Since I started cubing about a year ago, I have realized that the most exciting time to have a cube is during the launch of a new set and just before it (“Preview Season”). After seeing how the community responds to some of the cards initially, I thought I would take down some of my…
A few updates ago, I made a mistake. I thought that it wasn’t a good idea to do re-animation in black. Instead, I wanted to run with the idea of Black devotion. Turns out that was a bad plan. I have updated my cube to bring back the cards that I cut without thinking it…
The Rest… In the last post, I covered the White, Blue, Black and Red sections of my update. This post should be enough to get through the rest of the update. I’m hoping that after this update, I will be going back to smaller updates to cover new sets and cards I randomly discover. Green…
Biggest Update… This update is probably the biggest update I’ve ever done with my cube all at once. With 45 cards being exchanged, that is 10% of my cube. Because the update is so large, I’ll have to break it into two posts to show everything I did. All the cards being exchanged will be…
I realized that a big part of a cube is making updates. Personally, I am making updates about twice a month. I tend to write down my thought process for any given update so I thought that it would be a good idea to share the updates in all their glory… Even if that “glory”…
After I built my cube, I had to try and get a feel for what cards were working and what cards were not working based completely on feel. This worked fine when I was only looking at my own card pool or draft choices. There is the added problem of cards depending so much on…
Magic is a game that changes constantly. New sets come out every few months and, in the time that I have been cubing, I haven’t seen a set that didn’t have at least a few cards that went into my cube. There isn’t really a lot of context there for me since I’ve only been…
In my last post, I went over the most common (or at least what I perceive to be the most common) methods of drafting a cube. Here, I’ll more or less go over the other draft formats that I have tried out with my cube and how they went. I don’t really have as much…
Since I completed my cube, I’ve tried a handful of different formats to find which ones I like and which onces I don’t like. I thought I would spend some time discussing each of the formats that I tried and which ones I thought worked the best. I haven’t found a ton of information out…
I wouldn’t say I am an expert at this cube thing just yet, but even with the limited time I have been playing it, there are a few things that have become very obvious to me that I probably should have noticed earlier in the process. Unfortunately, these issues are something that I wouldn’t really…
The Last Steps of Construction The last step I had to complete was sorting all my cards to ensure I had them all and putting them into sleeves. This may not sound like a whole lot of work, but sleeving 650 cards is fairly tedious. I was happy to have my cards in sleeves though.…
The colorless section for my cube started out by digging through my non-basic lands for some of my decent cards. After that, I turned toward finding mana rocks. Once I had done that, it was pretty much a matter of filling out the rest of the stuff that the colorless section would need to have.…
This section probably got the biggest boost when I changed the set up of my cube. Classifying all my gold cards into the Guild system made it much easier to identify the balance between the colors. I also classified the cards according to how they would be used rather than their literal casting cost (Kird…
Before I start with this section I should probably point out that I have an extreme dislike of Green. Building green decks have always eluded me for some reason. There are some stupidly good cards in green, but that was never enough to really do it for me. Before starting, green concerned me just because…
Unlike Black, Red has a pretty clear identity and it was pretty easy to build this section of my cube. What does Red want to do? Well, it is pretty safe to say that red wants to burninate the countryside and it wants to do it fast. My favorite deck of all time is a…
Building the Cube 