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For sure, I was pretty sold on cutting Lotus just because so many people were negative on it. I don't actually dislike the card in the cube myself but when a bunch of people say they don't like something I'm happy to just chop it out, nothing's sacred nothing needs to be there etc.

Wow this is incredible! I don't think I've ever had someone do this with one of my cubes before, I'm so honored that you loved the list enough to build it yourself and I'm so happy to hear that folks enjoyed it so much! It's making me giddy seeing all the cool decks and interactions you folks...

Some cubes that inspired this cube: The Ball Pit - The most well-known no-deckbuilding cube and the first one that I ever played. This is the cube where you can play every card facedown as a Chromatic Sphere. As you can imagine this completely warps the format into something that only vaguely...

Yeah I don't think it's particularly valuable to just focus on what was good in constructed for these types of cubes unless you're trying to do something very specific. Just look for cards that are solid draft roleplayers to fill out your list. Many cards that never saw the light of day in...

I just want to complain about Jitte. umezawa's jitte Why am I still seeing this card in cubes in the big 2026. Nobody has ever played a fun game with Jitte and no I don't want to hear your anecdote. Splashable in every deck, makes combat math impossible, makes the entire game about itself, hard...

Had this cube in the main event at Inland Northwest Cube Fest this weekend and it was a massive hit. Might post decks and talk about them later if I feel like it but wowowow people were so high on the cube it was so awesome. I was literally getting approached by folks like every 20 minutes all...

Time-period locked cubes are the wave for this. Can't look at new releases if they don't count :)

I do 5x8 for smaller groups and it's worked really well for that, but I haven't tried it with 8 players. I think the biggest consequence of this would be that players get a lot more "forced" picks. They get one additional last pick that has to go in their deck, and quite a few more picks where...

I don't run any new-old-border cards in my list personally, partially because I think it's very hard to find that line where something "feels" old border and it's gonna be different for everyone (even if I trust my own taste more than anyone else's :p) and partially because I think the fun in...

Random thought that's been knocking around in my head for the past few months: Old border cube is about the notes you don't play. The pre-8ED card pool has about 6,000 cards in it. This is just not that many Magic cards when you get down to it. It's barely more cards than there are in Standard...

Thanks! I'd like to revisit this project some time and tune it better since I think I'm a much better designer than I was when I put it together, but I'm not in a life situation that's conducive for buying new cubes at the moment so it's gonna have to wait.

I think no-deckbuilding is a really good solve for these kind of weird mixed power environments that are really focused on aesthetic. How do you get people to play with these goofy cards? Well just make it so they have no choice :)

Check out this list that I was tinkering with a few years ago: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/realmsoftheunreal

pattern matchersiege of towersmountain At our most recent draft somebody excitedly called me over to ask if this works. Told them it does and they searched up a mountain. Don't really care if I was right.

Found otag:color-spent-matters last night, definitely another useful one. Wish so many of these didn't use counters!