The commander cube is a collection of five three color Commander (EDH) decks with the idea that you should be able to shuffle all the non-basics from the different decks together (plus some extra cards for added variance and curve smoothing) to form a cohesive cube for drafting.
- We'll take the 2013 Commander Precons as a starting point for our five decks and try to roughly maintain their power levels.
- To help fill out curves for drafting and to support the different archetypes we'll supplement the commander decks with enough to fill out a 720 card cube.
- The commander decks should keep a reasonably casual focus but will probably cut commander specific cards (e.g. Command Tower).
- Modern+. I would like the Commander lists to be a reasonable entry point for players new to the Commander format and Magic in general. So, for the sake of consistency and to avoid cards with crazy wordings, lets limit the card pool to only physical cards printed with the new card frame. We're not strictly sticking to modern legal cards though, anything with a new frame is acceptable.
- No Foils. This is mostly in reference to the above restriction. There are some cards which have only been printed with a new frame in a premium foil version. We're not going to include those in our pool.
For now, we're going to allow for duplicates across Commander lists. However,
while drafting The Commander Cube you may only play with one copy of a given
non-basic in your final deck. You can still hate draft that second Sol Ring if
you like, but ultimately you may not play with more than one.