Welcome to the Poor Pioneer Cube!

This cube was built with cards from the Pioneer format around multiple archetypes and aims at people crafting decks around them. There are very few dual lands to allow for minor splashes whilst preventing players from simply playing all the best cards together without too much synergy. Also, I have tried my best to include as many cards as possible which cover more than one archetype to expand the possibilities of building varied decks.

I have usually avoided cards which are just standalone stapples. Also, removals are few, conditional and costly to allow for the development of powerful battlefields. Finally, there are only a few Planeswalkers in order for the experience to be about the archetypes and combat. As a consequence of these decisions, the experience is very different from the one of playing with a powered cube.

Since there are many archetypes, I recommend drafting 4 packs of 12 each if you are six players and 4 packs of 15 each if you are 4 players in order to have a sufficient number of cards for your archetype(s).

The main archetypes are: Artifacts : see all archetype cards

Lands : see all archetype cards

Enchantments : see all archetype cards

Lifegain : see all archetype cards

Sacrifice : see all archetype cards

Reanimate : see all archetype cards

Graveyard : see all archetype cards

Equipments : see all archetype cards

Blink : see all archetype cards

Power 4+ : see all archetype cards

The smaller themes accross multiple colors are : Token : see all archetype cards

+1+1 Counters : see all archetype cards

Mill/Draw 2/Discard : see all archetype cards

I hope that you will enjoy it as much as we do, let me know what you think ! Alain