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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

If you draft [[ADEPT ILLUSIONIST]] you get an additional copy to put IN YOUR DECK.
[[DRAGONLORD]], you may choose ANY Unique Dragon to "set aside". You DO NOT need to draft the chosen Dragon.
[[PATHFINDER]] can have duplicates in its atlas. Ignore the first line of its text box.
[[IMPOSTER]] - Select 10 different avatars for your collection. You DO NOT need to draft these Avatars.
[[ERIK’S CURIOSA]] Reads: Banish this relic → Draw a card from your Collection (not any card).
[[CHAOS TWISTER]] On TTS, instead of using the "Twist" Button, Roll a D20. 1=one step up 2=one step right 3=one step down 4=one step left 5+=on target. Optional for paper play.

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]] + [[Gilman House]]

[[The Green Knight]] + [[The Lady of the Lake]]

[[13 Treasures of Britain]] + [[Kythera Mechanism]]

[[Pnakotic Manuscript]] + [[Plague of Frogs]]

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

[[Kythera Mechanism]] + [[Chaoswish]] + [[Ring of Morrigan]]

[[Drums of Doom]] + [[Druid]]

ELEMENT RANKING

(E) Earth

(W) Water

(F) Fire

(A) 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.

[[Avatar of Earth]]: Testing

[[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 of Doom]] + [[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 of Yggdrasil]] + [[Sinkhole]].

[[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

29 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: 3.6

Water: 3.9

Air: 3.7

Average Minion Cost: 3.75

NOTES TO SELF:

Combos currently cut:

[[Excalibur]]

CHANGE LOG:

6/17/2026:

REMOVED SECOND PLAYER SEER house rule. We still use it but doesn't need to be a house rule. Everyone knows it exists.

ADDED House Rule for Chaos Twister. Anyone who spends a few minutes practicing Chaos Twister can easily get above 80% or 90% hit rate. The Twist Button on TTS only has a 40% success rate. This brings it closer to reality as well as gives people who don't like playing Chaos Twister in person a way to play the card. But if someone wants to play Chaos Twister as intended I won't stop them.

I decreased the wordiness of some house rules but didn't change the rules themselves.

6/4/2026: I mostly wanted to remove Harbinger since I've found it to be a trap for newer players (win rate of 22%), but made additional tweaks. I've felt for a while I wanted slightly more answers to threats if possible. I was able to bring in a few more removal spells and cut some junky minions. There were a few holdovers that were supporting the previously removed reanimation and evil archetypes. I decided to remove Gnarled Wendigo not because it's bad but because the deck that uses it most effectively, Necromancer, is already the most winning avatar and doesn't need the support. Island Leviathan was a hard cut but Mono Water is the highest winning elemental archetype and doesn't need the Leviathan. No one else can use it. And Stinging Kelp is good against Necromancer, especially since Necromancer decks tend to be water decks themselves. I've had the 1 power lethal minions for a while but they have failed to be an important answer to large beefy minions.

+ Treetop Hideout

+ Lookout

- Dark Alley

- Den of Evil

+ Stinging Kelp

- Island Leviathan

+ Rustic Village

+ Simple Village

+ Quagmire

- Blessed Village

- Forgotten Tomb

- Shallow Grave

+ Thunderstorm

+ Stagecoach

- Plague Rat

- Order of the Pale Worm

+ Heretics of Seth

+ Frozen Horror

+ Ice Lance

- Porcupine Pufferfish

- Gnarled Wendigo

- Kiss of Judas

+ Flame Wave

+ Trial by Fire

- Pit Vipers

- Salt the Earth

+ Mover of Mountains

- Entombed

+ Draco Corvus

+ Queen Guinevere

+ Tombstone Wardens

- Pendragon Banner

- Seven-League Boots

- Harbinger

5/12/2026: 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

- Carrionette

- Black Mass

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