Artifact Jigsaw

Cube ID
Art by Alex Horley-OrlandelliArt by Alex Horley-Orlandelli

200 Card Cube

1 follower
Designed by landofMordorRSSQR Code

View in Cube Map

Owned
$79
Buy
$32

A Slay The Spire draft/deckbuilding experience with traditional Magic gameplay.

Drafting the Jigsaw

At the start of the draft, each player gets 3 Chromatic Stars, 3 Iron Apprentices, and 5 curated Spellbombs (one from each color). See the Basic Lands tab.

Draft uses a custom format (see Playtest tab) for a smaller draft pool, since players will begin with nearly 10 playables.

Design

Draft archetypes are intended to yield a variety of divergent archetypes that utilize the same game resources. Individual cards should inspire interesting decisions and create healthy interactions. Archetypes should be flexible, repeatable, and not too prescriptive.

thoughts for future

  • "pyramid" drafting, with relatively low agency in the initial stages (7 Wonders Duel style, or c.f. japahn). Instead of trashing picks for Gold, players could trash picks for a second-order buildaround from outside the draft (or maybe a second copy of an extant card, or maybe a trio of basic lands). Faceup drafting enables metagaming and hatedrafting.
  • Squadron Hawk-ing most/every card for higher synergy-per-pick