Enchanted Evening

This cube is designed to provide unique drafting experiences, captivating the imagination of the players, hence the name.

Check out the winning decks and read on for the list of the intended archetypes.

This cube is designed a bit like Iconic Masters set, which had "pockets of synergy" rather than pushed archetypes.

There are a lot of things you're intended to be able to do in this cube, none of which I have seen put to prominence in other cubes.

: Sagas Retold

There are many ways to re-tell sagas, intended ones are:

• A control deck can just play sagas for value, generating cards with Enchantress effects and eventually casting fair Replenish effect. You can also use Power Conduit and Scholar of New Horizons to repeat saga triggers.
• A mill deck can maximise turn-4 Replenish and swing with Opalesence.
• A tempo deck can utilise proliferate creatures to boost the impact of sagas immediately, as well as easily align two sagas to bring back with Second Sunrise for repeated value.

: Self-Mill

While self-mill is a known archetype, in "the Evening", it's not as pushed as in other cubes.

While it enables the aforementioned synergy with Replenish, and while there are some reanimation spells in black, its intended main plan is to win with Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries on their own, perhaps with Timeless Witness along the way to stay alive.

Note that there are almost no flashback cards, just a couple of escape cards and no pushed reanimator. So—while not intended—you can try to mill your opponent out with additional support of Patient Rebuilding.

Remember that Bazaar of Baghdad can help a lot, but it's still card-negative, and you'll have to work to make it great.

: Death's Shadow

Life loss matters and there are a lot of ways to pay life in this cube. Much of removal in black loses you life. From there you are intended to be able to employ many different strategies with cards like Death's Shadow, Scourge of the Skyclaves, and Shadow of Mortality:

• An aggro deck could start with Vampire Lacerator, clear the way with Vendetta and alike and, eventually, close the game with double Pulse of the Forge, dropping shadows along the way.
• A midrange deck would control its life total and ensure that it generates value with cards like Jerren, Corrupted Bishop and Preacher of the Schism.
• A control deck would barely stay alive, utilising cards like Arguel's Blood Fast for value, having a buy-out option with Courageous Resolve to out-value the opponent while having oversized creatures to do the blocking.

: Big Red

A benchmark archetype of the cube. If Braid of Fire is not good enough as a solid playable, I've done my job poorly and I need to recalibrate the cube's power level.

As usual, there are a couple of approaches to this theme:

• A more reckless approach to ramp allows you to flip Akroma, Angel of Fury on turn 4 with Seething Song. It's possible to also resolve a big Electrodominance quickly and cheat something into play.
• A big mana midrange would use Leyline Tyrant and other "mana doesn't empty" effect to double-spell quickly with more efficient plays than your opponents.
• A combo with resolving a Dragonstorm for 3 is also an option, and is backed up by plenty of reasonably powerful dragons, with special stand-outs being Dragonlord Atarka and Bogardan Hellkite.

: Fair Lands

Green can easily get Lotus Field and keep replaying the lands from the graveyard with Crucible of Worlds effects.

Pair with for untapping value, which is enabled by default because there are plenty of bounce lands, so you won't be sad about your Cloud of Faeries not netting you mana before you set up Lotus Field.

The deck can use Soul of Windgrace as a value engine and Living Twister as a finisher.

Other themes

• Toughness matters Doran, the Siege Tower, Assault Formation, The Pride of Hull Clade
• Artifact reanimation Goblin Engineer, Goblin Welder, Daretti, Scrap Savant
• Eggs Second Sunrise, Lion's Eye Diamond, Chromatic Sphere
• KCI Krark-Clan Ironworks, Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever, Sai, Master Thopterist
• Stax Smokestack, Doom Foretold, Braids, Cabal Minion
• Token multipliers

Maybe some other combos I didn't know I have. I'm pretty sure there's something with Narset's Reversal, but I guess part of the enchanted evening spirit is to mess around and find out. Because the cube is large, it's not a given that combos will be possible to assemble, but I've tried my best to put cards that, within their strange and unique synergies generate some value.