Battery Cube🔋

A medium-power cube inspired by the Mirrodin, Kaladesh, and Eventide blocks.

Battery Cube features cheap interactive cards, artifacts, and lots of counters.

Goals

• Encourage early-game interaction
• Make decisions interesting and meaningful while keeping complexity low
• Reduce mana-related variance
• No cards that win the game on their own
• Promote synergy, but not infinite combos
• Play with Frogmite and Myr Enforcer
• Use the most readable version of cards unless there is a strong aesthetic reason to use another

Restrictions

• No double-sided cards (logistical reasons)
• Universes Beyond cards are included seldomly, if at all (aesthetic reasons)
• No proxies (aesthetic reasons)

Power level

"Medium power", but I would describe it this way: A reasonably viable deck which includes Frogmite and Myr Enforcer must exist in the cube at all times. I built this cube in part because I wanted to play with those specific cards.

Counters

The cube has lots of +1/+1 counters, a bit fewer -1/-1, and barely any Poison, Energy, or Charge counters. Poison is not supported, but there may be a couple cards like Blight Mamba that can give Poison counters. Cards that reference Energy and Charge counters should all function fine as standalone cards, though Proliferate can sometimes interact with them. A heavier Energy theme may be considered in the future.

Deck Archetypes

These are some ideas of how color pairs can be played. This is intended more to show what you can do in the cube overall than what each color pair has to do.

- modular / equipment
- affinity / artifact midrange
- -1/-1 counters / recursion
- aggro / aristocrats
- +1/+1 counters / anti-artifact

Other stuff

• The cube's aesthetic is mostly inspired by the original Mirrodin block

Current Issues

• Need more fixing lands
• Need to make sure has the right balance of sac abilities (might be too many)

Useful Scryfall Queries
Fight / +1/+1 counter cards: https://scryfall.com/search?q=o%3Afight+o%3A%22%2B1%2F%2B1+counter%22
Counters other than +1 or -1: https://scryfall.com/search?q=o%3A%2Fcounter%5Cb%2F+-o%3A%22counter+target%22+-o%3A%2Fcounter+%5Cw+spell%2F+-o%3A%22%2B1%2F%2B1+counter%22+-o%3A%22-1%2F-1+counter%22+-is%3Areprint+-is%3Afunny+-is%3Aub&order=released
Cards that are artifacts and one other type (not including creatures): -is:reprint -is:funny -is:ub -is:extra -is:dfc sort:release t:artifact (t:land or t:planeswalker or t:enchantment)
Artifact Creatures: https://scryfall.com/search?q=-is%3Areprint+-is%3Afunny+-is%3Aub+-is%3Aextra+-is%3Adfc+sort%3Arelease+t%3Aartifact+t%3Acreature&order=released
Whenever artifact dies: o:"Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard"
Whenever artifact/permanent is sacrificed: o:/whenever you sacrifice an? (artifact|permanent)/
Remove a counter from something other than self as cost: https://scryfall.com/search?q=o%3A%2Fremove.*counter.*%3A%2F+-o%3A%2Fremove.*counter.*%7E.*%3A%2F