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[zoydraft]

Okay, I just read Upkeep.

I love this micro-moment of sentimentality in cube. The flagship might be the podcast Joe's Week in Magic, in which Joe Anderson talks for 20 to 30 minutes about playing Magic, but is mainly talking about his friends and family and the nice times he has. I made my own attempt at a sentiment tinted recap of our pride draft (but I think I want to go further).

Upkeep fits beautifully into the niche. Six short pieces about Magic: the Gathering and cube that have very little to do with the game. Instead we get mental health and introspection. I think I'll do some reflections.

[myagic]

I'm really hoping that I finally get enough adventure cards to make a good edh deck. Bonus points if I can make an entire eldraine showcase deck! I just love the aesthetic of them, and I can't wait!

[panfex]

spoiler collage for my (in collaboration with some friends) 2nd 500-card unset cube thing, "Unruly: ACT II"

ACT I can be found here: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/unruly-act-i

[roy-dcm2]

My Ravnica Limited Cube

I created a Cube for me and my friends to play limited with when we get together. Because it's limited, I built it with six packs for 8 players in mind, so it's 800 cards!

[Also, the packs contain 16 cards with 1 Rare / Mythic, 4 Uncommons, 10 Commons, and 1 Land]

I've been steadily tinkering with it, making it less shit. It'll never be perfect, but it's an excuse to play cards with my friends.

It's mainly based on Return to Ravnica with cards from the other Ravnica blocks, plus like 50 cards from other planes to fill in some spots.

It's my treasure. It represents the good times I have of my friends.

[ogrillion]

A Brazen Crown's final hours

The campaign ends in a few hours! See it here before it is dragged back into the void from which it came.

This game has been the work of three years. I feel very strongly that the universe would like for it to exist. Maybe not in this form! Maybe not even as a fully-commercial product. But its a standalone card game that plays like a TCG and has a third-party license. People deserve to be free of the ever-present feeling of "your favourite things are owned by five corporations", and this game is meant to leave its ownership in the hands of the audience.

If you have seen this game, if you have thoughts about the game or the art or the design, I would love to hear from you so I can figure out how and where this idea needs to go. It might very well just be "to the nearest receptacle" but I don't think this is the end. Yet. Oh well, that's the post.

[9898-mtg]

before this night ends, let us design and create a murder doll

👀

can be anything related, example, an object, ability, keyword, name, mechanic, image, type, cost, rule, symbol, event, token, emblem, etc. "Anything"

[althaeaeliott]

Legends, planeswalkers and mythics from each color and two color pairs for my cube, I just revamped UR, the next thing I need to do is work on the dreaded Boros section of the cube, definitely changing the legendary creature and a bunch of cards for its archetype in the future. If you’re wondering what the most recent change was it was adding Storm to the cube.

Also, I am doing this on a semi budget if you have any recommendations or questions about my other included.

[cursed-minus-seventy-five-points]

Basic Cube Building

The pillars of any cube are its 10 archetypes; with each archetype centered around a particular color pair. Each archetype consists of 14 cards:

1 dual-colored “payoff” card

3 creatures for each color in the pair

Cards that make creature tokens when they enter the battlefield or resolve count as creatures

3 non-creatures for each color in the pair

Be sure to consider lands that produce only one color of mana

1 colorless card

Be sure to consider lands that produce only colorless mana

The dual-colored card should usually be a permanent, and should reward playing a certain strategy with either a persistent buff or by generating repeated value.

The cards in the archetype should generally be of a variety of different mana costs; tending to skew lower.

As an example, we’ll build an archetype around Urza, Prince of Kroog.

He gives artifact creatures a large bonus and can (expensively) make copies of them.

Considering this, I add:

White Creatures: Court Homunculus, Barbed Spike, Cataclysmic Gearhulk

White Non-Creatures: Tempered Steel, Glass Casket, Paladin's Shield

Blue Creatures: Master of Etherium, Armguard Familiar, Sharding Sphinx

Blue Non-Creatures: Winged Boots, Disruption Protocol, Rise and Shine

Colorless Card: Steel Overseer

Good Payoff cards:

Edgar, Charmed Groom - Rewards you for playing vampires

Savai Thundermane - Rewards cycling

Stonebrow, Krosan Hero - Rewards tramplers

Bad Payoff cards:

Centaur Healer - Its effect doesn't scale with any of the other things you're doing.

Death Frenzy - Not a permanent.

Ral, Caller of Storms - Its effects don't scale with any of the other things you're doing.

Cube Breakdown

14 cards/archetype

1 cycle of dual lands

5 role-players per color

5 colorless role-players

After building each archetype, you will need 10 dual lands; one of each color:

You can do one cycle of 10 or a cycle of allied and of enemy.

Finally, you add the 30 “role-players”; 5 of each color and 5 colorless. These cards are usually

removal

generically efficient threats that don’t fit into any archetypes

pet cards

cycles

Cube Breakdown

14 cards/archetype

1 cycle of dual lands

5 role-players per color

5 colorless role-players

At the end of this process, your cube might look like this:

Archetypes

Artifact Aggro

Urza, Prince of Kroog

Armguard Familiar

Barbed Spike

Cataclysmic Gearhulk

Court Homunculus

Disruption Protocol

Glass Casket

Master of Etherium

Paladin's Shield

Rise and Shine

Sharding Sphinx

Steel Overseer

Tempered Steel

Winged Boots

Instant Speed

Nymris, Oona's Trickster

Aetherize

Bonds of Quicksilver

Brineborn Cutthroat

Dreamspoiler Witches

Drudge Reavers

Faerie Duelist

Faerie Tauntings

High-Speed Hoverbike

Hired Blade

Mutual Destruction

Omen of the Sea

Succumb to Temptation

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Sacrifice

Body Dropper

Artillerize

Blood Aspirant

Blood for Bones

Costly Plunder

Furnace Celebration

Gixian Infiltrator

Havoc Jester

Prowling Geistcatcher

Rapacious One

Ruthless Knave

Taste of Death

Thatcher Revolt

Witch's Oven

Trample

Stonebrow, Krosan Hero

Agressive Mammoth

Almighty Bushwagg

Archetype of Aggression

Bronzeplate Boar

Fire Urchin

Fists of Ironwood

Footfall Crater

Hornbash Mentor

Messenger’s Speed

Meteoric Mace

Ram Through

Rancor

Vorrac Battlehorns

Vigilance

Frondland Felidar

Adarkar Valkyrie

Bitterbow Sharpshooters

Brave the Sands

Brushstrider

Builder's Blessing

Cryptolith Rite

Half-Elf Monk

Overwhelm

Segovian Angel

Sprouting Renewal

Swallow Whole

Warden of Geometries

Wary Okapi

Vampires

Edgar, Charmed Groom

Anointed Deacon

Arterial Flow

Blood Gutton

Bloodbond Vampire

Cradle of Vitality

Duskborne Skymarcher

Gift of Fangs

Glass-Cast Heart

Martyr of Dusk

Queen’s Commission

Squire’s Devotion

Vampire’s Zeal

Voldaren Estate

Dice

Farideh, Devil's Chosen

Arcane Endeavor

Arcane Investigator

Berserker's Frenzy

Brazen Dwarf

Chaos Channeler

Chaos Dragon

Critical Hit

Diviner's Portent

Feywild Trickster

Goblin Morningstar

Netherese Puzzle-Ward

Scion of Stygia

Vexing Puzzlebox

Graveyard

Lord of Extinction

Cabal Therapy

Crawling Sensation

Crow of Dark Tidings

Dakmor Salvage

Dodgy Jalopy

First-Sphere Gargantua

Greater Mossdog

Kraul Foragers

Necrotic Wound

Reassembling Skeleton

Splinterfright

Sylvan Might

Wand of Vertebrae

Cycling

Savai Thundermane

Abandoned Sarcophagus

Astral Drift

Cast Out

Desert Cerodon

Drannith Healer

Drannith Stinger

Flameblade Adept

Flourishing Fox

Go for Blood

Renewed Faith

Slice and Dice

Unpredictable Cyclone

Winged Shepherd

+1/+1 Counters

Bred for the Hunt

Animation Module

Arbor Armament

Essence Capture

Feral Hydra

Fertilid

Floodchaser

Forced Adaptation

Helium Squirter

Ordeal of Thassa

Simic Fluxmage

Solidarity of Heroes

Swarm Shambler

Unity of Purpose

Land: Skybridge Towers, Waterfront District, Tramway Station, Racers' Ring, Botanical Plaza, Silverquill Campus, Prismari Campus, Witherbloom Campus, Lorehold Campus, Quandrix Campus

Role-Players

White

Destroy Evil

Icingdeath, Frost Tyrant

Marble Diamond

Neck Snap

Wrath of God

Blue

Opt

Repulse

Sky Diamond

Tromokratis

Urza's Rebuff

Black

Charcoal Diamond

Diabolic Tutor

Doomfall

Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief

Murder

Red

Abrade

Etali, Primal Storm

Fire Diamond

Reckless Impulse

Twinferno

Green

You Happen On a Glade

Broken Wings

Llanowar Elves

Moss Diamond

Silvos, Rogue Elemental

Colorless

Gateway Plaza

Smuggler's Copter

Sword of Vengeance

Ulamog's Crusher

Unstable Obelisk

[twoscoopsblog]

Card of the Day - 9/24/21

I don't know what to tell you. He's good. I'd run him in the 99 of a Wizards or Control deck, I'd put him in a cube. He's a good wizardy boy.

[drexmaverick]

So I finally got thru most of my nearly 9,000 card collection organized by color. A Dakkon binder for the rares, the MTG one for the foils, and a tribal dragon cover portfolio on the way which my Dragons will be moved to. A Garruk box for my 5 color Dragon and Sliver decks. I got box full of repeat spam that I was refunded for, and a stack my favorite creature types that I expect to put in a binder ... Now what? I do have a couple things still coming ... 🏹 ⚔️ 🐲 🐉 🔥 ⚡ 🤠 ☠️ 🧛 🧝 🧚 🧙 🦄 D&D Guild Of Fantasy Art www.facebook.com/blackbladeofdragonhead Games, Guns& Dragons www.facebook.com/dragonsandtanks #mtg #magicthegathering #mtgproxy #mtglegacy #mtgcube #mtgmodern #oldschoolmtg #mtgvintage #mtgcommunity #mtgedh #mtgcommander #edh #mtgcustom #custommtg #mtgaddicts #mtgtokens #elderdragonhighlander #mtgoldschool #mtgart #mtgstandard #mtgdaily #mtgcard #mtgtrades #mtgcollection #mtglife #magicthegathering #magicthegatherincards #mtg #forgottenrealms https://www.instagram.com/p/CSdQN59s2jl/?utm_medium=tumblr

[yawgmothswin]

First round of cuts and a cry for help

Green sucks. That isn’t to say the decks aren’t GOOD, but they aren’t fun or satisfying to draft. While the cube is still in desperate need of cuts it doesn’t matter how many cards there are if an entire color is feel bad. FlashHulk is a classic archetype that I’m going to support again. Green really needs clearer signposting and build arounds.

For the cuts themselves I’m cutting back on some of the cuter interactions, cards that don’t play into the main archetypes, and some of the lower power stuff.

Cuts: Basking Rootwalla   Krovikan Horror   Hellspark Elemental   Flickerwisp   Serenity   Goblin Lackey   Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor   Restore Balance   Living End   Wheel of Fate  Hypergenesis 

https://www.cubetutor.com/cubeblog/177577

[zoydraft]

Mono-Red Burn drafted by SJ, September 17, 2024 (2-0)

[myagic]

P1p1 of the fae cube!

How about a pack one pick one of the fae cube today? I think I'm pretty high on heartflame duelist since adventures are so strong in limited in general. Hard to go wrong with removal tacked on a creature. What looks good for you all?

[scarytheeandmisery]

But alas, the thief of crowns was too sexy for this mortal format, but we welcome him in the eternal arms of Commander and Cube<3 (And those other formats too I guess ;P) #mtg #Oko #MagicTheGathering #banned #mtgart #fanart #mtgfanart #planeswalker #elk #edh #commander #mtgcube #micron #tombow https://www.instagram.com/p/B5B9MLDHkoo/?igshid=e4uy3nv3zuev

[kreativemtg]

This one is going in a powered cube! #mtg #magicthegathering #alteredart #cardalters #painting #wizardsofthecoast #handpainted #alters #tradingcardgame #gaming #altered #mtgalter #commander #edh #magictcg #mtgalters #tradingcards #cardalter #mtgart #mtgcube #mtgcubepimp #tcg https://www.instagram.com/p/B1HUgKcnCMi/?igshid=16h0cj7112icc

[golgari-thot-farm]

OOHHHHHHOooOoooOoOOOOooOoooOoOO MEREN GAVE ME A T1 WIN TONIGGGGHT. @k.llartistry @darthnumbers @antoniusfunk @the_hog_ridahhh @mtg.queen @juntamagictg @urzatron5000 @mtgblackcore @jake_swamp #mtg #edh #mtg_commander #wizatds_mtg #magicthegathering #mtgcommunity #mtgaddicts #mtglife #mtgcube #mtgedh #wizardsofthecoast #wotc #mtgalters #mtgcommander (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsMiwABHiND/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4ldhi7odz3us