This cube started from a simple idea: how many cards with cycling can I jam into a cube, and what does such an environment look like? Well, it certainly fills the graveyard quickly! It’s evolved quite a bit since then, but you’ll still find cycling cards across all colors.

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Linearity

While there’s often many ways to build a particular deck, you’ll want to dedicate your deck to a specific plan. That is to say: it’s reasonable to stay open until you find your mechanical lane during the draft, but you should look to find one. Good stuff decks are unlikely to succeed.

Fixing

There’s a fair amount of fixing (typed cycling duals, MKM surveil lands, horizon lands, and one more mixed cycle), but there are few incentives to play more than 2 colors. Each color has at least two landcyclers for the corresponding type (e.g., Generous Ent)—these are the equivalent of fetchlands in this cube, and should be taken at about that level.

Speed

Efficiency is probably more important than speed here. Slower decks (e.g., Shigeki/Skyturtle) may take a while to execute their plan, but those decks still need to be using their mana earlier in the game.

Notable combos

• Tortured Existence essentially wins the game with Syr Konrad, the Grim or Insidious Roots
• Reveillark, Saffi Eriksdotter, and Altar of Dementia can mill someone out

Anything else?

There's a set of nine custom cards, all of which are lands that fill out existing incomplete cycles:

• The four missing allied horizon lands (similar to Horizon Canopy)
• The five missing enemy bicycle lands (similar to Irrigated Farmland)

They're highlighted in pink and flagged with 📝 in the cube listing.

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The predominant archetypes are:

• Cycling (primary , spread across all colors):
  • Cycling Triggers (): Set up a Drake Haven or an Astral Drift and get yourself extra value whenever you cycle.
  • Cycling Aggro (): Red and white have some of the aggressive cycling payoffs from Ikoria and Amonkhet, and Zenith Flare to end the game.
• Reanimator (): Cycle (or otherwise discard) expensive creatures and get your Necromancy on. Don’t sleep on Dermotaxi!
• Madness (): Discard cards and get paid off for doing so.
• Loam (): However you do it, just get some lands into your graveyard, and maybe a Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar while you're at it.
  • Knight (): Creatures like Knight of the Reliquary churn through lands, triggering Titania, Protector of Argoth on the way out, or Field of the Dead on the way in.
  • Discarding Lands (): Molten Vortex and other ways to discard lands, plus Life from the Loam to do it again
  • Dredge (): Dredge out your library and win with Worm Harvest.
• Draw your second card (): Spread out your draws and time your cycling carefully to maximize your Irencrag Pyromancer and Improbable Alliance triggers.
• Value Reanimator (): Use Lurrus of the Dream-Den to recur small permanents over and over again.
• Self-Mill (): Mill yourself and get value from your graveyard, aiming to win with Laboratory Maniac or just to get value with Shigeki, Jukai Visionary and Colossal Skyturtle.