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I think it’s probably not so much people being fans of hexproof as it is underdogs liking some high variance cards. Logically speaking, if there are 8 people in a pool and you are at the lower end of skill amongst those players, then if there was little to no variance you would basically be...

Hard draw-go Control is worse on arena though since there are no match timers. A lot of play styles that would go to time in a normal event will take an hour a match on arena if someone is slowplaying.

I’ve gotten to the point where I have started autoconceding and getting up to do something else when opp. disinformation campaign resolves. Not because it’s an auto-win, but because I have better things to do then sit for an hour watching someone pass their turn while I sit with an empty hand of...

I’ve done about a dozen or so drafts on Arena now and my early impression is that the set kind of sucks for limited. It might be better in an environment with timed matches. 1 in 2 matches is against a dimir deck with a bunch of hand destruction and it turns into an excruciating top-deck fest...

I have been doing drafts and sealed on Arena. Arena seems pretty cool and I’m enjoying GRN so far. It seems complicated and Ravnica-y, where sometimes your shit just doesn’t come together and it’s a mess heh

Actually Ghitu Encampment seems more on theme and the first-strike would work with some themes maybe.

Oh yeah another easy one: Memorial to War I'm thinking of replacing that with: Ramunap Ruins Or the mono colored manland

Many consider Dominaria to be one of the best limited sets of all time. What would you change if you were going to make a retail draft simulation cube? High level goals: - Art must be good. Worst case, I can proxy something at a card maker, but would prefer not to if possible. - Trim some of...

We did another draft. This time my deck was a much more durdly GW deck. I had cards like Student of Warfare, Reliquary Knight, and Coatl Viper that would slowly gain +1/+1 counters but I didn't have much evasion outside of Elitescale Guard, the guy who taps an opponent creature when a +1/1 is...

Yeah, I play Cathartic Reunion in budget (heirloom but with paper and slightly higher budget) Welder deck and it’s pretty easy to play. You don’t have to discard the perfect 2 cards each time to get value. Edit: I like it a lot more than Tormenting Voice. I want to dig *deep* if I’m taking...

I think they also have synergy with delve effects in general, so I think the whole Sultai wedge probably has some extra value from them. If I wanted to support red and white more, one idea was to include the artifact lands in those colors and break the cycle. Those are very narrow cards though...

I think we are on the same wavelength here. If you have variable numbers of drafters, then an approach where the draft is a function of the number of drafters and numbers of cards seen will allow you to maintain the probabilities that the archetypes and factors like removal will be seen in the...

This is awesome

To use some examples at the extremes like Richard Garfield would: 1 drafter drafting 45 cards from a pool of 3 * 15 cards: The deck would be really bad. It would need to run a bunch of lands and a bunch of different color cards that don't have much to do with each other. 2 drafters drafting...

I do something similar, but try to let everyone still see 360 cards. Only seeing 45 cards x person can kind of suck as you have less players. Things like burning vengeance and spider spawning no longer become a thing and it starts feeling like Sealed. So the way we approached this problem is to...