Arcanite2805's Cube
(456 Card Cube)
Arcanite2805's Cube
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Art by Dave KendallArt by Dave Kendall
456 Card Cube2 followers
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Cube designed around Three Colour Archetypes, in a similar fashion to Core Set 2020.
The Archtype Descriptions are as follows:
Bant Enchantress
Esper Spirits
Grixis Creature Recursion
Jund Sacrifice
Naya Heroic
Abzan Counters
Jeskai Flashback
Sultai Delerium
Mardu Warriors
Temur Cascade

450 card structure:Spells:
10x Tricolour (Where they exist, these are signposts for archetypes)

70x (10x7) Dual-colour (Tradditional Gold cards. Each archetype gets two in each of it's three pairs. There is also one generic card in each colour pair)

30x (10x3) Soft multicolour cards. (Typically Hybrid, or with off colour activated costs. Playable in any colour, but often benefit from being in both of their colours)

270x (5x54) Monocolour

10x Colourless

60 Lands:
10x Pathways
10x Slowlands (Innistrad3)
10x Shocklands
10x Checklands
5x Temples (Enemy) // 5x Cycling Duals (Ally)
10x Triome

Lots of options here from Tarkir Dragonstorm, unsuprisingly. A fair few are not quite in the colours they would ideally be in. (Lots of Sultai Counters, Temur "Flashback" etc).
Also there are very few warrirors, so Mardu is likely to be revamped in the medium term.

Anafenza, Quarsi Revenant, Sinkhole surveyor and Warden of the Grove are definite synergy wins, but are likely too strong, so they go to the maybeboard.

Usher turns into Descendant, due to the counters synergy being slightly more valuable than the warriors synergy.
Furious Forebear is a Spirit and Warrior, but its main purpose is the recursion, which is a grixis focus, and therefore not desirable.
Secrets of the Dead turns into Essence Anchor to have a bit wider, but less powerful synergy, and is marginally less do nothing.
Ureni's Rebuff takes the slot of Ephara's Dispersal, making a reactive bounce spell into a proactive one, while still having some synergy.
Winternight Stories seems more interesting than Scour all Possibilities. Also incentivises playing to the board in the slower blue decks.
Wingblade Disciple goes on the maybeboard as a cascade payoff.
While a warrior, Avenger of the Fallen feels a little Feast or Famine.
Hundred Battle Veteran has some nice synergies, although I don't have a lot of keyword counters to make it a 6/6.
Sidisi, Regent of the Mire seems fun, although it may add too much redundancy?
Channeled Dragonfire from Firebolt is the same logic as bounce spells.
Glacial Dragonhunt replaces Magma Opus. Opus isn't getting cast, and doesn't get flashbakced easily enough.
Host of the Hereafter is an interesting counters card, replacing bad cursed wombat/winding constrictor.

All other cards hopefully don't need explanation for now.

Structurally, I am considering changing the 7th XY gold card to the 2nd XYZ gold card, but this needs a bit more time in the oven.
Mardu is likely to just become "Aggro" or "Attacks matters", headlined by Isshin, two heavens as one.

There are probably more cuts to make, but I didn't enjoy Protean Thaumuturge's effect on the game by doubling effects. It was particularly obnoxious makeing a second gremlin tamer. I think the Clone effect is the bigger problem, so it's been cut.

Tidying up of numbers to happen soon.

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