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…
Building the Cube 