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It's a great topic and I really liked this Lucky Paper Radio episode about it! You can craft an environment where bombs they don't have a particularly high win rate. In Kaldheim draft, the bombiest creature, Koma, Cosmos Serpent, has only a 59.4% winrate when maindecked and a 71.5% winrate...

Even with Growing Ranks you still need Quasiduplicate or something like that to make a Biovisionary token. Between drafting and drawing all three cards and not getting your Biovisionary or the populate source killed, it's cool, but I don't think I'd maindeck Biovisionary even if I had the other...

Good idea! It's like a modular cube, but in a much, much clearer way than I did it, I like it a lot. I was thinking, how many combinations are there? Assuming you have 5 guild each draft and want to have each color represented in 2 guilds so colors are proportional, it's basically "how many...

Ah, that's probably because the distinction between casting a spell card from exile vs copying a spell card in exile and casting the copy vs copying a spell in the stack is so confusing that it's easier to say "whenever you do one of those spell casty-things". I wouldn't take it as a sign of...

That's interesting, though I wonder how different this is from "give away 3 of the same bounceland to everyone" and draft 14-card packs instead of 15. I think both would work, and the vouchers feel a bit more familiar, but the giveaway feels like it would accomplish the same thing with fewer steps.

I can't find where it is exactly, but it's stated explicitly somewhere in the DM's guide that it's 6 to 8 combats a day. Of course you can stray away from that, and I did more like 1-3, but that really unbalances the game because spell slots, per-day abilities and rests are not scarce anymore. I...

I've run a 50+ session campaign in 5e. 5e's combat is so boring it hurts me to remember the combat. There are lots of problems with it. Off the top of my head: system is balanced for 6 combats a day, which pushes the game towards a lot of combat battle's tension goes down as it goes it, and it...

Uh isn't Winding Way much stronger than Grapple? Am I missing something? In a deck that's split between lands and creatures that's like a green Foresee. More realistically, with 17 land, 15 creatures, 8 non-creature spells, you get either 1.7 lands or 1.5 creatures, and the part that makes it...

I tried out a draft on CubeCobra, and the biggest problem I ran into was that there were so many gold and effectively gold cards being passed around, but no fixing in sight that I was forced into a guild and couldn't either find anything worth splashing or any fixing to enable that. So it just...

Just realized that Lucky Paper Radio asked the same question to Justin Parnell in this week's podcast: https://luckypaper.co/podcast/38 ...but LadyMapi started the discussion a day before the episode was released. Time traveler detected? Did daylight savings time throw you off?

Particularly when designing archetypes and ensuring they are supported, the player and designer roles get mixed up easily. The designer just wants to provide the player the tools they need to be able to draft the archetype. This, plus the powermax philosophy (always replace a card with a better...

Welcome! I have a LOT of trouble with that too. It might be some aspect of perfectionism that I want to cram into my cube as many strategies and variety as it is possible to do so. Thinking about the realistic limits is helpful to counteract that. The limits of cubing The synergy limit...

My favorite MTG tournament to watch is Vintage Cube. Yesterday's games were really good, with tight play, huge decision trees, pivotal mistakes, and confused commentators. Also, a Skype call. You can watch the whole thing here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/949249576 If you're looking to...

Updates 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 Core These updates focus on two points: Reducing the speed of games Adding more mana sinks Other goals: Swing the pendulum towards synergy Reduce power level In: Rhox Veteran Conclave Tribunal Serene Steward Abzan Battle Priest Visionary Augmenter Blessed...

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm considering these for the next update: Cage of Hands Dark Impostor Duskfang Mentor Knight of the Ebon Legion Elvish Warmaster Chameleon Colossus Elder of Laurels Knight of the Ebon Legion is nice, I had removed it to reduce the speed of the cube but I swap...

Nice, I ran it and it feels like a pretty good way to draft by yourself. How hard is it to make it read a .csv or .json with the cube instead of an .RData?

At the time I thought "enters the battlefield" was too "let's sell this to teenagers"... but now "battlefield" and "exile" sound a lot better and clearer to me, and better match the other zones "library" and "graveyard". "Mana value" already sounds better to me than "converted mana cost".

Thrasios looks strong, but it doesn't raise red flags to me. 4 mana to activate an ability that doesn't affect the board (well, it puts lands into play) is a significant amount, and it can snowball with time, but not by itself, as just drawing cards and playing lands accomplishes nothing. I...

Sure, I'm open to a loose interpretation of manasink. There's a gray area, but I'm more interested in finding cards that solve the problem (avoiding topdecking, leave no lands untapped) than discussing where the line is.

Why doesn't it belong in high powered environments?