Mirage Block Cube! Cube to simulate a draft using the Mirage Block. Cards from the core set of the time were added for balance and nostalgia. The cube has all the cycles from the sets to increase flavor. The rest of the cards are split evenly between the colors, balancing the cmc and bringing the rarity as close to the boosters as possible. The mechanics are also all included in proportion to the number of cards. Change in some cards: [[Duskrider Falcon]] is a bird; [[Freewind Falcon]] is a bird; [[Bay Falcon]] is a bird; [[Sage Owl]] is a bird; [[Zuberi, Golden Feather]] changes the text from "Other Griffin creatures get +1/+1." to "Other Griffin and birds creatures get +1/+1."; Chimeras can put tokens in any artifact Creature, included [[Xanthic Statue]] and [[Chimeric Sphere]] >>> ### Colors <<< Your objective in this Mirage block cube is to end up with a monochrome or bicolor deck, with a possible splash of a third color. The good thing about this cube is that each color has removal, combat tricks, good 2 and 3 drops, good flyers and ways to evade your opponents' defenses. Of course, every color has a strength in one of these areas, but because of this difference it is not that deep, it is no use making a color guide, but it is essential to make a combination guide. >>> ### Combinations <<< The Mirage block does not have non-allied color dual-lands but have good gold cards for non-allied colors. {w}{u} - Flyers In this combination you already have flying bombs, but with addition with [[Zuberi, Golden Feather]] you'll have a very good army in the air keeping a good curve. You'll need to mount a ground defense and obliterate your opponent with air attacks. <<[[!Zuberi, Golden Feather]][[!Air Elemental]][[!pacifism]][[!Teremko Griffin]]>> {w}{b} - Pestilence Combo An Archetype with [[Pestilence]]/[[Circle of protection: black]] combo. This combo is a nice combo that many decks will not be able to race against, giving you a chance to keep your creatures in mass removing opponents. <<[[!Pestilence]][[!circle of protection: black]][[!White Knight]][[!Kjeldoran Dead]]>> {w}{r} - Flanking It’s an aggressive archetype with the best low-curves attackers with the benefit of flanking, playing Red for cheap removals and dealing the last few damage after boarding stall. <<[[!Zhalfirin Crusader]][[!Zhalfirin Commander]][[!White Knight]][[!Kaervek's Torch]]>> {w}{g} - Big Guys Ramp Tricks Your colors don't have the best removals, so you need to get few tricks to eliminate creatures. You have access to [[Rampant growth]] and [[Llanowar elves]] to ramp getting your big guys faster your opponent. Don't try to keep defense, go forward always putting pressure. With white you can try to use flyers to avoid stalling boards. <<[[!Aboroth]][[!Arctic Wolves]][[!Ward of Lights]][[!Rampant growth]]>> {u}{b} - Control Your deck is about control. Blue and Black has the best controlling tools in the cube with spells like [[brainstorm]] to help your draws, the best removals and good defensive spells. You don't need to bring good low-curves creatures, just remove the best opponents creatures and smash him with your big guys. You can also bring your guys back from graveyard. <<[[!Mist Dragon]][[!Nekrataal]][[!Brainstorm]][[!Crypt Rats]]>> {u}{r} - Control This combination is much similar to Blue/Black, but you should try to eliminate early threats with Red burns and you have access to [[Hammer of Bogardan]] that can be a huge bomb in late games. <<[[!Hammer of Bogardan]][[!Abduction]][[!Man-o'-War]][[!Kaervek's Torch]]>> {u}{g} - Big Flyers You don't have much synergy between these two colors, so you may stay with this archetype if you had a strong flyer bomb in your first picks. This combination rely in good ground defenses and ramp to open your way to the flyers bombs. <<[[!Mist Dragon]][[!Harmattan Efreet]][[!wall of roots]][[!Rampant Growth]]>> {b}{r} - Removals Black and Red offer the two best color in removal spells. This combination gives you two styles of play: The first one you have to control the battlefield with this removals and finish the game with bombs. The second one you finish the game with damage to opponents head directly. <<[[!Hammer of Bogardan]][[!Nekrataal]][[!Kaervek's Purge]][[!Kaervek's Torch]]>> {b}{g} - Splash Green/Black you have the access to good balck removals and the fixing of the green color. In this combination is likely to choose a open third color and pick every good cards in that color. <<[[!Catacomb Dragon]][[!grim feast]][[!Quirion Elves]][[!Rampant Growth]]>> {r}{g} - Beatdown This combination is fairly straightforward because your creatures will likely to be better than your opponent’s, so you'll be in attack in most of cases and if you are in a worst position, just use your [[savage twister]], one of the best cards of the set to overcome the situation. Priorize the strongest creatures of every mana curve and win the game. <<[[!Volcanic Dragon]][[!Savage Twister]][[!Granger Guildmage]][[!Jungle wurm]]>>