Wheel of Change
(450 Card Cube)
Wheel of Change
Cube ID
Art by Martin OntiverosArt by Martin Ontiveros
450 Card Unpowered Vintage Cube27 followers
Designed by Onderzeeboot

NB This cube is no longer maintained here. See my thread for more info.

Welcome to the Wheel of Change cube, a synergy-based, gold-heavy, unpowered cube that probably falls in the 5-N range on the Strix Scale. It's most distinguishing feature, however, is the use of an alternate color wheel. In this cube, the order of colors in the color wheel is WBUGR. As said, the cube runs a heavy component of gold cards, with an average of just over 3 gold cards per booster. However, only the allied color pairs and the corresponding shards are supported. Allied according to the alternate color wheel that is, so Orzhov (WB), Dimir (BU), Simic (UG), Gruul (GR), and Boros (RW). If you find yourself stuck drafting, say, Azorius (WU), you will find mana fixing is very hard to come by, and no gold cards in your two colors will come your way.

While there isn't any classic combo deck in the cube, the other three classic theaters of play are well supported. Mardu (BRW) is the home of aggro, while control decks are typically centered around either Dimir or Orzhov. Most midrange decks feature green, leveraging the color's ramp package.

Booster packs for this cube are seeded, with each booster containing at least one white, black, blue, green, red, artifact, and land (or Borderpost) card, and at least two multicolor cards.

On a final note, as you might have picked up from the color section, this cube is neither singleton, nor does it run printed cards exclusively. A select few cards appear in the cube twice. This concerns mainly lands and a select few aggressive one drops, including Bonesplitter, but also Wildfire. Where "needed", I completed or extended land cycles into missing color combinations with customs. Apart from that there's a varying amount of other customs, depending on my whims and wants. Using customs allows me to fill very specific holes, but most of all, it's just plain fun to design your own Magic cards, and then play with them! I hope you will enjoy them as well. Happy browsing!

PS. I have a little thread on the RiptideLab dedicated to this cube. You can find it here.

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