Ok so i ran a small draft and had good conversations with a few people about this cube and general cube design. I am moving the cube down to 450 cards; as an unpowered cube i want to be sure the better cards are more readily available for draft and also, to eliminate cards from the cube that are vanilla or lack effect. I want to encourage three color decks and as a reward are the legendary three color dragons. I realize that i dont necessarily have a dragon theme, but at 450 cards each draft pack of 45 should have one dragon. To better align the cube, i decided to build archetypes around the activated abilities of those dragons. the rough three color archetypes are:
-Grixis control (Crosis)
-JUND Monsters (Darigaaz)
-Esper blink/etb matters (Dromar)
-Mardu Burn (Oros)
-Tokens (Rith)
-Lifegain (Treva)
-+1/+1 counters (Vorosh)
-Reanimation/graveyard matters (Teneb)
-Wrath (Numot)
-5-Color/library manipulation (Intet)
Im struggling with the identity of the last two and any budget friendly suggestions are welcome.
I would be open to drafting the cube in the next few weeks.