Best of Draft Cube

[Thomas David Baker]

A cube of the best common and uncommon draft picks from the last 22 sets. Here's what we have so far.

What do you think?

Lists particularly in need of review by people who know what they are doing are: ROE, COK, BOK, SOK, LRW, MOR, GPT, DIS, 5DN.

# ROE Beastbreaker of Bala Ged Brimstone Mage Corpsehatch Dawnglare Invoker Domestication Enclave Cryptologist Flame Slash Forked Bolt Hada Spy Patrol Heat Ray Joraga Treespeaker Last Kiss Narcolepsy Nirkana Cutthroat Oust Pelakka Wurm Smite Staggershock Vendetta Wall of Omens # WWK Bestial Menace Calcite Snapper Cunning Sparkmage Leatherback Baloth Loam Lion Refraction Trap Searing Blaze Tideforce Elemental Tomb Hex Vapor Snare # ZEN Baloth Woodcrasher Burst Lightning Disfigure Gatekeeper of Malakir Grazing Gladehart Hideous End Inferno Trap Journey to Nowhere Kor Skyfisher Living Tsunami Marsh Casualties Merfolk Seastalkers Plated Geopede Punishing Fire River Boa Shepherd of the Lost Torch Slinger Trusty Machete Vampire Nighthawk Vines of Vastwood	# M10 Air Elemental Armored Ascension Blinding Mage Cudgel Troll Doom Blade Dragon Whelp Fireball Goblin Artillery Harm's Way Howl of the Night Pack Lightning Bolt Merfolk Looter Mind Control Overrun Pacifism Pyroclasm Serra Angel Sleep Tendrils of Corruption # ARB Behemoth Sledge Bituminous Blast Bloodbraid Elf Enlisted Wurm Esper Stormblade Marisi's Twinclaws Qasali Pridemage Slave of Bolas Terminate Vengeful Rebirth # CFX Ember Weaver Esper Cormorants Grixis Slavedriver Parasitic Strix Path to Exile Sedraxis Alchemist Shambling Remains Viashino Slaughtermaster Volcanic Fallout Wild Leotau # ALA Agony Warp Branching Bolt Bull Cerodon Executioner's Capsule Fatestitcher Infest Jund Charm Knight of the Skyward Eye Magma Spray Naya Charm Necrogenesis Oblivion Ring Resounding Thunder Rhox Charger Rhox War Monk Sprouting Thrinax Tower Gargoyle Vithian Stinger Wild Nacatl Woolly Thoctar	# EVE Ballynock Trapper Cankerous Thirst Desecrator Hag Hatchet Bully Noggle Bandit Puncture Blast Savage Conception Snakeform Unmake Wickerbough Elder # SHM Biting Tether Boggart Ram-Gang Burn Trail Devoted Druid Firespout Grief Tyrant Hungry Spriggan Incremental Blight Kitchen Finks Kulrath Knight Mistmeadow Witch Murderous Redcap Plumeveil Prison Term Rune-Cervin Rider Seedcradle Witch Silkbind Faerie Spectral Procession Torrent of Souls Trip Noose # MOR Boldwyr Intimidator Meadowboon Obsidian Battle-Axe Rivals' Duel Spitebellows Stonybrook Schoolmaster Swell of Courage Thornbite Staff Violet Pall War-Spike Changeling # LRW Briarhorn Changeling Berserker Cloudgoat Ranger Crib Swap Dreamspoiler Witches Eyeblight's Ending Final Revels Goldmeadow Harrier Imperious Perfect Knight of Meadowgrain Lash Out Makeshift Mannequin Marsh Flitter Mulldrifter Nameless Inversion Neck Snap Shriekmaw Tarfire Thundercloud Shaman Warren Pilferers	# FUT Arc Blade Foresee Gathan Raiders Ichor Slick Imperiosaur Infiltrator il-Kor Kavu Primarch Nacatl War-Pride Spin into Myth Sprout Swarm # PLC Calciderm Shaper Parasite Necrotic Sliver Deadwood Treefolk Shade of Trokair Harmonize Pyrohemia Dead / Gone Enslave Stonecloaker # TSP Basalt Gargoyle Brine Elemental Careful Consideration Castle Raptors Crookclaw Transmuter Durkwood Baloth Errant Ephemeron Firemaw Kavu Griffin Guide Looter il-Kor Nightshade Assassin Riftwing Cloudskate Spiketail Drakeling Sporesower Thallid Strangling Soot Sudden Death Sulfurous Blast Temporal Isolation Tromp the Domains Weatherseed Totem
# GPT Blind Hunter Electrolyze Gelectrode Mortify Pillory of the Sleepless Repeal Savage Twister Thunderheads Wee Dragonauts Wildsize # DIS Condemn Guardian of the Guildpact Leafdrake Roost Minister of Impediments Plumes of Peace Rakdos Guildmage Rakdos Ickspitter Rise / Fall Sky Hussar Wrecking Ball # RAV Belltower Sphinx Boros Guildmage Carven Caryatid Compulsive Research Drooling Groodion Faith's Fetters Galvanic Arc Greater Mossdog Keening Banshee Lightning Helix Mark of Eviction Moldervine Cloak Moroii Oathsworn Giant Putrefy Selesnya Guildmage Shambling Shell Trophy Hunter Vedalken Dismisser Watchwolf	# SOK Captive Flame Death Denied Ghost-Lit Raider Hail of Arrows Hand of Cruelty Hand of Honor Manriki-Gusari O-Naginata Rushing-Tide Zubera Stampeding Serrow # BOK Genju of the Cedars Genju of the Falls Genju of the Fields Genju of the Spires Horobi's Whisper Matsu-Tribe Sniper Ninja of the Deep Hours Okiba-Gang Shinobi Shimmering Glasskite Throat Slitter # COK Befoul Cage of Hands Distress Ghostly Prison Hanabi Blast Hideous Laughter Hinder Kabuto Moth Kami of Ancient Law Kitsune Blademaster Mystic Restraints Nezumi Graverobber No-Dachi Otherworldly Journey Pull Under Rend Flesh Ronin Houndmaster Sakura-Tribe Elder Samurai of the Pale Curtain Sensei's Divining Top	# 5DN Cranial Plating Devour in Shadow Eternal Witness Furnace Whelp Grafted Wargear Loxodon Anchorite Magma Jet Sunburst Manta Vedalken Mastermind Vulshok Sorcerer # DST Barbed Lightning Chittering Rats Juggernaut Leonin Battlemage Leonin Bola Loxodon Mystic Nemesis Mask Skullclamp Test of Faith Vulshok Morningstar # MIR Aether Spellbomb Barter in Blood Betrayal of Flesh Blinding Beam Bonesplitter Crystal Shard Grab the Reins Icy Manipulator Isochron Scepter Leonin Skyhunter Lightning Greaves Loxodon Warhammer Mask of Memory One Dozen Eyes Predator's Strike Pyrite Spellbomb Slith Firewalker Terror Thirst for Knowledge Viridian Shaman	# Fixing Akoum Refuge Graypelt Refuge Jwar Isle Refuge Kazandu Refuge Sejiri Refuge Rupture Spire Arcane Sanctum Crumbling Necropolis Jungle Shrine Savage Lands Seaside Citadel Azorius Chancery Boros Garrison Dimir Aqueduct Golgari Rot Farm Gruul Turf Izzet Boilerworks Orzhov Basilica Rakdos Carnarium Selesnya Sanctuary Simic Growth Chamber Azorius Signet Boros Signet Dimir Signet Golgari Signet Gruul Signet Izzet Signet Orzhov Signet Rakdos Signet Selesnya Signet Simic Signet

[Thomas David Baker]

Saturday at tgc is the plan, yeah. I just know we're going to get 5 or 9 :)

Earlier message sounded a bit grumpy. I'm still keen to hear people's ideas for changes. It's just that I probably won't make any changes before Saturday now that I've put my order in with Mr. Madhouse.

Assuming it's a success I'm sure we'll see it more than once. Hope so now it's "real cards". First cube I've made where the cards cost more than the sleeves :)

Dan Barrett said:

Fucking champion you are, Tom.
We'll play this on Sat and help you test for Sunday's qualifier, yea?

[Dan Barrett]

pedo.

no wait, what is it when you're ross and they're teenagers, that's a different term?!

ross miles said:

i would very much like to draft this. although this saturday i ahve to sit ina field with teenagers.

[Thomas David Baker]

Stats for the current version:

CMC: {0} => 21, {1} => 36, {2} => 79, {3} => 100, {4} => 63, {5} => 33, {6} => 21, {7} => 5

Colors: 59 Colorless, 53 R, 53 W, 47 B, 44 U, 42 G, 10 BR, 7 UW, 7 GW, 6 GR, 5 BG, 5 BW, 4 RU, 3 RW, 3 GRW, 2 GU, 2 BGR, 2 BUW, 2 BU, 1 BRU, 1 GUW

Supertypes: 161 Creature, 72 Instant, 38 Artifact, 35 Sorcery, 31 Enchantment, 21 Land

Subtypes occurring 5 times or more: 24 Aura, 21 Human, 17 Wizard, 17 Warrior, 16 Equipment, 15 Shaman, 12 Elemental, 9 Elf, 9 Rogue, 8 Goblin, 8 Arcane, 8 Cat, 7 Knight, 7 Soldier, 7 Beast, 6 Faerie, 6 Zombie, 6 Spirit, 5 Giant, 5 Samurai

Go Shaman Tribal!

(not including Dead/Gone and Rise/Fall).

[Thomas David Baker]

Cards that do not appear in the cube but maybe should that I already own: Rift Bolt, Smallpox, Essence Warden, Judge Unworthy, Krosan Grip, Urza's Factory, Last Gasp, Mindstab, Momentary Blink, Ghostfire, Knight of Sursi, Flame Javelin, Changeling Titan, Hornet Harasser, Changeling Hero, Pestermite, Gloomlance, Spectral Procession, Jaws of Stone, Spitemare, Syphon Life, Soul Reap, Crystallization, Putrid Leech.

But I'm not gutted about any of these missing out.

[Kieran Symington]

This should be quite fun - definately up for some saturday drafting after I scrub out of game day. Maybe I should just avoid game day completely and perfect my draft strategies for this format instead!

[Thomas David Baker]

Trinket Mage targets: Trusty Machete, Executioner's Capsule, O-Naginata, Sensei's Divining Top, Leonin Bola, Skullclamp, Æther Spellbomb, Bonesplitter, Pyrite Spellbomb.

Tasty.

[Paul Hodgson]

Getting quite excited about this cube, will bring whatever pimp versions I have spare to donate to the cause (flame jav, fallout, mana tithe etc) and will dig around for other potential candidates as well

[Thom Richardson]

it looks like there are only 3 ways to deal with the 38 artifacts and 31 enchantments.

i know naturalise isnt a 1st pickable effect but it might well be in this format with so many powerful targets.

also was coldsnap not a real set?

[Dan Barrett]

OH SHIT...

Counterbalance (as top is in there...)
Chill to the Bone
Balduvian Rage
Deathmark
Grim harvest
Jotun Grunt
Juniper Order Ranger
Martyr of Sands
Mouth of Ronom
Phyrexian Ironfoot

And if you want fixing - Coldsteel Heart

And if you want more artifact/enchantment destruction - Ronom Unicorn and Mystic Melting

Thom Richardson said:

it looks like there are only 3 ways to deal with the 38 artifacts and 31 enchantments.
i know naturalise isnt a 1st pickable effect but it might well be in this format with so many powerful targets.
also was coldsnap not a real set?

[Thomas David Baker]

Qasali Pridemage, Kami of False Hope, Wickerbough Elder, Oblivion Ring x 2, Necrotic Sliver, Mortify, Putrefy, Repeal, Fall, Manriki-Gusari, Distress and Hinder gives 13 answers of various sorts.

Plus several tappers, removal and Mistmeadow Witch if the problem item is equipment.

I *think* we'll be OK. I guess we'll find out.

And you are correct, Cold Snap was not a real set :)

[Thom Richardson]

this looks like its going to be pretty crazy to play.

infinite removal, loads of tappers and pingers

and 1 single counterspell in the whole cube.

[Kieran Symington]

I don't want to be awkward now you've made the order, but could we cut one of the Oblivion Rings? The other cards are all singletons and having a duplicate seems wrong somehow....