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  1. CaptnIrony

    General Weekly Fun Q: Worst card to lose to & best to win with?

    The two types of players. EDIT: This almost feels like a political compass (I've read about them earlier today, there's some recency bias here): What people want from winning could be measured on an axis from "Perfectly executed plan" to "Macguyver'ed win". Perfectly executed plans look like...
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    Ice Cube

    I've got around a month to myself and am considering building a second cube as a project. My first cube has been gathering dust since the pandemic, getting 8 players together has proved to be an issue. The new cube would hopefully be meaningfully different from my existing one, and easily...
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    Erik's Boredom cube (Low power, budget)

    Hi, My hypothetical cubes that don't pan out have had a problem with Naya as well. My current trend is pulling towards really wide archetypes that split into sub-archetypes. Berserkers is a decent/default choice. You could also do Heroic/Prowess/Berserkers/Atarka Red-like overlap. I separate...
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    General CBS

    Loopy Lobster could work with level counters: Stage 1 is now base creature. Stage 2-4 are now 1 to 3 level counters. Whenever ~ becomes tapped, add a level counter to ~ Whenever ~ has 4 or more level counters, remove all level counters from it. I know there are many differences (stuff about...
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    General CBS

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    General CBS

    So... this isn't useful? I don't populate a cube based on "who is the best character", and the fact that Elspeth is a tier A in your list doesn't mean she doesn't fit my power band, since you rated the average (highest?) power level of a card rather than each individual one?
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    General Archetype Shapes

    They can, but it'll be a bit more "off the beaten path". I may have a BG or WU signpost or multicolour Spirit card, but not a WB, WG, UB or UG. The two main colour pairs should have more cohesive decks, while the "secondary" ones are more of a "good stuff in these colours with some synergy...
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    General Archetype Shapes

    I had done something similar to this, the idea was to make a cube based on 5 4-colour combinations to be seen as two pairs. UBRG: Graveyard WBRG: Tokens WURG: Spellslinger WUBG: Spirits WUBR: Artifacts And the pairs being as follows, IIRC: WU: Spirits (aggro tempo control) UB: Graveyard...
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    General Modern Horizons

    Very interesting. The first part of the first paragraph felt a bit like a miss to me, but I hadn't realised the number of cost reducers in your list. I've thought of similar things when trying to design some archetypes off the beaten path. It would be cool to have a place to discuss these. I...
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    General Modern Horizons

    Right, I missed that, sorry.
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    General Modern Horizons

    I can't tell how serious this response is meant to be, but there are quite a few differences between making everything cost 1 less and having 1 extra mana per turn. These make a big difference: Dusk Legion Zealot Elvish Visionary Fblthp, the Lost Wall of Blossoms Wall of Omens Which I think...
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    General Modern Horizons

    Woah. Never realized Hideaway included the "Enters the bafflefield tapped."
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    General Modern Horizons

    Cost reducers and card draw. Sort of like storm ;)
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    General Good cards you don't run because they are ugly

    I don't have any of those, but I have other aesthetic concerns that might make me avoid a card: Commander trinket text, DFC, white borders, old wording, some trinket text, weird card frame, only rarely does card art come into play, unless I'm theorizing a specific gimmick cube (like desert).
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    General Modern Horizons

    You get a Golem for each spell this turn, since the spell with storm has the added text "Create a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token.", before being copied.
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    General Modern Horizons

    Whenever another Bear enters the battlefield under your control,
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    General Modern Horizons

    ????
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Do you have a cube list or a list of Alpha cards?
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    General [WAR] War of the Spark

    Yeah, my brief stint in the field didn't go much beyond NP-Hard or EXP-Space problems, I hadn't heard/seen of the Turing reduction. Anything beyond NP-Complete feels beyond my ability to remember what I've seen, I end up just figuring out what things mean from the words/context.
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    General [WAR] War of the Spark

    Thank you for the correction, I'm assuming all the talk about "super Turing"/Hypercomputation are simply stating what we'd need to be able to solve these types of problems, but not that we have problems that we'd consider more complex? I think I have a big issue with headlines/media. As for...
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