You Make the Cube
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| Set symbol | This set has no own expansion symbol. | ||||
| Design | Timothée Simonot | ||||
| Development | Timothée Simonot | ||||
| Release date | November 16, 2016 | ||||
| Themes and mechanics | Twisted Color Pie | ||||
| Set size | 540 cards | ||||
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You Make the Cube is a Magic Online-only reprint set that was available to draft starting November 16, 2016.
Background
Robert Schuster announced the "You Make the Cube" Contest on the Wizards of the Coast website on August 23, 2016. Contestants were tasked with creating a 540-card cube which was playable on Magic Online using cards up to Eldritch Moon. Cubes were judged on creativity (being different from existing cubes), fun, feasibility, and replayability. The deadline was set for September 15, 2016, with four finalists being selected around October 1, 2016.[1]
Voting
Voting started on October 17 and ended on October 24, 2016, with four finalists: Guillaume Matignon's Jenny's/Johnny's Cube, Eric Klug's Pro Tour Cube, Timothée Simonot's Twisted Color Pie, and Joseph Vasoli's Common Uncommon Cube.[2]
Guillame Matignon describes his cube as a "synergistic cube", and that "Each color is associated with a tribe: respectively Clerics, Wizards, Zombies, Goblins, and Elves for white, blue, black, red, and green." Each color also had intended mechanics to build a synergistic deck around, e.g., Mill for blue and black, and tempo for blue and red.[2]
Eric Klug's cube was made up of Constructed Pro Tour-winning decks, but excluded sideboard cards and excluded around 300 cards to balance colors and to remove cards like Cranial Extraction, which Klug believed did not fit the format.[2]
Timothée Simonot's cube centered around the idea of unorthodox strategies for colors, such as Aggro for blue and control for red. [2]
Joseph Vasoli created a peasant cube, including only cards that have been printed as common or uncommon at some point.[2]
Winner
Simonot's cube was announced the winner of the contest, and it was able to be played from November 16, 2025, and a Single-Elimination Queue was held from the 16th to the 30th.[3]
References
- ↑ Robert Schuster (August 23, 2016). "Announcing the "You Make the Cube" Contest". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on May 1, 2021.
- ↑ a b c d e Wizards of the Coast (October 17, 2016). "You Make the Cube Voting". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (November 11, 2016). "Play Twisted Color Pie Cube!". Magic Online Official Tumblr. Tumblr.