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We're joking around, not making actual suggestions :p

How about Stevie Ray Vaughan? Wall of Denial

I was referencing a wedge/shard based format. The types of formats that might want to focus on three color relationships, and traditionally awkward cards like Rhox War Monk. It wasn't a negation of all forms of mana base design; the implication you're suggesting isn't an implication I was...

Ok, that makes a lot of sense than. I knew there was some factor unique to the player base that was missing. Its a little frustrating because I wanted to get a better idea how tri-color mana bases should look. I was expecting tri-lands as mandatory fixing pieces (at least one row), with a...

So, the 55/450 is 12% fixing, and 45/450 is 10% physical fixing with 12% virtual fixing. Players were complaining at 12% fixing. Traditional RTL format is 11% fixing. With most of us running 11% physical fixing, compared to your 12% fixing, that allows for a pretty definitive cross-comparison...

fwiw, I counted up Onderzeeboot's land based fixing sources, and I have it at 45 out of a 429 card cube, which makes mana fixing 10.5% of the format. Assuming he is given out a tri land for each tri-color card, thats 20 additional fixing sources hidden in the format, pushing fixing up to 13%...

In all fairness, if your format is lower power, than its easier to cut down on total fixing space, since presumably you're not going to get rocked if you go two colors and have sequencing hiccups in game. Its when you have powerful cards/plays and have to hit your early turn sequencing to...

It really isn't a problem. Sometimes drafters will just have pet peeves, which should be ignored. Most of our formats are probably running barely sufficient fixing as is, and giving in to this particular pet peeve is likely to just make a format overall worse.

Here are all the cards I was initially suspicious of: etched champion akroma, angel of wrath smallpox shivan harvest pillage pia and kiran nalaar siege-gang commander whirler rogue dwarven blastminer woodland wanderer undergrowth champion toxic deluge dismember avalanche riders sylvan...

This cube is really sweet, and smart. Did three 15 card packs: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/614310[/url]"] Ones 1 Arcbound Worker 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Champion of the Parish 1 Hada Freeblade 1 Hada Freeblade 1 Obscuring Æther Twos 1 Arcbound Slith 1 Arcbound Slith 1 Arcbound Stinger 1...

To be somewhat more specific, for those that don't want to click on the link: he suggests you want to be 5/5 or 5/6 with circa 5 dual lands. To make that even achievable with 8 players, you need around 40 fixing duals in your format. For those of us running 360 cards, thats a pretty traditional...

Here is something timely. While this is, importantly enough, yet another example of LSV drafting a *gasp* true simic deck. More importantly, at 3:34 in the draft video, he talks about fixing in cube.

To be true poison principle, a card has to exist on a completely isolated axis from the rest of a cube. The reason poison is the archetypal example of this principle, is because cards with poison or infect operate on a such an isolated axis: its an "all in on poison or these cards do nothing"...

The challenge is that with a 360 cube, you have to automatically devote 40 slots to a fetch->shock framework. You'll want some manlands; so that really should be the 10 zendikar manlands (though I suppose we can pick and choose, maybe devote 5 slots here). Than we probably want some form of land...

I like that card, but am hesitant to add heavier artifact interactions to black just yet. They went light handed with fabricate in that color, and I kind of want at least one reasonable army in a can effect to provide disposable sacrifice bodies as well as turn on metalcraft, in order to...

Sorry, I should have specified "retail limited draft simulator," as in, a good way to recreate the feel of retail limited sets. I'm most interested in being able to run somewhat narrow draft uncommons, like burning vengeance, and not have density issues. I would probably both write the...

Is this pretty much the best way to draft sim? It looks it. I think I am going to build that pikula grid.

That does worry me; you're not really reducing land density so much as redistributing it by turning certain picks into de facto modal picks. I can see that working, but you would either have to have: 1. An EDHesque honor system in place. This seems fine for small insular groups where you...

Its a really vexing mis-signal for new players to the format. I'm not in love with savannah lions, but its functional here. A few other cards on my radar: inventor's apprentice restoration gearsmith blossoming defense kujar seedsculptor peema outrider metalspinner's puzzleknot filigree...

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