With Amonkhet, Magic stepped into Ancient Egypt, a culture with three thousand years of history and religion to draw on for inspiration but also a minefield of stereotypes and tropes. Our chief Egyptology correspondent weighs in: did Wizards thread the needle?

Creature type synergies like Elves or Goblins are incredibly popular in Commander and Constructed, but notoriously tricky in Limited and Cube. We survey four historical formats to see what makes typal decks tick.

Cube design has historically focused on mechanical novelty because Magic's aesthetics were chosen for us. That time is past. It's time to start designing our cubes' art and flavor with as much care as their mechanics.

Because Cubes are designed and owned by super-invested players, we sometimes forget a simple truth: half our players on any given night will lose more than they win. If it's fun to lose at Cube, winning will take care of itself.

Join us as Usman shares some evergreen Cube design lessons from eight years of love for one special Equipment.

Many cubes pursue strategic depth, but sometimes what appears to be depth is really trivial memorization. We diagnose these tricky design problems and offer ways to make your cube more replayable!

Find out how to design a cube where the basic lands must be drafted! We trace the history of land-restricted cubes and go start-to-finish on a new cube design.

A reintroduction to one of Magic’s classic sandbox formats: self-contained, zero setup, and fully customizable.

The options for Cubes are practically infinite, but the best building materials for your favorite cube may already be at hand.

Set Cubes are one of the easiest entry points to Cube – the perfect opportunity to recapture bygone draft formats, reimagine a draft format, or dive deep into a plane or theme.

Battle Box is a unique twist on Magic: a quick, self-contained format, without resource variance, great for pick up games between other activities.

A primer on a cube with a 15 card minimum deck size that pushes the most powerful strategies in Magic’s history to their limits — a drafted format that plays like constructed Vintage.