Non-Budget Options One of the upsides of starting with the budget build of Mono-White Taxes is that there are several different tier decks you can build toward from the budget foundation, depending on your personal tastes
I had the chance to ask Twitch streamer Caleb Durward, the winner of the inaugural CubeCon tournament back in 2022 and best known for his Vintage Cube content online, for his thoughts on this event ahead of the announcement, and he says its a special thing for sure. Its not only a high, prestigious Cube event that you have to win a qualifier for to go and play, which he says is a rare enough occurrence in the community, but just the feel of actually drafting with those old cards is not something that everybody gets the chance to do these days. Durward says even though hes been privileged enough to draft paper cubes with real Power Nine cards in them before, its still exciting to do, and even just seeing others draft with the real cards for the first time can be very cool
And it is based on the naming of the Final Fantasy spells
Not only does Gishath, Sun's Avatar have trample, it also has a saboteur ability, and one thats probably even scarier than the 7/6 hasty body coming at you
If UMA is a success, we could see a bright future of more Masters-esque draft-focused sets, or we could see the rise of ever more expensive premium products as Magic embraces the Whale model of free-to-play gaming (which is ethically fraught territory, but not altogether bad)
