The only basics available for this cube are Wastes.

• What is Colorless?

1. I went through many iterations before settling on my current philosophy. My first inclination was enforcing colorless color
   identity. This was colorless in its purest form. I quickly decided that this was TOO restrictive, and decided to break color
   identity but maintain the colorless restriction. This allowed me to expand some themes such as Myr synergy and the shard
   cycle. I was initially against phyrexian mana, but many of the phyrexian mana cards allowed for things that were otherwise
   virtually impossible in colorless. Ex: birthing pod, mutagenic growth, and dismember. I decided allowing phyrexian mana would
   enhance and expand the existing themes without taking away from the colorless “feel” of the cube.
2. I experimented with adding some cards/mechanics that require colored mana such as sunburst, devoid, and activated abilities
   like Academy Ruins. I quickly realized that while these cards have merit, they introduced “color dependence”. I found myself
   drafting these powerful cards, which would force me to draft fixing/color sources to make them playable. While this is a valid
   approach for any other cube, I felt that it defeated the purpose of the colorless cube. I decided that gaining incidental
   value off of having colors was acceptable, as long as it didn’t force players to draft color sources to make them playable.
   Ex: Gust-Skimmer is a redundant Bronze Sable, but it becomes better if you happen to have access to blue mana.

• Notes:

1. UN-cards - I decided to add some un-cards to increase power level. I didn’t want to get carried away with this, so I only
   included cards that enhanced or expanded existing themes. This includes aggressively costed cards such as Togglodyte, Super
   Secret Tech, and Jack-in-the-Mox
2. Power/Timevault - The first draft of this cube included power, but I quickly realized these cards prevented fair cards from
   keeping up. I don’t think this is the right environment for power, but I may revisit this in the future.
3. Lands/Conspiracies - Lands have the characteristic of improving a deck without taking up a “slot”. In most cubes, this mostly
   comes in the form of fixing. Since this cube doesn’t have colors, utility lands and manlands take their place. Conspiracies
   fill a similar role.
4. Power Level - Being colorless is a relatively huge restriction. What this means is the power level of this cube will be lower
   than many “normal” cubes. What I usually expect is that colorless cards are about 1 turn slower than their colored
   counterparts. Ex: board sweepers are turn 5, Llanowar Elves and Savanna Lions are 2 mana, and Phyrexian Arena is 4 mana.

Example Archetypes and Sample Cards: * "Affinity" - Steel Overseer, Signal Pest

• Equipment - Cranial Plating, Armory Automaton
• Midrange - Solemn Simulacrum, Ugin’s Construct
• Control - Board Wipe: Nevinyrral’s Disk, Oblivion Stone
• Big Mana - Thran Dynamo, Blightsteel Colossus
• Eldrazi - Eye of Ugin, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• Myr - Myr Galvanizer, Adaptive Automaton
• Charge Counters - Magistrate’s Scepter, Energy Chamber
• Stax - Smokestack, Winter Orb

Combo decks include:

• Torpor Orb
• Dark Depths
• Quicksilver Amulet
• Reanimator

The cube is still a work in progress. Comments and critiques are greatly appreciated!