Drafting three copies of each card, Cube.

I want to design a cube where you draft three copies of a card at once, meaning you will only draft 15 card to get your pool of 45 cards to build a 40 cards deck with. For now I am design this as a Twobert, supporting up to 4 players, and might expand it over time.

Goals:

  • Prioritize Mono color deck, decks that splash a second color, and the occasional two color deck.

  • "Gold" cards should be playable in a mono color deck and get better if both colors can be used. (Hybrid mana, Split/Fuse cards, off color kicker and adventure cards)

  • Promote low curve decks able to run 16 land (that allows three copies of 8 different nonland cards)

  • Showcase cards that benefit from having multiple copies of the same card in a deck (e.g. Squadron Hawk)

  • Utilize cards with variable casting cost to fit multiple points on the mana curve.

Considerations:

  • Modified the number of cards drafted so that player get three copies of 20-22 card and are tasked to make 60 card decks. This would feel more like constructed.

  • Reduce the number of single cards in a pack to something like 5 or 7.

I am looking for card suggestions that would support these cube design goals. Power level should be roughly inline with pauper or peasant card pool, but can include rares if they do not over shadow other cards. This is a paper cube so keeping cards under $1 each would be nice.

Posted Mar 6, 2026, 4:03 AM UTC

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