Recent content by OlegKlishin

Full disclosure: I haven't had experience with implementing occasionals in my cube. But I'm seriously considering it. I've read all of the discussions, including your experience, and I like what I see. I can compare it to retail draft rares that aren't format defining bombs. A lot of them are...

Memory unlocked. I've had this exact card when I was a child. It prompted me to think of ceilings and floors. 4/4 haste overrun seems great, right? Yet nobody played it, and I though it must be bad then, since the floor isn't good in constructed. I didn't grasp the concept of draft back then...

This might actually make more sense than my convoluted plan. I already have half of these on my shortlist. I'm considering my different options, thanks!

I've played Abbot some time before, and impulse draw was so awkward for his place in mana curve. I also don't like keyword tokens in paper. Counterpoint. I've played these and loved them in my low power cube. Scry is surprisingly handy: Burning Prophet Heartfire Immolator Now I'll be trying...

In my first cube I've tried to be cute with Selesnya with heavy-handed enchantment theme, and in the end found it workable, but a little boring. I could push it up a power level, but honestly just not feeling it. That's a big reason I switched to a whole new cube instead, because of damn...

Super cool project! I also love the deck box. I'm certain you've thought about cycling lands. I'm curious why not smooth the issue of some players drafting too many of them? Unless aesthetic is the issue. Smoldering Crater Forgotten Cave Desert of the Fervent Blasted Landscape

I love your preamble and justification. Having a flavor basis is cool. I also appreciate your taste in cards. I like small resource denial games, but I'm too much of a coward to design for them. I'm so Riptide-pilled, that half of these cards are either in my cube, or were considered...

Contrary to what I said earlier, they still find mechanical niches to explore. Maybe precisely because of top-down design with new unfamiliar lore instead of Magic canon. I love white prowess, especially with according color pie effects. Some more heroic is also interesting. I was pondering...

I've recently had a thought. They might've finally strip mined Magic's potential to its limits over 30+ years. There are no new cards to make, because everything has been done. That's why we get weird twists on mechanics that were perfectly fine, just to present it as new. Sneak in place of...

I played around a bit with my old cube and my WIP cube. Tried 100, 300 and 1000 drafts. At 1000 there are ton of extraneous data, like 4 same WR weenie archetypes. Also, bots obviously can't figure more niche archetypes. They figured out enchantments as WG midrange, but completely ignored BG and...

I guess that depends on how you view "graveyard aggro" strategy. You probably mean to discard selected things like Anger or madness cards, then you need more enablers. I can share my first cube experience, with which I'm reasonably happy. Mind, it was catered toward non-Magic players, so no...

Love all your stuff! I've read so much before, that most of these turned out already present on my shortlist. I want pretty much everything here, except maybe discard/madness. I worry it takes too much space. Just added berserkers back in a few days ago, they look so sweet! That also means I'll...

I love your extensive writeups. You definitely have a style in your cubes. It seems we have a lot of common tastes, so I take inspiration to finally finish mine some day. I'd be curious to read why you think it didn't capture what you were looking for, and how did the high level concept...

As someone who also ponders green spell desnsity prospect, but without elfball combo, possibilities are not that amazing. Though I'm also excited by new Strixhaven cards, marrying mechanics across different colors. For green spells, I'm looking at cheap hand neutral cards like: Bushwhack...

It's uncanny how you are on a similar path as me, but way ahead. I'm totally stealing some cards from here. How do Enduring Renewal decks work? Something like grindy stax? Also, what are your thoughts on: Jace, the Perfected Mind vs. Jace, Wielder of Mysteries?