Malazan Cube of the Fallen

Card gallery · Repository · Rules

Ascend

Ascend: Custom mechanic (not the existing “ascend” / City’s Blessing). When a creature ascends, if it hasn’t already ascended, put a God subtype counter on it, then choose two different options from two of its colors. If the creature is monocolored, choose both options for that color:

  • White: Indestructible or other creatures you control get +1/+1.
  • Blue: Hexproof or other creatures you control have curiosity.
  • Red: Double strike or other creatures you control get +2/+0.
  • Green: +3/+3 or creatures you control have vigilance, trample, and reach.
  • Black: Lifelink and deathtouch or other creatures you control have afterlife 2.

Idolize

Cusser tokens

Cusser tokens: Artifact tokens that can be sacrificed (often with optional kicker costs) to deal damage to targets. Multiple cards create or care about Cussers.

Cusser

Convenience keywords
Succinct, flavorless keywords not specific to Malazan that do stuff that already exists in Magic.

Plunder: Create a Treasure token.

Letheri Trader

Cook: Create a Food token.

Nefarias Bredd

Bleed: Create a Blood token.

Imperial Warren

Slow: Activate this ability only when you could cast a sorcery.

Akhrast Korvelain

Cunning: You may cast spells as though they had flash, and you may activate Slow abilities as though they didn’t have Slow. (e.g. “You gain Cunning until end of turn.”)

Magnanimous Kruppe

Impulse: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it until end of turn. Timing restrictions still apply.

Call for Reinforcements

Tutor: Tutor [for <x> type of card] to [y] zone: Search your library for a card [and reveal it if a type is specified], put it in the specified zone, then shuffle your library.

Call Upon an Outside Force

Curiosity: When this creature deals damage to a player, draw a card.

Deep Lore

Storm variants

Landstorm: Copy this spell for each land you’ve played this turn.

Recall the Histories

Mindstorm: Copy this spell for each card you’ve drawn and each time you’ve scried this turn.

Outsmart

Elderstorm: Copy this spell for each Elder spell you’ve cast this turn.

Ancestral Vengeance

Cards that aren't cards

There are two sets of cards that are not draftable in the cube: The Deck of Dragons, and Quick Ben's Souls. See the Undraftables tab on the card gallery to view them.

Deck of Dragons: A set of 13 cards representing the High Houses and related figures (e.g. Builder of High House Life, The Obelisk). These are not drafted, and cannot be in your mainboard; they are only shuffled into your deck when you cast Fiddler's Deck.

Fiddler's Deck


There is only one copy of each card in the Deck of Dragons, ever. If, somehow, another player manages to cast Fiddler's Deck after you have already cast it, remove all cards from the Deck of Dragons (the 12 Fatids + Name to the Pantheon) from your deck, graveyard, battlefield, exile, and hand, and shuffle them into that player's deck.

Quick Ben's Gambit

Quick Ben's Souls: Eight "Soul" cards (e.g. Quick Ben, Burn's Adept) that are not drafted individually. They are added to your pool only when you draft Quick Ben's Gambit. You may use any or all of them in your mainboard.

Parameterized counters

Subtype counters: An “Elf” subtype counter gives the creature the subtype Elf.

Rewrite from Scratch

Name counters: A “Max” name counter gives the creature the name “Max.” Creatures can have multiple names.

Master Sergeant Braven Tooth