Really tedious but essential Cube stuff

YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO READ THIS STUFF UNLESS YOU WANT TO HELP PUT THE CUBE 3.0 TOGETHER.

Total Cards 540

Number of Drafters 12

Number of Packs 36



Ratios if we ported them over from Cube 2.0

Each color 85.5 cards

Multicolor 36

Artifacts 40.5

Lands 36



Not including Eventide cards we already have 22 proposed multicolor cards. The multicolor card ratio will have to be increased somehow. Also, if we don't cut any of the new adds, we have 16 Artifacts coming in prior to factoring in Eventide. We will need at least 2.5 more artifact slots, and that's if Eventide has no artifacts we want to add. Finally, we are short one land slot if we add Reflecting Pool, old Duals, Library of Alexandria and Bazaar of Baghdad (more if we add Mishra's Workshop, etc.).



Ways to tweak the numbers:



Give all the fractions to Multicolor- Now it is at 39 and Artiacts are at 40, Each other color at 85.



Reduce the number of each colored card to 81- This puts each color at an even 15% of the Cube. A full 25% of te Cube would be Multicolor Artifact and Land. To put this in perspective, three out of every four packs drafted will have two cards of any giver color. One of every four packs will have three cards of any given color. This frees up 25 slots. We could assign 20 to multicolor (now 59 total), 3 to Artifacts (43 total, right on target for what we currently would need with no cuts) and we are one ahead on Lands (at 37).



We could concievably go as low as 72 cards per color, which would be 13.33% for each color, leaving a full third of the Cube for Multicolor Artifacts and Lands, but this would mean exactly 2 cards per color per pack, every time. That would leave five cards that are Multicolor, Artifact and Land cards in each pack, every time. I would never want to see a pack with fewer than two cards of any given color, that is why this is the absolute bottom limit for me.



I do not think we should go below 80 cards for each color, personally, so that some packs do have three cards of a single color. This allows for more interesting decisions, encourages color signaling and a richer draft experience overall.



General Crap

I think since we are including Eventide cards in our 12 person Cube, until that set has come out and been played with we should bascially build an 11 person Cube, leaving 45 slots to be filled either with Eventide cards once they are available and evaluated, or with other good stuff.



We currently have 35 sleeved basics per color to accompany the Cube. If we port of the ratio to 540 cards, that equals 52.5 lands per color. I recommend adding 20 basic lands per color and going to at least 55 basic lands each, (maybe we even go 60, for safety) so that if we have a full twelve drafters there is a little more room on the top for any one color to be overdrafted.



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