Strixhaven+

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540 Card Set Cube

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This is a 540-card medium-power synergy-based cube inspired by Strixhaven. Each college has its original identity intact, but with added depth. Each color pair has two decks, as well as an overarching wedge theme.

The original Strixhaven turned the color pie on its head, in this cube Silverquill (bw) is the primary aggro pair and Lorehold (rw) is more midrange or control-oriented

Witherbloom (bg) - Life gain, sacrifice
Quandrix (gu) - Ramp + control, fractal stompy
Prismari (ur) - Big spells, tempo
Lorehold (rw) - Graveyard control, burn
Silverquill (wb) - Flying tokens, +1/+1 counters, aggro-control

Sultai (bgu) - Value, control, graveyard
Temur (gur) - Ramp, big mana, copying
Jeskai (urw) - Flashback, spellslinger, recursion
Mardu (rwb) - Damage, aggro, combat
Abzan (wbg) - Aristocrats, sacrifice, removal

Double copies of commons and uncommons, singleton rares and mythic rares with extra copies of learn and lesson cards.

There is a heavy focus on spellslinging, interaction, and the learn/lesson mechanic. Tokens are meant to be legitimate threats that every deck uses in some form through the summoning lessons for each college.

Lastly, only one card is errata'd in the cube. Each color has one rare lesson, but black's Confront the Past was unplayable in limited. I'm experimenting with running Sins of the Past in the rare black lesson slot, let me know what you think!

Under this point is just lesson and card distribution math, feel free to ignore

lesson - learn - spell - land, 20% non-spells -- 80% spells -- (15% learns)

540 cards x 0.15 = 54 + 27 = 81 lessons.
81 lessons + 27 lands + 81 learn cards = 189 cards. 540 - 189 = 351 cube entrants

351 - 10 tri color = 341
341 - ~6 colorless cards = 335
355/10 = 33.5 cards per color/pair (34 per monocolor, 33 per school)

**slight cutback on learns, one more of each monocolor common instead. Now it's 340 / 10 for 35 per monocolor & 33 per school

Monocolor: 13 rares, 11 unique commons --
School: 13 rares, 10 unique commons

unique: non-learn, non-lesson, non-land, and x2 copies of each

Learn breakdown: x2 + one of each monocolored rare + Hunt for Specimens + Pop Quiz + Field Trip - First Day of Class - Dream Strix

W -- 17
U -- 15
B -- 16
R -- 18
G -- 14
C -- 0

Total: 80

Lesson breakdown: x2 + one of each summoning + 2 of each colorless lesson - one from each color (Academic Probation, Mercurial Transformation, Nightsnare, Start from Scratch, Containment Breach)

W -- 10
U -- 10
B -- 10
R -- 10
G -- 10
C -- 26

Total: 76

**Edit: -1 of each colorless lesson, -1 extra intro to annihilation, -1 learn card from each color for more golds * -1 Dream strix for extra blue rare