Art by Rebecca GuayThis is my first cube.
I've started playing close to the end of Invasion block and stopped soon after Ravnica. While my cards were mostly limited to the sets from this period, some friends with older collections constantly brought to the table stuff from Urza's Saga, Tempest, Mirage, Ice Age and more. Either because of the weird interactions or due to the crazy art, some of these older cards had a mesmerizing effect on me. It was seeing and playing with and against these older and bizarre cards that, still very young, I became hooked to this game.
This Old Border Cube is a shout out to the days I could sit and play magic with my friends all the time, but also to the wishes of a younger me who would've liked a lot to be able to brew around some of these cards.
About the CubeWhile curating the list, I aimed for a medium power level, mostly fair cube, but with some limited space for unfairness.
Color fixing is a little better for allied color pairs, but that strikes me as an inescapable evil of the old border card pool restriction. That said, I hope to see mostly two and three-color decks, with eventual four-color ones here and there.
I was affraid that aggro support wasn’t good enough, so I broke singleton and favored pain-lands for my fixing needs.
In previous iterations I had stipulated some house rules, created custom MDFCs inspired by Zendikar Rising, and mechanically altered some cards to reinforce certain archetypes. Most of this has been pushed aside, however.
Today, only one altered/customized card remains in the cube: Goblin Elite Infantary, which has Bushido.
- Tempo / Control
- Control / Reanimator (Combo)
- Suicide - Disruptive Aggro / Grindy Midrange
- Aggro – Midrange Stompy / Big Ramp
- Midrange Stompy / Aggro - Go Wide
- Disruptive Midrange / Stax Tokens
- Grindy Midrange / Stax Tokens
- Tempo / Cheat
- Control / Tempo
- Aggro / Tap - Out Control
Well, I don't think there is anything else to say other than that I hope you guys have fun drafting my cube. :)
40 / 40 / 37 / 40 / 43