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Woo! I'm going to be off internet the next week, but I'm looking forward to seeing the decks/games (and trawling through all the picks). I've made sure the CubeTutor and CubeCobra are both up to date.

"Four-color theme-adjacent glue" is how I design all of my archetypes now.

Making aggressive angles possible while keeping the texture is definitely interesting. At least in my own cube, I think I have this worked out on the drafting end; it comes together pretty naturally. But I think I have similar worries about the impact on gameplay patterns. Right now my plan is...

Thinking about disruption and aggro: We've done a couple remote drafts and I'm continuing to refine my last update. I've been reworking my disruption suites and testing aggro-combo. I built some hand-picked lists to try out the feel of different aggressive strategies and then me and one of my...

Oh, yeah I changed how it works. Now every drafter just gets two moxen of whatever color they like at the end of the draft. Gonna be too many random tix for MTGO. I vote for Inscho's!

And from a designer's perspective the question "how does this card contribute to the gameplan of my deck compared to other options I could be running and is it an increase or decrease in my expected winpercentage?" is still useful, but it's not the designer's objective. Within any given pack...

There's one draft format I've used in the past that has been a big success but is not as slow as doing a full face-up draft. Draft the first NUM_PLAYERS boosters face-up, one at a time. I.e. crack the first booster and lay it out in a grid face up. Then each player picks one card at time. I...

Gauntlet has been so good for my group. Let me make the case, I think there are a couple things going for it: (1) It goes in a surprisingly large number of decks! Red/Blue spells with Turnabout or Frantic Search. Red-based artifact decks. Red-based aggro-combo and midrange decks (anything from...

Yeah, I can never see wanting Lotus Petal over Chromatic Star in a fair situation. I just played the Petal in a Underworld Breach deck in last week's cube draft and it was a solid playable when doing unfair things. Even so, in basically any scenario it can't compare to: Lion's Eye Diamond I...

Mycosynth Lattice Nature's Claim ~~The Conditional Removal Cube~~

Thanks! My paper version of the cube (stuck in our lab office for the last year) is all proxies. I don't think we're especially or unusually skilled (speaking for myself of course), but I guess we've had the exact same group of four drafting this cube since it's original form 3 years ago. So...

I don't think there's any mathematical error here is there? There are just two different objects, the marginal probability of casting a specific card on turn two versus the conditional probability of casting a specific card on turn two GIVEN that its in your hand. These are both perfectly...

I ended up replacing around ~70 cards. You can see the changes in the Cube Tutor blog here: https://www.cubetutor.com/cubeblog/97600 I also created copied the list over to Cube Cobra: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/xi7

Trying out Riptide Vintage Cube Since quarantine we've only drafted three times, and I hadn't updated the cube list because it felt good. Now I'm going back over the cube with two main goals in mind. First, smooth out the unplayable durdly cards. Second, replace them with something powerful and...

Flash was also in my cube for exactly one draft. One player drafted Flash Protean Hulk Woodfall Primus Academy Rector Karmic Guide Reveillark Recurring Nightmare and I think his average winning turn was ~2, including a turn 1 win that we still talk about when we draft. I ended up cutting...

There's one kind of multi-color space issue I'm thinking of Cadaverous Bloom People have talked on the forum before about a certain split identity in black where there are black cards that care about creatures (and usually the graveyard) and then black cards that don't and these basically go...

jlb my man

This very strongly mirrors my experience. Balance, Fastbond, Oath of Druids have been exclusively fun and healthy for us. All three of these cards are unusual in the drafting portion (they change the evaluation of other cards you open quite a bit) and create unusual play patterns. Recurring...

This card has been rising steadily for me. We don't pick it often, but the few times when someone has, I've noticed it performing well but also very flexibly - being colorless, and artifact, and having cycling cranks up the scenarios where Hollow One works. I think I've been underrating it a...

Just glancing at this, I'm not sure this will work - although obviously you should try it anyway to gather more data yourself based on you and your playgroup! My main concern is that when counters are an archetype in a normal cube, they can be thoroughly integrated so the cards are good in many...