I made this cube because I love both Draft and Commander. All of the cards in this cube have been printed at Uncommon or Common in paper at least once. The cards are almost all under five dollars -- the few that are more than that are either part of cycles I wanted to include or cards that I think are important enough to break the rule. Also, I don't want to think too hard about cards fluctuating in price.

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The archetypes are intentionally loose so players can stay open longer during the drafting process. While the cube is designed around these 3-color themes, most of the time players will be drafting in 2-colors.

Additionally, some of the multicolor commanders don't necessarily fit into one of the archetypes listed for their colors - these are intended to add variety to the drafts, and I promise I thought hard about whether the cube could really support them - give them a try!

• Legendary Creatures in the cube have additional rules text:
  • Legendary Creatures that are 1 or less colors have Partner and Choose a background.
  • Legendary Creatures that are exactly 2 colors have Choose a background.
• Each player receives 1 copy of Command Tower and 2 copies of The Prismatic Piper after the draft.

This cube is drafted in 4-to-8-player pods with three 20-card booster packs. These packs are dual-picked. The minimum deck size is 60 cards.

There are 100 Commanders:

• 65 Monocolor (10 Creatures and 3 Backgrounds per color)
• 30 Two-color (3 for each two-color pair)
• 5 Three-color (1 for each shard)

The cube is drafted unseeded.

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9-02-23: I have increased the cube to 600 cards and removed the seeding, as I feel like I have a high enough percentage of Commanders that you'll likely see 3-4 per pack anyways. One of the goals of increasing to 600 is to increase variety, and seeded packs ensure you only see specifically 3 per pack. I'd rather give players the opportunity to use more. I also used to have a 30-life/16-commander-damage house rule, which is now gone as I have enough aggression and power in the cube. Thanks WOTC for all the rarity downshifts.

5-28-22: I took about a year off from this (although I kept a text file for interesting cards whenever a new set released), and I've gotten much better at draft since this cube's first inception. During this past year I've been thinking critically about what I enjoy (and don't enjoy) from the different formats that I've played, and I hope I brought that in the changes I made for this update.

One day I'll actually get this cube in paper.