Powerful Pauper Grixis 105
(105 Card Cube)
Powerful Pauper Grixis 105
Art by Jokubas UogintasArt by Jokubas Uogintas
105 Card Cube0 followers
Designed by GhostRegion
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$81
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Built as a stronger counterpart to my Traveling - Pauper Grixis OnTheGo, this cube aims to provide interesting gameplay through more powerful cards in Pauper, including 13 of the 33 cards on the current (as of 2024-02-04) Pauper banlist.

Careful considerations were given to cards that each color gains advantage through - blue with card draw, black with big creatures, and red with burn. Each guild (Dimir, Izzet, and Rakdos) gains powerful cards from their respective color pairings + multicolor cards to build into reasonable control, ping/counter-burn, and removal + recursion, respectively. Lastly, there's enough fixing to provide a Grixis control deck that leverages efficient removal and recursive threats that a player can feel comfortable building and piloting it.
As always, feel free to leave feedback and I hope you enjoy this endeavor into building more 105s.

Summary

A Pauper cube-ish used for carrying 2 sets of 75 single-sleeved cards for 2 player On-The-Go drafting.
Breakdown is as follows:
27 of Blue, Black, and Red
3 colorless
2 multicolor (3 of each guild in Grixis)
15 lands for fixing
= 105

15 of each basic for Islands, Swamps, and Mountains
= 45

Total = 150

Drafting

Drafting follows Ryan Overturf's Minneapolis Drafting:
https://articles.starcitygames.com/premium/the-proper-way-to-do-two-player-cube-drafts/

Due to the size of this being smaller than (8*7*2=) 112 cards, 7 packs of 7 cards each per player with 7 leftover cards is the current iteration.

Minneapolis Draft is a two-player draft format where both players make eight 7 packs of seven cards.

  1. Each player starts by simultaneously opening their first pack without showing the contents to the other player, drafting one card face down, and then trading their first pack with the other player.
  2. Then each player takes two cards from the other player’s pack and trades back.
  3. Finally, players take an additional two cards from the pack they had opened and the last two cards in each pack are discarded face-down from the draft.
  4. To reiterate, that’s one first pick, two picks from the other player’s pack, and then two last cards from the pack you opened before discarding the remaining two cards from the draft.
  5. Players continue this process until all eight 7 of their packs have been drafted.
  6. From here players add any number of basic lands to their deck and play some 40-card Limited Magic.
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