Secret Santa Cube: A Cube Holiday Tradition

Twas the Night before Cubemas,

               and all through the Discord, everyone was thinking of Magic cards galore. 

    I was tinkering with my Shoebox submission, while fellow cubers were dreaming of Omniscience. 

  When all of a sudden, it struck me so clear. What if Stone Soup was now and bringing good cheer? 

   So, I dashed to my PC and wrote up my idea. We shall all share archetypes and, yes, that can includes Phelia. 

    Name a card, a deck or a theme if you will. Just put it out there, for someone's dream will be fulfilled. 

   Regardless of the tradition, let's make a new cube with your favorites. Like Tree of Perdition?

    

    We draw our names, like that cringy game. However, instead of Dollar Tree gifts, we deliver 45 picks for an epic card game. 

     All right I have an idea of a new Cube Limited Format that is like my take on Secret Santa. 

   We all have our favorite decks, our favorite strategies, our favorite types of things we like to do when we're playing Magic the Gathering. 

   What would you do if we made a wish list? Just like if we had a Secret Santa. Where we put any number of types of decks or archetypes that we really love to play, and that was our wish list. 

   We build a cube where everybody that wants to participate, selected a player to build an archetype for. 

Each player donates 45 cards that they've selected to fit in the archetype for the person that they got. 

  Come the end of the year, we mash all the cards together(blindly) and we draft the cube. Would the people that really really love certain archetypes be able to get into those decks? Could they find the theme that they recognize? Would the gifter bring a new take to a favorite?

I think it's going to be very interesting, fun and a nice twist on a holiday classic. I think this is kind of perfect timing since we're right November we've got about a month, month and a half out and we can play the games leading up to Christmas/Holdays. Then, once the dust settles, we can reveal who had who at the end of all the games.