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Here is what you are looking for. Do a search under his username on the site: he has a number of articles that focus on Innistrad mechanics. A notable exert re our topic: Than a forshadowing of the coming perspective shift: I love how he stumbles across something significant, and than a...

Yes. Its like, you need to have some structure to orient the format, but too much structure and it becomes stifling. Even if the archetypes aren't structured to the point where they are explicitly on rails, if there is no unknown space to explore, than eventually people will learn the format...

This is the card I really want right? Trade Routes Return temples/cycling lands back to your hand, power molten vortex/seismic assault/loam/landfall/drake haven etc., promote some sort of R/U lands combination? More of a late game smoothing engine, less likely to be viewed as another nutso...

I think the issue that those formats are having is that they are starting to butt up against a ceiling. Recent printings have been so good, that the power gap is stating to naturally narrow, and now is at the most marginal point its been in years. Once the power gap hits a certain point of...

Yes. If you're going to have both fair and unfair decks in a format, the unfair decks can't be so powerful that the portion of the cube dedicated to fairness becomes effectively dead zones in the cube. Thats the big advantage of having a tightened powerband and lower (but not too low) power...

Thats a solid analysis. For reference, here is the post I was referring to. But than he kind of had a card analysis that went: "if I can run it in a powered cube, I can't conceive of it in a lower powered cube" which was just off sometimes.

I think the problem is less with power max and more when power maxers start to stile the exploration of other ideas. Like I said in the other thread, cube is a casual kitchen table format, and as long as that remains the case, there is no real reason to be overly concerned about variance. In a...

I remember some people on the board saying compulsion was too good.

Mental Discipline ?

I would stay away from blue bounceland disruption, as that will likely just end up cementing blue as your best color. I would Price it at 4-6cc in a non-blue color, preferably with double CC. If you want to be very safe, make it a spell, not something with a body attached, and if a body is...

Did a few more drafts, looks fun and I like a lot of the interactions. I do have a couple concerns, however: the vivids seem pretty absurd, and the format looks pretty 4-5c goodstuffy. I'm bouncing around inside of the drafts, since a lot of the blue cards are clear first picks, and I've...

The two mythics that seems like they would immediately be a problem to me were falkenrath aristocrat and sublime archangel. Kia and Pia seem like very safe picks. UR seems like its identity has to be rooted in tempo, because all of its removal is naturally conditioned and can become dead. In...

Force storm www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/737582[/url]"] Ones 1 Careful Study 1 Mystic Speculation 1 Voyager Staff 1 Whispers of the Muse Twos 1 Cloud of Faeries 1 Epochrasite 1 Kor Skyfisher 1 Momentary Blink 1 Scryb Ranger Threes 1 Ghostly Flicker 1 Pulse of Murasa 1 Silumgar Sorcerer 1...

Really enjoying some of these cards choices: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/737480[/url]"] Ones 1 Chromatic Star 1 Pacification Array Twos 1 Collective Brutality 1 Essence Scatter 1 Mindshrieker 1 Miscalculation 1 Shadowstorm Vizier 1 Skyship Plunderer 1 Snap Threes 1 Bone Shredder 1 Drake...

Thank you. To put the problem a little bit more into context, and get your input on it, one of the problems with the game is that you can put down a lot of time and money, travel half-way across the world to a tournament, and be eliminated very early by factors that aren't really in your...

It does though when the entire conversation was about maximizing variance reduction in the first place. Look, if that wasn't a conversation you wished to authentically take part in, I would have preferred you not participating, rather than just posting to undermine the validity of having the...

I think this might be the worst discussion we've ever had on the forum. Now, after writing reams of text about how thought seize on turn 1 never happens, its best in class because you can run it out on curve in condensed formats. Than we're talking about running it in condensed formats with...

I think its fine as long as there are some conditions attached or the mana cost is moved up a bit. I know a lot of people on here like blackmail, for example, and that seems reasonable. Tidehollow sculler and mesmeric fiend also seems fine in the right environments, and I really like entomber...

So, some thoughts about game texture. I want to wait a little bit on this, and get some more data points, but its been rather surprising. I think that this is a more challenging format structure than the ETB based formats that I've been historically running. Because your turns are much less...

Thats a valid opinion. Its interesting, since WOTCs might than be correct in using competitive magic as purely a card marketing mechanism. In that lens, making magic more competitive with other e-sports is not desirable, and the trick would be to push the illusion of competitiveness enough to...