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I totally agree that it's exercising well-trained muscles, and thus a much more straightforward and easy approach to an otherwise complicated problem. In a similar vein, I know many people who have played constructed Magic for years but never construct their own decks. It's not for everyone...

I’m not sure. One option would to do it like netrunner and just offer 1-2 pack of each for each drafter, or another idea is to just have a box for each color and you can take 4 of whatever. Sorting would be a pain but since these are the bulkiest of bulk commons, I’m sure there are s few...

Here is an off the hip take(and possibly quite bad!) on basic baseline spells. Somewhat inspired by Patrick chapin’s discussion of card rates and I guess trying to fulfill the basic color pie fundamentals; I’m not sure if that’s even the right direction for this sort of thing, but just rolling...

Another sort of related idea, what if there was a basic taplands box. Maybe evolving wilds, too, in a non-shockland format. Then you could either cut the volume fixing to just high quality stuff, and/or you could include multi-colored cards without as much worry about them being poisonous (but...

Mad Prophet had an interesting comment in another thread how we take for granted the basic lands box but not a basic spells box. This made me think of Netrunner cube drafts, where each player starts with a pack of baseline cards that fit a few roles but are almost always replaced by better...

Another thought: Maro recently asked on twitter whether people would want to see a cube retail product from WotC, and many people responded saying that a cube is a personal thing and people would be unhappy with the WotC cube. I find this ironic and really unfortunate for several reasons: - The...

Random shower thoughts: as I read discussion about cubes elsewhere, I have noticed there is a strong tendency towards aggressive hive-minded defense over the established norms of power cube construction. I think that Cubes (for Magic) intrinsically have a couple of features that will lead to...

Dredging this back up.. what are some of the best shard, wedge, or broader archetypes out there? My impression since coming here is that the good design stuff is deep in a cube blog somewhere or a tangent like in this thread. :)

Equipment works well with these cards, too. Invisible Stalker was often carrying some weapon of mass destruction back in the day. There are a at least a couple that are on theme that aren’t as brutal as swords of x and x: dowsing daggerbloodforged battle-axemask of riddlesprying bladequietus...

Are the guild/wedge/shard identities still those outline in the first post or have they changed significantly?

This is a little slow, but could be useful on an evasive creature and is at least something white could use: Explorer’s Scope (edit: using the ci tags doesn’t seem to work on this card.. maybe it’s the apostrophe?) There are also a lot of cantrips in colorless, I guess. Enlightened tutor and...

What are some good sifting, looting, scrying, and card quality cards available to each color? Some examples: Blue is obviously spoiled in this category Brainstormponderportentoptlat-nam's legacycareful studyimpulsemerfolk looterlooter il-kor Red has some options faithless lootingcathartic...

Thanks for taking the time to post this. Gives me a lot to think about.

Liches (Lichs? Lichen?) are always so cool. A fomat witha strong focus on liches, wizards, shamans, magi, etc with a strong baneslayer rather than mulldrifter (no or few ETB) emphasis would be kind of neat.

What's your approach to analyzing wedge/shard/guild structures? Spreadsheets? Top down, bottom up? Sweet pie charts? What are some fundamental architectural approaches to building something with distinct wedge/shard/guild identities? How do you determine that a w/s/g could use a boost? How do...

Yeah, I’m looking to put together at least a couple cubes (with proxies) at different power levels to experiment with and study. I am assembling the 2.0 Penny Pincher and have taken a look at this cube and Sigh’s cubes as something to compare and contrast. And then maybe something at the upper end.

Hey Grillo, I see that this has been retired .. do you have any ideas for how you might update it if you were to revisit it? Anything you felt really lacking that may have been printed over the last year and a half?

Yeah, makes sense. As Maro says, I want to understand magic before I take it apart and so I probably want to give Grillo’s creation some thorough playing before seasoning to taste. That said, out of curiousity, which cards did you end up replacing the karoo cycle with? In other news, I have...

Awesome! I’m studying some of the different species of cubes here and yours seemed like a good example of a faster environment, with some explosiveness

Hey Vince, any updates to your cube? Is your spreadsheet current?