Forbidden Trash is an eternal cube, streamlined for unconventional play spaces.

• Discard your cards and be happy about it
• Cast spells for free
• Look at the top of your library
• Count how many cards are in your graveyard
• Pay life to win

You probably won't...

• Create a token or put counters on anything
• Shuffle in the middle of a game
• Read cards in anyone's graveyard

234 cards?

• 6 drafters, 3 packs of 13 = 234
• 4 drafters, 4 packs of 13, discard the last 3 from each pack = 208

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Please note: There are six (6) copies of Cloudpost, and eight (8) total loci.

Key Mechanics

• Affinity
• Convoke
• Cycling
• Delve
• Madness
• Phyrexian Mana
• Prowess
• Threshold

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The nucleation point for the list was asking:

It follows the bar cube concept, and is intended to feel distinct from my main cube, Pink Sleeves. The power band is very wide and there is a high density of synergy pieces related to the core mechanics.

I wrote about my experience designing this cube here: Cube Design and the Zeitgeist

More design and testing notes are available on my tumblr (zoydraft.tumblr.com/tagged/TrashIV) and in the changelog.

Restrictions

Not hard and fast rules, but strong preferences. These restrictions should not need to be explained to players in advance.

• No extra game pieces
  • No tokens, no counters, no dungeons, etc.
• Only cards that can be played unsleeved
  • No dual-faced cards or cards with non-standard backs.
• No shuffling
• No relevant text in graveyards
  • No recursion
  • No abilities that are active in the graveyard (e.g. Flashback)
  • No cards that check anything other than number of cards in the graveyard (e.g. Threshold is good, Delirium is not)
• Dual lands must have some benefit makes them playable in off colours
  • Bounceland
  • Scrylands (ideally would be Surveils, but $$$)
  • Artifact lands
  • Cycling lands