General CBS

[Chris Taylor]

K. I broke singleton and went too nuts with it. Work in progress for sure. Appreciate all the feedback. Maybe I need to limit breaking singleton to Eldrazi only.

Hell yeah dude!

I think an important thing to keep in mind with singleton breaking is that you can always just, adjust the numbers. I like to start at 2, bump up to 3 if something feels really essential. But you can also start at 4, bump up or down if necessary. It can feel intimidating if you've never done it before, but it's really no different from adjusting the density of any other effect! We do this kind of adjustment and tuning with things like removal density, creature density, counterspell density, whatever. It's no different just because it's extra copies of the same card

I wonder how much resistance to duplicates comes from actual "this is how we've always done it" thoughts, subconscious or otherwise, and how much comes from people who never get to play or edit their cubes, and end up thinking that every change they make needs to be this rosetta stone

 

[TekLazar]

I think so, even websites like CubeCobra don't let you put in multiples at once except through a mass import. So you have to manually type in each of your cards and it seems a bit strange why that is not the case, at least for the sake of lands.

 

[LadyMapi]

Yeah, one of the things I discovered when working on this list (where I edited a bunch of cards to not be green) is that there really isn't a good way to go "yeah, I want 30 copies of this card". Tweaking all of the Land Grants to be colorless was a pain.

 

[LadyMapi]

Thinking about the "have X lessons in your graveyard" stuff in TLA/TLE, how many lessons would you have to run for that to be a reasonable ask? I'm bad at judging graveyard density stuff.

(I'm thinking of dredging up an idea that got floated around when Strixhaven first came out of making a cube with the houserule that Arcane = Lesson, and having more reasons to care about that houserule is a good way to make it feel worth it.)

 

[Brad]

Yeah, one of the things I discovered when working on this list (where I edited a bunch of cards to not be green) is that there really isn't a good way to go "yeah, I want 30 copies of this card". Tweaking all of the Land Grants to be colorless was a pain.

Filter to "Land Grant" then hit the header over them, probably Sorcery (30), and tap colorless next time.