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SET Snapshots

With each new set comes plenty of options to include in your various cubelets. There is no right way to build a cubelet, so there are no recommendations for what you should take out as new sets are released. The choices are yours!

​Each set snapshot will briefly highlight cards you could include in your cubelet. There might be a card from a new set you like that isn't listed in the snapshot. That's fine! These are just the ones that jump out immediately for consideration.

​Just have fun and experiment.

Phyrexia: All Will Be One

2/2/2023

 
Annex Sentry
An interesting Fiend Hunter that would introduce poison counters into the cubelet if you don't play it already.

Norn's Wellspring
​Get a little value out of your stuff dying and scry is one of the best things you can do in Cubelet.

Phyrexian Vindicator
Kind of gnarly. Might be too good, but if you like the higher power stuff, this meets it.

Skrelv, Defector Mite
An option if Mother of Runes or Giver of Runes isn't your thing. Toxic is also kind of funny to add to a cubelet. Nice for a one-drop cubelet.

Experimental Augury
If you have a bunch of counters in your cubelet, proliferate is always nice. We'll take improved cards any day.

Glistener Seer
Scry? Good. One-drop? Great for a one-drop cubelet. Doesn't have defender? ooo weee!

Jace, the Perfected Mind
Listen, milling the library in Cubelet...kind of stupid (not something you should actively do). Drawing three cards because you share the graveyard so twenty cards is relatively easy? Yea, that's kind of good.

Minor Misstep
A great counter spell for a one-drop cubelet! Nearly counters everything! (Curse you Killing Wave)

Unctus, Grand Metatect
Pay some life, attack, loot? Sign me up!

Sheoldred's Edict
What an upgrade!

Blazing Crescendo
Neat combat trick. Not normally something you see in a cubelet, but the pseudo-draw you get makes this playable.

Gleeful Demolition
Always like a cheap shatter effect. This has upside if you hit yourself!

Bloated Contaminator
Beefy and threatening, love to see it,

Cankerbloom
Options, lots of options. Could combine a couple cards in your cubelet, giving you options for other activities.
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Conduit of Worlds
The first line of text doesn't matter, really it is letting you play with the graveyard if you want.

Evolving Adaptive
Love the Cloudfin Raptors in the game.

Green Sun's Twilight
You're not searching the library. It's like a really neat lottery ticket with a big payoff late game.

Charforger
Interesting. Very Interesting.

Glissa, Sunslayer
Love all the options on Glissa.

Kaito, Dancing Shadow
Great value card, nothing too powerful.

Venser, Corpse Puppet
I just think this is a neat card, would definitely fit in a cubelet.

The Skullbomb Cycle
They are fine and can be applied in a few different cubelets (one-drop, pauper, artifacts matter, etc.)

The Filigree Sylex
Seemingly innocent, could maybe make a cool game variant using it, similar to Strixhaven Stadium.

Jumpstart 2022

12/10/2022

 
This is just going to look at the new cards printed in the set as well as discuss what a Jumpstart Cubelet could look like.

Argus Kos, Eternal Soldier
In a legends or artifacts mattered themed cubelet, this would fit right in.

Lita, Mechanic Engineer
Very fun, gives artifact creatures pseudo-vigilance. Has a safe mana sink.

Alandra, Sky Dreamer
In a "drawing cards matter" cubelet, seems like a good fit!

Termination Facilitator
Creates a wild presence that is super fun.

Ardoz, Cobbler of War
This little goblin does some fun stuff with your creatures with haste.

Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence
Anything but a bad influence on the board.

Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Honestly, probably the only reason this set snapshot is being made. YES

Mild-Mannered Librarian
One-drop Cubelet late game mana sink. Regular cubelet...meh?

Building a Jumpstart Cubelet

The main concept for a Jumpstart Cubelet is as follows:

- Build thematic packs of 20 cards. Remember...no lands and still has to follow the spirit of Cubelet (no tutors, searching libraries, etc.)
- However you decide, select 5 packs and shuffle them together, making the shared 100 card deck.
- Play Cubelet as you would normally or add a spicy variation to the game.

There's a wide variety of ways that you could make the 20 card packs as well:
 
-Condensed archetypes
-Fun and exciting themes
-Expanded versions of exisiting Jumpstart packs, (remove the lands and add more cards on theme)
-Each player builds a "player pack" with all of their favorite cards

Overall, while you'll have a collection of cards that exceed the 100 cards for a deck, you will still make a 100 card deck, satisfying the game of cubelet. This means it might be less exciting to have to try and travel with your Jumpstart Cubelet, but at the same time, opens the door to the community just having fun carrying their player pack around and find 5 people to play a game, adding to the social element of the game.

The brothers' war

11/18/2022

 
Airlift Chaplain
You'll never hit a Plains, but you might hit a creature or at least make it a 2/2

Calamity's Wake
Being able to just blank the graveyard to end shennanigans is an option

In the Trenches
The mana sink late game is interesting to consider

Kayla's Command
Commands are awesome, but this searches the library. If your table ignores that option, this is a fun card. Otherwise, not something to consider for Cubelet.

Loran of the Third Path
Great ETB effect and the politics of having your an opponent draw a card with you is always fun

Soul Partition
A unique "removal" spell that could replace an Oblivion Ring or so something similar.

Steel Seraph
Might be just a tad too strong, but worth trying. Flying can be particularly strong.

Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
Very cool planeswalker if you play with them in Cubelet

Urza's Command
Commands are fun, the options here are all fine.

Arcane Proxy
This is pretty neat at either the prototype or full level

Combat Courier
A neat inclusion in a Pauper or One-Drop Cubelet

Surge Engine
A Figure of Destiny like creature is a lot of fun for Cubelet and this is no exception

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Creates a neat political atmosphere and not free unlike Edric.

Gix's Command
Commands are great for Cubelet and the options here are neat.

Gixian Puppeteer
This has potential depending on how much you draw cards to be too powerful, but the death trigger to replace it is a cool effect

Hostile Negotiations
What a card, this is what Cubelet is all about.

Phyrexian Fleshgorger
This is wild. Late game might be an absolute horror to try and remove, but as a prototype, very nice!

Transmogrant's Crown
The way Cubelet works, this is just an equip cost of 1, which makes it very interesting to consider

Brotherhood's End
If you have a heavy artifact Cubelet, probably nice to consider this as an optional wrath.

Feldon, Ronom Excavator
Neat effect, a 2/2 haste creature is nothing to laugh at either

Mishra's Command
Commands are cool. Lots of great options!

Visions of Phyrexia
This is an interesting card and will depend on how powerful those powerstones could be.

Fade from History
Another neat wrath, but just focusing on the enchantments and artifacts. If you cubelet is looking for one of these, this might be it.

Titania's Command
Just like Kayla's Command, it has an option that searches the library. Either ignore that option or don't play the card.

Rootwire Amalgam
Neat effect, prototypes seem fun for Cubelet.

Simian Simulacrum
Great value creature.

Saheeli, Filigree Master
Completely fine planeswalker if you happen to play them.

Skyfisher Spider
Kind of a wild card with the shared graveyard, the life gain might be too much, but worth trying.

Third Path Iconoclast
Neat for a spell caster Cubelet to get some advantage.

Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Slowly growing, this is seemingly a fine card.

WarHammer 40,000 Commander

10/7/2022

 
This is a special set snapshot as there are no specific cards listed. Instead, consider constructing a cubelet that is comprised of cards from each of the decks as well as any future Warhammer 40,000 cards from Secret Lairs. You could make it perfectly balanced and select 25 cards from each deck or you could just pick the  100 cards from the entire Warhammer 40,000 Commander pool. If you want to make this feel more authentic to factions fighting factions, you could consider assigning a faction to each player and they can not play that faction as lands.

Generally, consider your ratio of removal spells to things to do as you build this themed cubelet. Searching the library is usually frowned upon because the library is shared, so you could gather information about what cards are in hands or played as lands. There are more thoughts on the construction of a cubelet here.

All in all, this set offers quite a bit of cards that would be a lot of fun to jam together and fight it out as a themed cubelet. If they don't search the library or do something you normally can't do in Cubelet, they are very fair considerations for any of your cubelets you have. Another reason why specific cards are not pointed out from this set.

Unfinity

10/7/2022

 
Due to the nature of cubelet being a crafted pile of cards AND the new treatment of acorns vs. not to represent "eternal legal" cards, this snapshot is for cards that would be good for an Un-Cubelet with the assumption that you as the cubelet builder could decide if it is good for your cubelet or not. Also, because we're looking at a Un-Cubelet, commentary is going to be minimal. 

Attractions: This new feature should act similarly to the contraptions. Maintain a stack of attractions (maybe one of each) that is a shared library and graveyard, but the attractions are opened individually on the battlefield. All attractions and their variations are fair game, regardless of their acorn status, and therefore, will not be highlighted on this snapshot.

Standard Procedure
Always changing based on what is in standard, just have to look up the card. Because of end of turn, once it goes to the graveyard, it could become a new card if returned to someone's hand.

Gobsmacked

Jetpack Janitor

Main Even Horizon
Rare to find a board wipe for an Un-cubelet, even if it has conditions...

Trapeze Artist

Animate Object

Bag Check

Command Performance

Unlawful Entry

Black Hole

Down for Repairs

Six-Sided Die

Xenosquirrels

Art Appreciation

Devil K. Nevil

Juggletron

Slight Malfunction

Blorbian Buddy

An Incident Has Occurred

Jermane, Pride of the Circus

Killer Cosplay

Mistakes Were Made

Comet, Stellar Pup

It Came from Planet Glurg

The Space Family Goblinson

Clown Car

Dominaria United

9/9/2022

 
Set Notes:
Domain - When you make a land, traditionally they do not have any land types, so domain traditionally does not work.
Defiler Cycle - They are fine, Not sure if they are worth a slot in a cubelet, but as a whole, they are fine to consider.

Benalish Sleeper
The kicker is what gives this card contention, especially in a pauper cubelet.

​Guardian of New Benalia
Enlist is an interesting mechanic. Scry is always powerful in cubelets. Fun card.

Love Song of Night and Day
Reading ahead is great if you aren't looking at making enemies. It might also be fine to make a friend and let them draw cards.

Runic Shot
Great kicker for cubelet.

Rona's Vortex
Unsummon with upside late game is fine to include, especially in a one-drop cubelet.

Shore Up
Giving a creature delayed Vigilance or using it as a protection spell is just great!

Braid's Frightful Return
All very powerful options and will have a nice impact if the entire saga is read.

Evolved Sleeper
Figure of Destiny and Warden of the First Tree are both contenders in cubelets. This is also a great play.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Likely too powerful, but worth trying. Get ready to be hated by the table.

Urborg Repossession
Snag a creature and gain life or kick it for much more. Great one-drop!

​Flowstone Infusion
Interesting potential. Kills smaller creatures and buffs bigger. Very interesting...

Phoenix Chick
If there was a card that captured the spirit of Cubelet, this is that card. Very fun!

Shivan Devastator
This is potentially very scary, especially late game. Caution if you put this into your cubelet.

Colossal Growth
Looking at the potential of kicking this to give trample. Possible look at a pauper cubelet.

Sol'Kanar the Tainted
Weird subgame where you get to pass Sol'Kanar around.

Uurg, Spawn of Turg
It will be an 0/5 that lets you surveil 1 at the beginning of your upkeep. While not the intention of the card normally, it has potential to be great in a cubelet.

Streets of New Capenna Commander Cards

4/19/2022

 
Note: Just looking at just new cards added via the commander decks.

Denry Klin, Editor in Chief
Good value to it and the creatures you play after, assuming it lives.

Agent's Toolkit
A collection of counters to move onto your creatures is kind of neat.

Angelic Sleuth
Value out of your modified creatures.

Contractual Safeguard
Can get pretty nutty with the kinds of counters you can distribute.

Determined Iteration
If you have a token theme to your cubelet, this is an interesting addition.

Body Count
Depending on your cubelet, this could be a neat way to refill your hand.

Audacious Swap
Chaos at it's purest form. It will never be a land, so cast away.

Sinister Concierge
An interesting "removal" spell and minigame you get to play.

Lethal Scheme
Neat removal spell that will let you get into the deck a little more and make your creatures bigger.

In Too Deep
Turn things into a clue. Love it.

Cephalid Facetaker
An interesting clone, I'm sure there's a home for it in a cubelet.

Grand Crescendo
So much flexibility here whether you want a lot of tokens or just want to keep your board safe from a board wipe.

Killer Service
Might be too strong, but worth a shot.

Master of Ceremonies
This is what Cubelet is about, so fun!

Streets of New Capenna

4/15/2022

 
Boon of Safety
One-Drop Cubelet contender to protect one of your creatures and possibly control the opponent's next draw.

Depopulate
Draw a card and board wipe, nice alternative to some of the other board wipes out there

Inspiring Overseer
Nice little consideration for a Pauper cubelet. Or a blinking matters cubelet for that matter.

Rumor Gatherer
Scry is powerful in Cubelet, but if you are going wide, you get rewarded by drawing the card.

Expendable Lackey
Can't be blocked when you only have so much life to contend with in One-Drop Cubelet sure will be interesting.

Hypnotic Grifter
3 mana to connive is a steep cost, but the One-Drop Cubelet could always have mana sink rewards.

A Little Chat
Nice way to scrap a token or something for more cards.

Reservoir Kraken
It's like a Desecration Demon, but different. Might be hard to remove, but think of the fishes you'll likely get.

Slip Out The Back
Otherworldy Journey is already exceptional, this is a mana cheaper. Also a one-drop contender.

Witness Protection
A very cheap way to turn off the abilities of creatures.

Cuthroat Contender
If you're up on life, you have opportunity to close out the game by doing an extra point of damage. One-Drop contender.

Grisly Sigil
One-Drop Cubelet contender. With the low starting life, gaining one back (potentially 2) is significant and can help clean up the board.

Sanguine Spy
Early game control of the top of the deck into late game drawing cards. Deal.

Shakedown Heavy
Interesting subgame can be created, also a decent way for you to potentially draw cards.

Tenacious Underdog
Scrapheap Scrounger is just better for Cubelet, but this is a neat alternative.

Goldhound
First Strike AND Menace? What a One-Drop!

Light 'Em Up
A pauper cubelet might be interested in this. The sacrifice to clean up smaller threats or combine together to take out a bigger threat is tempting.

Professional Face-Breaker
Everything about this card screams Cubelet. Neat card.

Sticky Fingers
Menace, more mana, and draw a card when it dies. A neat little enchantment.

Strangle
The problem with Lightning Bolt is that it can go to the face and wipe out half a person's life in One-Drop Cubelet. Strangle fixes that problem.

Unlucky Witness
One-Drop Cubelet Contender. It dies, you get to replace it.

Cabaretti Initiate
One-Drop Contender. Another mana sink reward.

Gala Greeters
Unsuspiciously wonderful. It's like an upgraded Quirion Dryad.

Luxurious Libation
Technically a one-drop for the One-Drop Cubelet. Mana sink to win or play it light and reload with a body.

Charm Cycle
Rather than list them all individually, let's just say they are all good options.


Scheming Fence
This is funny and what Cubelet can be about.

Corpse Extraction
An interesting board wipe that also takes out a creature card from the graveyard.

Void Rend
If you happen to play a bunch of counter spells in your cubelet, this is a nice upgrade to Hero's Downfall, but otherwise, this is basically a second copy that can also hit enchantments/artifacts.

Fatal Grudge
Rid of pesky noncreatures by sacrificing your own, otherwise, it's everyone sacrifices a creature and you get to draw a card. Not bad.
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Cement Shoes
Interesting subgame in the One-Drop Cubelet. Unsure if this is playable anywhere else.

Luxior, Giada's Gift
If you're playing planeswalkers in your cubelet, this is easy. This could also be an interesting include in a "counters matter" cubelet.


Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty

2/4/2022

 
Sagas - As long as the saga or the flip side does not search the library or have an otherwise awkward interaction with your cubelet, they are pretty interesting includes because of the fact that they transform into a creature.

Reconfigure - The mechanic as a whole is very cool and could make for a sweet thematic cubelet. Cards mentioned below with Reconfigure are the highlights that could be included in any cubelet.

Ninjutsu - The mechanic as a whole is very cool and could make for a sweet thematic cubelet. Cards mentioned below with Ninjutsu are the highlights that could be included in any cubelet.

Invoke Cycle - They all do some very sweet things at 5 mana. Rather than highlight each one, let's just say they are all good!


​Dragonfly Suit
The crew 1 makes it very accessible and a flyer usually requires an answer from the table.

Farewell
Has a pretty big cost, but with it, some pretty great power in removing most problems all at once from the game.

Hotshot Mechanic
Pretty great if vehicles are a theme to your cubelet. A 2/1 artifact creature for 1 also helps delirium strategies as well.

Imperial Recovery Unit
Even getting one creature back seems great. Another fine vehicle to consider

Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa
Might be a little too strong late game to make an 8/8 flyer, but the interactions early game seem fun.

Lion Sash
If you share the graveyard, this is a nice little guy to clean things up, also pretty neat equipment

Lucky Offering
If you are suddenly adding a bunch of vehicles or cards with reconfigure, this is a possible solution to keep it balanced.

Mindlink Mech
There are usually a lot of interesting creatures in the cubelet, so copying them when you crew seems fun.

Mnemonic Sphere
If you're having problems getting delirium, this is an exceptional card to consider.

Mobilizer Mech
If vehicles are the game, this is a great way to help grind things out.

Biting-Palm Ninja
The "free" choice to potentially exile a problematic card is pretty great.

Blade of the Oni
Good stats all around. Hard to not consider it.

Dokuchi Silencer
The ability to destroy someone's planeswalker if you connect with Ninjutsu is something worth considering if you run planeswalkers in your cubelet.

Junji, the Midnight Sky
A lot to handle, but if the cubelet is built to contain a bomb like this, the run with it!

Mukotai Soulripper
Pretty neat card, as you have creatures that lose their "oomph" you'll definitely get some good value by sacrificing them.

Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
You only have one library, so you get basically a free card at the cost of life once you hit a player.

Soul Transfer
Neat card with choices and if you happen to meet the conditions to choose both, sweet!

Tatsunari, Toad Rider
Neat effect if your cubelet is built around enchantments.

Lizard Blades
Fun way to give your creatures double strike.

Rabbit Battery
Fun way to give your creatures haste.

Simian Sling
One-drop cubelet might enjoy this monkey.

Spinning Wheel Kick
Obviously gets better later in the game, but a bite effect that can target multiples seems great.

Invigorating Hot Spring
Pretty neat enchantment. Removing a counter only once per turn seems pretty fair.

Prodigy's Prototype
Nice effect, good to help support a vehicle subtheme, the versatility to crew bigger vehicles with the token also nice.

Tamiyo, Compleated Sage
Of all the planeswalkers, this is the one that seems the most reasonable to play around with in cubelet.

Brute Suit
A heavy beater and decent to trade up in blocks.

High-Speed Hoverbike
Flash is a nice edition to an otherwise fine 2/2 flyer.

Innistrad: Crimson VOW

11/5/2021

 
By Invitation Only
A unique board wipe that can help get around those pesky regenerators.

Savior of Ollenbock
A classic effect that could upgrade your cubelet.

Catapult Fodder
The flipside, Catapult Captain, is interesting enough to try.

Graf Reaver
Another way to take care of a planeswalker, if you have an interest in adding those powerful spells to your cubelet.

Headless Rider
A no brainer, pun intended, if you are building a zombie themed cubelet.

Sorin, the Mirthless
Fair on each ability and not overly oppressive.

End the Festivities
Great for a one-drop cubelet. X/1's are usually the going rate in that kind of a cubelet, so it is an appropriate and thematic board wipe.
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Cemetery Prowler
A good boi that can help keep the shared graveyard in check.

Ulvenwald Oddity
A big body that can close a game fast at the end of the game if you transform it.

Dorothea, Venegful Victim
The flip side will demand an answer, but still very fun for the time it is out there.

Halana and Alena, Partners
Nice effect for the rate, very good if you are able to increase their power.

Kaya, Geist Hunter
Very neat planeswalker with good abilities.
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