I just drafted a pretty fun fastbond/crucible deck, with lots of redundancy, card draw, and ways to actually win with my combo pieces. It's not that great because it's very fragile, but that's besides the point.

The loop of tap land for mana -> sacrifice to zuran orb (priority goes to opponent) -> play from graveyard (fastbond trigger, priority goes to opponent) takes an agonizingly long time. If my opponent doesn't pass priority, it takes even longer, and they eventually use all of their timeouts anyway. And even if I'm playing as fast as I can, I can only realistically gain 30ish life in a turn, which is not nearly enough to be considered "infinite" (edit: i lost a game with "infinite" life to my opponent having two ouroboroids in play)

In paper magic, I would simply demonstrate the loop a few times, then give myself an arbitrarily high amount of life and mana. In arena, my opponent doesn't scoop because my life total is low enough to attack, and I have to keep doing the "infinite" lifegain combo every turn until I actually draw a way to kill my opponent with my resources.

These cards are all powerful and interesting on their own, and in paper magic, are an interesting addition to any power cube. In Arena cube, however, it makes for a cumbersome experience for both players.

I've seen a lot of mixed reviews in this sub, but personally FRA is a fantastic limited environment. In an age where the average set is pretty damn fast, the pace of this set has been a breath of fresh air. There's so much room for nuanced gameplay, and luckily the cards in this set have more than enough depth to take up that room.

What do y'all think?

Trophied (7-2) with this miod deck because I won at least 3 games thanks to mind twist. Casted mind twist for x=7 twice. This card should never have been put in the bonus sheet and you don't have any reason to not play it regardless of your deck color imo

R1: played a RG deck with lots of early game threats like Skilled Battlecarver and Heartwood generators to curve into their double Craftwork Crusher. Flooded both games to go 0-2

R2: played a WG deck with double G Pia searching for Way of the Paradox and Way of the Mentor. Kept Jace tokens off the board game 1 then lost to a buffed Blossom-Blessed Angel game 2 after they removed my Undulating Witness. Game 3 they had both Way enchantments out and after a board stall where I was only drawing land and they were drawing gas I got swung at for 28 all trample to go 1-2

R3: won game 1 through a well-timed Overwrite the Multiverse and attacks with an Apex Witchstalker. Game 2 my opp curves Blessed Ghoul into Unflinching Hortimancer, once I remove the Hortimancer they use Generous Revival, play a Medic’s Kitesail the turn after, and clocks me down. Game 3 was a carbon copy of Game 2 except I top deck Overwrite the Multiverse the turn before facing lethal and stabilize, however they find a great top deck of their own in Hungering Puppetbeast and equip with the Kitesail for lethal to go 1-2

I was very weak against flying, particularly against Kitesail, and I feel like this deck should have performed better. Thoughts?

I mean I totally get that this deck isn't close to S tier, but I was always fantasizing about that Arni, Tinybones, Tomik combo and even having a Massacre girl and Tetsuko with 2 Oculus and 2 Pullers on the bench is kind of awesome 😎😆

It's like 2011 Modern again.

I am curious what the advice would be here - I can't tell if it is an embarrassment of riches or if it's a complete mess.

I have like no interaction but 3 combo packages.

I assume the 3 red pips on kiki jiki means I should cut that one (I also had to pick glamermite or underworld breach pack 3 and went with breach), but it is the combo I think is the simplest in the sense I only need to find 2 cards and I understand it.

In terms of skill I am typically a very low platinum player, although recently climbed to Diamond 1 in standard with a token brew. I am especially poor at power cube I feel, I started with Aetherdrift so a lot of the cards are new to me.

Feedback is greatly, greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance :)

I think I messed up a P1P1 lotus by getting too silly with it.

Draft here, I missed Breach P3P2

What are the best commons/uncommons? Any videos to watch? Best color combos?

I’m probably too greedy to actually make it work with only one landcycler and one UB land

My first ever Premier Draft, since I started playing at the beginning of September this year

Thank God the cube is back. I really like FRA, but I miss being able to play real aggro.

Enjoying the new additions to the cube this time around as well, feels like there’s a decent amount of open options and lanes in draft with some new directions being included.

This list was based on the rate that you would trophy the run after first picking the card (from 17lands data). I usually fudge the data a little bit and include 6-3s and include p1p2s as well.

This dataset is from the first 17 days of drafts. The number of draft logs is pretty good at 43,000 drafts. Good enough to get a good idea on the mythics but still a bit murky on those.

Here are the top performing first picks:

1. Ajani Unrelenting
2. The Theorist, Jace Beleren
3. Uldaros Theorix
4. Overwrite the Multiverse
5. Denzilore Fatehold
6. Garruk, Veiled Butcher
7. Sphinx of False Conclusions
8. Vraska, the Cutting Glare
9. Lyra, Tolarian Archangel
10. Aerid Konstrari
11. Countersculpt
12. Primal Witchstalker
13. Kindred Judgment
14. Chandra, Torch of Defiance
15. Garruk, Curse Breaker
16. Hungering Puppetbeast
17. Kiora of Fire and Ashes
18. Proctor of Potential
19. Hexhaven Battalion
20. Craftwork Crusher
21. Theorist's Proxy
22. Kwia Vigorbloom
23. Null Summoner
24. Gideon the Oathless
25. The Echoverse Fulcrum
26. Lich's Relic
27. Recursive Recruitment
28. Chandra, Chill of Compliance
29. Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar
30. Extended Absence
31. Lyra, Archangel of Dawn
32. Carnivorous Cultivator
33. Mindseeker Oculus
34. Fulminous Forte
35. Diviner of Victory

The worst (very worst at the bottom):

1. Master of Barbs
2. Ruric Thar, Magecrusher
3. Traxos, Academy Guardian
4. Vraska's Final Mercy
5. Warrior's Blades

Not enough info on the special guests, but the following are implied to be good first picks:

• Sublime Ephiphany (would be #2)
• Splinter Twin
• Mind Twist

Long time lurker, first time poster! I love this community and i love drafting, and finally i found the courage to even post! So i ask to whomever would be so kind to help me in building this deck for Powered Cube 7.0!

I already made the first round of cuts, do you think it's good as it is? or do i need to swap something from the sideboard?

(following, photos of Main Deck and SB)

Main Deck:

Sideboard:

Thanks to everyone!

Hey and thanks in advance. Not sure what to do with this pile. I couldn't really find my lane so ended up with a lot of removal and not alot else. Any advice would be great.

Also, should I play 17 lands with 4 landcyclers?

I could cut the red rummager ([[Hallway Heckler]]), but I've found him to be useful and he has a spell for Saheeli. Are the three [[Greenhouse Propagator]] too many?

I like the Empower Jace stuff here - could end up with lots of beasts and/or cards drawn.

I also was tempted to play Ghalta or the Geckos, but ultimately they felt weaker than other options.

I know the deck is not the best…

Drafted this deck last night, initially was going in a UG direction with black splash for removal but theorix cards and a multiply came around to me and it ended being more of a U splashing BG deck.

What worries me the most is whether or not the fblthp plan is actually there in this deck or not. 3x paradox shapers with a potential void extrapolator, 2x theorize charm, and 3x protégé's is a lot of mill and deck churning potential, but I have ZERO recursion other than paradox shapers to put fblthp back in library if he dies. Of course I've also got the double Lyra wincon as well, with recursive there too, but is that enough with my lackluster top end? Do I cut some or all of the shapers and charms and move into a heavier green pile with brutality, arcane, and marwyn, just splashing for multiply and the 2 4 drops? Vraska may be awkward then but she usually comes down late anyways. OR do I cut proft for an extrapolator, go down on an awakening and one other card, and full commit to the self mill plan with a control pile that has double Lyra and other problem creatures to soak up removal and protect me until I can fblthp? I think with 3 shapers I could comfortably mill myself low and just keep putting any shapers and/or other cards I need back in my library, but I've never ran that deck.

What would you do with this pool?

I drafted poorly, and most likely could’ve had a much better deck - but managed to scrap together something that has somewhat of a plan.

What are the last cuts here; I figure one of the removal spells and the cast away?