Redshoe 360
(385 Card Cube)
Redshoe 360
Art by Mark TedinArt by Mark Tedin
385 Card Cube0 followers
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An attempt to balance my own cube design preferences with those that most designers employ, currently steering the balance toward the latter. Regardless of that balance, this cube will always be
singleton, archetyped, and include most of the usual suspects for high-powered cubes.

While billed as a 360 cube, the actual size is slightly larger than that. This stems from three considerations:

  1. My paper pack construction technique builds draft sets out of 6 cards from each of the eight wedges of the color pie shuffled together, then dealt out into three packs of 15 with three cards left over. This requires 48 cards per wedge to support 8 people.

  2. Additional oversizing is done so that drafters can remove the conspiracies and Un-set cards and still have the required 48 cards per wedge left over.

  3. One extra slot for Birds of Paradise, because I refuse to design a rares-allowed cube without my favorite mana dork even though it's odd man out amongst all the elves and hierarchs

The cards are all tagged with archetypes that I believe each card supports. Some tags may not have critical mass to make that deck viable; use the analytics tag cloud feature of this site to see which archetypes are getting the most love.

As the list evolves, I'll add more notes here on where I've chosen to deviate from convention, and why.

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