Might of Cubes - MAIN CUBE
(385 Card Cube)
Might of Cubes - MAIN CUBE
Art by Ron SpencerArt by Ron Spencer
385 Card Powered Vintage Cube16 followers
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Might of Cube's Main Powered Cube!

Design Goal

This Cube is designed to realize an environment from which each of those 4 deck types below evenly emerges (more or less).

Four Major Deck Types

Goes with five OG Moxes, but without un-fun cards by our definition (U-Recall, Time Walk, Sol Ring, LofAlexandria, SkullCramp and more..)

Color Roles and Deck Types Aggro

Aggro’s strategy is to ceaselessly attacking the opponent's face, as swiftly & directly as possible.
This is most specifically the fastest creature decks built to punish slow starting, ponderous Control decks.

Aggro is supported mostly by w and r.

T1 to T3 aggressive damage sources:


T4-T5 Finishers:

Not to mention, red has many aggressive spells to put pressures in many ways, and to close the game.

And other ways to pump damage closing the game in wr:

Alternatively, rg can also make fast hasty beat-down aggro:

br can also make aggro, usually supporting r aggressive creatures by b disruption. However br pair is not solely dedicated for Aggro (it also supports Sneaky-Reanimate Combo or Sacrifice Value Midrange).

Combo/Ramp

Combo element usually comes from b (which includes Reanimate as an unfair strategy), u with Show and Tell or Tinker, and a little bit of r with Sneak Attack.
g can offer both Combo and Ramp. g combo can come with Natural Order of Channel for example.

Direct Enablers:

Payoffs:

Fast tutors or draw spells are also valuable for Combo deck to get the key card out of your deck.

g section has abundant cheap ramps, along with Channel! (However in our cube, g also supports Midrange so Ramp is not the predominant strategy for g)

As a color pair, any combinations among ubrg except for rg can make a Combo/Ramp deck.

Among those, ug is usually Ramp, and Upheaval can shine here:

I also need to mention that ur Wildfire / Upheaval is also intentionally supported.

Midrange

Big guys are mostly in b and g in our Cube.

There are cards that generate values over time that works well for Midrange strategy mostly in Esper (wub) colors too.

In order to suffice the Midrange density in the environment, wg section is dedicated for Go-Wide Midrange.

bg can make strong Ramp deck too, but Graveyard-Matters Midrange is more supported.

Although minor supported compared to Aggro, br can also make Sacrifice Midrange.

Other than those pairs, ug or wb can make nice disruptive midrange deck too.

Control

Control needs strong answers/disruption, especially to stop Combo/Ramp strategy, but also to board wipe Aggro's early threats or pin-point removal for Midrange's fat threats.

u has for example:

b has:

w has:

r also has burn spells, some of which works quite well in control decks such as ur disruptive control.

Again there are cards that generate values over time that works well for, this time Control strategy mostly in Esper (wub) colors too.

As for color pair, wu is dedicated for control, with minor blink support.

wb Aristocrats control is actively supported with w and b's strong disruptions and removals.

ub control is also valid strategy. When they are not doing Reanimate/Cheating-In, they are doing Control.

Other Possible/Supported Archetypes wb / g / u Stax

Stax can appear in a couple of different ways:

Mana Denial in w with Manarock and/or Land Recursion on your side:

Winter Orb works well in g Ramp to make it more control:

or in Artifact

Note that Winter Orb works well in wr aggressive decks too. rg aggro can also benefit from occasional mana dorks + Orb.

wb Stax:


with token generations:

u Artifact Matters (+ w as support)

Enablers e.g.:


Payoffs e.g.:

u Self-Mill (usually synergize with bg)

Self-Mill actually is a viable sub-archetype which can work with other archetypes.

Self-Mill and graveyard shenanigan in b, or ramping with g + card draws with u works well in this archetype.

Paper-Playable Digital Only Cards

I also run digital only cards (available on MTG Arena).
List of those cards can be found here.

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