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…
Black was probably the color I struggled with the most when I started putting it together. I did however learn how to get a few card images in so that should help with some of my old obscure cards. So, here it is… What Does Black Want to Do? That question turned out to be…
Building the Cube 