Cube Draft

A Cube refers to a specially-prepared set of cards intended to replace the role of randomized Booster Packs in Draft modes, and such an event using cubes is called a Cube Draft. Unlike boosters (which are inevitably filled with a certain amount of unusable crud as dictated by the standard CCG business model), cubes can instead concern themselves with creating a fun, balanced set of randomized cards. Cubes will often enforce balance by simply not including the worst offending cards, or ensuring that both parts of a cruel combo cannot be obtained at once.

Several cubes have been created for the LOTR-TCG over the years, but most tend to not get posted online, requiring the wheel to be reinvented each time. Below are all of the known posted cube lists:

• Thranduil's Movie Block Cube on TLHH
• Phillip Gladney's DragonCon cube on the LOTR-TCG Facebook Group
• Jerome Bradshaw's modification of Phillip's DragonCon cube, also posted to the Facebook group
• Josiah Fiscus' cube hosted on Google Sheets.
• Cyril Grey's cube draft hosted on Google docs:
  • Overview
  • Card list and breakdown

A match between players using Jerome's cube draft can be seen here (sadly not including the draft itself):

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Formats

Sets	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	10	9	11	12	13	14	15	17	18	16	19
Historical Decipher Formats	Fellowship Block			Towers Block			King Block				War of the Ring Block				Hunters Block
	Towers Standard
	King Standard
	Movie Block
				War of the Ring Standard
							Standard
	Expanded
	Open

Player's Council Formats (including PC Errata)	1	2	3	V1	4	5	6	V2	7	8	9	10	V3	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
	PC-Fellowship
	PC-Movie
	PC-Expanded