By Evan on Jan 7, 2010 in Draft Strategy, Submission | 7 Comments
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 become [...]
By Evan on Mar 17, 2009 in Draft Strategy, audio | 1 Comment
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!
By Evan on Mar 14, 2009 in Draft Strategy | 0 Comments
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.
By Evan on Mar 9, 2009 in Draft Strategy | 0 Comments
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.
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By Evan on Mar 5, 2009 in Draft Strategy | 2 Comments
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.
By Evan on Mar 4, 2009 in Draft Strategy | 5 Comments
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.
By Evan on Mar 3, 2009 in Draft Strategy | 2 Comments
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 to [...]
By Evan on Mar 2, 2009 in Draft Strategy | 3 Comments
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.
By Evan on Feb 28, 2009 in Draft Strategy | 21 Comments
Here are my Top 5 Cube cards.
First, let me get the biggies out of the way: Ancestral Recall and Time Walk are sorta ‘gimmes’ and won’t be discussed. They’re awesome, and would be #3 and #4 on this list. However, they’re just not that interesting to talk about. You know what they do is unfair [...]
By Evan on Feb 27, 2009 in Draft Strategy | 2 Comments
Hello everybody, in the first of a series of articles, I want to go over some cube draft strategies. In this article I want to talk about drafting 5-Color Control. This post is for those who want to learn more about how this archetype works, what cards to value highly, and more.
Overview
5-Color control works because, [...]