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I dug this thread out to ask these questions: Would you play Tibalt if he didn't say "random"? Has anyone ever been happy putting Gathan Raiders in there 40?

I can confirm Honored Hierarch did work when he was drafted. If you are looking for a card that gives above average upside if the opponent fails to interact (or they play a blocker and you commit removal to there 1/2 drop), its pretty good.

I would cut blue 100% of the time and its not close.

I run two Experiment Ones, its an interesting angle to follow.

4 Man Westchester Draft Ones 1 Seal of Fire 1 Faithless Looting 1 Flame Slash 1 Hypnotic Siren 1 Enclave Cryptologist Twos 1 Brain Maggot 1 Satyr Wayfinder 1 Edge of Autumn 1 Blood Artist Threes 1 Lingering Souls 1 Seal of Doom 1 Yavimaya Dryad 1 Yavimaya Elder 1 Firespout Fours 1...

Is there a problem? Its sounds like these "mediocre unfocused midrange deck"s aren't edging out any other decks based on power level. Actually, if 7 people are drafting unfocused midrange decks (and losing to the one dude that just aggros out), maybe you should make those unfocused midrange...

Barbarian Ring has been killing people in my cube for years and I can't ever remember getting a complaint about it.

Turns out Draco is $3 and not $0.30 like I was guessing, so I bought one copy instead.

I like raptor and everything, but it is a lot more sensitive to bad draws then other one drops. If you have to incinerate there threat on turn two on the draw, your Raptor is 0/1. You draw two Raptors and no 2 drop, your swinging for 0 on two and probably only 2 on three. I run double raptor...

Absolutely fantastic card. Lots of play and counterplay. You can gimick it or play it straight up, it can work either way. I haven't 100% worked out exactly where the power level is on the card, but its certainly high enough for basically any cube to run.

Brb, ordering 10 copies.

Sea Drake is usually suicidal to cast on curve and the land bounce isn't very much in the way of late game utility. Its also pretty unlikely you'll be able to cast it with one land out (and thus avoid the trigger) unless you run uberfast mana. I've run it in the past, but its pretty marginal...

Rhystic Study isn't very good. Its a card that accrues value in the long term, but as the game stretches out you are less likely to be able to get value from it. Maybe I'm wrong, but its about the same power level as diviniation: potentially better early but a way worse topdeck.

The best blue aggro cards (at least from where I sit) are Ordeal of Thassa, Force Spike, Daze, Mana Vortex and Distortion Strike. Phantasmal bear really has no place with those cards. Except maybe in mana vortex decks its fine as a generic 2/x, but the other colors have plenty of those already...

Wasteland was really strong in my cube and more importantly it was making games less interesting. The decks that could best use it (Goblins, Other Red based aggro, White based heroic) just didn't need the power boost. I swapped into x2 tec edge in the land draft which don't get taken much, but...

It got demoted to the guest star pile but yeah, its a 2/1 doomed traveler for 2 with artifact synergy.

I'll probably pull "guest stars" into the draft. If the breaking point of the cube is ~540, then I can pull in about 60 guest stars. I think my pile is about 200 cards right now, so each one is about 3/10s of a slot?

The size of the cube had diluted things too much and the staple cards were getting too hard to draft. When I cut down (now at 480) I hacked away at narrow cards and "filler redundancy". In flipping over test packs, it "feels" like the ratios are back where it needs to be. Its probably back to...