This thread is for designing our cube.

Ground rules: no core sets, all expansions up through masques block, and including the portal and starter sets. Cards must be wacky/awesome.

Cards: 400

Ben and I are building the cube, but anyone is welcome to join in on the discussion!

White

1 Abu Ja'far, Mother of Runes, Tethered Griffin
2 Aysen Bureaucrats, Pacifism
3 Celestial Dawn, Diving Griffin, Wild Griffin
4 Armageddon, Charmed Griffin, Daraja Griffin, Ekundu Griffin, Mistmoon Griffin, Mtenda Griffin
5 Winds of Rath, Zuberi, Golden Feather

Blue

1 Brainstorm, Cloud Pirates, Force Spike, Mystic Remora
2 Arcane Denial, Giant Albatross, Mana Drain, Memory Lapse, Stasis, Talas Explorer, Talas Merchant, Talas Scout, Wall of Kelp
3 Donate, Forbid, In the Eye of Chaos, Political Trickery, Recall, Reef Pirates, Rishadan Airship, Rishadan Cutpurse, Talas Warrior
4 Deminishing Returns, Invoke Prejudice, Kukemssa Pirates, Labyrinth Minotaur, Rewind, Rishadan Footpad
5 Pirate Ship, Rishadan Brigand
6 Mind over Matter

Black

1 Blood Pet, Paralyze
2 Basal Thrull, Chains of Mephistopheles, Hymn to Tourach, Thrull Surgeon
3 Armor Thrull, Blood Vassal, Doomsday, Mindstab Thrull, Morgue Thrull, Necrite, Thrull Wizard
4 All Hallow's Eve, Derelor, Greed, Nether Void, Sengir Autocrat, Uncle Ihstvan
5 Thrull Champion
6 Yawgmoth's Bargain

Red

1 Chain Lightning, Goblin Welder
2 Anaba Ancestor
3 Ball Lightning, Hurloon Shaman, Minotaur Warrior
4 Anaba Bodyguard, Anaba Shaman, Anaba Spiritcrafter, Raging Minotuar, Talruum Minotaur, Warmonger, Zerapa Minortaur
5 Fissure, Orcish Squatters, Talruum Champion, Talruum Piper
6 Fireblast

Green

1 Folk of An-Havva, Forgotten Lore, Joven's Ferrets, Thallid
2 Spectral Bears, Spore Flower
3 Hall of Gemstone, Mindbender Spores, Riding the Dilu Horse, Thallid Devourer, Thorn Thallid
4 Fungus Elemental, Storm Seeker
5 Lichenthrope, Plow Under, Stunted Growth

WU

6 Rasputin Dreamweaver
7 Jedit Ojanen

WB

WR

WG

UB

2 Lim-Dûl's Vault

UR

UG

BR

BG

2 Dark Heart of the Wood

RG

Tricolor

3 Merieke Ri BeritTetsuo Umezawa
4 Lord of Tresserhorn

Artifact

0 Zuran Orb
1 Feldon's Cane, Ivory Tower
2 Apocalypse Chime, City in a Bottle, Helm of Awakening, Sphere of Resistance
3 Didgeridoo, Phyrexian War Beast
4 Erratic Portal, Golgothian Sylex, Helm of Obedience, Portcullis
5 Memory Jar, Storm Cauldron
6 Mirror Universe

Lands

An-Havva Township
Aysen Abbey
Castle Sengir
City of Brass
Elephant Graveyard
Griffin Canyon
Kjeldoran Outpost
Koskun Keep
Library of Alexandria
Maze of Ith
Rishadan Port
Undiscovered Paradise
Wizards' School

Squint, I was supposed to get the second post so we can edit stuff.

Dang it, squinty, ben was suppose to have the second post. My fault for not locking it.

Go ahead and delete it.

~SE++

Oh whatever, we can just discuss and I'll edit the cube to contain the cards as we add em. Joven's Ferrets are in?

Ferrets are obviously in. Apocalypse Chime obviously in too.

all of the kill everything from a set cards, yeah.

I don't know which set we should start with first. I think I'm going to go through all of the homelands cards first and see which ones are the best/most hilarious.

We can just post chunks as we think of them, and I'll edit it into the first post.

stunted growth - of course
plow under - of course
rishadan port - I feel like this is too expected.
storm seeker - lol yes.
diaochan, artful beauty - maybe
cinder cloud - eh
fissure - yes
huang zhong, shu general - boring
fatal lore - maybe
paralyze - yes!
sorceress queen - maybe
spirit of the night - maybe
uncle istvan - uncles, yes!

so you're just choosing the most bizarre cards in magic?

Squirrel Wrangler
Chatter of the Squirrel
Squirrel's Nest

No, just the best cards.

ok.

So, as you know, Sarah, I like drafting lands a lot. I'd like to be able to support some kind of multi-color strategy. I'm thinking with the overly powerful An-havva Township cycle of lands.

That's what I was thinking!

The artwork on that card is surprisingly good. when you're comparing it to nerd like Joven.

ok I'm just going to spit out whatever random cards pop into my head when I try to think of "weird/wacky cards"

enduring renewal
pandemonium
birthing pod
murderous betrayal
barren glory
worldfire
proteus staff
living death
descent into madness
nether void
warp world
mana clash
scab-clan giant
heartbeat of spring
gate to the aether
possibility storm
yet another aether vortex
mass hysteria
goblin assassin
goblin test pilot

you could do... I can't believe I am typing these words, a coin flip subtheme. chance encounter krark's thumb bleghhhhghgghh

Obligatory "are you running power" statement.

Nope, that's core set.