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

[Dan Barrett]

Ideally this weekend, such that we can take it with us to Amsterdam.

Currently looking at 45 cards from big sets, 30 from small sets and M10 and M11.

Thanks for the additions, keep 'em coming!

[Thom Richardson]

I dont think there are 45 good M11 cards that aren't in M10 but
M11:

Crystal Ball
Chandra's Outrage
Fling
Combust
Reassembling Skelaton
Corrupt
Lillina's Spectrer
Forsee
Air Servant
Jace's Ingenuity
Mana Leak
Scroll Thief
Aether Adept
Garrucks Packleader
Condem

maybe:
Act of Treason
Bloothrone Vampire
Viscara Seer

[Daniel Royde]

Is there a list of what you need anywhere?

Dan Barrett said:

Working on something similar to this now Tom is gone, but from Lorwyn onwards as that's when I actually started drafting. It's gonna be all sentimental and I'll cry whenever I draft it with you guys, *sniff*
As such, there are more slots for each set (so please feel free to suggest cards that didn't quite make the cut for Tom's cube), and also I'll put a list of what i'm missing up later. If you have foils you wish to donate (inc basic land), please do let me know.
In time I intend to make it 5-10% rares, so it feels quite similar to a regular draft, and is affordable for me to maintain in future.

[Dan Barrett]

There will be at some point over the weekend in this thread


One controversial thing i'm doing is tripling up on evolving wilds and terramorphic expanse to ensure there's enough fixing. Also i'm letting Oblivion Ring appear twice.

Daniel Royde said:

Is there a list of what you need anywhere?

Dan Barrett said:

Working on something similar to this now Tom is gone, but from Lorwyn onwards as that's when I actually started drafting. It's gonna be all sentimental and I'll cry whenever I draft it with you guys, *sniff*
As such, there are more slots for each set (so please feel free to suggest cards that didn't quite make the cut for Tom's cube), and also I'll put a list of what i'm missing up later. If you have foils you wish to donate (inc basic land), please do let me know.
In time I intend to make it 5-10% rares, so it feels quite similar to a regular draft, and is affordable for me to maintain in future.

[Dan Barrett]

Okay, here's my current spreadsheet list, this is not yet marked up with what I have and need though:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoOSGfaASosNdHR1VWtFRVVCWF...

Please report any glaring omissions / suggested changes!

(Note: Cuz there is quite a bit of multicolour in recent sets, i've listed the 2-colour pairs n some sets under a main colour heading - should all be fairly close to even).

(Note 2: Under suggestion of Josh Tovell, i'm aiming for 420-440 cards, not 360).

[Thom Richardson]

shards:
tower gargoyle
the 1/1 exalted for W that i cant remember the name of

conflux:
1/1 exalted flying for 1W
2/* flying (domain tougness) for 2W

(This does sort of look like i'm just trying to make white aggro an archetype)

ARB
Vengful Rebirth

Rise
Surreal Memoir
Prophetic Prism

[Dan Barrett]

Added most of those now Thom.

[Thom Richardson]

u dont like surreal memoir? the red mystical teachings!

Dan Barrett said:

Added most of those now Thom.

[Dan Barrett]

Get me a foil one and I'll put it in for you, can't say fairer than that!

Also I somehow forgot Preordain, despite drafting a foil one the other week. And Cloudgoat Ranger from LOR.

This list defo still needs some work!

Thom Richardson said:

u dont like surreal memoir? the red mystical teachings!

Dan Barrett said:

Added most of those now Thom.

[Thomas David Baker]

Here's my Shards top 57 in order + fixing:

Oblivion Ring
Branching Bolt
Resounding Thunder
Skeletonize
Executioner's Capsule
Jund Charm
Agony Warp
Esper Battlemage
Naya Charm
Infest
Jund Battlemage
Necrogenesis
Magma Spray
Bull Cerodon
Fatestitcher
Tower Gargoyle
Rhox War Monk
Vithian Stinger
Woolly Thoctar
Hissing Iguanar
Bant Charm
Deft Duelist
Grixis Charm
Soul's Fire
Kiss of the Amesha
Sanctum Gargoyle
Wild Nacatl
Rhox Charger
Sprouting Thrinax
Knight of the Skyward Eye
Blood Cultist
Resounding Silence
Tidehollow Strix
Topan Ascetic
Naya Battlemage

(Stop here if you are including the fixing as part of Shards' allowance)

Algae Gharial
Rakeclaw Gargantuan
Mosstodon
Qasali Ambusher
Fleshbag Marauder
Grixis Battlemage
Tidehollow Sculler
Sigiled Paladin
Jhessian Infiltrator
Fire-Field Ogre
Kederekt Creeper

(Otherwise stop here)

Steward of Valeron
Goblin Deathraiders
Viscera Dragger
Corpse Connoisseur
Sigil Blessing
Kathari Screecher
Drumhunter
Cloudheath Drake
Esper Charm
Jungle Weaver
Courier's Capsule

Fixing:

Arcane Sanctum
Bant Panorama
Crumbling Necropolis
Druid of the Anima
Esper Panorama
Grixis Panorama
Jund Panorama
Jungle Shrine
Naya Panorama
Savage Lands
Seaside Citadel

(There's also the Obelisks if you want more fixing.)

[Dan Barrett]

Okay boys, here are my needs to finish this off, ideally in time to take with us to Amsterdam! Also, it is currently 14% pimped, but that will be a very long and slow battle...


LORWYN:

Plover Knights
Neck Snap
Changeling Hero
Drowner of Secrets
Faerie Trickery
Warren Pilferers
Dreamspoiler Witches
Final Revels
Changeling Berzerker
Blades of Velis Vel
Glarewielder
Changeling Titan
Gilt-Leaf Ambush
Jagged-Scar Archers
Lys Alana Huntmaster
Seedguide Ash
Oakgnarl Warrior
Springleaf Drum
Shimmering Grotto


MORNINGTIDE:

Meadowboon
Stonybrook Schoolmaster
Swell of Courage
Burrenton Bombardier
Order of the Golden Cricket
Latchkey Faerie
Inspired Sprite
Nevermaker
Violet Pall
Final-Sting Faerie
Revive the Fallen
Boldwyr Intimidator
Rival's Duel
War-Spike Changeling
Ambassador Oak
Fertilid
Game-Trail Changeling
Walker of the Grove
Diviner's Wand


SHADOWMOOR:

Rune-Cervin Rider
SIlkbind Faerie
Ballynock Cohort
Curse of Chains
Biting Tether
Helm of the Ghastlord
Wasp Lancer
Drowner Initiate
Grief Tyrant
Kulrath Knight
Gloomlance
Burn Trail
Power of Fire
Bloodmark Mentor
Runes of the Deus
Hungry Spriggan
Seedcradle Witch
Scuttlemutt


EVENTIDE:

Ballynock Trapper
Flickerwisp
Recumbent Bliss
Cauldron Haze
Batwing Brume
Noggle Bandit
Niggle Hedge-Mage
Inside Out
Cankerous Thirst
Desecrator Hag
Canker Abomintion
Quillspike
Soul Reap
Hatchet Bully
Spitemare
Double Cleave
Savage Conception
Wickerbough Elder


SHARDS OF ALARA:

Knight of the Skyward Eye
Esper Battlemage
Grixis Battlemage
Skeletonize
Jund Battlemage
Rhox Charger
Topan Ascetic
Naya Battlemage


CONFLUX:

Nacatl Hunt-Pride
Rhox Meditant
Fleshformer
Dragonsoul Knight
Fiery Fall
Wild Leotau
Ember Weaver
Sacellum Archers
Beacon Behemoth
Unstable Frontier


ALARA REBORN:

Ethercaste Knight
Skyclaw Thrash
Vengeful Rebirth
Esper Stormblade


M10:

Snapping Drake
Stampeding Rhino


WORLDWAKE:

Tideforce Elemental