Recent content by Chriskool

I wonder how well it would translate to make the cardpool and then assign rarities for limited. A great task for employed coast-based magic casters...

I am surprised that a fan-curated constructed format never emerged, except that it would require a lot of effort to design and test. This isn't radical enough. Curate every card for the format! (Also am surprised that such a format isn't a WotC product. They could do a large reprint set once a...

Saw another cube named Inventors' Fair recently and thought fondly on Grillo and their contributions to my gaming life. I have reverted my PP2.0 to the original list, but I am playing such little MTG, that I do not know if it will be played. :(

I built some Invasion Block Constructed decks this year. Playing with them reminded me: Magic was so simple during that period (and the basic rules engine really shines). Plus, the cards are gorgeous to view. I also built some ~August 2007 Standard (Ravnica - Coldsnap - Time Spiral - 10th...

people play the Gameboy version (casually) competitively via the Switch! I have seen it in some discords!

I have fallen into both retro and contemporary pokemon tcg gameplay due to an offhanded comment by my partner and a purchase of some precon decks! :wagg: From the League Battle Deck [Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR] and a few games, I found a recent event where a Palkia deck was competitive and...

Note: I need to proofread this some more... will come back to clean up the language and thoughts (bed time for now)! So, I played some over the summer, and midrange soup seemed to be the most powerful approach. From memory: Adversary drafted Blue-Black in the beginning, but opened up his mana...

The new mtgo name-a-card interface tripped me up... but adversary played like a gentleman until the Meddling Mage was dead. Grid drafting and playing is so much fun :)))) When I won, things were mostly down to the wire.

Grid Draft 17! https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/invi_limelight_rev_grid?view=spoiler With added Izzet/Orzhov multicolor support and mana denial. Pack 1 Pack 2 Pack 3 Pack 4 Pack 5 Pack 6 Pack 7 Pack 8 Pack 9 Pack 10 Pack 11 Pack 12 Pack 13 Pack 14 Pack 15 Pack 16 Red-black seemed to win more...

Long time, no chat, Nemo! I am interested rebooting MTG with cards that have been designed as well! My fiddling was as such: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/1o1uj . I was originally looking to make Serra Angel a viable wincon and not get into DFCs/planeswalkers/other card types; there was no...

Dom, this is awesome. Thanks for taking the time to catalog and share the experience! Work and health permitting, I am planning to CubeCon next year. Was there a good opportunity to play outside of the "event" for those of us that are washed-up casuals (or should attendees plan on playing the...

I played Invitational Limelight over the summer and didn't care for the feel of the games: it played much like midrange soup without deck identity. I'm trying a higher power package (aiming for smaller resource games) with Garfield's favorite play pattern: land destruction! This update will also...

I am interested in seeing how any grid playtesting goes! It will be interesting to see how the different formats (grid v sealed v small pack booster draft) play.

Fun article! I assume this article introduce me to the idea of drafting with cards I owned (as I drafted from a box remnants after tearing apart my 5-color decks in 2003)...

Pretty enamored, but not at my peak. I like thinking about playing (and still look at spoilers / cubes / Canadian highlander), but I am not playing much- maybe 8 hours a month. I deleted Arena as it wasn't sparking joy and have no friends that I am playing with locally. I am part of a discord...