 60 (59/58 + general(s)). Players draft two cards at a time. Each pack is seeded with two legendary creatures from the Commander section of the cube. Players' starting life totals is 30.

In order to replicate the feel of commander and for balance reasons, it is vital that some staples be made available to all players. For this reason, there is at least 4 copies of the following cards in the draft, so mana fixing is not a have-to-take draft selection.

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OTHER

For any rule not specifically covered, feel free to house rule it. Do what works best for your play group.