Well, about 1 year ago, me and Earl (Magi) started just playing out of a box of random cards i have gathered up over the years of me playing magic, these cards consited of big creatures, cool pictures, anythign old (you know, the stuff you go for when you are a newbie), this was fun as a creature with flying usually went a long way and removal was golden.
Anyways, as time went on, it was still fun to play, mainly bacuase it never got boring cause it was different every time.
Anyways, about 9 months ago, we went to a shop about 30 minz drive away from our homes and there i was this box of cards people were playing out of, same thing as my "cube" (even though it wasnt called that back then) so anyways, i asked what it was and they gave me the gist of it, sounded like a really cool idea.
So for the next little while i just played with other people's cubes (well, only two other ones existed in Van at taht time, that i know of, and i know abnout 90% of the magic players here). Eventually, my binders were packed full of cards and all these oldschool cards and dozens of fbb duals and oops i wasnt using, extra power and whatnot, so i decided to make one of my own. Now, i dont claim to have brought CUBE to Vancouver, as the whereabout are unknown to me, but i do take full credit for making cube more fun in Van because of my very diverse cardpool that i made available to myself.
Now my "cube" has every card you can think of that can be playable (exageration ofcourse). Its pretty big, an entire dufflebag to be exact, consisting of p10, 1 of each fbb duals, tapland, fetchland, talisman, diamdons, etc, juzaam, i dont want to name them all, but anything old and cool, is in here, old man, ali, siging tree, island of wak wak, you get the idea, mirror, nether void, abyss, etc, etc, etc.
This is by far the most fun i have ever had with magic, dare i saw, yes i shall, more fun than t1. In t1, i get bored to easily, the only thing that keeps me going is to pimp out decks, and i already pimped out everything under the rainbow (no pun intended if there is one there) so I'm playing cube more and more, as its rarely repedative and you can never finish a cube as long as new magic sets are being released. It gives you something to work on, not to brag, like many of you guys think im doing, but ask Magi, i have so many cards that i had some random peices of p9 floating around in my dufflebag for months, never even seeing daylight, and about 30 fbb duals laying on my desk for over a month, and i didnt flash em around, i never flash my cards around, HELL, IN MY MAIL TRADING BINDER, THE FRONT ROW CENTER CARD IS A BLINKING SPIRIT. I made it so all these cool cards get what they deserve, to be used, not to collect dust, and instead of giving them away or trading them away, I give dozens of other people the opportunity to play with these awesome cards that some of them have not even seem before.
Anyways, Cube is the best format in magic, just cause it does not discriminate agaisnt you, by that meaning, you dont need p9 to compete or playsets of drains or FoWz, which for many people are really hard to come by. Its a format that you can have fun with and that everyone can play. Even experienced limited (or whatever drafting is called) players have trouble playing cube since most have never used singing trees or old mans, etc, and they dont know what is in the cube, so no strategies can really be developed.
One last thing, if anyone wants a list of the cards in my cube, give me a shout, i may post it (although this would take abotu a week to catologue the cards)..
Have fun Cubing
