Sealed Cube Season 0 Episode 0 : Intro

A new gaming project: I want to use my growing Core Cube to build a number of Sealed Decks and play them against each other.

The Cube: built from the boosts I used over the years for Sealed, Drafts, Winston Draft. The design goal is to create a Core-Set-Like experience, i.e. exactly not a powered Cube. Instead, I want to stay very much in line with the core tenets of the color pie. This implies aspects like

• more spells, less creatures in blue, black, red
• removal and direct damage in black and red
• small creatures in white and blue, evasion in blue (flying also in white)
• mana ramp and color fixing always touches green (i.e.no non-green multi color lands or artifacts)
• card draw and counters in blue
• big creatures in green

I don't pay attention to rarities, but do try to have a good mix of "normal" cards and not too many specials, bombs or build- around cards.

I build 15-card-boosters with a default of (exception do apply):

• one cheap (1-3 mana) and one expensive (4+) Card for each color and for multi color for a total of 12 cards
• one artifact (mostly colorless , colored artifacts are treated as colored cards) and one land (mostly, but not only, mana fixers)
• one card that is a kind of "first pick", e.g. unconditional removal, bomb creatures or planeswalkers

I have no limit to the Cube size, it is much larger than the minimum 24 boosters = 360 cards

The League Format: current plan is

• 40 card decks built from six boosters, with sideboards
• first builds look like the ability to build a second, maybe slightly weaker, deck out of the same pool might occur more often than not
• 4 decks in 2nd league, 4-8 decks in 1st league
• Round Robin within each league (maybe even away and home games with home choosing to go first or draw first)
• last deck from 2nd league is dissolved, last two decks from 1st league are relegated to 2nd league and replaced by one net new deck and the 2nd league champion
• while the leagues grow to their intended size, dissolving decks can be skipped and/or only one deck be relegated to 2nd league