100 Ornithopters

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Art for the Mirrodin printing of Ornithopter. This is the version used in Andy's Cube.

100 Ornithopters is a 360 card Cube designed by Andy Mangold, one of the hosts of the Cube focused Lucky Paper Radio podcast. As its name suggests, it consists of 100 copies of the artifact creature Ornithopter. The cube was purposely designed so that it has no other creatures, token producers, or "Manlands". With Ornithopter being the only win condition in the cube, with only one or two exceptions, drafters are required to recontextualize the other cards in the cube to be able to construct a viable deck.

Details

Ornithopter #25 as altered by Eric Klug.

Fundamental to the the idenity of the cube is that each Ornithopter, matching non-foil Mirrodin printings, are individually numbered. Whenever a player wins a game they add a tally mark to the Ornithopter which did the final point of damage to their opponent. At the end of three rounds the player with the 3-0 record earns the right to name an unnamed Ornithopter from their pool and to alter its art.

Other than Ornithopter, the cube consists of some of the most powerful card from Magic's history, including many which are either banned or restricted in multiple Constructed formats. These include Balance, Yawgmoth's Will as well as the three Legendary Urza's Legacy lands Tolarian Academy, Serra's Sanctum and Gaea's Cradle.

Cube list

Note: The cube is still slowly evolving so I'll need to land on the version that was played at a major event like cubecon, or was current at the time of the Rhystic Studies video, etc to present here. - Beats.

White

1 Savannah Lions 1 Wrath of God 1 Wrath of God 1 Wrath of God

Blue

1 Lord of Atlantis 2 Psychic Venom

Black

Instants (8) 1 Force of Despair 1 Culling the Weak 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Village Rites 1 Echoing Decay 1 Plumb the Forbidden 1 Reaping the Graves 1 Ad Nauseam Sorceries (11) 1 Duress 1 Echoing Return 1 Imperial Seal 1 Inquisition of Kozilek 1 Organ Harvest 1 Thoughtseize 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Diabolic Intent 1 Pitiless Carnage 1 Yawgmoth's Will 1 Beseech the Mirror

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Green

3 Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental

Multicolor

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Artifacts

100 Ornithopter

Lands

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History

The original twitter exchange which lead to the creation of the 100 Ornithopters cube.

On October 23, 2023, Vincent Chandler (PleasantKenobi) made a post on Twitter promoting the play experience of Cube. This was responded to by the user R. Morgan Slade, who asked, "Can my cube be all ornithopters"? While this tweet appears to have been meant to be taken flippantly, it prompted Andy Mangold to spend some time putting together a prototype list, which he posted in a reply to Slade on October 25, 2023. Mangold hadn't intended to go any further with 100 Ornithopters than it being a response to a joke comment. However, the list had come to the attention of users in the CubeCon Discord server who decided to run a simulated draft of the cube. Initial feedback was positive, and prompted Mangold to return to the project to start making changing based on suggestions from this playtest.

Prototype list

Original "joke" prototype list goes here. :)