Cloned from The Original Old Border Cube. Check that out and follow it for the most up-to-date version. This version of the cube is for the main event in CubeCon 2024.

---

The Original Old-Bordered Cube featuring cards from Alpha to Scourge. It is all about recreating the gameplay of old with classic archetypes and fun interactions. It aims to offer a wide-range of decks between simple and complex to allow someone of any skill level to enjoy drafting.

Gameplay

Color archetypes and key roles:
- White Weenie, Enchantress, Reanimator, evasive threats, board control

- Opposition, Madness, Storm, Trix (Illusions & Donate), Stiflenought, counterspells, card draw

- Reanimator, Sacrifice, Storm, board control, hand control

- Sligh, Wildfire, big red, land destruction, board control

- Madness, Threshold, Enchantress, ramp, fatties

- Classic control, tempo

- Reanimator, Storm, Psychatog Madness, tempo

- Suicide Aggro, Midrange board/hand control

- Fires (ramp beatdown), Ponza (land destruction)

- Enchantress, go-wide, fatties

- Reanimator, board and hand control

- Recurring nightmare (sacrifice, reanimator, fatties)

- Tempo madness/opposition, High Tide storm

- Counter Control, Wildfire

- Aggro

Drafting

The cube is usually drafted in pods of 6-8 players with the standard 3 packs of 15. I collate the packs by color with 2 cards of each color, 1 multicolor, 2 artifact, and 2 land. I've been doing it this way for a couple years now and highly recommend it for cubes that can support it.

Rules

Plays with the sixth edition game rules. The only exception is the modern mulligan rule. The major difference between the sixth ed. and modern ruleset is that damage goes on the stack, but there are some other small ones like mana burn, lifelink/deathtouch stacking and beginning of eot (notably White Ball Lightning and Thawing Glaciers).
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Sixth_Edition/Rules_changes
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/rules-changes-2009-06-10

Cards play as printed, so for example Orcish Artillery cost just .

A "card you own from outside the game" (see Burning Wish) is defined as a card in your sideboard or in the remaining cards in the cube. We ask players to construct their set of targets before play to save time.

Card Choices

It is mostly original true old-border cards from Alpha to Scourge, but has a sprinkling of the new retro-border cards. I keep them to a minimum to fill roles (like Mesa Enchantress) and make sure they feel of the era (Tourach, Dread Cantor fits well, not so much with Yawgmoth, Thran Physician).

History

I've had this cube for about ten years now. My box of 'maybes' is twice as big as the cube now. Here is the earliest list of the full cube I can find that I posted - https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/the-cube-forum/cube-lists/703016-400-powered-classic-fishys-classic-cube (ported it to Cube Cobra https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/4e18a871-07fa-4822-bac9-d0027dc7979e).