Power level: low to medium
Primary sources: Dominaria era, Time Spiral, Secondary: MKM and other recent sets with complementary mechanics
Nixing (with very few exceptions): D&D (cards that introduce weird mechanics like Initiative), silver border Potential Exceptions: Richard Garfield, PhD (should be a Wizard)
Many core tribes including phyrexians, goblins, etc.
Some goblins (Kuldotha). Artifact creatues don't have too many creature types, but we will inlcude some modular options.
Spirits are common to all colors, so a handful of "spirit or arcane" payoffs will exist
Tribal galore!
Eldrazi?
Humans, Vampires
Convoke, multicolor
Dwarves, berserkers. Likely no room for Snow.
Consider cutting one type per color.
White: Humans, Clerics, Soldiers (Angels)
Blue: Wizards, Faeries, Merfolk (Sphinxes)
Black: Phyrexians, Vampires, Rats, Faeries Rogues, (Demons)
Red: Goblins, Warrior, Viashino, Dwarves (Dragons)
Green: Saprolings, Elves, Treefolk, Cats, Oozes (Hydra)
All Colors: Spirits, Changelings/Shapeshifters, Slivers, Walls, Party (Garth)
Colorless: Constructs (Eldrazi)
<$2 per card to be purchased, with a small handful of exceptions to the $5 threshold
All face-down creatures that are morphed or manifested onto the battlefield have ward {2}. (Whenever a face-down creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2})
When you draft a card from the following, you may reveal it. If you do, place it in front of you. For the remainder of the draft, if you would pick a card with a color identity of a placed card you have picked, you may exile that card from your pool face down underneath a placed card. When building your deck, you may change each card exiled this way into a copy of the corresponding placed card and add them to your pool, alongside the placed cards.
- Rat Colony / Nazgul / Shadowborn Apostle
- Persistent Petitioners
- Seven Dwarves
- Slime Against Humanity
- Nameless Hero
As a general rule, if it looks like a Phyrexian, it is a Phyrexian, even if the physical card lacks the subtype. The same applies for all thematic types in this cube, due to missing oracle text on many printings. Lands that produce exactly two colors without any modification now function as Ravnica shocklands. More specifically, they lose the text "This enters the battlefield tapped" and gain "When this enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, this enters the battlefield tapped." Lands that produce three or more colors remain unchanged.
Creatures with 0 power enter the battlefield with a defender counter. Creatures with defender counters have "You may remove a defender counter from this creature at any time. If you do, it loses this ability."
Creatures with defender are Walls in addition to their other types.