Colorless cards in draft usually fall into the categories of color fixing, equipment, or massive creatures. All of these cards are universally good in most decks and work as the glue to hold many decks together. If you happen to be in an artifact shell they are more valuable, the same is true if you are building into equipment and combat strategies. Big colorless creatures can be top end for generic creature piles, big Green decks, or Reanimator decks. The last year has brought us a little bit of everything to consider for your Cube. Let's dive into the honorable mention to kick off our list.

Honorable Mention - Barrels of Blasting Jelly

Barrels of Blasting Jelly fills in two roles in a deck: color fixing and removal. This one mana artifact comes down in the early game and makes sure you don't have to mulligan aggressively to get all your colors in your opening hand. I love this card because where most mana fixing feels useless in the late game, this can be used to remove a creature with 5 or less toughness. This card also sacrifices itself which helps build into a sacrifice synergy as well. This card is only common, but carries a lot of weight.

5. Tezzeret, Cruel Captain

The first Planeswalker to be included in this series is Tezzeret, Cruel Captain. This colorless Planeswalker is all about artifacts and artifact creatures. Whenever an artifact you control enters this Tezzeret gains a loyalty counter. This includes artifact tokens! His abilities are a little lackluster. Untapping artifacts for his zero ability is all right. It becomes much more powerful with a card like The One Ring or Mana Vault in play. His minus three can be used to tutor up a Sensei's Divining Top or a Mana Vault. His minus seven is pretty good in a one on one format with 20 life. This Planeswalker won't likely win you the game on his own, but could be used to gain incremental advantage to help you get to a win.

4. Adaptive Omnitool

Adaptive Omnitool is a perfect equipment for artifact decks. Omnitool gives the equipped creature a large stat boost based on the number of artifacts you have in play. It also provides some card advantage when the creature attacks. Artifact decks sometimes struggle with closing games out, even though they might have a lot of permanents in play. Adaptive Omnitool attached to a basic Ornithopter can be a lethal flying threat very easily. The versatility this card provides is unmatched when it comes to equipment for decks in a Cube environment focused on artifacts.

3. Buster Sword

Let's talk about another powerful piece of equipment from last year, Buster Sword. Instead of giving a stat buff based on artifacts like Omnitool, this allows you to cast spells for free. Buster Sword draws you a card if the equipped creature deals combat damage to an opponent. When that happens, it also allows you to cast a spell from your hand for free if it costs less than or equal to the amount of damage dealt. Drawing cards and casting free spells will usually lead to a win and if that doesn't, just keep smacking your opponent in the face with this massive sword.

2. Summon: Bahamut

This card singlehandedly will win you the game. The only problem is it is nine mana to cast. Summon: Bahamut is a nine-mana enchantment saga creature with flying. It is a 9/9 with four saga chapters. The first two destroy up to one target nonland permanent. The third draws you two cards. Finally, the fourth deals enough damage to most likely knock out an opponent if you haven't already killed them with this 9/9 flying dragon.

Summon: Bahamut is removal, card draw, and a win con all on one giant colorless body. This card can go into any deck that thinks it will have the nine mana to cast it or be able to Reanimate it from the graveyard. If you're able to resolve this spell and it sticks around you will win, there is no doubt about it.

So, if Summon: Bahamut is that powerful what takes the top spot?

1. Ugin, Eye of the Storms

If you go cross-eyed trying to read all of the text on this card, you are not alone. Ugin, Eye of the Storms, is a seven-mana colorless Planeswalker with three loyalty abilities, a cast trigger, and a triggered ability. When you cast him, you exile a permanent that is one or more colors. When you cast a colorless spell, you exile a permanent that is one or more colors. His plus two ability draws a card and gains you life, helping you recoup some early game life loss. His zero gives you three colorless mana, if you need more. Finally, his ultimate searches for any number of colorless cards, exiles them, and allows you to cast them for free... triggering his exile ability who knows how many times.

Did I also mention this Planeswalker enters with seven starting loyalty?! Meaning you can make Ugin a nine loyalty Planeswalker the turn he enters play, and remove your opponent's biggest threat at the same time. This Planeswalker is just absolutely ridiculous.

Whoever controls Ugin, Eye of the Storms during a game will win that game. If you want to spice up some colorless craziness in your Cube, this is your guy.

That does it for colorless cards for Cube from 2025. I can't believe just how powerful these cards are, and that they can be played in any deck! The final article to wrap up this series will be looking at multicolored cards, which are a little more challenging to cast.

See you on the battlefield!

-Nigel