TL;DR
High synergy cube built to encourage interesting card interactions and provide interesting decision points for the players. Card synergy over raw card power.

Intro

Welcome, connoisseurs of cardboard to Cardboard Clash – a high synergy cube taking cards from all throught magics history. This format aims to be full of interesting interactions and synergy between cards. The aim is to promote interactive gameplay, while retaining a dash of the pure power that comes from playing with a traditional vintage cube. This list has been curated to encourage thoughtful deck construction and interesting lines of play to get the most power out of the cards available. The best decks combine cards together to create powerful engines and combos rather than utilizing the power of standalone bombs.

Cards that are extremely unreactive or gameplans that can lock out your opponent very early on have been limited. This aims to reduce the number of 'non-games' and to try and always give players opportunities to respond. The games aim to have a good back and forth, while being significantly more powerful, synergistic, and complex than traditional retail limited.

This cube hopes to showcase some of the interesting and unique mechanics from throughout Magic's history and provide a rich verity of options when drafting. Cards within the cube have been picked to try and promote cross pollination between archetypes, without any strict A+B combos. The aim is to allow the drafter to uncover new synergies each time.

This cube contains many powerful cards, but operates at a slight step lower than a traditional legacy cube; with the aims to promote a more fun and interactive gameplay.

Features Sorta Singleton

Like most cubes, this is a singleton cube, with one notable exception – thee are two copies of each fetch land. Breaking the singleton rule for these powerful lands due to their power in facilitating other synergies and the general intersting gameplay decisions they promote.

Small and Mighty

Creatures in this cube boast a low average mana value, emphasizing enter-the-battlefield effects and activated abilities over sheer stats. Adapt your removal strategies to handle creatures with toughnesses of 3 or less, with larger creatures in the green domain posing a distinct challenge.

Back with a vengance

The graveyard takes center stage in this cube, with each color featuring strategies tied to this intriguing dimension. As a result, graveyard hate becomes a potent force, providing an additional layer of strategic depth.

Cool in Chrome

Artifacts play a central role in this cube, contributing to synergies across all colors. The artifact type line becomes a crucial factor in both combat and combo scenarios, demanding careful consideration. Be prepared, as artifact hate carries more weight than you might anticipate.

Archetypes and Synergies: White

Agro Artifacts: - Unleash the battle bots! Flood the board with small chrome creatures to overwhelm your oponent.

Second Sunrise: - Harness resurrection power! Use Second Sunrise or Faith's Reward to revive small artifacts and creatures. Combo off, orchestrating a symphony of rebirth.

Blue

Delve: Dive into the graveyard! Fill the bin and use that as a sourc eof card advanatege and to power out some of your powerful threats from the other side.

Control: Dictate the game with Counterspells and bury your oponent in card advantage

Artificer: Forge threats from artifacts! Tinker transforms small artifacts into Wormcoil Engine and Aetherflux Reservoir. Use Tolarian Academy to amplify the impact.

Flying Men: Rule the skies with flying creatures, pressuring opponents' life totals. Protect them with counterspells for airborne dominance.

Black

From the Grave: It's Alive!! Recur small threats from the grave and dominate with your undead legions

Reanimator: Seize grave power! Discard colossal creatures, then resurrect them ahead of the curve with Reanimation.

Red

Burn: fling fire at your ooponents face and make sure they know that RDW.

Red - Madness: Fling cards and turn disadvantage to explosive fun! Embrace madness as you race through your deck and fill your graveyard.

Double Trouble: So nice you played it twice! Use copy effects to lead to extreamly powerful turns in which you cast more and more bombastic spells again and again.

Welder: One mans trash is another's treasure.Replace small trinket artifacts on the battlefield with game ending threats from the junkheap.

Green

Fury of the Elves: Tap into the power of the wilds and flood the board with small creatures that can create more mana than you know what to do with

** Big Green:** Use the primal might of some of greens creatures to go over the top of your oponents and trample them into the dust

Lands: Lands are the most powerful card type in magic, make sure your oponent remember why.

Rebirth and Renewal: Put lands in the graveyard, then reclaim them. The churn and rebirth leads to very intersing cycles

Color Pairs - Flicker (WU):

• Navigate perpetual motion! Control with Flickerwisp, Restoration Angel, Crystal Shard, and Soulherder.

Color Pairs - Ninjas (UB):

• Embrace shadows! Fill your deck with ninjas, exploiting graveyard synergies.

Color Pairs - Sacrifice (BR):

• Delve into sacrifice arts! Turn sacrifice into damage with Mayhem Devil. Swarm with aggressive creatures, guided by Judith, Greven, and Woe Strider.

Color Pairs - Stompy (RG):

• Unleash primal fury! Overwhelm with small creatures, sealing victory with colossal ones.

Color Pairs - Go Wide (WG):

• Harmonize White and Green! Flood with creatures, finish with Craterhoof Behemoth or Trostani Discordant.

Color Pairs - Aristocrats (WB):

• Master sacrifice! Generate small creatures, disrupt with Lingering Souls and Hidden Stockpile.

Color Pairs - Artifact Aggro (WR):

• Forge an alliance! Bolster aggression with Lightning Helix and Showdown of the Skalds. Maximize potential with Winota.

Color Pairs - Spellslinger (UR):

• Embrace spell tempo! Burn with Lightning Bolt and Ponder, pump up threats like Soul Scar Mage.

Color Pairs - Ramp (UG):

• Accelerate ascent! Draw cards, play lands, counter moves until deploying Uro and Hydroid Krasis.

Color Pairs - Graveyard (BG):

• Commune with the grave! Fill it, extract value with Deathrite Shaman and Golgari Troll.

Color Pairs - Storm (UBR):

• Conjure a storm! Build count with Manamorphose and Frantic Search, unleash with Past in Flames.

Colorless - KCI Combo:

• Master artifact dance! Krark Clan Ironworks turns artifacts into mana. Loop with Scrap Trawler for infinite mastery.