It's late 2009. You pull up to your draft in your canary yellow hummer and hit pause on your iPod. Your podmates complain that Tarmogoyf is $50, unaware that in a couple of years that price will quadruple.

This cube is meant to capture a period in magic's history that time has made obscure -- after Wizards worked out roughly how to balance the game, but before or just at the beginning of New World Order (see here if you're not sure what I'm talking about https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/new-world-order-2011-12-05). Though NWO was almost certainly a good thing for the long-term health of the game, the homogenizing effect that it has had on limited and standard sometimes makes me long for the days when you could cast an Armageddon and your opponent would simply die, or you could move cards around with your Sensei's Divining Top for minutes at a time while your opponent twiddled their thumbs.

A time-tested veteran of the game will likely recognize the tools in famous standard and extended decks from the late nineties and early 2000s, the likes of which the game will almost certainly never see again. I hope this cube satisfies your nostalgia like making it satisfied mine.

Enjoy!