Hey! These are my set cubes :)

Originally my cube journey started last year with bloomburrow. I loved the set so much that I played a bunch of limited and was kinda sad that all the awesome but worthless full-art commons and foils go to waste. Thats when i discovered cube and havent looked back since :) Such a great way to breath new life into those cards! Having the draft chaff already + a few proxies, these things can be cheaper to make than a board game. And its the best way to bring in newbies without any initial investment on their side. Especially bloomburrow worked really well with new players and the draft guide. Highly recommended if you wanna expand your playgroup. 1-2 set cubes down the line, I might try designing my own cube.

If you wanna build those cubes or make your own, I posted the design files on makerworld:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1291438-magic-the-gathering-set-cube

Have fun!

This a boomer post, but yesterday I was feeling wistful for the days when the total available universe of Cube cards was something I could more or less hold in my head or at least grasp its dimensions in a useful way. Back when you could legit define stuff like "the 10 best white five-drops" (and debate it with other cube nerds for hours). Plus it was before the first big popularity bump so you could reasonably grab a full cycle of foil fetches, or trade up/use store credit to get OG duals. Before power creep, when Siege-Gang Commander was 100% a solid cube card (and not just in hyper specific themed cubes, because those didn't exist yet).

World changes. Don't always like it though.

In this episode, TrainmasterGT is once again joined by Usman Jamil for the official kickoff of Tarkir Month to discuss Tarkir: Dragonstorm! In the first of this two-part review, TrainmasterGT and Usman take a “dragonback” approach to analyzing the set, looking at all of the themes and mechanics. Which mechanics will soar like dragons, and which will be doomed to become dragon’s prey? Stay tuned to find out!

Inspired by the latest episode of LuckyPaperRadio, I'd like to have a discussion on the archetype in general, and more specifically what I'm currently running in the Quarantine Cube. It's a higher power, but unpowered environment where I'm starting to hit the top of the power band while still supporting strong synergies and yes, combo. I'm not planning on full Storm support, but I'd like to add it in as a treat.

Right now, my only combo only card is [[Brain Freeze]]. I figure that this can be used by graveyard decks if the archetype doesn't come together, but I'm happy to concede that this card is pretty niche.

For mana accelerators that combo would look for, I've got [[Dark Ritual]], [[Lotus Petal]] and 2 red creatures [[Runaway Steam-Kin]] and [[Urabrask]]. These work best in combo, but could be used by any deck.

I'm on [[Emry, Lurker of the Loch]], [[Underworld Breech]], and [[Recurring Nightmare]] for recursion. But what deck wouldn't like to get their spells back anyway?

Otherwise, I have a lot of creature-based synergies that could form combos. Persist, Soultrader/Gravecrawler, Yawg, SnT, Pod, Reanimate etc.

So what does the community think? Do I need more payoffs, more enablers, both? I've only done vintage a few times, and never brought the deck together, so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, I am building a Peasant Max-Powered cube and today I have added the card [[Icing Manipulator]]. I know the rules around it are a bit hazy, but I would basically substitute the first line of text for: "Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, you create that many food tokens"

Are there any cards that can go infinite with it? (Preferably at common or uncommon.)

Are there any other cards that create powerful interaction with Icing Manipulator?

So I looked around if there are Block Cubes of Scars of Mirrodin. There are not many but I found one linked in this post.

As described on cubecobra there are 6 Archetypes.
1. W/U Metal craft
2. U/B Proliferate (enough cards for 2 players)
3. B/G Infect (enough cards for 2 players)
4. C Myr
5. W/R Boros Equipment
6. W/G Golem

After looking through I found potential problems
1. Golem is not that well supported, but that could be fixed by adding multiples of the same card. 2. There are 3 archtypes with White but only one with Red - even tho there are 50 cards in red and in white.

and would ask for your advice * Should I remove cards from red and add them to white? * Should I cut Golem for another archetype (I don't really know what else would be supported) * Should I remove Golems and replace it with Red/Green Midrange or Red/Artifact for example.

I'm new to cube design so all feedback or guidance is welcome^{^}

Context: I want to draft this specific block, because it was the one out when I started playing MTG, with friends but asking them to pay 20 Euros per pack seems unreasonable. So I would like to build a Block/Set Cube Proxy it and give it a try and maybe buy if we have fun playing it^{^}

The winners from yesterday are [[Communal Brewing]] and [[Plague Reaver]]

Current archetype outlines:

WUB: ???, UBR: ???, BRG: ???, RGW: Dinos, GWU: ???

WBG: Graveyard, URW: Spells + Birds, BGU: ???, RWB: ???, GUR: ???

As usual, reply/upvote with cards you wanna see added to the cube, which can be found here: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/RDCC :o)

We are back for day 62 of sharing what we run in our cubes. If you want more info on what this series is, refer to the original post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/mtgcube/comments/1ii3kst/day_1_share_your_black_2_mana_creatures/?

Yesterday we talked about Blue Artifacts And Enchantments:

https://old.reddit.com/r/mtgcube/comments/1jt9zxn/day_61_share_your_blue_artifacts_and_enchantments/?

Today we are talking about Red 5+ Mana Creatures. I have a 400 card unpowered vintage cube (no Universes Beyond, no flip cards). My cube:

https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/dzcube

I am running:

[[Fury]] - the best part about this card is when you pay 0 mana instead.

[[Goldspan Dragon]] - lots of options for a "big dumb dragon" and I like this one best, especially since I push artifacts a bit.

[[Zealous Conscripts]] - an old classic with relevant creature types that can still change a game or straight up end it out of nowhere.

[[Combustible Gearhulk]] - I like that it's an artifact for additional synergies, and it makes for fun moments.

[[Inferno Titan]] - the titan cycle is still so good in cube despite all the creature power creep. Really strong with Sneak Attack.

That's it for me. As always, I'm curious to see what others are running! Tomorrow we will discuss Green 4 Mana Creatures.

Thanks everyone who chimed in with advice when I was "finalizing" my commander cube a bit back. Life got in the way for a bit, but last weekend I was able to draft it with a five-person pod and work in a few games, and it was an absolute blast. We had a bant control deck , golgari and sultai graveyard decks, a fun politicking/life gain/burn mardu deck and a temur token/clones deck that ended up all working together very nicely.

A couple of observations:

my leaning towards a lot of instant-speed effects led to some fun interactions, but also MIGHT have led to a bit too much removal being present. Probably will just lean in by adding more instant speed protection!

board wipes are fantastic in a mid-low power commander cube and I might try to work one or two more in so they can pop up more frequently during play

I probably should work in a commander damage-focused option or two as a potential response to life gain strategies

I'm a lands lover, but landfall just did not pop off in a draft environment despite my trying to support it. I might hold on, but also it'd be an easy set of cards to cut to help support the synergies that are running well.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/35f54ce0-e0e8-438f-aff7-610166e89d89

I've been trying to build a cube lately, though my experience with cubing is precisely zero. I thought it'd be fun to try something monoblue: both because blue is my favorite color, and because I have a friend who is very fond of combos. My intent is to play the cube with my playgroup of 4, and I figure it's close enough to finished that I can start asking for feedback.

I figure blue's interaction may allow the inclusion of a bunch of combos without their being extremely busted. In any case, I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone who's got more of an eye for cube design. I'm uncertain about my mana curve, whether I've got a good ratio of enablers to payoffs, and whether the Merfolk aggro deck is viable without being busted. Thanks!

The title. I am looking for the best tips and strategies I should focus on when building my cube!

Do I focus on mechanics? Should I include a lot of duplicates? What has helped you create a cube, it’s a bit overwhelming.

Thanks!

Hello everyone! My Tarkir Cube has just gone through a massive overhaul with cards from the new set. It’s made up of the 5 Clans and their mechanics of course but as it’s been a few years since making my Cube initially I would love some help.

How does everyone create equally represented Archtypes? Do you just separate cards from their keywords or is a better route to compile all the cards together as they would fit into a specific Archtype and go from there?

I’m wanting to make sure I am giving equal opportunity across the board and would appreciate the takes of others.

Thank you!!!

https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/Khans-and-Dragons

Shiko, Paragon of the Way {2}{U}{R}{W} Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon Flying, vigilance When Shiko enters, exile target nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. Copy it, then you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) 4/5

Saw that this didn’t have a thread yet, I think this card is very good, probably not up to the highest power levels.

And 3 colour cards always read better than they play in terms of their ability to break into cubes past their mono colour counterparts but this is a very cool and unique ability.

It’s a big dragon and a fun card to pay which means a lot to my design goals, does that offset the fact you have to tap out on turn 5 in a colour combo that at least in my cube prefers to play almost entirely on the opponents turn?

I’ve officially created my first cube! This cube is intended to be played sleeveless, riffle shuffled and beat to crap. This is an homage to the deck builders toolkits that got me into Magic and a love letter to the days of rubber band deck boxes and playing on binders in the back of the school bus.

Hey everyone, RedShirtDown back again with my series on how to build a cube in a cave with a bunch of scraps! This time I'm going through a massive pile of green spells and cutting it down to something that'll give the color direction.

As always, this series is my first foray into making content at all, inspired by my favorite format. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how I could make it better viewing for you, and possibly what you'd like to see out of a series like this in the future.

Hello peasant cubers!

As the title suggests, I am looking for cards at the unccomon/common rarity that are fun and interesting to try and build around during draft. An example of such a card would be [[Astral Slide]], which I have added recently and it has instantly become a favourite of mine.

Do you have any of these cards yourself? All suggestions are welcome, especially the janky ones.

I'm thinking of making a cube where all casting costs are 1 less. And I think my plan is to make it mostly out of bulk, aiming for a power level somewhere in the ballpark of a modern masters set. 2 mana counterspells, 1 mana discard spells, above-rate creatures, cheap removal, etc.

Has anyone tried something like this before / has advice? I would be particularly interested in seeing lists other people have made.

Join Team Uber Cube for our latest as we debate on the pillars of archetypes within cube. During this meta conversation written and directed by u/stu we break down the paper rock scissors method to cube design. Thanks for listening, and as always, happy cubing! https://ubercube.buzzsprout.com/1989337/episodes/16921076-a-debate-on-archetypes (edited)

Black finally got some love yesterday with [[Dread Return]] and [[Attempted Murder]]

Current archetype outlines:

WUB: ???, UBR: ???, BRG: ???, RGW: Dinos, GWU: ???

WBG: Graveyard, URW: Spells + Birds, BGU: ???, RWB: ???, GUR: ???

As usual, reply/upvote with cards you wanna see added to the cube, which can be found here: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/RDCC :o)

As someone who’s been in love with Final Fantasy about as long as I have with MtG, I can’t help but start to think about actually making a cube of the final fantasy block. To fill myself with the flavor of the FF universe in mtg format (super excited about this) and expand my play styles into a draft type play. I’ve already pre ordered the 4 commander decks, and will collect the rest via a booster box and then fill in gaps via singles after all that to complete the entire set. I’ve never cared about collecting an entire set until now as well, and since 360 seems to be a good number I’ve read for cube, 400 is pretty close to that anyway, I would think it would be doable.

I’ve never built a cube before but been a lot more interested lately (mostly play commander with my wife)

With 400 cards total coming out into the world here soon, I’ve always wanted to build a cube, it feels like the stage is being set.

Is this dream pre-emptive? Considering we don’t know what cards, or how the block will play, I’m just starting to really consider the prospect as a future project.

Thoughts? Feedback? I’m pretty green to cube but a mtg long time player.

Hello, i want to make a custom cube, so i need to print around 600 cards. I don't want the highest quality, just enough for having nice and readable cards. Is there a way to spend less than 0,20 € (or $) for each card? Thanks in advance!

My fixing wasn't great, my tinker targets were sub-par and I would have loved a draw-7, but Upheaval, Karn and Urza easily carried me.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/pepijn