#orange cube

Some of these cards were very hard to look up and input: Gatherer doesn’t cover the miscellaneous promos that have been printed in the past with an orange expansion symbol. I had to scour different store fronts and websites to find those promo cards, and I’m so glad I did.

One of the issues the All Mythics Cube came across in the early stages of its construction (that is, a couple of years ago) was the curve. A lot of the mythic rares are big, splashy cards that cost a lot of mana to cast, which had the potential to make games played with drafted decks super slow until someone drew enough land to cast their Planeswalker or whatnot. Including those miscellaneous promos helped bring down the average CMC of the Cube, which hopefully allows for much better gameplay.

My favorite thing about the All Mythics Cube is the Masterpiece Series. Wizards decided to include lottery tickets in their booster packs now, so that means this Cube gets even better and possibly more balanced! The Zendikar Expeditions provided much needed mana-fixing, and the Kaladesh Inventions made the All Mythics Cube an ACTUAL orange Cube! Oh, to be able to own this in real life...

As the writing of this post, the All Mythics Cube is valued at $18,692.67 when every possible card is set at foil. This number does not include the prices for the foil mythics and Masterpieces from Aether Revolt, the foil mythics from Conspiracy 2, last year’s RPTQ promo Snapcaster Mage or Ugin’s Fate promo Ugin, the Spirit Dragon. I’m pretty sure after calculating those prices in, plus any Arena promo basic lands (since those are the only basic lands to be printed with an orange expansion symbol), the whole Cube is well over at least $20,000, making it worth more than almost every individual Vintage deck out there.