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Crystal Cube

(450 Card Unpowered Legacy Cube)

(450 Card Cube)

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Crystal Cube

Cube ID

crystal

Art by Volkan Baǵa

450 Card Unpowered Legacy Cube3 followers

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Overview

Inspired by the symmetry, color, and clear nature of crystal, this lower-powered environment seeks to optimize the gameplay and draft experience. It have three goals:

Strike a balance between archetypes and generic "good-stuff" decks.
Limit power outliers to build-arounds.
Limit complex and wordy cards.

Exceptions abound though!

Supported archetypes

GW Enchantments - This archetype makes use of singleton breaks on Sanctum Weaver and Sythis, Harvest's Hand along with other Enchantress elements to draw cards and generate an engine.
GR Stompy - Your archetypal aggressive Midrange deck. Embercleave is a powerful draw into the deck, as are the chonky Midrange creatures.
UR Artifacts - This deck makes use of cards like Sai, Master Thopterist and The Antiquities War. Cards like Cranial Plating and Nettlecyst offer impressive reach.
RW Equipments - Making use of a singleton break on Swiftblade Vindicator, this deck hits hard. Cards like Barbed Spike and Maul of the Skyclaves dodge traditional issues associated with equipment.
UW Blink - Borrowing some cards from my main cube, this archetype looks to blink creatures like Reflector Mage for value. Enablers include Soulherder, and Thassa.
RB Aristocrats - This deck sacrifices creatures for value. The deck slants a little more combo-ey with Blood Artist, making repeated token enablers like Dreadhorde Invasion and Ophiomancer key in deck-building.
BG Graveyard/Rock - An archetype that leverages singleton breaks on Grim Flayer to use the graveyard for value. Has overlaps with Aristocrats and Persist combos. Artifact and enchantment creatures like Necron Deathmark/Sanctum Weaver are critical to hitting delirium.
UG Ramp - Not many multicolor cards support this archetype, but the tried and true always works. Take lots of creature and artifact ramp to play out large wincons.
WB Token/Aristocrats - A little less well-formed, but this deck leverages White's token generation with Black's sacrifice synergies. Generically powerful gold cards like Lingering Souls and Sorin, Lord of Innistrad are important draws to the deck.
UB Graveyard/Tempo - Fairly amorphous, but powerful gold cards like Fallen Shinobi and Zyym, Mesmeric Lord make for a powerful goodstuff deck.
UR Spells - Supported by powerful enablers like Krark, the Thumbless, Baral, and Sprite Dragon, this deck is resilient and moves fast.
Persist Combo - Singleton breaks on Kitchen Finks and Murderous Redcap enable this archetype. You'll need a sac outlet (there are 6), a Persist creature, and a counter enabler (there are 5).
Multicolor soup - Golos, Tireless Pilgrim and Niv-Mizzet, Reborn are the main draws to this deck. Take lots of fixing and powerful multicolor cards.