Cloned from Daneelius's Peasant All Stars

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Welcome to my Peasant All-Stars cube, where the best of the best limited cards from Magic's recent history battle it out for dominance.

Card Pool: The last 8 years of limited sets, constantly rotating. Cards must be available to play both on Arena and in paper, at peasant rarity. Additionally, they must have been released in a set designed to be drafted, and that set can't be a "masters" style reprint set. Next Rotation: April 22nd, AKH. Link to the mostly correct full card pool on scryfall, with some non-booster cards and some cards without Arena peasant printings.
Curation and Size: 17lands.com data was heavily (though not solely) relied upon to establish a card's suitability for the cube. Therefore, expensive cards need to have large impacts and not be weak to removal. Almost universally, cards are either extremely efficient, make multiple objects, or draw cards, but this is not goodcards.cube...since all the cards are good, the decks that synergize the best tend to do the best. The cube is at 540 cards, as I think this forces me as the curator to prioritize emergent drafting over linear archetypes.
Balance: As much as possible, cards are not excluded for power level reasons. No attempt is made to balance rarities, so naturally there are more uncommons than commons.
Fixing: Each 2-color pair has 5 dual lands (1 DMU dual-types, 2 MH2 artifacts, 1 MH3 MDFC, 1 DSK 13-life dual), and there are 13 additional multi-color fixers (including the MH3 fetches), for a total of about 1.75 fixing lands per pack. The gold section of this cube is larger than most peasant cubes, and that combined with the plethora of fixing encourages midrange and attrition strategies to splash powerful gold cards.
Curve: The curve of the cube is relatively low, lower than many peasant cubes, especially in terms of the number of 1 drops in red and white. We found that due to the value-oriented nature of powerful peasant environments, very low curves are an important tool for aggro decks to compete.

The cube avoids supporting narrow archetypes (such as typal/kindred) to discourage prescriptive, on-rails drafting. That said, each 2-color pairing has a primary theme provided by its gold cards:

• : Flyers
  
  

  

  
• : Go-Wide Attrition / Sacrifice
  
  

  

  
• : Go-Wide Aggro
  
  

  

  
• : +1/+1 Counters
  
  

  

  
• : Spells Control
  
  

  

  
• : Noncreature (Artifact) Matters
  
  

  

  
• : Big mana
  
  

  

  
• : (Artifact) Sacrifice
  
  

  

  
• : Self-Mill / Graveyard Recursion
  
  

  

  
• : Large Monsters / 4 Power Matters
  
  

  

  

But in addition to these primary themes, there are a host of secondary themes / synergy packages to explore. Just know that since this cube is 540, you can't rely on any of these cards getting opened. But, be on the lookout for emergent synergies as you build your pool:

• : Fetch / Duals
  
  

  

  
• : 5-color / Domain
  
  

  

  
• : Artifact (Land) Animation
  
  

  

  
• : Equipment
  
  

  

  
• : Creature ETBs
  
  

  

  
• : Steal and Sac
  
  

  

  
• : Looptiloops
  
  

  

  
• : Tokens
  
  

  

  
• : Lifegain
  
  

  

  
• : Reanimator
  
  

  

  
• : Spellslinger
  
  

  

  
• : Draw 2+
  
  

  

  
• : Food Check out my Food walkthrough on Reddit
  
  

  

  
• : Noncreatue ETBs
  
  

  

  
• : Fish
  
  

  

  
• : "Heroic" Tricks