A cube that highlights the standout cards and decks from when I first became deeply invested in Magic: ranging from Lorwyn block to Khans block.

Playing Tomato Soup should feel like sharing a warm, comforting meal with old friends. It's slow, simple, and has a huge power band, but where else can you play Hornet Queen in 2025 and still have a good time?

Inspiration

Tomato Soup takes inspiration from numerous places that ignited my love for Magic: The Gathering:

• Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
• M10 and M11 Core Sets
• Competitive decks from Constructed formats across the board during the period of 2007ish to 2015ish

Mana Fixing

For fixing, Tomato Soup runs:

• 1x of each Fetchland
• 3x of each Shockland
• 1x of each Painland
• 1x of each Scryland
• 1x of each Checkland

Fixing should be plentiful, but fetchlands are rare and should be taken highly if looking to splash.

Mechanical Themes

Tomato Soup trends towards midrange due to the density of 2+-for-1s, but it strives to support a variety of synergistic themes. Synergy decks should be competitive.

The examples given here are not exhaustive, but should give you an idea of what synergies to look out for in the draft.

Equipment

Typal Support

Tomato Soup supports a variety of creature type decks. It includes several changelings and "glue" cards to help bridge the gap that might arise when trying to put together a typal deck during the draft.

"Glue" cards:

Typal Payoffs:

Artifacts

Reanimator

Aristocrats

Heroic

Wait, that card wasn't printed before 2015!!!!!?!!!!1!!!

I have not set a hard restriction against this. Some newer cards are here to support synergies that might not be able to compete without them. What's most important to me is that games in Tomato Soup feel like playing Magic did back then, even if it means including some newer cards to make it happen.