Cube Drafting Dot Com

This guest post is written by Usman Jamil. For those wishing to contribute to cubedrafting.com, contact evan dot erwin at starcitygames dot com. This 2-part article aims to discuss a handful of these lesser-known cards to help cube designers become informed about the existence and use of these buried treasures to use in their cubes.

This guest post is written by Thea Steele. For those wishing to contribute to cubedrafting.com, contact eerwin at gmail dot com. I have a confession to make- I’m a magic player without a playgroup. I’ve recently moved across the country, and my magic-playing community consists of myself and my boyfriend. The good news is that [...]

This guest post is written by Reuben Bresler. For those wishing to contribute to cubedrafting.com, contact eerwin at gmail dot com. It’s a fairly well known and accepted line of thought in Magic that, in general, the larger the format gets the weaker the aggro strategies become. This is because the answers to specific problems [...]

Over at MTGCast, Mr. Suitcase has just posted a very interesting podcast regarding his cube and cube drafting. Thanks for Mr. Suitcase for letting me know about it, and check it out!

Overview One of the most powerful archetypes in the cube, this powerhouse is always a force to be reckoned with. Huge dorks, lots of burn, plenty of disruption and some of the best threats and answers? G/R Aggro is always dangerous stuff. Let’s delve.

Overview One of my favorite draft archetypes, B/W Aggro Discard gives you the strength of small, versatile white and black creatures along with the versatility of powerful discard spells. It also lets you take advantage of a few of the most powerful multicolor spells to boot. Let’s take a look at how it works.

Overview Blue/Red Counterburn is one of the most powerful strategies in the cube. With the most powerful control cards along with some of the most powerful removal and burn, this is one scary draft archetype.

Overview Blue/White Control is a classic Magic archetype. It wants to control everything, it doesn’t plan on winning quickly, and it will always win the long game.

Overview Reanimator is a very specialized draft strategy that allows you to take advantage of its highly narrow cards that are included in the cube for its benefit. In other words, Reanimator is one of those strategies that will probably only work for one person at the table, and when most people are too afraid [...]

Overview G/W Aggro is basically your Big Dumb Creature Deck with scary, efficient monsters that have just enough evasion or abilities to impede an opponent’s ability to win.