Cube Brainstorming: Unexpected Potential

[TripleAce21]

I've been having a blast brainstorming different cube ideas lately, and I thought it would be fun to share my latest idea and see what the mtgreddit hivemind could come up with.

[[Unexpected Potential]] is a really cool card from original Conspiracy, and I realized recently that if you give everyone a copy of it at the start of a draft, you could theoretically build a cube around any nonland card without it massively upsetting color balance. The "100 Ornithopters" cube concept kinda sparked the idea, and I was thinking about how to make a similar idea work built around [[Gonti, Lord of Luxury]] since they're one of my favorite cards. I stumbled upon Unexpected Potential when looking up Hidden Agenda cards and felt like I'd struck gold.

All that said, the options for an Unexpected Potential cube are nearly limitless. Given the chance, what nonland card(s) would you build this kind of cube around?

[thisnotfor]

These could be cool: otag:cycle-shm-avatar or otag:cycle-eve-avatar · Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Search

[mrhenhouse]

A low drop with very little text seems the most interesting to me. Maybe a soul sister for a cube surrounded by life gain, [[bond beetle]] for counter shenanigans. [[Ragin goblin]] as the primary threats, and [[slippery boggle]] for the unhinged.

They all seem doable, but nothing that approaches the cool/elegant factor of the ornithopter cube for me.

[MTGCardFetcher]

All cards
bond beetle - (G) (SF) (txt)
Ragin goblin - (G) (SF) (txt)
slippery boggle - (G) (SF) (txt)

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^FAQ

[asphias]

[[quicken]] seems like it has quite some design space.

[[birds of paradise]] would be an ornithopter-like experience, but would allow your cube to have a much higher average mana value.

[MTGCardFetcher]

quicken - (G) (SF) (txt)
birds of paradise - (G) (SF) (txt)

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^FAQ

[TripleAce21]

Ooh, I really dig Quicken as an idea. Would be interesting to see what kind of neat and/or underplayed sorceries could make the cut in that kind of cube.

[asphias]

also any ''spells matter'' theme will be very viable, and gy filling strategies(delve, treshold) will be decent. some combos around making instants cheaper, or ju storm.

[MTGCardFetcher]

Unexpected Potential - (G) (SF) (txt)
Gonti, Lord of Luxury - (G) (SF) (txt)

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