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Kirb wins the Third Draft of the Riptide Drafting League with a record of 3-0 / 6-1! Thanks for the games, @ravnic, @Mown and @Kirblinx! Decklists below: Ones 1 Talisman of Progress 1 Dimir Signet 1 Sunset Pyramid 1 The Birth of Meletis 1 Medomai's Prophecy Twos 1 Merfolk Looter 1 Barbed...

I don't think high removal density is an absolute need, but it gives you (deisgner) a lot more leeway to keep threats in check, and players more leeway to not prioritize it in the draft. If you don't run high removal density, you basically need to make sure creatures will not run away with the...

People still choose what to maindeck, even if all cards end up in someone's pool. Of course if you create a draft format where all the cube is seen but decks are worse than in an 8-player regular draft (say, 6 booster sealed with extra steps to pretend it's a draft), then effective removal...

Disagree. Players will have access to a larger number of removal spells, so if the average removal is better than the average card they will likely play a larger proportion of them. Whether you want to adjust for that depends on if you want to keep the cube balanced for a full pod or optimize...

How much removal do you run in your cube? Is there a philosophy behind the density of it? Just for the sake of consistent benchmarking, let's define the lines of what to count as removal for the purposes of the percentages: Things that I considered removal: Spark Spray Day of Judgment...

Real dialogue with my wife: "Yay, my new cards from the D&D set arrived!" "Oh, they released another one? Does the new one have party?" "Uh... no, there's only one. This is that one." "But you've been talking about it and playing it for months." "Yeah, well, There's spoiler season, then there's...

I ran this a long time ago, but I remember it wasn't very good then. If you cast it early, the opponent plays around it. It you cast it late, it's a bad Tremor. The flexibility creature/Tremor doesn't help that much because a 1/1 is such a weak body that you are always usually sad to have it...

Yeah, I just didn't want to schedule 3 games for him in the same week. Mown x Kirblinx might end up being the final.

We drafted Ravnic's Casual Champions Cube! https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/nightmare @ravnic, @Mown and me (@japahn) have played our games already, and @Kirblinx had to go sleep because it was like 3am. The standings are: Japahn 2-0 / 4-1 Mown 1-1 / 3-2 Ravnic 0-2 / 0-4 Kirblinx - / - This...

Thanks for the two drop suggestions! Decided to go with a somewhat wordy lineup but hopefully high agency and supporting archetypes well: Battle Cry Goblin Burning-Fist Minotaur Magda, Brazen Outlaw

Reminder this is in 19 hours, 9 minutes!

Italy? I played Buraco with my grandparents as a kid in Brazil. Had no idea where else it was played, and I'm surprised the name is the same. It means "hole" in portuguese, which is the discard pile. I played chess very few times, though I watch videos sometimes because I find them interesting...

That's pretty cool, actually. It's like a metagame cube - sideboard against your opponent while drafting, play with decklists in mind. Tons of tech.

Ones 1 Jaspera Sentinel Twos 1 Fauna Shaman 1 Soulcatcher 1 Dromoka's Command 1 Flourishing Strike 1 Tangletrap Threes 1 Words of Worship 1 Lys Alana Bowmaster 1 Broken Wings 1 Needle Storm Lands 2 Plains 3 Forest Sideboard 1 Vapor Snag 1 Kangee's Lieutenant 1 Llanowar Augur 1 Warden of...

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I wonder how much of this is the extent to which a format lends itself to telling good stories. Our brains basically work in terms of "stories" so a format in which it's easier to understand why you won and why you lost is more prone to being relatable and making sense, instead of being a bunch...

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. When the outcome of your decisions is relatively small and local (lose one creature, lose 2 life), each decision is less exciting than big decisions when the outcome is winning or losing the game. A lower power level and particularly lower tempo often lends...

Just a possibility: maybe you're thinking of smooth vs jagged search space? Smoother as in "lines of plays that are equally good tend to be similar" vs jagged as in "similar lines of plays vary a lot in how good they are". Environments with little tension (everything is an artifact, all decks...

360 pulling from a duplicate seems fine, no need to warp things because of a single card. No one's building this on paper.