THE CUBE ARCHETYPES

INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction

One of the first things any new player learns (or needs to learn if he’s to find any success and enjoyment in the game), is that some Magic cards are more powerful than others. They have low mana costs for their effects, they do something few other cards in the game (or format) do, or they’re extremely versatile. So deckbuilding is just an exercise in determining which cards are the most powerful in any given format (a relatively easy exercise) and throw as many of them as our mana will allow into a deck, right? Luckily, this is not the case. Some relatively less powerful cards shine in combination with certain other cards, forming decks that are greater than the sum of their parts and that can go toe-to-toe with the decks playing the most powerful cards in the format. Such cards are said to have “synergy” with each other. The basic tension between power and synergy is at the heart of basically any Magic format.

Cube is no exception. While Cube originated from a desire to play Limited with the best (i.e. most powerful) cards in Magic’s history, when you combine cards from over 20 years’ worth of Magic sets, strange things happen and strong synergy-based decks come together. The next logical step, and one most Cube designers have taken a long time ago (although to different degrees), is to intentionally “seed” certain synergies into their lists. Whether it’s because a Cube designer wants to recreate and relive a beloved deck from some past or current format, or it’s with the aim of mimicking recent retail Limited formats, where some or all color combinations usually have fairly well-defined synergy-based strategies available to them, the end result is the same: drafters are incentivized to pay attention not just to the power levels of the cards in their packs, but also to any synergies those cards have with the cards already drafted (or even with cards they hope to open or get passed later in the draft!).

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