My First Cube Draft!

Hello everyone!

Cube is a format that has been around for a couple years now and has been getting more and more popular every passing year! Recently WotC made a cube for mtgo, and in the Player's Championship the best players in the world had to draft it! I have always heard about cube, but never went out to try it. I finally got the opportunity to last week when hanging out at my firiend's house before SCG Providence.

Each cube is different, and since I was one of the only players who hadn't drafted this specific cube before I had to ask a bunch of questions. They said it wasn't designed such that you had to draft an archetype  but there were cards that could be build around. It used to be powered, but most of the power had been removed. Basically you just had to draft a quality deck.

Pick one pack one netted me an Ancestral Recall, and then here's how the rest of the deck turned out:

I can't remember my sideboard, but here's how my deck turned out:

Noble Hierarch
Snapcaster Mage
Fauna Shaman
Tarmogoyf
Eternal Witness
Yavmaya Elder
Obstinate Baloth
Bloodbraid Elf
Muldrifter
Inferno Titan
Frost Titan
Myr Battlesphere
Maestrom Wanderer
Griselbrand
Woodfall Primus

Ancestral Recall
Preordain
Fact or Fiction
Frantic Search
Magma Spray

Treachery
Survival of the Fittest
Sneak Attack

I can't remember what I had for lands, although I remember a couple like Savage Lands, Jungle Shrine, Tropical Island, and Scalding Tarn.

I didn't get the Sneak Attack until halfway through the second pack, but as soon as I did I moved in hard on the card. As it turned out though, I hardly even needed it! My deck had so much value I had to contain myself from singing "Take me down to Value Town" the whole time. In case you were wondering, Snapcastering back an Ancestral Recall is in fact the nut high. But casting Bloodbraid Elf is always a good feeling, and once I even cast Maelstrom Wanderer and cascaded into a Tarmogoyf and Myr Battlesphere!

I wound up 3-0ing that draft, and had an absolute blast doing it! I really wish I had access to a cube here at school, because I really don't have the resources to make one right now. However from now on I think I am hooked! If you get the opportunity to try drafting cube and have not yet, I absolutely recommend it!

That's all I have for today! Until next time, stay classy!

Ryan Lackie
Ryan.Lackie92@gmail.com
@ThingsILack