Cameron's Cube Draft

I will take it with commons. Lots and lots of commons... And lots of Conspiracy, since I have stupid numbers of them, and will hardly likely ever go and trade them all away...

I intend to get hold of a few cheap rares, to make things a little more interesting. I also have gotten hold of an Opaline Unicorn for the Cube, because it was possible to do so.

Basically, it will be one step up from a Pauper's Cube, I suspect. But will certainly have the three card types in every pack.

It will take time to get this all put together...

I will have to look at it carefully, and may add cards from other sets, so watch this space...

Excellent. I shall look forwards to playing some of the jankiest draft decks ever made

Full of jank. 

Essentially it's cards that don't look very good together. Or cards that individually don't look like they do anything particularly special. 

A Janky deck is one that looks like it's a bit weak or lacks an obvious synergy between it's cards. Sometimes decks can look Janky but actually be rather nasty. The Izzet Blitz deck by Travis Woo a year or so ago didn't look very special - a lot of spells an Nivix Cyclops, a card that hadn't really seen a lot of use up until then - shortly after that you realized that with Armed of Armed & Dangerous (double strike enabler) and a couple of other cheap instants triggering the cyclops's ability it could kill you around turn 4... but it wasn't obvious until you knew it so to some it looked like a janky cheap brew.

...then it killed you.

Agreed, although being cube draft you simply have to provide potential options and wait for literally no one to draft the land in the first pack

Well that could be interesting. Draft 3 boosters normally then use a land pack - that way no one could tell what you were into and you wouldn't be 'forced' into trying to follow the 2 colors in the shockland you pulled on the first booster.

Do include Rogue's Passage won't you?

I just REALLY like it as a draft card - the ability to get something, anything, through stops games becoming "Draw, play land, go" when both sides have got a load of similar size creatures out and nothing to break the deadlock.

Guildgates are cool but only if you can include the full set and go for the win with that - otherwise there are better mana fixers out there.

Hmm.. will think about the lands. I'd like to see variety but also cheap stuff that forces you to play around it. So the really nice shock/fetch/quick etc is good but for cube type fun I prefer tap/man lands.

Exactly. You can have just as much fun with the tapped stuff. Fetches and Shocks are more for constructed I feel.

I would - but possibly not the traditional swords etc... Why not have janky fun stuff like Akroan Horse, Hot Soup etc..?

I don't see why not. If you have anything in the cube that works for Dredge, Delve or Scavenge then it has potential. As does flashback etc so... yeah, why not.

Well it depends on how you want to structure it - you can do anything from a singleton cube to a block one. It's really up to you - I personally like variety and the challenge of any draft is trying to fit cards together - it's especially challenging with different blocks / sets.