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    Pokemon TCG: the budget Vintage you didn't know existed

    people play the Gameboy version (casually) competitively via the Switch! I have seen it in some discords!
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    Pokemon TCG: the budget Vintage you didn't know existed

    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...
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    I'm Going Gaga for Grid Drafting

    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...
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    Meddling Mage Grid - vMH2

    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.
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    Meddling Mage Grid - vMH2

    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...
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    Simplicity Cube

    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...
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    Dom's Stream of Consciousness

    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...
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    I'm Going Gaga for Grid Drafting

    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...
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    The Pocket Graveyard Combo Cube

    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.
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    General [Lucky Paper] The History of the Cube Format

    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)...
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    General How much do you love Magic right now

    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...
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    Miscellaneous Grid Drafting

    Invitational Nongreen Grid Draft #17 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
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    Miscellaneous Grid Drafting

    Grid Draft # 16 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 Pack 17 Pack 18
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    Miscellaneous Grid Drafting

    An acquaintance constructed a preliminary 5-color, 180 card cube to 1v1 grid draft (in the above packs)! Thank you to our lords and saviours at the 'Lab and the wizardry that is R-Studio for giving me this opportunity. As I've only been working with less than 5-color card populations, I had no...
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    Miscellaneous Grid Drafting

    Grid Drafting - 5c https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/hhay 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 Pack 17 Pack 18
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