Inspiration to design a desert Cube came from meeting Austin Hale, the designer of The Amonkar Desert Cube.
Dragons of Winter's Night puts you the drafter onto a glacial plane within Magic's multiverse. This frozen realm will challenge you to survive against fearsome beasts and other Planeswalkers.
Huddle around the warmth of the fire as you take stock of your situation. You'll need to utilize the limited resources available at hand to emerge victorious. Respect the icy and barren landscape around you - it is as dangerous as the soaring dragons overhead!
Note: This Cube is drafted using 3x18 card packs. Players may not add ANY lands from outside the draft. The lands you draft are all you have available for deck building. Choose wisely!
Provide a novel and challenging draft & play experience
Evoke an adventurous & wintery atmosphere through card art, flavor, and play mechanics
Support synergistic archetypes that reward creative deck-building
This Cube takes inspiration from the Dragon's Lance series of novels.
Books filled with magic, dragons, heroes, and adventure that I loved as a child.
Players are encouraged to be creative and explore combinations of archetypes within the environment during draft and deckbuilding. Each color has multiple supported archetypes, which can be mixed and matched to create unique strategies. Below is an outline of some of the archetypes to be explored! Also, there are dragons.
Recursion, Tap, Equipment
Tap, Snow, Artifacts
Typal (Zombies), Sacrifice, Graveyard
Equipment, Treasure, Sacrifice
Enchantments, Snow, Ramp
Dragons was previously featured at CubeCon 2023 and 2024
An MTGO-safe version can be found here
If you're really bored, here is my Linktree
Following feedback from players at CubeCon and reviewing the deck data, two balance changes are needed.
As far as other changes, Altar of Dementiais a bit of an unsupported trap, and not very effective as a wincon. Annihilating Fire is being replaced by Fiery Annihilation for the flavor win and the slight edge against equipment. What is funny, is that their names are nearly a word palindrome.