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Onderzeeboot
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On Scryfall, not that I know of.
Make the set a cube on CubeCobra.
Woooooooooow That’s actually pretty damn smart. Cobra has so many more tools to analyze with.
Wizards are trying to tempt Riptiders onto Arena...
Can someone help me
Can someone tell me what is going on?!? Where did the 20 hybrid cards go?
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/61e7227ce945b80ffcdfc122?view=spoiler&scale=medium
The list has 336 cards (8 players x 3 packs x 14 cards in each pack = 336). The CC list tells us that the cube list has 336 cards. Yet the 20 hybrid cards are not there. But they count them as though they are there.
Can someone tell me what is going on?!? Where did the 20 hybrid cards go?
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/61e7227ce945b80ffcdfc122?view=spoiler&scale=medium
The list has 336 cards (8 players x 3 packs x 14 cards in each pack = 336). The CC list tells us that the cube list has 336 cards. Yet the 20 hybrid cards are not there. But they count them as though they are there.
This is what I get when I filter for is:hybrid
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/61e7227ce945b80ffcdfc122?view=table&scale=medium&f=is:Hybrid
A "Doomgape" that is actually a Doomheart Campus.
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/61e7227ce945b80ffcdfc122?view=table&scale=medium&f=is:Hybrid
A "Doomgape" that is actually a Doomheart Campus.
Yeah that's because there is no such thing as a Rakdos Campus. So what I do whenever I add a custom card is find the card name that is as close alphabetical as possible and override the art with the custom card art. Then change all the stats on the card so it fits the custom card.
- However CC thinks there are 336 cards on the list.
- But if you count them, there are only 316.
- So the 20 are hidden somewhere.
I know I put them on
They've always been in the list.
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/61e7227ce945b80ffcdfc122?view=table&scale=medium&s1=Type
Look at the bottom of this sort. There are 8 hybrid creatures and 12 hybrid spells at the bottom of their columns
Look at the bottom of this sort. There are 8 hybrid creatures and 12 hybrid spells at the bottom of their columns
Okay I'll do that
Oh wow. That's weird. So they do exist if we use that sorting. Hmm I'll add that to the topic. Thanks.
Onderzeeboot
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The Sort does something weird. Compare your default sort (the top one) with an edited sort that uses 'Color Category' as the primary sort instead of 'Color Category Full'.
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/8vdn
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/8vdn?s1=Color+Category
I have no idea why this is, but if you set your default primary sort to 'Color Category', it seems to work as you intended?
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/8vdn
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/8vdn?s1=Color+Category
I have no idea why this is, but if you set your default primary sort to 'Color Category', it seems to work as you intended?
That seems to work. I'll go with this until they solve the bug.
3/2s for 3 and big/small games are all the rave lately
Chris Taylor
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I hadn't seen the lands one. Anyone acted on it and have some anecdotal evidence?
One of the benefits of The Black Cube is that the percentage of maindecked lands drafted is higher. I hadn't articulated it that way, but knew it was there. Similarly, every deck having access to black gives a higher opportunity to maindeck a drafted nonland card.
Onderzeeboot
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Hadn't seen it either, very interesting read. I'm at 64 fixing at 450, but I seed my boosters to always include at least 1 land. I wonder how that changes the math.
So, according to this article, you should run 60 lands in a 360 cube, which translates to 75 in a 450 cube. That's 16.7% of the cards, or 2,5 lands per 15 card booster. I'm at a 2 lands per booster*
* 1 [the seeded land] + ((64-24 [the number of lands left after seeding])/(450-(8*3*9 [the number of seeded cards])) * 6 [the number of slots left per booster]) = 2,026, which is actually slightly lower than the 2,133 lands per booster I would get if I didn't seed my boosters. Huh.
Hmm... I wonder if it's a smart idea to separate the lands and the nonlands, and seed 2 lands always (so you have a guaranteed amount and color-wise evenly proportioned number of lands in the draft). I quite like that idea actually, and it's super close to what I already run per draft anyway. That way I could cut back from 64 lands to simply the 48 best lands, and have 16 more slots to devote to nonland cards.
Edit: I can't math, retry!
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Seeding is a great idea! Still, would it not be simpler to have them in the basic land box?
Allow each player to take:
2 tri coloured lands
3/4 dual coloured lands (not more than 3/2 of each colour combination)
3/4 evolving wilds/ prismatic vista type of lands
You lose the fighting over the fixing, but also the unlucky event when you see only fixing in the wrong colours. You could also make vouchers.
Starting players (or once who do not play often) often forget the fixing and get punished for it. Doling them out solves that problem.
Onderzeeboot
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The nice thing of seeding is that you actually have to draft the lands, so you get not only the fighting over fixing, but also different distributions because a 4-color drafter naturally is more hungry for mana fixing than a 2-color drafter. I don't mind that
What I like about seeding like I suggested is that you guarantee every color is evenly supported. If you see only fixing in the wrong colors, that's a good sign then that your lane isn't as open as you thought it was.Also, I support only five of the ten color pairs, so it's actually less likely to never see a land in your colors.