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8-bit's Modern (frame) Pauper Cube

By 8bitJesus

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This is my first cube. Although it has gone through many iterations, I am finally happy with where it is at now.

I decided to make a 450 card cube so that when drafting with 8 players, there isn't any feeling of solving the cube. Sometimes cards will show up, other times they'll be left out. Honestly though I expect this to be grid drafted more often than not, and that may affect future decisions.

I love the pauper format, but in my early version of the cube, I found that some of the Eternal cards were just way more powerful than their Modern counterparts, and warped the draft around them, that is why this became a "Modern" cube.

After many changes and draft sessions I found that some of the archetypes I wanted in the cube just weren't supported well enough and some color combinations just felt weaker. This is when I decided to break my Modern only rule, and allow cards that have been reprinted at common in a "Modern" frame. These changes seem to have balanced out the issues I was having before, without introducing some of the more unfair cards of Eternal.

The last thing of note, is that I intend for the packs of this cube to be seeded with a single multicolor card and land. These are to signal a little bit of the strategies available for each color. I have decided to have another card for each "guild" as a single color card with an off color activation. These are meant to be enjoyed in a mono color deck but better in the corresponding combination, and are not included in the multicolor section.

I invite you to please draft and/or leave comments or suggestions, so that I can make this the best pauper cube I can.

Colorless (74)

Land (30)

Creature (26)

Artifact (18)

Gold (30)

Creature (19)

Instant (6)

Enchantment (3)

Sorcery (2)

White (69)

Creature (43)

Instant (10)

Enchantment (8)

Sorcery (8)

Blue (69)

Creature (37)

Instant (17)

Sorcery (9)

Enchantment (5)

Artifact (1)

Black (69)

Creature (41)

Sorcery (13)

Artifact (1)

Instant (11)

Enchantment (3)

Red (70)

Creature (42)

Instant (14)

Sorcery (12)

Enchantment (2)

Green (69)

Creature (45)

Instant (11)

Sorcery (7)

Enchantment (6)

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Cards 450
Date added 8 years
Last updated 8 years

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