Commentary on the actual design of my cube.
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…
Continuing with the breakdown of each of my sections… here we go with Blue. What Does Blue Want To Do? I think that blue pretty much does what blue does. In my mind, Blue is about permission and card advantage. So, that is where I started with the blue section of my cube. Along the…
Now that I have decided on powered/unpowered, the size of my cube, and how many cards I want in each section, it is actually time to choose the cards that I want to put in. As this is my first go at this thing, I’m fairly certain that a fair number of my pics will…
A Quick Aside One key decision that I forgot to mention before is the use of Proxy cards in my cube. When I started out, I didn’t want to use proxy cards if at all possible. Depending on your personal collection, this may work out just fine. In my case however, I realized that I…
When I started to build my cube, I made two decisions first. The first was if my cube would include the Power Nine or not. The second was how many cards I wanted in the cube. There are different routes to go on both of these things so without further adieu… To Power or Not to…
Building the Cube 