New MTGCP Post: Introducing the Set Cube. My new cube designed by rarity/card type.

What’s your P1P1? If I had to pick between design and development, I’m pretty easily sitting on the design side. Sure, I can hunt and peck and guesstimate development, but it’s not something that’s my strong side. I know that and I can live with the limitation. So why did I take on one of the most develop-y things I could do: building a cube? Because it’s fun. Plus, what else am I going to do…

With Cube, everyone can still play their favorite types of decks, but you can determine the toolbox to keep things on a level playing field- the best combo deck can be on par with the best aggro deck, and you won’t have as many arguments over what counts as brutally unfun or not. Worst-case scenario, you just hate-draft the brutally unfun cards in question.

And I love the feeling of curating a whole draft environment- setting up synergies, deciding the overall power level, finding a good mix of bonkers-good cards that can go anywhere and niche archetype cards.

I made a whole slew of changes to my Cube the other day, and I would love to get some data and feedback from some of y’all drafting it [or just looking over the visual spoiler.]

I’m mostly wondering about the viability of artifact decks and whether or not they’re too linear, the power level of Black’s removal, the power level of cheap creatures, and the viability of three-color decks and blue/green decks.

The bots’ pick order is skewed towards my personal favorites due to all the time I’ve spent goldfishing the drafts, but getting some data from other people would be wonderful.

Just turn 2 channel Emrakul