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Sometimes, its nice to see how a cube deals with a misdraft. This is from alfonzo's cube. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/765087[/url]"] Ones 1 Aether Spellbomb 1 Enclave Cryptologist Twos 1 Cloud of Faeries 1 Epochrasite 1 Miscalculation 1 Remand 1 Selfless Spirit Threes 1 Blade Splicer 1...

Generally, what I do is establish a transcendent, or overarching goal, and thats easily the most important thing. Once you have a destination that you are trying to reach, than you can nest the things that you need to do to achieve that destination in descending order beneath it. This creates a...

I'm going to go back to what do you want from the format, and what kind of magic do you want to play? Right now your oath players complaints really summarize the effects of the split, and the fundamental message you're being told is that this looks like a poorly designed power cube to them--as...

The cube seems fine to me. Their is a pretty broad power gap, which I am sure is informing people's drafting habits. I would probably take what you have and refine it, until you get a feeling for these cards. The format feels a bit split, and I would expect that it will have to start tilting...

Thats an interesting observation: behold the beyond is a little bit like demonic collusion, mystical teachings, and doomsday in the sense that they can act like engines in themselves, demanding a large exchange of resources, but able to put together game winning combinations. All of those except...

Yeah, I'm having a hard time articulating this, which is unfortunate, because I feel its important. Part of it though is embodied kind of in this quote: Back when I was running the old net decked power cube from years ago, I remember drafting a deck with the balance->gargadon combo in it...

A few quick thoughts. The deathcloud deck from last weekend reminded me of how powerful unconditioned tutor effects are. Every cube deck I've ever drafted/seen that felt truly constructed was abusing tutors to do something powerful consistently: in this case, making sure it could run cemetery...

The other nice thing about scroll is that you can grab it with trinket mage, so even if we end up waiting until the late game to turn it on, you still cantriped. Trinket Mage is just so good in these low power lists, and has consistently impressed me. It signals artifacts, but can also signal...

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. I've been running magus of the scroll in that slot, but been pretty unimpressed with it as of late. One of the weird side effects of running cards like reunion, and tormenting voice, is that the self-discard decks kind of struggle with getting their hands...

In lower power, slower formats, spikeshot has been very good in practice. It comes down as a low investment threat, that later can grow to become a dominating piece of board control and reach. Even the floor can be very good, as some decks will be set back considerably on board by the presence...

lollolol...all of these years and I never noticed he has a god damn pet lizard sitting on his shoulder... wow I am not very observant!

Can these two cards exist in the same format without one invalidating the other? Spikeshot elder grim lavamancer My instinct is probably no, because the power gap seems to me pretty broad, but maybe being one drops makes it ok?

Great post from nick about one of my favorite cards: Lim-Dûl's Vault I have had this card for forever in my cube reserves. I have had it in the cube plenty and I have played with it plenty but despite this over the last ten plus years of cube this card has never impressed me until now. This...

Made the Hour of Devestation updates, and c-stick provided some nice drafts that highlight how some of those mechanics can help a format. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/759578[/url]"] Ones 1 Blossoming Defense 1 Condemn 1 Kessig Prowler 1 Thraben Inspector 1 Vines of Vastwood Twos 1 Adorned...

It really doesn't though, to be honest. We can rank design objectives out hierarchically, and lowering negative variance transcends pretty much everything else. I know this isn't going to be a constructive back and forth, but for any lurkers reading this, please don't cut negative...

So, here's a revelation from last night, now that I've had some more time to think about it. The first picks in this format tend to be engine pieces for broad mechanical themes (draw-discard sifters, or TOL manipulation self-mill), rather than just generically good cards or even narrow...

Lets talk about a card called Death Cloud, and the terrible things it just did in this absurd shell. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/758909[/url]"] Ones 1 Flame Slash 1 Greater Gargadon 1 Inventor's Apprentice 1 Pyrite Spellbomb 1 Spikeshot Elder Twos 1 Alchemist's Vial 1 Asylum Visitor 1...

Thats a unique challenge, and one that is good to experience here, in cube design. Social groups like structure (surprise surprise), and the only structure this group has likely really known is power max cube and its derivatives. Asking them to change is like tearing down the walls all at once...

Its not really burn out, its more that I've realized that the pleasure comes from pursuing the goal, and achieving it is actually quite bad, because now you have the problem of coming up with a new goal to achieve in order to be happy. So, basically, what I would end up doing was just endlessly...

These are the swaps I'm looking at by the time the new set comes out: To Be Implemented Fully by 7-7-2017 These changes are based on contemporary play testing results. Some of them have already been completed. sunbeam spellbomb->cogworkers puzzleknot soul-scar mage->greater gargadon ghastly...