>>># Modern Artisan Cube #<<< --- >>>## Overview ##<<< Welcome to the Modern Artisan cube. It's designed to be a budget-friendly (Europe) 1v1 cube. The idea of the cube is to be a fun cube to draft with a lot of archetypes and pet cards. A card to be eligible in the cube needs to be Modern legal (I also run some banned cards that aren't too powerful for the cube) and have a common or uncommon printing during MTG's life. >>>### Why Modern Artisan? ###<<< I always wanted to build a cube, but since I started playing when I was a teenager, I didn't have much money to spend on cards. So, I used to do a lot of budget EDH and Pauper. This meant that my cube had to be cheap and unique. I knew that going Peasant was a good choice, but I wanted to add something else. So, adding a Modern restriction was the right thing to do. I didn't want to use cards like [[Demonic Tutor]] that are too strong or to have mechanics like the Initiative or Monarch, but I did want to keep it powerful. A lot of powerful draft cards or old competitive Modern cards are in this cube because of the rarity and format restrictions. --- >>>## 2 Color Archetypes ##<<< >>>### {W}{U} Blink ###<<< <<[[!Soulherder]][[!Flickerwisp]][[!Mulldrifter]][[!Micromancer]]>> Classic draft archetype, use a lot of ETB to generate tons of value and win by griding your opponent. >>>### {W}{U} Flyers ###<<< <<[[!Empyrean Eagle]][[!Serra Angel|b56b9131-4f7e-4912-ba47-63ed82f21d1b]][[!Shepherd of the Cosmos]][[!Spectral Sailor]]>> The aggressive WU archetype, evasive creatures to put pressure on the opponents but with access to the counterspells and removals. >>>### {G}{U} Ramp ###<<< <<[[!Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner]][[!Artisan of Kozilek]][[!Pelakka Wurm|2f37ffb3-96d7-4c91-8dd7-eb9061b6cf7f]][[!Beanstalk Giant]]>> Simic goes brrrrrrr, lots of mana and win with value, typical GU stuff. >>>### {B}{R} Sacrifice ###<<< <<[[!Mayhem Devil]][[!Dark-Dweller Oracle|bd35664f-b99d-46b6-988e-8f2814b0a854]][[!Syr Konrad, the Grim]][[!Oni-Cult Anvil]]>> Create tokens or use your creatures to sacrifice them to generate value, this archetype can be killed around artefacts or creatures. >>>### {R}{W} Aggro Burn ###<<< <<[[!Monastery Swiftspear]][[!Lightning Helix]][[!Seeker of the Way]][[!Arabella, Abandoned Doll]]>> Classic burn archetype, go face and attack, maybe a bit powerful with access to burn spells like [[Lightning Bolt]] and others. >>>### {R}{W} Humans ###<<< <<[[!Théoden, King of Rohan]][[!Imodane's Recruiter]][[!Accorder Paladin]][[!Honored Crop-Captain]]>> Also another aggressive archetype, maybe the easiest tribe to build around in Modern Artisan, Théoden being the biggest payoff, play good humans and win. >>>### {B}{G} Self-Mill ###<<< <<[[!Worm Harvest]][[!Stinkweed Imp]][[!Akawalli, the Seething Tower]][[!Lotleth Giant]]>> The Graveyard deck of the cube, the idea is to mill yourself to make some cards more powerful. A glass cannon type of deck as you are in a really bad spot if your opponents put [[Tormod's Crypt]] onto the battlefield. >>>### {B}{G} Food ###<<< <<[[!Greta, Sweettooth Scourge]][[!Peregrin Took]][[!Gingerbread Hunter]][[!Experimental Confectioner]]>> This archetype contains an infinite combo with Peregrin Took and Confectioner, as you can draw your entire deck and make tons of rats, or you can make tons of life with the foods and maybe splash {W} to add life gain payoff. >>>### {U}{B} Control ###<<< <<[[!Halo Forager]][[!Hypnotic Sprite]][[!Counterspell]][[!Gurmag Angler]]>> Good old-fashioned UB Control, I tried to put some funny win conditions like [[Psychic Spiral]] to make the deck a bit more fun to play. >>>### {G}{R} Zoo Stompy ###<<< <<[[!Bloodbraid Elf]][[!Charging Monstrosaur]][[!Yavimaya Iconoclast]][[!Hooting Mandrills]]>> Creature-focused aggressive deck, the archetype doesn't have that many synergies, just big chunky boys that want to smash faces. >>>### {U}{R} Spellslinger ###<<< <<[[!Rise from the Tides]][[!Treasure Cruise]][[!Young Pyromancer]][[!Crackling Drake]]>> The deck can go both aggressive and control. Prowess creatures like [[Monastery Swiftspear]] can be a really good way to put pressure on the opponent and [[Young Pyromancer]] can put a clock and also be one of your only creatures in the deck and decide to go UR control >>>### {G}{W} Go Wide ###<<< <<[[!Burrowguard Mentor]][[!Resolute Reinforcements]][[!Strangleroot Geist]][[!Trostani's Summoner]]>> An archetype that looks like a mix of everything, you play creatures and you go aggro, it can mix well with the +1/+1 counters and the tokens. >>>### {G}{W} +1/+1 Counters ###<<< <<[[!Herd Baloth]][[!Conclave Mentor]][[!Duskshell Crawler]][[!Good-Fortune Unicorn]]>> Aggressive deck, an easy one to build as you want creatures that put +1/+1 counters and that's all. >>>### {W}{B} Grindy Recursion ###<<< <<[[!Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim]][[!Viscera Seer]][[!Hero of the Dunes]][[!Sun-Blessed Healer]]>> A bit like the Rakdos archetype above, but with the idea of grinding your opponent with ways to bring cards back from your graveyard, you can use tokens to tempo and continue to drain them. --- >>>## Other Archetypes ##<<< >>>### {B}{U}{G} Reanimator ###<<< <<[[!Dusk Mangler]][[!Grisly Salvage]][[!Tainted Indulgence]][[!Eccentric Farmer]]>> It would not be a cube with everyone's favorite glass cannon, over the top archetype that is Reanimator. A bit less explosive than in a regular cube as there are no big splashy Eldrazi Titan or Griselbrand, but more fair creatures that can still steal games. >>>### {U}{B}{R} Affinity ###<<< <<[[!Virus Beetle]][[!Ensoul Artifact]][[!Dragonspark Reactor]][[!Third Path Iconoclast]]>> One of the best colors to play an artifact deck in the cube. Can be any style of deck, with Midrange being a bit more difficult than aggro and control. >>>### {W}{B}{R}{G} Persist Combo ###<<< <<[[!Good-Fortune Unicorn]][[!Putrid Goblin]][[!First Day of Class]][[!Goblin Bombardment]]>> Pauper infamous combo is available in the cube and is quite easy to assemble, you need a persist creature, a card that gives a +1/+1 counter to it and a sacrifice engine. >>>### {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} Tokens ###<<< <<[[!Heroic Reinforcements]][[!Peregrin Took]][[!Wing Splicer]][[!Corpse Knight]]>> The big recurring theme of the cube is the token creators, there are a lot of them in the cube so you can easily build a token deck with any colors available. --- >>>## Build-around Cards / Synergies ##<<< You will find some cards that don't fit in archetypes but are more build-around ones. The idea of putting those cards in the cube is to make it more diverse with potentially surprising decks. Here are some examples of what you can expect about those Go cards: >>>### {W} Vesperlark Reanimator ###<<< <<[[!Vesperlark]][[!Trostani's Summoner]][[!Maul Splicer]]>> A favorite of mine, Vesperlark is such a unique card that I have to put it in the Modern Artisan Cube. A bit narrow and complicated but you can pull a [[Trostani's Summoner]] turn 2 if you have all the pieces. >>>### {C} Power Conduit Saga ###<<< <<[[!Power Conduit]][[!The Eldest Reborn]][[!Founding The Third Path]]>> A unique interaction between Power Conduit and Sagas that can make a tempo deck, where you loop the same chapter of a Saga every turn, plus putting a +1/+1 counter on a creature or a charge counter on an artifact that can benefit it.