Art by Mark TedinThis is an attempt to condense Andy Mangold's Degenerate Micro Cube into an ultra portable, 2 player grid draft version of the format. Hopefully retaining all the degeneracy but in almost a third the size.
Grid draft the entire cube (8 packs of 9 cards)
Build a 15 card deck
Play from 20 life
Decking does not end the game
I estimate that this will run significantly fewer lands than the Sudden Death Micro cube, maybe 3 per deck. Hopefully 6 of each basic is enough as that is all we'll be able to spare out of a 100 pack of Dragon Shields.
Still very much a thought experiment at this time, not owned in paper.
This is the first draft of this cube. It is very much an idea at this stage and will need a significant amount of testing before I am willing to even consider proxying it.
Hoping that a basket full of combo will work which is what I think I've crafted here. It's a bit of a the Degenerate Micro Cube, a bit of the MTGO Vintage cube and trying to retain a similar shape to the Sudden Death Micro cube.