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Welcome to my cube! I intend for this to be the most powerful singleton cube possible. But if specific cards emerge that are un-fun I will consider cutting them. It grew from its original 360 cards to its current 450-card form with the addition of cards from Gothic! I value a diverse draft experience and would prefer this cube grow to 540 cards once the card pool supports it, likely upon the release of the next set.

HOUSE RULES

SECOND PLAYER SEER – After mulligans, the player going second looks at the top card of their Spellbook or Atlas and may put it on the bottom.
If you draft ADEPT ILLUSIONIST you get an additional copy to put in your deck.
If you draft DRAGONLORD, you may choose ANY Unique Dragon in Sorcery as your "Champion". You DO NOT need to draft the chosen Dragon. You may change your Champion between rounds prior to seeing your opponent’s avatar (load it in from your collection for reference).
PATHFINDER can have duplicates in its atlas. Treat it as if the first line in its text box doesn't exist.
IMPOSTER - Select 10 different avatars to keep in your collection from outside the game before seeing opponent's avatar. You DO NOT need to draft these collection Avatars.
ERIK’S CURIOSA instead of being “ripped to pieces” is banished. You take any card from your Collection and put it into your hand. (Does not tutor for any card in Sorcery like it originally did).

STRATEGY GUIDE:

Cores and Mixes are great. There are many expensive bombs, getting them out before your opponent develops their board is an easy way to win. With the addition of cards from Gothic, the curve is much better and aggressive decks have come to together more often. Premium removal is needed to stop the many bombs. Keep an eye out for an Avatar that fits with your gameplan, or the generically great ones like Elementalist, Necromancer, or Pathfinder. Some of the best cards in the cube are the Cores/Philosopher's Stone, Four Waters of Paradise, The Green Knight, Lilith, Ring Of Morrigan.

PICK ORDER SUGGESTION

Avatars

Artifact Ramp

Premium 2-4 Mana Minions

Threshold Fixing

Removal

Game-ending 5+ Mana stuff

COMBOS

Necromancer + Gillman House

The Green Knight + Lady of the Lake

13 Treasures of Britain + Kythera Mechanism

Pnakotic Manuscript + Plague of Frogs

Roots of Ygdrassil + Sinkhole (Salt the Earth, Asmodeus, or Raze) Watch Me Pull It Off!

Kythera Mechanism + Chaoswish + Ring of Morrigan

Drums of Doom + Druid

ELEMENT RANKING

Earth

Water

Fire

Air

ARCHETYPES

MIDRANGE

Everything is some form of midrange. Your average curve will be something like:

2 spell that costs 1

5 spells that cost 2

6 spells that cost 3

5 spells that cost 4

3 spells that cost 5

3 spells that cost 6+

The hardest part is getting the one and two mana spells so be sure to prioritize those. Only prioritize 5 and 6 mana cards that are either great removal or legitimate game enders.

AGGRO

Aggro's in a much better place. I've found success with Fire Air decks with lots of Airborne minions. But be wary if you don't get enough 2 and 3 mana minions you'll end up with a sub-par midrange deck. Pathfinder, Sorcerer, Dragonlord, Avatar of Air are my picks for this archetype.

CONTROL

By control I really mean a midrange deck with a higher than average curve or a deck that has a larger than normal suite of premium removal. Ideally both. I think Archimago has a real shot at being a competitive control Avatar if you amass 10+ good magics to control the game with. Sorcerer is also uniquely suited for a long game.

WATER CONTROL

Mono-Water has emerged as a powerful control option. Flooding abilities include Floodplain, Atlantean Fate, Great Old One, but most powerful is Waveshaper. The ability to flood your opponents' sites is important for a few key cards, most importantly, Mariner's Curse. This has been extremely impressive as a repeatable removal spell. And you can force it to trigger using Coy Nixie, Nelly Longarms, and other forced movement options. The powerful game delaying control option in Water pair extremely well with the powerful and difficult to deal with minions such as Mester Stoor Worm. Shapeshift is very good in this deck, especially if you have ways to generate free Frog tokens. Most of your opponents' decks are midrange with 6+ expensive minions, making Waveshaper's tap ability busted, especially if you can use forced movement to bring their threats together.

RAMP

You can watch me draft Earth ramp in this video or this video

You want 5+ sources of ramp and 5+ expensive cards to cast. This is the only deck that can use Black Obelisk effectively. I don't think this deck necessarily needs to be Earth but there are some sources of ramp in Earth that help a lot and some of the best things to ramp into are in Earth so it's pretty likely that's where you want to be. Geomancer is the preferred Avatar.

COMBO

you can watch me try to draft Combo in this video

There's not a ton of combos yet but some of the ones that exist are quite potent. The two combos that draw cards are what I think of when I think of a combo deck (see list of combos above). Seer is the best Avatar to assemble these. If you pick up one half of the 13 Treasures combo, other players are unlikely to draft the other half so you're pretty likely to get it assembled. Be wary drawing a bunch of cards will not automatically win you the game. You need to control the board at the same time to buy the time to use those cards.

CUBE DETAILS

Sites:

There are 3 sites in every pack. I broke singleton for 2 of each of the dual- and double-element sites. You will also find the tri-element castle sites, Colour out of Space, and Valley of Delight. I still think the most powerful decks are the ones that stick to 2 elements with good threshold fixing. There are many triple and quadruple threshold cards that are very difficult to play if you're in 3 elements. There are 13 utility sites of each element. There are 10 colorless sites for extra utility if you can take the hit to your fixing as well as for players to assemble Roots of Yggdrasil + Sinkhole

AVATARS

Imposter: See House Rule at the top. Imposter has been super fun and powerful. This is one of my favorite additions from Gothic. Often you want to become Pathfinder on turn 4 and then turn into Sorcerer or something else later on to get additional value. Generically great in any deck, except maybe aggressive decks that can't afford to take a turn off.

Archimago: Very difficult to draft. You want 10+ powerful Magics. Hoping we get a more generically powerful control Avatar in a future set.

Avatar of Air: It's been somewhat underwhelming but is most suited for an aggressive deck with lots of Airborne minions. Likely you don't want to be just mono-Air.

Battlemage: Hard to draft but when it comes together and you get some equipment on this guy he really performs.

Dragonlord: Flexible and powerful. Draco Corvus is borderline oppressive. Ignis Rex trivializes the death blow. Adtonitum is reasonable.

Druid: I considered cutting due to the nerf but I'm willing to keep it in for now to test. Drums + Druid is still a pretty effective combo even if it doesn't work on opponent's sites anymore.

Elementalist: S-Tier forever. Goodstuff.deck

Flamecaller: Mono-fire has been drafted plenty of times, this is a good option for that deck.

Geomancer: This is my pet avatar. Always better than Spellslinger, mana acceleration is important in cube, it's busted with Roots + Sinkhole.

Harbinger: Hasn't performed well so far. I'm not sure where this fits exactly. Likely to get cut especially when the next set releases.

Necromancer: Super powerful and generically great in any deck. On the short list of best Avatars in Cube. There are some combos with it, things that use your tokens well, Zombie Bruiser, Shapeshift, pump effects, etc. Gilman House is extremely powerful here since there is no limit to how many Horrible Hybrids you can get from your collection in Limited.

Pathfinder: See house rule at the top. This is a generically very powerful Avatar. Stick to 2 elements and avoid the tri-sites. Big mana decks are very good. But really every deck would love to draw a spell every single turn.

Savior: Has been underwhelming so far. It's hard to take a turn off in Cube when the curve can be a little unforgiving. But if you can manage to play off curve and stabilize you're going to snowball into a late win.

Seer: Specifically good for assembling combos but I think it's always better than Spellslinger. You'll get a lot of value out of drawing what you need when you need it.

Sorcerer: Has performed better with the lower curve since Gothic's release. Including some ramp spells seems strong so far. If you're up against a Sorcerer with 7+ mana you'd better be closing the game out fast. But Aggro decks with less mana can also take advantage of this powerful draw engine.

Waveshaper: A powerful control deck. See "Water Control" archetype above.

Minions:

The general advice I've heard is you want about 17 minions, 7 non-minions in your Spellbook. That's 70% minions. I applied this benchmark to the entire cube. Currently 65% of spells (non-site, non-avatar cards) are minions. There has been a wonderful infusion of 2-4 mana minions from Gothic which hopefully will shake things up and breed a faster format as a result.

Stats for nerds:

70 spells of each element

27 multicolor spells

15 sites of each element

20 multi-element sites

10 colorless sites

3.0 sites/pack

Average Mana Cost of Minions in Each Element:

Earth: 3.7

Fire: 3.5

Water: 3.9

Air: 3.6

Average Minion Cost: 3.74

NOTES TO SELF:

Combos currently cut:

Excalibur

Change Log:

5/12/26: Pairing down House Rules, not hard to find a replacement 4-drop. Maybe Flayer helps keep Necromancer in check a tiny bit.

+ Flayer

- Brother Knight

4/16/2026: Less than 25% of minions in the cube are evil so I removed a lot of the stuff that cares about that. Air has been underperforming so I tried to remove some of the weird/situational stuff and lean more into the airborne minions which have been pretty excellent.

+ Avatar of Earth

+ Stone Rain

+ Tufted Turtles

+ Fey Changeling

+ Betrayal

+ Book Burners

+ Burning Hands

+ Albespine Pikemen

+ Duel

+ Sky Baron

+ Weightless Squire

+ Vesper Swarm

+ Ball Lightning

+ Cast into Exile

+ Band of Thieves

+ Murder of Crows

- Persecutor

- Bind Evil

- Instigator Imp

- Aaj-kegon Ghost Crabs

- Warp Spasm

- Begone!

- Accusation

- Bitten

- Deliverance

- Grim Reaper

- Clairvoyant

- Kiss of Death

- Mephistopheles

- The Doom of Dilmun

- Marionette

- Black Mass

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