This is an artisan cube using exclusively cards first printed with the border introduced with M15 and reprints into standard with the new border.
Some themes present in the cube:
Example Archetypes:
WU: Flying
UB: Ninjas
BR: Sacrifice
RG: Power Buffs
GW: Counters
WB: Clerics/Life-gain
UR: Noncreature spells matter
BG: Graveyard
RW: Double Strike Buffs
GU: Tokens
A note on lands:
Each Cryptic Spires can be exchanged for the player's choice of dual land that has some minor upside or synergy, as follows:
-Crimelands (Desert, pings opponent for 1 on ETB)
-Guildgates (Gate)
-Typed Dual (From DMU, has basic land types of its two colors)
-Bridges (Artifact, indestructible)
This allows players to both choose their dual lands' colors, but also to slightly tweak the use they get out of their lands, and also enable more synergy cards without taking more card slots.
This update is primarily to just tag everything, but also to lay out what I want out of the next big revamp coming up.
Some things I want to go deeper into:
Things I want to avoid or trim:
I'm excited to do the full update for the past 6 applicable sets, and hopefully look into acquiring the paper version of the cube soon!