Warm tabletop scene of organized fantasy card-game cards in blue, orange, and mixed-color trays, with a central card showing a figure divided between blue water and orange fire. Colored tokens, blue dice, a pen, and a notebook diagram of linked colored circles suggest cube color-balance planning.
Cube Design

How Should Hybrid Cards Count in a Cube’s Color Balance?

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Hybrid cards are multicolored under Magic’s rules, but Cube designers do not have to place all of them in guild sections. Use castability, demand, archetype role, and draft signaling to choose a consistent accounting policy.