Comments on: How To Begin Your Cube

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:42 +0000

Hey man, it boils down to this — make boosters however you like. Split them into colors and keep the packs equal (ie 2 of each color and so many lands/artifacts/multi), or shuffle them all together and pull 15 random cards. I’ve done both and everything inbetween.

By: MtgSailor

MtgSailor — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:37:35 +0000

I just want to say thanks for this little bit on how to shuffle up and divide it into “boosters.” Being in a group of guys in the middle of nowhere, on a ship and trying to build a cube has been interesting but we couldn’t find out to divide up the boosters. I just want to say thanks.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:30:37 +0000

HELP
i want to make my own cube
i have the basics, 50 0f each type
but how do you divide that?
i dont want like 15 green mythics
14 green rares
5 uncommons
7 commons

is there a formula?

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:56:09 +0000

I think I have actually had more fun putting the cube together than playing it. I use Evan’s list and after using what cards I had and spending my limit, trading for everything else has been a blast. If only Evan would quit dropping/adding the same card after I trade it for something else I need. haha.

By: Psybite

Psybite — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:46:59 +0000

Drafting a cube is similar to a normal draft. Its just the set-up to get “boosters” that is different.
You need to shuffle and split your cube into 15 card “boosters” giving 3 “boosters” to each player (which makes 45 cards cards) then follow the normal rules for drafting.
ie Each player picks one card out of their first 15 card “booster” then passes the pack to the player to thier left. Rinse and repeat until all cards are picked.(worth taking your time in passing “boosters” accurately so that boosters do not go to players out of sequence) Then each player takes their 2nd “booster” takes a pick but passes this “booster” to thier RIGHT this time. Rinse and repeat again. Lastly the final “booster” per player is picked from and passed back to the LEFT again. Once all card have been picked each player should have 45 cards to build a deck from containing a minimum of 40 cards including lands

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:00:39 +0000

I dont know if im missing some majorly obvious forum or anything, but i havnt found a forum on how to do the actual draft. Do we draft all of the cards? Twelve cards out of the box at a time? Or is it more? Im assuming it is a fourty card deck… And are there any doubles of these cards?

By: Tex

Tex — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:04:32 +0000

I was wondering if it is recommended to have only one copy of every card?

By: Pocket Universe

Pocket Universe — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:46:47 +0000

This was really a great article, I’m thinking that I should start sketching on a cube of my very own now. Where I live there’s a fairly active MtG community but the cube has never really caught on here since nobody has taken the time to really playtest one.

Now all I have to do is get better at drafting

By: Putting together my first cube « Gaabriel – Nerdy Lady

Putting together my first cube « Gaabriel – Nerdy Lady — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:15:26 +0000

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By: zombiefrank

zombiefrank — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:48:13 +0000

Thanks for the good info for setting up a cube.

I recently compiled my cube together, based on Evan’s cube list.
The cube is full power and did require some proxying.

Between me and some good friends, we had 85-90% of the ‘real’ cards. (not a bad effort!)

We decided to all contribute what cards we had to the cube. One tool I found extremely useful for tracking who has contributed which card to the cube was Google Docs.

It is brilliant. I simply opened Evans cube list into Google docs, and set access to my mates who contributed cards.

Each card on the list they would shade it a different colour, relating to who contributed the card.

After all the real cards were compiled, we were left with a list of cards which needed to be proxied.

Plus, when the time comes to de-construct the cube, its nice and easy to remember who contributed which cards to it.

Cube on!

-zombiefrank