First Cube needs love badly
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Posted on Aug. 25, 2013, 7:12 p.m. by erabel
So I'm thinking of creating my own cube for cube-related things. It's only in the planning stages right now, but what I know I want is for it to be a $2-and-under commons and uncommons cube.
I really have very little knowledge on how to make/build a cube, and any help and suggestions would be appreciated.
What I've got right now (at time of posting, it's lands, artifacts and multicolored) can be found here: Peasant Cube, mk. I (yes, I know it's a decklist when there's a cube section on the site; again, planning stages). Thanks in advance.
Also, I have no idea if this is in the right section, but I'm pretty confident this is it.
pookypuppy6 says... #3
Oh bugger, just checked out your cube, you have half of this stuff worked out already :$ I'll post on the Cube regarding it.
pookypuppy6 says... #2
Okay, seeing as I'm in the process of building MY first cube (a uncommons/rare cube), I'll list some stuff that I did:
Some basics. 360 cards minimum to draft between 8 people (even though you can draft with 6). 360 will see your favourite cards often, but has less varied gameplay. Some like to go up to 540 or 720 cards in their cube to make drafts more varied and unpredictable.
-You'll also need to make sure each colour has the same amount of cards. So allocate a number of cards to each colour out of your 360, then take away one from each whenever you want to add a number of artifacts or multicoloured cards (I do artifacts/multicolours in groups of 5 for simplicity).
-Go for a variety of effects and make sure each colour, or two-colour combo has something to do and a way to win, even in a basic sense. Adding themes, like tribal, or mechanical themes such as graveyard or +1/+1 counters can add extra complexity and awesomeness in your gameplay and give your colours identifiable strategies to build around.
-Write down everything on a Word document. This helped me a LOT to see what cards I wanted, to see what kind of effects I was missing, and to make changes wherever I saw fit.
-You'll need to sleeve the whole thing up, and make sure you have enough basic lands sleeved up too. I'm using 200 (40 each colour); that is plenty, and you could get away with less.
Hope this helps and isn't a whole load of waffle.
August 25, 2013 7:59 p.m.