TournamentCubeOpen Braunschweig I
24.5.2025 + 25.05.2025 - 1 Spot left
Braunschweig will have its first highly unofficial cube championship!
Join us celebrating Magic’s greatest format. A variety of different draft environments will allow you to enjoy the visions of the designers, test your competitive muscle or just enjoy the company of friendly people.
You don’t need to bring any cards to participate – everything you need will be provided.
The CubeOpens have always been inclusive environments, CubeOpen Braunschweig will be the same. We do not tolerate any form of racism, sexism, homophobia or transphobia. If you hear, see, or experience anything at our event or leading up to it that makes you or someone else feel unsafe, please reach out to us as soon as possible.
When and Where?
Cube Open Braunschweig will be held the weekend of May 24th + 25th 2025 at Kinder- und Jugendzentrum Mühle, An der Neustadtmühle 3, 38100 Braunschweig.
On Saturday the doors open at 9:00. Please be there at 09:45 the latest. Drafts start at 10:00. We strive for a smooth tournament and kindly ask for everyone’s support for this.
Sunday starts an hour earlier, to allow a timely journey home for those from other cities.
If you need help finding a place to stay, please contact us. We can find a solution.
Registration
We only have 1 spot left! Registration is still open, but you might be placed on a waitlist, if the spots disappear just ahead of you. You will be contacted with payment information should you get an open spot, after which you have a two days to complete payment or the registration will be voided.
The event is strictly non-profit. All remaining funds will be donated to Kinder- und Jugendzentrum Mühle.
We ask for 20 € to cover our costs, feel free to contribute more. Should the 20 € be a hindrance, please contact us and we will find a solution.
Queue in the waitlist of the CubeOpen now
Structure
The structure will deviate a little from the ones at the previous CubeOpens in Hamburg and Potsdam.
The format of the event will be nine rounds of Swiss rounds plus a top 8 playoff. The swiss portion is divided into three drafts, each featuring a different cube:
Two drafts on Saturday and one more draft followed by the top 8 on Sunday.
However, to provide players an event with a vibe that suits them we will be allocating the draft pods of drafts #2 and #3 according to the match points at the time (not exactly the standing). This means that preferences for specific cube environments can only be taken into account to a smaller degree. We will still try to take your wishes into account with a priority given to the pods lower in the standings.
As this is an experiment, we highly encourage giving us feedback on this structure after the event is completed.
Top 8 will be single elimination booster draft of the “Glue-???-Profit” cube that should be new to all participants as it has never been drafted in paper.
The top 8 draft will be timed by one of our judges. Matches in the top 8 are untimed.
Schedule
Friday – Setup and side events
18:00 – First chance for side events – just outside or nearby the venue
20:00 – Venue becomes available – Preparation for Saturday
Saturday – Main event day 1
09:00 – Start of registration
10:00 – Start of draft 1
14:00 – Lunch break (bring your own food or order)
15:00 – Start of draft 2
19:00 – After party
We will barbeque for you, if you bring your own food. Expect side event drafts!
Sunday – Main event day 2
Sunday starts earlier to allow timely journeys home for those from other cities.
08:45 – Re-registration
09:00 – Start of draft 3
13:00 – Top 8 announcement
13:30 – Top 8 draft
20:00 – Award ceremony and farewell
Round 1 Cubes:
Pods and cubes for the first round were determined by cube preference. Pods of later rounds will be determined by standing. Since every cube is only drafted once, the cubes of the first round will not be drafted in later rounds.
Eat and drink
Soft drinks will be available for purchase at the venue for a small price. Coffee, tea and water (the tap water quality is high in Braunschweig) will be available for free.
We try to provide some food and snacks during the day, but can not guarantee a full lunch – especially on Sunday. We recommend bringing your own food or using a delivery service.
Top 8 Prizes
1st Place: A hand customised CubeOpen Champion Cube Storage box as well as three boosters (1 MH3, 2 TDM)
2nd Place: A customized CubeOpen top 2 competitor deck box as well as a playmat (not custom) and 3 booster (1 MH3, 2 TDM)
3rd Place: A customized CubeOpen top 3 competitor deck box and 2 boosters (1 MH3, 1 TDM)
4th through 8th: One (not custom) deckbox as well as 2 boosters (1 MH3, 1 TDM)
Further Prizes
The winners of the pods in the Swiss rounds will be rewarded with a booster as a prize as well.
Every participant will receive a Lion’s Eye Diamond Proxy as a souvenir.
Throughout the event you will be able to win prizes for completing small achievements. For example: if you for take 7+ damage from a single [[Dark Confidant]] trigger, you have achieved Greatness at any cost and will be rewarded accordingly. Some of these are cooperative, meaning both players will receive the prize.
The Cubes
Our main event will feature 16 unique Cubes to guarantee everyone will play a fresh Cube every draft, while assembling the draft pods according to the match points.
These 15 Cubes are played in the 9 Swiss rounds:
Call of the Nerd Premodern Cube
A Cube that showcases the depth of gameplay possible with cards from the premodern era (before 2003).
Originally based on Matt Greniers “A Study in Harmony” List. In short: It is a cube that creates highly interactive and powerful gameplay that marries synergy and power and greatly rewards situational awareness and technical play.
An Old Bordered Vintage Cube. Power 9, Chaos Orb, Old Man of the Sea, Shivan Dragon and a whole lot of stuff in between..
Typical Vintage Cube gameplay. At 360 cards, everything will be opened during the draft – including all of the Power 9!
Waste not – want not. In this thematic Peasant Cube (no rares) your deck will be a powerful engine that facilitates either your graveyard, the cycling mechanic or both.
If you like when lands are more than your manabase, you should play this Peasant Cube (no rares).
☆ CCC – Casual Champions Cube (est.2013) ☆
The freedom and ingenuity of kitchen table magic, converted into cube!
A modular Cube about the Guilds of Ravnica. 5 out of 10 Guild modules are available each draft for fresh flavorful conflict.
Inclusions from recent sets and clean designs make the Recent Cube perfect for newer players and refreshing for returning ones.
Clone of Caleb Gannon’s Powered Synergy Cube
A clone of the famour Powered Synergy Cube by Caleb Gannon that really puts a different spin on the Vintage Cube experience.
Lord of the Rings Universes Beyond Cube
This Cube takes you right back to Middle Earth. The exclusion of the most broken cards from the set and a few singleton breaks round out the experience.
A well rounded Legacy Cube, that allows players to exploit powerful syniergies to make more of their iconic cards than the sum of their parts.
Welcome to the Mad Peasant Cube!
I was inspired to make this cube on the basis of the “signpost uncommons”, that help to quickly grasp what is going on.
A fully powered Vintage cube. Get ahead with fast mana, take the Initiative, or straight up combo kill your opponents. No holding back with this cube.
Time to get schwifty!
My Goal for this Cube is to have interactive and decision-rich gameplay in a cube that features iconic, strong, unusual, weird and spicy cards.
Top 8 Cube
Looking for a cube thats hard to draft? Tired drafting pack 3 with blinders on? You have come to the right place!
Join the Discord Server
Join the our cube community on Discord for event updates, friendly trash talk, and general cube discussions.
If you have any questions or feedback, you can talk to us (ThePop or cr4cksh07) on discord or send us an email at braunschweig@mtg-cube.de
The Cube Discord Server is also used to organize drafts in general and to announce other CubeOpens. Feel free to join even if you won’t be attending the event in Braunschweig.
We look forward to seeing you at the draft tables!
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