The Official Stockholm Cube Society Powered Vintage Cube, Curated by Will.
This is a peak-powered cube, focusing on building great high-synergy decks with the strongest card combinations in magic. Win at every price, and have a blast with the craziest cards magic has to offer.
Cube is very curated to be a great version of the "standard" vintage cube, focusing on a deep drafting phase, a massive number of different deck paths to explore, and highly interactive matches. And of course, blasting your opponents to bits with HIGH power magic. On draft #20 you'll still find new deck directions and build-around strategies.
ArchetypesJust a basic list. There are so many more archetypes, build-arounds, and combos to draft than listed here.
Make sure to have at least 4-5 one-mana creatures, and 5-6 two-mana creatures. Disrupting your opponent's mana is excellent.
• Esper Sentinel
• Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• Hero of Bladehold
• Mana Tithe
• Strip Mine
Play a good curve of powerful high-impact cards, running your opponent over. Prioritize ways to accelerate your mana and powerful 3-5 cost spells.
• Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• Seething Song
• Broadside Bombardiers
• Lightning Bolt
• Fiery Confluence
Interacting with your opponent is key; counterspells are premium. Draw cards, survive and end the game with planeswalkers, combos or planeswalkers.
• Mana Drain
• Wrath of God
• Fatal Push
• Memory Deluge
• Leyline Binding
Combo-oriented land deck, focusing on the graveyard. Requires the right payoff cards such as Gitrog Monster or Titania or combos such as Dark Depths.
• Strip Mine
• Titania, Protector of Argoth
• Zuran Orb
• Crucible of Worlds
• The Gitrog Monster
• Lotus Field
Try to power out high-impact midrange cards and overpower your opponent.
• Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
• Simian spirit guide
• Bonecrusher Giant
• Ignoble Hierarch
• Broadside Bombardiers
Make sure to get at least 4 one-mana ramp creatures. Often mono green, but can easily splash other colors.
• Elvish Mystic
• Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
• Gaea's Cradle
• Oracle of Mul Daya
• Nissa, Who Shakes the World
Get at least 5 artifacts that produce mana, preferably more. Then find a payoff for that mana.
• Talisman of Curiosity
• Urza, Lord High Artificer
• Krark-clan Ironworks
• Mindslaver
• Upheaval
Try to be aggressive, playing enough 1-2 mana value creatures (4-6 total). Find creatures with strong enter-the-battlefield abilities.
• Ephemerate
• Restoration Angel
• Parallax Wave
• Solitude
• Mulldrifter
Find 3-5 ways to reanimate creatures from the graveyard. Find 3-6 big creatures to reanimate. Find ways to put the creatures in the graveyard, such as discard.
• Reanimate
• Entomb
• Griselbrand
• Animate Dead
• Serra's Emissary
Find 3-5 ways to reanimate creatures at instant speed, and ways to put them in the graveyard. Find 3-6 big creatures to bring back, with strong enter-the-battlefield or on-attack abilities.
• Shallow Grave
• Goryo's Vengeance
• Flash
• Emrakul, Aeon's Torn
• Woodfall Primus
Use cards to cheat in a large creatures from your hand. Try to have 3-6 large creatures, and multiple ways to get them into play.
• Sneak Attack
• Through the Breach
• Show and Tell
• Flash
• Atraxa, Grand Unifier
If you know you know.
• Yawgmoth Will
• High Tide
• Dark Ritual
• Echo of Eons
• Tendrils of Agony
If you know you know.
• Underworld Breach
• Lion's Eye Diamond
• Brain Freeze
• Wheel of Fortune
• Seething Song
Artifact Reanimation effects. Powerful artifacts to return from the graveyard. Ways to put artifacts into the graveyard.
• Triplicate Titan
• Goblin Engineer
• Daretti, Scrap Savant
• Goblin Engineer
• Trash for Treasure
Draft draw-7 effects and cards that punish drawing. Can be built as storm/reanimator. Can be built as midrange/control.
• Timetwister
• Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• Orkish Bowmaster
• Hullbreacher
• Narset, Parter of Veils
Counters, burn, and efficient creatures. Disrupt your opponent with instants and sorceries, while applying pressure with creatures.
• Lightning Bolt
• Snapcaster Mage
• Remand
• Third Path Iconoclast
• Monastery Mentor
Prioritize fetchlands, triomes, and payoffs for having access to multiple colors. Usually a beatdown deck.
• Scion of Draco
• Wooded Foothills
• Territorial Kavu
• Leyline Binding
• Tribal Flames
Combine powerful artifact creatures with interaction.
• Kappa Cannoneer
• Urza, Lord High Artificer
• Urza's Saga
• Karn, Scion of Urza
• Mana Leak
Archetypes, Combos, Build-arounds
White Aggro
Blue Artifacts
Red Big Aggro
Black Reanimator
Green Ramp
Green Aggro
Green Domain
Blue White (Red) Control
Blue White (Black) Control
Shallow-Sneak Reanimator
Lands
Red Green Big
Sneak & Show
Classic Storm /
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Breach Storm /
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Jeskai Control-Tempo
Artifact Reanimator + (
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White Flicker/Enters (Ephemerate)
Monastery Mentor (Monastery Mentor)
Copycat Combo (Felidar Guardian + Saheeli Rai)
Oath of Druids (Oath of Druids) + (
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Opposition (Opposition)
Pox (Braids, Cabal Minion) + (
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Birthing Pod (Birthing Pod) ()
Artifact Combo Krark-Clan Ironworks
Bring to Valki (Bring to Light + Valki, God of Lies) ()
Jace to Valki (Jace Reawakened + Valki, God of Lies) ()
Thousand-year Storm (Thousand-Year Storm)
Flash Combo (Flash + Worldspine Wurm)
Big Mana Upheaval (Upheaval)
Basalt Monolith Combo (Basalt Monolith + Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy/Zirda, the Dawnwaker//Forensic Gadgeteer)
Lurrus Control (Lurrus of the Dream-Den)
Devoted Combo (Devoted Druid + Swift Reconfiguration)
Twin Combo (Splinter Twin + (Pestermite))
Kiki Combo (Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Restoration Angel/Pestermite)
Mindslaver Lock (Mindslaver + Academy Ruins)
Depth Combo (Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage/Vampire Hexmage)
Kitten Combo (Displacer Kitten)
Wheel Synergy (Wheel of Fortune/Timetwister + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse//Orcish Bowmasters)
Soulfire Turns (Soulfire Grandmaster + [[Time Walk/Time Warp)
Bolas' Citadel Top (Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top)
The Stockholm Powered Cube has draft synergies, which means that when you draft certain cards, you gain additional cards for your cardpool. For example, draft Urza, Lord Protector, and gain The Mightstone and Weakstone after the draft!
To find these draft synergies, either hover cards in the list (both will be displayed), or read the tags written on the physical cards during the draft!
Mostly a list of new players. This list is highly personal and debatable. Some cards also require specific decks / build-around strategies. That said, as an intro for new players - here are the top cards in pick order for pack 1 pick 1 (Don't pass these cards lightly!):
Sol Ring
Black Lotus
Time walk
Mana Crypt
Ancestral Recall
Mox Sapphire
Mox Ruby
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Emerald
Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
forth eorlingas!
Orcish Bowmasters
Library of Alexandria
Reanimate
Thoughtseize
Lurrus of the dream-den (As companion)
Swords to Plowshares
Fable of the Mirror-breaker
Mana Drain
The One Ring
Demonic Tutor
Strip Mine
Mana Vault
Urza's Saga
Broadside Bombardiers
Atraxa, Grand Unifier
Mystic Confluence
Entomb
Oko, Thief of Crowns
Flash
Tinker
Force of Will
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Mox Diamond
Solitude
Fury
Archon of Cruelty
Parallax Wave
Mana Leak
Hullbreacher
Lightning Bolt
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Palace Jailer
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Polluted Delta (and all other fetchlands)
Skullclamp
Not Dead After all no longer synergy with Grief
Lava Dart no longer draft synergy (Young pyromancer cut)
Young pyromancer is now Bloodthirsty Adversary