This cube both offers traditional strategies of the normal color pie, while also supporting many different themes and build-arounds. Try to see how interesting interactions can play out, with enough mana fixing to support 3-5 color decks.
While there are many interactions that this cube features, one thing that's important is to not worry about color combinations. If you go into every draft under the mindset "I want to play this 2-color deck that just does artifacts," then you're missing some of the other nuance. The specific "archetypes" are purposely not deep enough for full support, and are meant as just patches of overlapping synergy.
Some strategies in the cube include:
- Aristocrats (


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Blood Artist, Rite of Oblivion, Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
- Artifact and/or Enchantment matters (




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Naomi, Pillar of Order, Sythis, Harvest's Hand, Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
- Blink (

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Soulherder, Tribute Mage, Flickerwisp
- Keyword matters (


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Kathril, Aspect Warper, Soulflayer, Majestic Myriarch
- Lands (


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Brushfire Elemental, Braids, Arisen Nightmare, Life from the Loam
- Legendary matters (


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Kethis, the Hidden Hand, Captain Sisay, Ratadrabik of Urborg
- Ninjas (

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Ingenious Infiltrator, Moon-Circuit Hacker, Changeling Outcast
- Self discard (


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Azra Oddsmaker, Lazotep Chancellor, Squee, Goblin Nabob
- Shrines (




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Go-Shintai of Life's Origin, Sanctum of All, Sanctum Weaver
- Spells matter (

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Third Path Iconoclast, Experimental Overload, Murmuring Mystic
- Tokens (



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Combine Chrysalis, Academy Manufactor, Junk Winder
- Unique Counters put on creatures (



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Perrie, the Pulverizer, Denry Klin, Editor in Chief, Agent's Toolkit
- +1/+1 Counters or Modification (


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Grumgully, the Generous, Travel Preparations, Herd Baloth
- Also pretty much every deck will care about the graveyard
Replenish, Emry, Lurker of the Loch, Animate Graveyard, Anger, Hooting Mandrills, Kathril, Aspect Warper, Scrap Trawler
Some of the fun interactions that are possible:
-Ways to get Fblthp, the Lost to draw 2 cards
I'm not saying that fblthp is a simic card, green is just the only other color that has the ability to activate this edge case.
Things to look out for
-Stoneforge Mystic can only search up power level appropriate equipment. It still is a busted card
-All but 1 of the old cycle of shrines are too expensive for this environment, and a total of 12 shrine cards.
-Remember to draft plenty of lands! While this environment can support many-colored decks, it only does so if you draft fixing responsibly.