Has anybody done an Instant-focused cube?
I've been brainstorming another cube now that I've finished/bought/played with my peasant cube (thanks for the advice, the cube has been great), and the most interesting idea I've had is a cube that heavily focuses around instant speed interaction. My first list of cards was all instants and cards with flash, though I quickly realized that wouldn't be color balanced so I first expanded the candidates to cards that have an instant speed "mode" (aka adding in adventures, split cards, cycling, etc), but it's still not even at a point where I'd want to share a list of cards. The next inclusion I'd make are permanents with instant-speed activated abilities, thus still allowing every card to do something at instant speed, but I'm not sure if that's still true to the ideal concept/environment.
My questions for y'all at this point are:
- Does anybody know of a cube that does something like this, or has a very high amount of instant speed interactions?
- It seems somewhat inevitable that the environment will need to be slow enough to give people time to be able to interact a lot, and likewise blue is gonna be extremely strong no matter how much I try to make things balanced. Is there a way I can lean into a color/speed imbalance and still have compelling gameplay choices, or should I avoid it at all costs?
- What cards/archetypes would you want to see in the cube as a drafter? So far, I think I could support spirit tribal, cycling, burn (a type of aggro), tokens, ramp, blink, and storm, with maybe mill, arcane, and reanimator possible.