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Don't have time to expound at too much length, but I love Chromatic Star - I run two in my list at a Vintage cube power level and would never cut them. Unless you're an aggro deck, they basically let you play 39 cards while fixing your mana for free. In my playgroup, every 3+ color non-aggro...

The list looks pretty stream-lined, I like it. I like the very dense overlapping archetypes too. Took it for a spin and ended up with this aggro list: Ones 1 Spectral Sailor 1 Stitcher's Supplier 1 Gnarlwood Dryad 1 Diregraf Ghoul Twos 1 Bloodghast 1 Dark Confidant 1 Lotus Cobra 1...

I've found As Foretold to be super good. The main thing I've learned from seeing it in play a bunch is the following: at first I thought this was a synergy-based build around like you said - e.g. wildfire or prison decks. The first time I drafted it was in a Stasis deck to break symmetry. But...

I disagree. Microtransactions (loot boxes, whatever you want to call it) always warp design decisions. This is a mostly non-controversial point. Once you include microtransactions, you want people to buy them. Therefore you'll make game design decisions that exist to do THAT rather than...

Looked at your list in detail for the first time, and I wanted to pop in to say I really like it. You have an interesting mix of different ideas you've combined here and while I recognize a lot of concepts pulled from riptide wisdom, the particular combination actually strikes me as pretty...

I've been running Balance for about 8 months now and I've enjoyed it. It's definitely a busted card, but it has this going for it: Balance can completely turn the game around out of nowhere, but it rarely, if ever, outright ends the game. You get all the excitement of high-powered magic, but...

I have never explicitly considered this before, but it EXACTLY describes what I've felt. I run: Voice of Resurgence Knight of the Reliquary Kitchen Finks but maybe I'll just expand out because I want to fit in Saffi Eriksdotter Renegade Rallier

Love the use of existing art + ixalan transform borders. It's very clear that these stickers are separate from cards you can cast, and existing art (especially e.g. marionette master) provides a good anchor for what the card is intended to do. Comparison w/ the emblems is very apt to me i.e...

Yeah, I literally just put Bomat Courier in the cube, so I'm ready to go. I'm envisioning some Survival of the Fittest Chainer, Nightmare Adept Wild Mongrel Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis nonsense.

Whelp, I guess I'm running custom cards now.

We've been drafting more or less the same cube list since May - I think the previous version of the cube was in a healthy place and there was more than enough unexplored territory to keep things fresh. But lots of interesting sets have been released since then, and drafting regularly let me get...

why work out the distribution when you can do monte carlo lets go

lol.

Well my hands are tied for the next cube update.

There's some good 2017 Riptide content on this: and in particular there was some very relevant sharpening on this particular line of thought that occurred shortly after: This definitely feels like central-bouncelandian-wisdom: run Reshape and Doomed Necromancer instead of Tinker and Sneak...

fuck that name boys anne

I desperately want a cube where a Spore Frog, double Weather the Storm deck is good.

This card is just so my style that I know I'm gonna play it either in the mox cube or the storm cube. Seems pretty fun in the welder + wraths artifact control deck, in the eggs + scrap trawler combo decks, or in mardu sacrifice decks.

I've found it to be fine. I'm not going to cut it because the flexibility is nice - I want to support as many different combo decks as possible, so having the flexible draft slot alongside Baral, or a familiar is valuable. That being said, Cloud Key is best by a considerable amount in the...

Great post, and it makes sense. Interestingly, I think my personal cube tastes and design philosophy have been strongly pushing me away from thinking about archetypes in this way. With every update I find myself going further and further towards making every archetype 4 or 5 colors. The point...