A color-restricted cube inspired by my favorite card. Aims at being a legacy/modern powered cube that pushes the density of overlapping synergies.

TLDR:

• An unrestricted cube with one big restriction, no green cards no forests
• Players may play basic wastes in their decks.
• Cube focuses on blending the color pie as much as possible around four distinct themes: artifacts, enchantments, discard, and sacrifice.
• Both ramp and aggro have deep pockets in the colorless section of the cube.
• Fixing is more powerful and more likely to be relevant to any one particular drafter.
• Combo exists, but you have to go digging for it.

Deforestation

Players may not put basic Forests in their decks, however they may put in basic Wastes if they want. There is currently no reason to do, but you can.

Pillars Over Archetypes

Instead of adhering to strict archetypes the cube tries to ensure that every color in some way has access to/cares about to the following mechanics:

• Artifacts
• Enchantments
• Self-Discard
• Sacrifice

So while certain colors might have more access to a particular "pillar", for example blue and artifacts --

-- Each other color can still draft around that particular pillar:

There is also a specific focus on including cards that interact with more than one of these mechanics. For example, take a card like Bomat Courier:

Decks focusing on artifacts, sacrifice, or discard all have synergistic reasons draft it on top of it's face up value as a hasty card advantage creature. The hope, is that by pushing the density of cards that overlap synergistically like this both the draft and the games gain layers of depth and fun.

Here are some example decks that utilize this flexibility to craft interesting and synergistic builds outside the traditional strengths of their color:

• Mono-Red Reanimator
• Dimir Discard
• Orzhov Sacrifice
• Esper Fiddlebender

It Ain't Easy Being Green

With the exclusion of green comes vacuum of one of cube's most prevalent archetypes; ramp.

That being said, mana acceleration and it's payoffs still live on in the colorless section of the cube to allow any color to have the ability to go a little bigger as a viable strategy.

In some ways that can also be said for traditional aggro. While certain color's claim to aggressive starts remain unblemished there is a purposeful attempt to play a high density of colorless aggressive creatures to give any deck the ability to leverage a bit of tempo for position.

Land Grab

Cutting a color also makes the ability to go the proverbial "5-Color" that much easier, meaning fixing is more powerful and more relevant to a wider number of drafters.

For example, in a cube supporting all five colors a land such as Scalding Tarn has:

• 3/10 color pairs with no overlapping color.
• 6/10 color pairs with one overlapping color.

However in a 4-Color cube:

• 1/6 color pairs with no overlapping color.
• 4/6 color pairs with one overlapping color.

So, for an average 2-color deck a fetch land has an 83% chance to grab an on color shock land, which mapping this to a pod means that just under 7/8 drafters will have good reason pick it highly.

That One Ok Go Music Video

While there is no two card kill in the cube, there is a vein of combo running throughout the list with cards like Krark-Clan Ironworks, Scrap Trawler, Jeskai Ascendancy, Parallax Wave, and more scatter about.

However with a lot of key pieces being colorless, synergistic with other mechanics, and a higher than normal density of disenchantment-style interaction it's more of a "Rube Goldberg" than a "Well-Oiled" machine.