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Seems real strong.

Oh hey, grizzly fate is even a five drop. Score one for subconscious!

Or, you know, build your own ancestral recall.

I feel like the trick to this is going to be something like running cards that are fine by themselves in some multiples to get conspiracy'd, and some other cards that are really good conspiracy'd but you're using your resources on one sweet dude instead of getting a legion of haste-y squadron...

Go read about how sweet games are in the devotion thread, because lol riptide topics.

Agricola gets second place in the 'too many pieces to rightfully claim its title as Actual Best Game' prize stakes, because Caverna is somehow worse.

I guess four colour would need to be 4c good stuff almost definitionally, just from lack of pull cards in 4 colours?

Three colour seems to happen with some regularity with the riptide-y fetch/dual density, so there's my answer to that one.

For this post, disregard worldknit: Is there a sensible way to have 5 colour decks in draft? I guess it needs a whole shitload of duals and fetches if it does? What about 4 colour? How dense does fixing need to be and how high does it need to be picked for four colour to sensibly come...

I mean, again, if all you're looking at is a single hand of poker, you're totally at the whims of random chance, especially of hold 'em or stud, where you have no control over the cards you have. That's sort of the point; it's a betting game, not a card game per se.

was flame fusillade ravncia? I feel like that was a draft deck everyone was raving about. E: yes.

playing a single hand of poker is pointless random and dumb That the money management side of things can turn thirty hands of poker into something interesting is all kinds of amazing. Also, I feel like I should bring up cosmic encounter because magic was Garfield's first attempt at Cosmic...

Nope, white goes first. I remember reading that this does something like give it a 50% win rate to black's 49.5% or something, but forget exactly what.

I more interested in trying to build this cube than most people seem to. I guess it means play a bunch of dumb commons rather than more interesting cards, but you can at least make them interesting dumb commons. Like, 4 squadron hawks, 4 mana elves, 4 dudes with haste, to actually mean that...

A close second (in flavour but probably not really in mechanics)

I mean, we take issue with the signets; but in retail draft context, there's 24 (of 208!) rares opened, and only some of those are GRBS if powered out two or three turns early, probably because of signets. If we put regular, modern magic cards where you can reliably power them out three turns...

Its not poisonous so much as just being a hate card to put in mono coloured aggro, to use vs n-colour good stuff decks. It may not be good enough in limited at 2; as a creature it probably would be.

I stand corrected. This is kind of my overwhelming view of chess from a game-design/balance perspective, although I wasn't aware of the nuances. E: the tendency to grandmaster draws is, I think, what I was subconsciously alluding to, as I knew that was a thing. The reasons for it are clearly...

My favourite green card is probably grizzly fate because haha that card is silly.

Its like reusable tutor effects are oppressive, especially when the cost is actually 'shock something' or 'gain 2 life' or 'put a +1/+1 counter on my undying dude'; to say nothing of meliera pod in modern where the cost is 'fuck you, you're losing'.