Cube Design

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Building a Graveyard Archetype That Works Across Multiple Colors

Antoine / October 24, 2026

A practical framework for supporting self-mill, recursion, reanimator, sacrifice, discard, and graveyard value without forcing them into one narrow deck.

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Cube Design

Lands-Matter Cube Archetypes: Fixing, Enablers, and Payoffs

Antoine / October 20, 2026

Learn how to build a lands-matter Cube package around landfall, recursion, utility lands, or sacrifice without weakening fixing or filling packs with narrow cards.

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Cube Design

Should Your Cube Basic Lands Match? Function, Aesthetics, and Draft Table Clarity

Antoine / October 6, 2026

A practical framework for choosing cohesive Cube basics, maintaining deckbuilding clarity, and preparing a land station or print list.

Warmly lit tabletop workspace with neatly sorted stacks of illustrated fantasy cards in red, white, green, blue, purple, and black groups, an open divider-filled storage box, deck boxes, dice, round tokens, and a small checklist beside a leather notebook.

Cube Design

Twobert Cube Design: Building a Tight 180-Card Environment for Two Players

Antoine / September 17, 2026

Build a replayable 180-card Twobert by choosing the draft method first, concentrating archetype support, controlling the power band, and testing small changes.

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Cube Design

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

Antoine / September 10, 2026

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.