Cubes and You.

[Jeff Kruchkow]

Right-O, first off mods I figured this was better of here or maybe Cavius' since it isn't legacy. Now that the disclaimers out, the topic.

Ive decided to begin construction on a cube and was wondering how many of you have one and perhaps and excel spreadsheet of it you could e-mail me.
Basically I'm looking for non-power lists but anything is welcome. Also, if you have ideas about what cards must be in a cube, those help too.

Thanks.

[MMogg]

What's a cube? :confused:

Edit: Oh... if anyone else is wondering, here's a link (http://www.cubedrafting.com/what-is-the-cube/) to explain.

[Hightower]

Almost all cards that read "each player" or "each opponenet" are fun, if you plan to play with more then one friend. Other then that just find rares that you think are quirky and/or good, often with expensive mana cost :) add a few uncommons/commons as well. Gl.

[Phantom]

I think this thread (http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=158749) will do you well. It has links to a ton of different types of cubes, mana of which have spreadsheets you can download.

[MMogg]

... mana of which have spreadsheets you can download.

Sorry, this just made me smile. Only Magic geeks would Freudian slip the word "mana" into a sentence. :wink:

[jthanatos]

Sorry, this just made me smile. Only Magic geeks would Freudian slip the word "mana" into a sentence. :wink:

Or hebrews wandering in a desert.

[Koby]

Or hebrews wandering in a desert.

Or hebrews talking about their next meal. (Mana is hebrew for meal or course in the context of a meal).

Back to the topic: pretty much any card is fair game for a cube. the more narrow the better (that's how awesome combos are found)

[PunkRocker1134]

My cube isn't in spreadsheet form but heres a link to it:
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/18841582/Johndoe1134s_Cube

I haven't had a chance to throw any Zen cards in there yet. Something when it comes to power/expensive cards, as long as your play group is cool with it, throw proxies in there. It doesn't take away from the fun, and is really worth it.

[Jeff Kruchkow]

@Phantom: yeah that thread helped, all I could find before were powered lists

[Happy Gilmore]

Right-O, first off mods I figured this was better of here or maybe Cavius' since it isn't legacy. Now that the disclaimers out, the topic.

Ive decided to begin construction on a cube and was wondering how many of you have one and perhaps and excel spreadsheet of it you could e-mail me.
Basically I'm looking for non-power lists but anything is welcome. Also, if you have ideas about what cards must be in a cube, those help too.

Thanks.

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=188611

That is the link to my cube, the spreadsheet is attached but I haven't updated it for the 10/12/09 changes I made.


@Phantom: yeah that thread helped, all I could find before were powered lists


My list is a bit different, a Hybrid if you will. The thread contains an explanation.

[Hoojo]

I've got my own all-commons cube that I'll work on getting into an excel sheet if you'd like to see it. It was a lot of fun to put together evaluating all the commons of each set. I started like this:

White 100 cards 50/50 spell creature split
Blue 100 cards 60/40 spell creature split
Black 100 cards 50/50
Red 100 50/50
Green 100 40/60

Artifacts 72 with 54/18 this is a very fluid division that will probably change with new sets more often than the others.

5 cards of each multicolor combo

40 hybrid 22/18 with a fluid division like the artifacts

55 lands this could drop if I chose to drop certain strategies like affinity. I also run 4 cloudposts over the 'Tron.

My goal was to create a common cube, play the heck out of it, then build an all uncommons cube, play the heck out of it, then see about merging them. If after that I want more I will work on a cheap rare cube and go from there.

EDIT:

On request, here is a link to view my Commons Cube:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQ72n_YogPWDZDltZjNqNF8xemtzenR4Yzc&hl=en

[Pastorofmuppets]

I always run Cryptic Command in my cubes, and try to go for quirky tribal synergies (Dwarves, Barbarians, Kithkin, Cephalids, and more recently, Vampires)

[hungryLIKEALION]

So I've been trying to build a cube for a while now. I finally built one last week, but it's still under construction. Anyway, this is what I have so far;

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnMRHF8QIwdKdGxXeEZaTEJMQXpiYlc0OWEzLTRTdWc&hl=en

it's currently 62 of each color, 57 artifacts, 6 gold cards of each color pair, 39 lands. I'm missing a number of cards that some might consider staples, but I intend to get them over the next few months. We did the first draft with it this weekend (I hadn't put in the gold cards yet), and it was great. I'm very much looking forward to the next time we draft it.

So yeah, there's the link, just in case anyone is looking for an example.

[FredMaster]

Thanks for this thread Jeff, it motivated me to actualize my dreams of an own cube :smile:

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=192867