Un-Necessary Cube
(513 Card Cube)
Un-Necessary Cube
Art by Matt WarrenArt by Matt Warren
513 Card Silver-bordered Multiplayer Vintage Cube1 follower
Designed by KregisAurelius
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This is my Innovations/Supplemental Cube. Basically, this cube is made up almost entirely of side product MTG with minimal on
theme black border magic filling out the gaps in the archetypes. The Idea is to use all the crazy weird experimental areas of
magic that are "Unnecessary" to core black border MTG in order to create a truly wacky fun game. The ones currently involved are:

  • Unsets
  • Mystery Test Boosters
  • Conspiracies
  • Theros Hero Cards
  • Planechase

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DESIGN
The Design of the Cube is such that all the standard cube archetypes (Aggro, Control, etc) are present but are pretty heavily
synergistic/parasitic to try and discourage goodstuff decks. Each Theme is a 3 color Shard made up of approx 35-40 singleton
cards. Each of these Themes also have a mini tribal element of 10+ cards with some generic tribal support in the cube to support
this.
Alongside this are Draft Matters cards, Conspiracies, and Theros Hero cards which arent limited to singleton like the rest of the
cube.
PLAY
The intended use of this cube is Multiplayer Pods of 3 or 4 (6 players or 8 players) with each pod being given a planechase deck.
I personally choose to also include the Commander Adventures Planechase cards as well for extra planechases.

DRAFT

Pack 1 is made up of Draft Matters cards and Conspiracies + the Theros Hero Cards. These hero cards are meant to work just like
conspiracies and sit with them and use like the card says. The Idea is you get all your draft cards first to use for the normal
packs later in the draft and have the conspiracies already so you can form your plan around them and have ideas on what cards
would be good picks with what you got. Below i have numbers for how many cards should be in this pack based on number of players.

Packs 2-4 are intended as 16 card packs. 15 Normal cards either random or color seeded with a bonus contraption card added on at
slot number 16. After the contraptions are seeded any remaining contraptions are discarded and not to be used.
These numbers were just what i came up with doing the math but feel free to test and change number of packs/cards in pack.
SUMMARY
The below stats are the intended Archetypes of the cube while the numbers in Parenthesis is how many cards each archetype has
included in the cube.
WUB: Enchantment(30)
UBR: Rule Control(30)
BRG: Luck(Dice)(30)
RGW: Face/Flip(30)
GWU: Augment(30)
WBG: Keyword (30)
URW: Library (30)
BGU: Graveyard(30)
RWB: Contraptions(30)
GUR: Double/X (30)
WUBRG: Color(less)(30)
Supp: Name/Tribal(30)
Draft/Conspiracy (48)
Removal(47)
Extra(24)
Nonbasic Lands(32)
Draft Format:Pack 1: Draft Matters + Conspiracies (48)(6ppl x 8cards /8ppl x6 cards)Pack 2-4:3 Packs x 15 cards + 1 Seeded
Contraption (Remaining Contraptions go back in box)

ERRATAS
The 3 Canal Dredgers apply to their own individual packs (Packs 1,2,and 3)
Aether Searcher now works like Smuggler Captain and can be flipped whenever
Garbage Fire now does 2x damage to account for the smaller draft pack

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