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I played a bunch of Netrunner this weekend with my son; I get the rules but still have no idea what skilled play would look like with the basic decks. I'd be up to try playing over OCTGN, if the time difference isn't too great. Oh, and to be a boardgame pedant: Race for the Galaxy isn't a...

I just picked up a Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, a card I've been interested in since it was spoiled. I've enjoyed running Havengul Lich, and was wondering what others thought of Lazav. I hate Hexproof as an ability, but this is narrow and interesting enough that it might not be too objectionable...

I was fairly underimpressed by 1Q84, I have to say. It sets itself up so well, and the payoff is simply... well, I'll let you finish it without giving away the surprise ending with the zombies and NASCAR and the zeppelins.

Wait, you consider Char too strong? I run Brimstone Volley and am not planning on cutting it--I like Morbid enough to consider trying more of them--but in my opinion you need all the 4-5 damage burn spells you can get to close out games and take down annoying midrange blockers. (This might not...

I push tokens really hard in my cube, and very much like having the archetype so strong. (This might have something to do with the fact that my tokens are all drawn by my kids...) Stuff like Mirari's Wake into Decree of Justice/Martial Coup/Increasing Devotion is a blast. Anthems work better...

Stubob! I think you were part of the group that did the online Rochester of my MTGO cube, drafted a Tinker deck, right? On your cube, I see you've pulled reanimator from the cube in favor of pox. How has that worked? It is more of an all-or-nothing archetype than reanimator, so I'm curious how...

Did a couple of 2-man drafts against a friend who played Alpha through Ice Age, and only came back during RTR. He's a very good player, and although I had to walk him through a bunch of keywords and abilities, he proceeded to do a great job building curve-conscious streamlined decks while I...

By the way, I just read your review of the Catan Dice Game. If you (and your wife) want a free, tense, improved, thematic dice game, look here: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/501166/so-knizia-invented-a-really-good-game-and-heres-ho Decathlon is a masterclass in simple game design. I printed...

I just got my copy of Netrunner this weekend, too. I'd played the original back in the day, but the new edition is refreshingly streamlined. Sadly, my opponent--my 7-year old son--got so mad at himself for making a run at an already-observed piece of ice he couldn't break that he literally...

Yeah, originally I had the Beholder as an X/X creature that you could create at any time, but I realized that being able to perma-Humble a creature every single turn was probably too powerful. It would rarely be worth it to make the Beholder. This way, you cap the number of activations, and...

May I offer a challenge to custom card designers? Jar of Eyeballs should have been the coolest card ever, flavorwise. I want to make it cubable. Here's my first pass: Jar of Eyeballs, 3. 3, Tap: Put a Blindness counter on target creature and put two eyeball counters on Jar of Eyeballs. A...

I have to say, categorization arguments in cube tend to be the least informative, least interesting discussions I've run across. People find a system that works well enough for them, and that's fine. If someone is actively shopping for a new system, there are a bazillion places to find the...

Yes, there's no need to use this technique purely to decide which card is generically stronger. I'd argue it works best with odd, archetype dependent cards. It can be quite difficult to remember, in the middle of a match, that your Shuko used to be a Sylvok Lifestaff, say, and decide which would...

Over on MTGS, I ran across this in a discussion of the Blood Baron: "In the end, the numbers heavily favoured the Baron during the period where we had the Baron // Obzedat split card (and as a result, the Obzedat mode was never used)." In other words, the cuber tests new cards by printing out...

I ran stonecloaker for a long time; before reanimator was even very good in my cube. I cut him for underperforming, but I'm considering putting him back in. How often does he save a creature and/or blank a graveyard trick?

Got a couple of 2-man drafts in tonight with the changes, and although my opponent was skeptical, I think the decks turned out great. A lot of my marginal pet cards actually hit the table and did stuff--Havengul Lich, Contagion Clasp, The Mimeoplasm, Sen Triplets, and a last-second about-to-die...

Yes, you can definitely have multiples. I just drafted a sweet double-Armageddon Boros aggro deck from Chris Taylor's cube.

Out of those, I'd miss Plow Under the most. It's one of the best cards green has to disrupt the flow of the game. Now that you play morphs, you should consider Willbender. Just last week I redirected a Sarkhan the Mad dragonmaking activation, which won an otherwise lost game...

I've been trying to draft my cube on cubetutor whenever I have time, to try and improve the bots. Pretty interesting, and already stronger than tappedout. We should draft each others' cubes, improve the draft experience. It's also, frankly, one of the best ways to get a sense of how a cube...

Okay, a major update to my cube. I'll be experimenting with removing much of the fast artifact mana from my cube, along with both Tezzerets. This was a tough decision, and I'm ready to swap all or part of it back in if it turns out we prefer the artifacts. I'm hoping that making acceleration a...