The Ice Cube

Event Information

The Mana Vault is proud to announce The Ice Cube, the first ever large-scale Cube Draft event at the shop! We’re featuring 8 baller cubes, including several from the Greater Milwaukee area, and Mr. Cube himself, Jonathan Brostoff, the founder of Cube Con and Ice Cube special guest!!!

The Ice Cube includes two cube drafts, separated with a lunch break and followed by a cut to top 8, which will decide the first ever Ice Cube Champion!

We are capping this event at 64 total players and YOU MUST pre-register to be eligible to play. We expect to sell out, so make sure you register ASAP!

Entry cost is $65 and includes a lunch of cheddar and onion burgers (with veggie options) and a drink card provided by Faklandia Brewing!

The Ice Cube will be held on Saturday, January 20th and will start promptly at 9:30 AM! Doors open at 8:30 AM. It is VERY IMPORTANT to show up early, so we can fire the first draft on schedule.

Full Event Schedule is as follows:

• Checkin: 8:30 - 9:30 AM
• 1st Draft: 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
• Lunch break: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
• 2nd Draft: 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
• Top 8 / Open Play: 6:30 PM - 12 AM

Featured Cubes

We have hand-selected the following 8 cubes for players to play in this event, many of them being Midwest bangers! The lineup includes:

• Magic Online Vintage Cube: current list https://www.mtgo.com/vintage-cube-cardlist
• Old Border Foil Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/obf
• Rainbow Synergy Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/rsc5
• Changeling Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/change
• MAD Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/madison
• Chicago Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/TheChicagoCube
• Peasant Plus Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/airbornemoxen
• Egg Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/4qc9v

Once you have registered to play in The Ice Cube, you may email us with your name and a ranking from 1-8 of which cubes you would like to play at [email protected] and we will place you in those drafts best according to your preferences. We offer this placement on a first-come, first-serve basis, so the earlier you sign up, the higher chances you’ll get your top choices. If you do not send us a ranking, you’ll be assigned randomly to open seats.

Designers of each featured cube will have finalized their card list by December 20th, at which point Ice Cube attendees can begin playtest practicing them on Cube Cobra!

Prizing

​1st Place - Ice Cube Champion Trophy;Free entry to CubeCon 2024; and a spot in a special exhibition match at Cube Con 2024. Full details of the exhibition match will be announced at a later date by CubeCon

2nd Place - $100 Store Credit

3rd - 8th Place - $50 Store Credit

Additional extra special custom-made event prizes are awarded to all who make Top 8!

In the swiss rounds, players will be awarded a set booster or $6 Store Credit per win.

Over $400 in various other prizes will be given out as special bonuses to random players throughout the event; among these may be t-shirts, playmats, singles, and other shop goodies. We are placing a bounty on our special guest Jonathan Brostoff: Anyone who manages to take a match against this titan of cube wins $20 in store credit!!

Rules

​This event has a 64-player cap.

There are 6 rounds of swiss.

Each round will be 50 minutes in length.

After time in the round is called, active player will finish their turn and players will have 5 additional turns.

Wins are worth 3 points, draws are worth 1 point.

After swiss, there will be a cut to top 8 based on points awarded during the swiss, then single elimination rounds will determine the Ice Cube Champion. Players in the top 8 will draft the Magic Online Vintage Cube.

This tournament will be held to Regular REL standards.

No food or drink will be allowed on the tables during this event.

Cards are not to leave the table. If you need to step away from the table for any reason, call a judge first.

We are playing with cards owned by our players. Be careful when shuffling and handling cards at all times!!

Open Play

After the two scheduled drafts, we encourage attendees who do not make Top 8 to stay for open play. Several players will bring their own cubes and fire drafts on a rolling basis until the store closes at midnight!

Additional Information

We have offered the designers of our featured cubes free entry into The Ice Cube, so we only have 56 tickets for sale!

If all available tickets are sold, then you may contact us by email at [email protected] to be put on a waiting list in case someone can no longer attend! Open seats will be filled from the waiting list in the order that they were received!

IF YOU NEED TO DROP AFTER YOU HAVE ALREADY PRE-REGISTERED, PLEASE LET US KNOW ASAP SO WE CAN OPEN UP YOUR SPOT TO OUR WAITING LIST! In the event of a player needing to cancel their registration, the refund window for registration payments closes on January 18th at 11:59PM! Refunds will not be issued for any cancellations after that time, so make sure you plan accordingly!

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS EVENT OR REGISTRATION AT ANY TIME, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO REACH OUT TO US! GIVE US A CALL at (414) 763-91111 OR SHOOT US A MESSAGE THROUGH DISCORD OR FACEBOOK MESSENGER. Links for contact and more can be found here: linktr.ee/themanavault