5 Cube Design Considerations and Philosophies | Magic: The Gathering

Thanks for laying out all these thoughts! Definitely lots of good advice here, especially for less experienced cube curators.

Great video Mason!

Great video appreciate the cube content! I mostly do vintage cube. I like the direction the mtgo cube has went in recently where they are rotating some of the targeted archetypes/sub-archetypes in and out regularly like lands/twin combos/doomsday packages/ draw 7 punishers and tweaking artifact support level etc. while still maintaining the nostalgia (reanimator/ hard control/ red aggro/ mono white etc..) and to your point on the use case of interaction cards like ravenoua chupacabra i think it is getting more important to pay attention to those aspects and magic design has pushed to that effect in the last few years the text boxes are getting bigger and bigger and now there are alot of lands that are also spells ( boseiju/ ottawarra etc..) the evoke elementals cycle (grief, solitude etc.. and double faced card lands. Power creeeeeppp!! Thanks again foe the great content !

Love this style of video, please teach me more, Senpai 🙏

Good video.

Following up on this video, what are your thoughts on card density in relation to a cube's size and archetypes (i.e. how many cards of a specific archetype would you want for each supported archetype in a cube that mainly focuses on guild-style 2-color pairings)?

Would you ever be interested in doing a cube review? I recently built a pauper/peasant cube of my own and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

Do you mainly cube in person, online, or mainly as a thought exercise? Would love to see you do some hot takes by doing.a cube tier list.

Any advice for pauper cube? Do you have a video on the subject already?

sorry what does narset have to do with fetch lands? Because they thin out the deck?