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(MAT Updated)Actively Managed Common/Uncommon cube

Custom* Casual Competitive Jank

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Colorless (94)

Gold (56)

White (78)

Blue (78)

Black (78)

Red (78)

Green (78)


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Cube Draft. Last updated 5/15/23. Visual Appeal is a goal for this cube. Scarcity is too, and the oldest foil versions and/or best promo versions are prioritized.


White Card Aspects

  • Weenies
  • Tokens
  • Early Aggression
  • ETB
  • Exile Effects
  • Blink
  • +1/+1 Counters
  • Counters Synergy
  • Group Buff
  • Enchantments/Auras
  • Combat Tricks

Blue Card Aspects

  • Control
  • Tempo
  • Bounce Effects
  • Flying
  • Unblockable
  • Spells
  • Spell Synergy
  • Midrange
  • ETB
  • Blink
  • Draw/Card Advantage

Black Card Aspects

  • Combat/Attrition
  • Value
  • Deathtouch
  • Recursion
  • Painful Draw/Card Advantage
  • Hate/Discard/Removal
  • Sacrifice/Aristocrats
  • Shadow/Unblockable
  • Tokens/Weenies
  • Gain & Drain

Red Card Aspects

  • Weenies/Tokens
  • Early Aggression
  • On-Curve Creatures
  • Treasure Ramp
  • Sacrifice/Sacrificial
  • Burn/Damage
  • Combat Tricks
  • Removal
  • Spells
  • Spell Synergy
  • Self-Pumping Creatures
  • Flying

Green Card Aspects

  • Ramp
  • Top End Creatures
  • Midrange
  • Deathtouch
  • Combat Tricks
  • Landfall
  • +1/+1 Counters
  • Counters Synergy
  • Life Gain
  • Anti-Flying
  • Aggro

Multicolor Card Aspects

  • Off-Color Removal
  • Archetype Synergy
  • Unique Effects
  • Strategy-Defining Cards

Colorless Card Aspects

  • Strategic Filler Cards
  • Cheap Equipment
  • Card Draw/Card Advantage
  • On-Curve Creatures
  • Top End Cards
  • Vehicles
  • Weenies
  • Expensive Removal
  • Mana Fixing
  • Mana Ramp
  • Sacrifice/Sacrificial
  • Utility

Colorless Card Aspects

  • Strategic Filler Cards
  • Cheap Equipment
  • Card Draw/Card Advantage
  • On-Curve Creatures
  • Top End Cards
  • Vehicles
  • Weenies
  • Expensive Removal
  • Mana Fixing
  • Mana Ramp
  • Sacrifice/Sacrificial
  • Utility

Land Card Aspects

  • Rare Scry Lands
  • 2-Color Sac-to-Draw Lands
  • Campus/Scry Lands
  • Mono-Color Utility
  • Colorless Utility
  • Multicolor Support
  • Mana Fixing


The plan to optimize this cube over the next several months/years

  1. (Current) Creature optimization - Evaluating the intrinsic value of a creature relative to Power, Toughness, Abilities, and Keywords
  2. Spell optimization - Finding the most balanced, effective, and broad use combat tricks and spells. Sprinkle these effects into the cube without adding too many non-creature spells
  3. Archetype optimization - Increase synergy between colors, begin to prioritize niche but effective cards over broad use effects to allow drafters to eliminate more cards from their potential pool while selecting high synergy cards for their strategy
  4. Power Level optimization - Balance power level between archetypes, continue to optimize effects when new cards are released


Cube Card Count - from written notes

  • WUBRG - 76 per color - 1 Power Card per color
  • Multicolor - 60
  • Colorless - 50 - 2 of those are Power Cards
  • Lands - 45 - 1 is a Power Card


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