Recent content by Hathaway

Do you have a list for this? Sounds like a great way to jam a game or two over coffee.

Do you have a list for the 63 cards? I do like your addition of the fetch lands that gain a life. Feels like a real cost to find a tapped land. I think that my question about mill is from my desire to see it shine somewhere. I guess the control deck could just win first player and then play to...

You still happy with no bonus given to the second player? I see that most of the mill and anti-mill cards have left the cube. Does this feel more balanced? I'm really interested in this format. Most of my mtg lately is Forgetful Fish.

Thank you all for the input. It means a lot to me. I've sent out a group message to my most frequent drafters asking for their thoughts. My dining room table is covered with cards from Ice Age to Urza's Destiny. Hope to get a pile together and posted this week.

I've built a few cubes over the past several years, and I actually enjoyed one of them. Some recent interest by a few friends has gotten me excited about putting a cube together, but I really need some guidance to keep the experience fun and balanced. I have started a few cubes and had a lot of...

Following along, as I've been trying to reduce the original Desert Cube to a 4 player size. How has the format fared with your all-desert mana base? It looks amazing.

Some recent results and a few thoughts: Ran a grid draft versus my wife and lost 1-2 with UG midrange against RUG control. Long, grindy games lost to huge spells. I probably should have boarded into all my 3 cmc or less cards for game three and tried to get in before she set up. Ended up...

Marang River Prowler

This will be rambling. It's 1:30 AM and I'm running off of coffee and key lime pie. Huge updates to the cube this weekend. Played several grid drafts last weekend and even got in two different 4p drafts. Control decks were basically undefeated, despite my best efforts with the derpiest of...

Built a 360 to watch it collect dust as my wife and I grid draft 162.

You have said it. It's a very solid UG ramp value card. It's slow for sure, but my deck wanted to stall until I could start dropping Crater Hellion and Hypersonic Dragon. Evolution refilled my hand after using removal and bounce early and made the bouncelands better. I hate to cut Sprout Swarm...

Quick update while I am thinking about it. I took the cube to the our local Tuesday night board game meetup. I got three others excited enough to play, though one is a dear friend who is in town for Thanksgiving. We ran five packs of nine cards. My friend Josh went 3-0 (6-2) with RUG...

Has anyone had any luck using Accumulated Knowledge to any success? Either through squadron picks or just jamming in several as the bulk of blue's card draw?

Does giving everyone access to them favor the slower decks? It seems like it would, as the aggro strategies want to use all their mana on turns one through four. Right? I defer to you, I have no experience with this idea. Do you put cycling lands in the BLB (look at me being hip) instead of...

I don't mean to sound thick, but what is the BLB?