This Thursday, October 24th, the first official Season of The Dynasty Cube begins!
What is The Dynasty Cube?
The Dynasty Cube is a collaborative, living draft format that combines a few concepts, none of which are required knowledge:
- Rotisserie Draft - Players making draft picks publicly, one at a time, often in an online, asynchronous format like a spreadsheet.
- Fantasy Sports - Teams are matched up against one other team per week, culminating in “playoffs” where the best teams play an elimination tournament to determine a champion for a season.
- Blaseball - an online horror-baseball-sim league that evolved as a result of collaborative efforts of the members of the different teams in the league.
To begin, the Draft Pool for The Dynasty Cube will contain almost all of the 500 or so oldest cards from Magic’s history, with the next oldest cards being added incrementally with each subsequent Season. Cards that go undrafted get removed from the next draft, and cards that get drafted repeatedly become more difficult to retain, resulting in an ever-changing pool of cards.
The current Draft Pool for The Dynasty Cube, as well as a more detailed explanation of the draft can be found on Cube Cobra.
In The Dynasty Cube, the decisions you make continue having an effect after each draft. Teams may trade their cards or even future draft picks with each other to improve their draft pool. After each Season, The Teams will vote on new rules and other changes that will take effect in the next Season.
Currently The League has about 30 regularly active members, with each of the 8 Teams having between 2 and 6 participants. Ideally, each Team would have at least 5 active members - the more members on each Team, the smoother The League operates!
What does Team participation look like?
Joining a Team primarily means providing another voice and perspective to help your Team to come to a decision - but you can claim more responsibility than this if you want it!
During a Draft, Team members will discuss in their own private channel their strategy for what kind of deck they want to try to draft, what cards to prioritize with their next pick, what cards may be under/over valued by the other Teams, etc.
They’ll determine one Team member to be responsible for playing out their Team’s matches for the Season, and if that Team does well enough, they’ll have the chance at winning the Championship for that Season!
After a Season finishes, Teams will be presented with changes to The League that they will have the power to vote on to decide whether these changes be enacted.
Who are the Teams?
Below are the current Teams with their logos, colors, and mottos.
Alara Shards
Logo: 🌟
Color: Rust
Motto: “Why not both?”
Kamigawa Ninja
Logo: ⛩
Color: Dark Indigo
Motto: “Omae wa mou shindeiru.”
Innistrad Creeps
Logo: 🧟
Color: Blue-Grey
Motto: ”Braaaaaaiiiiins”
Theros Demigods
Logo: 🌞
Color: Gold
Motto: ”The Fates will decide”
Ravnica Guildpact
Logo: 🔗
Color: Royal Blue
Motto: “A Championship is won and lost before ever entering the battlefield”
Lorwyn Changelings
Logo: 👽
Color: Green Apple
Motto: ”Expect the unexpected”
Zendikar Hedrons
Logo: 💠
Color: Aquamarine
Motto: “Good Vibes, No Escape”
Tarkir Dragons
Logo: 🐲
Color: Lavender
Motto: “No cost too great”
Getting started with The League:
Join a Team on our Discord and start collaborating with your new teammates, or you can give yourself the “Spectator” role which gives you some extra access that you won’t otherwise have without a Team affiliation.
If you’re not sure which Team best suits you, we have a channel specifically for team recruitment where the Teams will try to win you over!