MTG Cube Q&A

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This was my noob cube.

http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/56543

I think I only want to use about 30% of the cards from this in my updated Cube, so it's up for criticism.

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I feel like a good cube has to be very focused. Like hyper synergized and then revised multiple times. Or maybe not, what do I know.

Start at 360 cards for 8 players for 40-card decks; adjust cube size appropriately for number of players. For typical Limited decks, non-land ratios are 1/3 non-creatures and 2/3 creatures. Find some way to provide each player with about ~6 pieces of easy-to-play land-based color fixing; this means for 8 players, you will want at least 48 dual lands; 60 is great.

Sit down and pick out what you want every color pair deck to look like. Typically every color pair has a primary strategy and some secondary fall-back strategy if the primary doesn't pan out. It's much easier if you focus on five color pairs when picking out cards; with ten color pairs one or two will inevitably be weak. Decide if you want artifacts/colorless to be a deck.

Once you know what decks/archetypes are going to exist then you need to link those decks and archetypes together using cards. Each archetype will also require some number of "anchor" cards that will be great for that deck but be careful not to include too many build-around cards that only go in one deck and are otherwise last-picks - a good anchor card that is solid for an archetype is like Tuskguard Captain - good in an archetype, not useless outside of it. "Pivot" cards are good in multiple archetypes like removal but unless you want a "good stuff" deck to exist too many pivot cards are bad for Cube.

Break singleton, it's the best way to push your archetypes by having multiples of solid anchor cards.

Multicolored Cube fucking sucks. Minimize the number of multicolor cards in your Cube and make them either anchor and/or pivot cards - never make them build-around cards because they will rot.

Don't fucking buy real cards for Cube. Buy a color printer and a paper cutter.

Anyone else loving the Vintage cube on MTGO? Buildingthat for sure. Been wrecking folks hard.

Why is a Pauper cube so fun?

>>50891501
>Find some way to provide each player with about ~6 pieces of easy-to-play land-based color fixing; this means for 8 players, you will want at least 48 dual lands; 60 is great.
Since proxies are fine in cube, would it be good to make dual lands also utility lands?

It could be as simple as errataring a different utility land ability onto every dual. Either a utility ability that doesn't need colored mana or one using both colors.

That way each dual land both enables a splash/2nd color and either has another use too even without a splash or actively encourages a splash.

>>50897307
No, Duals are powerful enough on their own. They seriously don't need a boost. You'd only be making Duals an even higher pick. If you have 50 cards for your lands. 4 ten-land cycles and 10 plain utility lands are fine. Don't forget that the wedges and shards have a cycle now, so they'd be perfect to help fill gaps in player's manabases.