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I'd say for the most part, our group weren't originally Johnnys (only one person plays combo in our vintage playgroup). I see the in-depth combo strategies arising in two main ways. (1) By Design In my environment, there's not really a "path-of-least-resistance" aggro or control deck to fall...

Man, I'm so glad I grew out of thinking this way early in life.

Latest draft was just as good or better than the previous. This time around we had a 3-way tie for first place, and the brews were as sweet as ever. For the most part I still think I don't want to make any meaningful changes. I might replace the X spells Ravaging Blaze and Exsanguinate so that...

safra with the technology

Great post! For obvious reasons, I relate to a lot of the ideas you've outlined above. I think I can help distill some of the basic principles you're aiming for. Before I do, I'd like to point out two warnings about the cubetutor list you posted. First, to me it feels more like an artifact...

Oh, no, nothing that complicated. Just half the draft with picks revealed, half the draft with picks hidden. Drafting recursively would probably take longer than a full Rochester, lol.

Through chance experimentation, we ended up with a draft format for 4-6 players that has worked so well we've stuck with it. First you do a "face up" phase. This is 20-card-pack Rochester draft, you go through one pack per person. Each player gets to take two cards per pack and you discard...

Praxis time! Since November, I've done a number of drafts and changed around nearly 70 cards. If the original post in this blog captured the Mox Cube in beta, then the current list is getting very close to a 1.0 release. Most of that work has been smoothing out the overall card quality, and as a...

Chasing the "Artifact Deck" Artifacts as a theme have not been working in my cube. The first player to try to draft the archetype ended up with a contraption of cards that could ferociously spin its wheels but not actually accomplish anything. 0-6 game record. Weeks later, another player...

I think the fundamental tension you're hitting here is summarized in the following post. It doesn't necessarily provide you a direct solution to your problem, but the suggestions at the very bottom might give you a starting place. (The quality of posts you can find trawling through this forum is...

Hahaha, Chapo Trap House is an American leftist podcast. It's a meme-ish thing for their fans to tweet "go on chapo" to people who express even marginally left-wing views - usually sarcastically at conservative media figures. After I left my job as a software engineer and especially after I...

huh. found where my socialists at.

I felt this a bit too. I try not to think of having my archetypes as limited to certain colors, but certainly during the drafting process when you have a Soul-Fire Grandmaster and a Seeker of the Way, the spells that feel good with this style of deck are usually not in white. I think my answer...

Yup this is definitely going to play like a storm deck. For me it comes down to having the three ingredients: 1) mana generation, 2) replacement, and 3) payoffs. You've definitely got the mana generation. You have replacement in the form of blue cantrips, pull from the aether, and explosion. You...

My environment is high powered (albeit not in a traditional way) and Time Spiral, double Frantic Search, etc, cause the mana doublers to typically shine in blue decks. But I think I can provide some good examples of how to use the doublers in purely Red/Green decks which can work in high and low...

Drafted safra's cube. I found it quite difficult to draft because the individual power level of cards is quite high, but I go the distinct feeling that if you get certain pieces to come together, you could end up with some TRULY busted decks. When I tried to follow those strands to construct...

Drafted RavebornMuse: Started by doing a practice draft where I ended up in Red-splash-Blue tempo deck. After getting used to the cards a bit, I jumped in again and ended up with this deck: your cube is fucking awesome. I started by taking some durdle-y 5 and 6 drops. I took Tamiyo's Journal...

Just did this dumb exercise: what are your top 10 most powerful and bottom 10 least powerful cards? The meaning of "powerful" is going to vary by environment, so this can mean whatever you want it to me. Most powerful individual cards, cards best in their archetypes, top 10 highest picks, etc...

Aw sad times. Then you'd need to swap: Elvish Piper Sneak Attack for Mana Flare Cryptolith Rite at the very least. Then you either have the Cryptolith Rite + Paradox Engine line or the mana doubler -> Zacama to go infinite. So Zacama fits well in those existing archetypes but doesn't also...

I had never really considered this card before, but it's a perfect fit for me. It produces a very natural overlap between creature-cheat and ETB storm. I put together a sample storm decklist: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/1034786[/url]"] Zeroes 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Pearl Ones 1 Enlightened Tutor...