So, maybe it’s just an excuse to document my Cube in it’s current form, maybe that is the excuse for writing the article about it, who knows?

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But, let’s get started.

My cube is 405 cards, equal colour split, slight under on artifact count, slight over on multi-coloured and lands.

Red

One CMC

Goblin Patrol
Spikeshot Elder
Reckless Waif
Goblin Guide
Jackal Pup
Stromkirk Noble

Lightning Bolt
Faithless Looting
Burst Lightning
Firebolt

So, it starts off the way it finishes. In flames, I’ve heard talk that blue is the tightest colour in most cubes, Red takes that badge with honour in my Cube (even just arranging it I’m finding “loose” cards).

Two CMC

Hellspark Elemental
Stormblood Berserker
Plated Geopede
Kargan Dragonlord
Blood Knight
Lightning Mauler
Ember Hauler
Keldon Marauders

Pyroclasm
Magma Jet
Arc Trail
Incinerate
Volcanic Hammer
Searing Spear
Searing Blaze

Focus, focus, it really is the strength of Red in the Cube.

Three CMC

Hell’s Thunder
Chandra’s Phoenix
Cunning Sparkmage
Countryside Crusher

Sulfuric Vortex
Slagstorm
Staggershock
Arc Lightning
Molten Rain
Pillage
Wheel of Fortune
Flames of the Firebrand
Char

Though, admittedly, it could be one of the weakness of Red in the Cube.

(no-one ever lets me get Sulfuric Vortex)

Four CMC

Blistering Firecat
Flametongue Kavu
Hellrider
Avalanche Riders
Keldon Champion

Koth of the Hammer

I never used to be a Red player, until I saw it happen properly in Cube; I used to durdle like a champion and now I’ve seen the light at the end of the race.

Five CMC

Thundermaw Hellkite
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Zealous Conscripts

Because everyone who has drafted the Cube with me instantly realises my tendencies, cards might be hated off of me, or, others simply do it themselves.

Here is the first real oddity in Red, deep, deep into the list. Kiki-Jiki enables some brokenness (cough, cough, Conscripts (more coughs later) but I think is entertaining even if you’re not going infinite. He is part of the ongoing combo experiment.

Six + CMC

Inferno Titan
Greater Gargadon

Fireblast
Wildfire
Destructive Force

No-one has cast Wildfire yet and Destructive Force is brand new, I’m willing to re-evaluate (especially the force) if it never happens.

X CMC

Banefire
Fireball
Earthquake

And we finish with a Portal Earthquake, which pleases me greatly.

 

Red isn’t a lot of talking points, but it is good at doing it’s job. The Cube changes and evolves but red is good foundation for other things to build off of at the moment and while it serves a role now, it has room to grow in the future.

- Ged