Premodern Cube Primer

This is another update on my Premodern Cube. This time I want to share the “Primer”. A primer is a manual for the cube. It explains how to play the cube and what to expect.

The primer for my cube can be accessed with this link: https://janikvonrotz.ch/premodern-cube-primer/

I had several goals with the primer. First of all I wanted to explain the project and why I build it. Then I wanted to go give reminder about the color restrictions. An example for a color restriction is that you won’t find a red counter spell. Only blue cards can counter spells. Over time these color restrictions have been watered down. In newer MtG sets you will find red cards that counter spells. So that is that.

The “Reading the card explains the cards”-sticker is MtG meme. It is meant as a critique to modern card design. In the old days most cards had one line of text and you could easily remember what card does without reading it. Again newer MtG cards got rid of this simplicity by adding text on the front and backside.

The normal format to play the cube is draft. But, when I tested the Cube with a friend we didn’t know how play a Cube in 2 player mode. We learned about the Winston draft and enjoyed it very much. I added a link that an qr code that can be scanned to a website explaining Winston draft.

Finally, I wanted to give some inspiration for pairing colors and themes. When I built the cube I wanted to make it possible to play multiple colors. With the premodern card pool this was quite the challenge. To enable multi-color I needed to add all lands that generate more than one color.