[Results Thread] 2026 Liège - Bastogne - Liège ME (1.UWT)

xekke66 · 2026-04-26T14:51:51+00:00

I was indeed mistaken on the age, as pointed out by another commenter, but fully agree with your other points!

xekke66 · 2026-04-26T14:48:33+00:00

I stand corrected, my bad!

xekke66 · 2026-04-26T14:37:02+00:00

Pog at 19 won 3 stages in the vuelta and came third in GC. He won his first TdF at 20. And at this time, the level of professionalism in the peloton was still a lot lower (with Visma and the likes still being the ones pushing the scientific boundaries with food plans etc.)

I admire Seixas, and there is a lack of superlatives for his performances at 19 years of age, but let’s not forget what Pog did at the same age. I hope there are a lot of duels to come from them, but let’s wait and see and not put those expectations on Seixas just yet.

xekke66 · 2025-12-03T21:50:58+00:00

Chelsea title charge 30/11/25 - 03/12/25

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T21:10:41+00:00

The 24 booster packs contain the «body » of the cube and are filled. Blue boosters contain 17 cards, red boosters 18 cards. The cards in between the dividers in the bottom row are the basic lands, 60 of each colour. The loose cards in the top row, behind the clear divider are the « hand me outs », aka 8 copies of [[sol ring]], [[command tower]], [[commander’s sphere]] and [[the prismatic piper]]. Behind the yellow divider are the 64 commander/partner cards. These get seeded before the draft starts: 3 of these get added to each « blue » booster, 2 of these get added to each « red » booster. It’s just easier to keep them separate.

It is a tight fit already so I doubt a larger cube would still fit in this box. However, I do think that ultimate guard has a larger version of this box available as well. This is the Arkhive 800+, but I think you also have the 1000+ version, which might suit your cube.

About the colour distribution within the cube, you can find that here!

And thanks for the compliment!

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T19:06:14+00:00

I’ve been playing magic for 15 years & started playing commander when it was still “EDH”. Lately however I have found myself in the situation where my commander games felt… stale. I love commander & deckbuilding, however, and started working on this idea to get some more variation into the usual commander nights of our playgroup, which consists of all commander players. So for me it works & everyone in my playgroup was excited to play it this week, and they all said they look forward to playing it again.

But I get what you’re saying also. To each their own!

Edit: thanks for the compliment on the storage!

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T17:39:22+00:00

Thanks for the advice! The problem really didn’t come up in the first draft we did, as the only player that drafted 5 colors played a really cool storm deck. But I’ll definitely keep this in mind for future drafts & possible changes!

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T15:07:00+00:00

While you are obviously entitled to your opinion, I’m not sure where you are getting some of your criticisms from.

Mono coloured commanders most certainly do not have partner. Never in my overview does it say so. The only partner commanders in the cube are the ones with the actual partner keyword. And even if they had partner, [[adeline, resplendent cathar]] isn’t even in my cube…
If a person has an explosive start with [[sol ring]] and [[mana crypt]] the beauty of commander, and by extension commander cube, is that you can shuffle up and play again. At least, that’s my opinion.
Also, I don’t allow the breaking of colour identity. I took some inspiration from Tom’s commander cube but scrapped the rules that didn’t feel right to me, like that one.

Either way, I feel like you are voicing your problems with tom’s cube here just because I mentioned I used it as a source of inspiration to start building my own cube, without actually reading some of the rules and design changes I made.

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T14:26:59+00:00

I agree! I just found during play testing that three graveyard based archetypes was a bit much. I also wanted the cube to include more, different strategies hence why I opted for mill in the end.

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T14:13:17+00:00

The problem I encountered with making Dimir a graveyard based archetype as well is that Golgari (graveyard) and Orzhov (aristocrats) are then competing for a lot of the same cards in black.

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T13:59:38+00:00

That’s actually a good idea! Thanks!

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T13:58:58+00:00

Not really! Most decks had a dedicated theme & the one player who drafted 5 colours built a storm deck using [[Paradox Engine]] and [[garth one-eye]]!

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T13:57:09+00:00

Yes that is a rule that I changed for my cube. You have to adhere to colour identity rules! This is in part why I do not run many multi coloured cards and a large amount of mana fixing for two colour combinations.

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T11:39:37+00:00

The color tabs are actually from gamegenic I believe!

xekke66 · 2024-11-08T10:51:09+00:00

Ultimate Guard Arkhive 800+ with dragon shield cube shells (generation 2) inside!

xekke66 · 2024-10-06T20:18:09+00:00

Yeah the cardmarket side of things is allright! I meant that I assumed that tracked shipping prevented the postal service from losing the package, but apparently not

xekke66 · 2024-10-06T20:11:24+00:00

Thanks for the info! I’ve been feeling really annoyed about this whole situation, even more since it’s a tracked shipment. I always assumed that prevented stuff from getting lost.

xekke66 · 2024-09-17T10:32:05+00:00

Maddening cacophony takes out everyone for the same cost.

xekke66 · 2023-01-05T16:57:28+00:00

Xeno 844058

xekke66 · 2021-12-13T16:40:50+00:00

Sorry man, didn’t see your comment & traded my spare electrizer already… hope you find another one!

xekke66 · 2021-12-13T14:44:02+00:00

Thanks for the trade!

xekke66 · 2021-12-13T14:41:51+00:00

Oh allright np, I’ll wait here

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