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VMA and M15 got me to thinking what a lower-power format with a lot of one-drops would look like, since traditionally the weaker formats have been slower and it's great fun when not every card is all that great and the game of Magic begins on turn 1 ... anyway, here's a list of the 1's I'd love...

“THE BUCK MULLIGAN STOPS HERE.” Come take my hand, you should know me, I've always been in your mind You know I will be kind, I'll be guiding you Building your dream has to start now, There's no other road to take You won't make a mistake, I'll be guiding you. judge's familiar judge's...

http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/13229 Anyone can edit. This is a grand experiment in crowdsourcing. Nobody type in "gay" next to Bident of Thassa name = GruesomeEncore pass = theanustorn Have at it. Remember that poetry is what's lost in translation ... well, that and some card choices that...

whereas, the best formats of all time have been Ravnica, Odyssey, and Invasion; whereas, all these formats had an assload of cantrips (including some lands at common that we like to ridicule on here); whereas, most of our cubes are sorely lacking in that kind of effect; RESOLVED: maybe we should...

ITT we will post cards that nobody else runs but should. Bonus points for counterintuitively fun stuff like Humility, overlooked gems like Imperial Recruiter, and archetype enablers like Life // Death and Lightning Axe. Probably don't post stuff like Gravecrawler and Blood Artist because...

Wanted to post this here to generate discussion lest we want to move it up to the front page prematurely. Chop it up my crackers CRACKING A SMILE, CRACKING SOME JOKES: A RE-BUTT-AL TO KIBLER, OR “MAINTAINING A GREAT ENVIRONMENT NOT AT EVENTS” an MTG article by: CML — If you’re here, you...

So the microsealed thread is delightful and everything, but I wanted to make a thread focusing specifically on drafting with 4-6 people. When you draft with 4-6 and not 8-10, if you use the typical 3 packs of 15 parameters, the following things tend to happen: -There's more of a bias towards...

Hey doodz, So with CT becoming more of a thing, we have access to a great deal of quantitative data about our Cubes, some of which is useful for making design choices. Games start too slowly? Add in more 1-drops. Colors grossly imbalanced? Check your number of spells in Red. Anyone who...

It's that time of year again, Cubers and Cubettes -- Christmas for Magic players, except it's more like Hanukkah because it happens a lot and it's an intellectual game we're talking about and we have to buy our own presents, except that it's more like Kwanzaa because it's looked upon as a joke...

So we all know that tutors can lead to incredibly repetitive game states if done incorrectly (there's this one stupid format where you get to tutor for this guy at the beginning of every game), and that tutors can be lots of fun when the power level, targets, themes etc. are well-conceived...

Out of boredom and drunkenness last night I browsed through some Vintage-ass sets. When it became clear this was a huge waste of time, I endeavored to winnow the chaff by instead viewing the sets in descending order of TCG Low Prices. Here is what I turned up (some of these are only for the...

anyone give this a whirl? there are 104 vampires in MTG history and the quarry below proves it's the most pushed tribe of all time second-most pushed tribe of all time after Brushwagg good cards blood artist blood artist bloodghast bloodghast falkenrath aristocrat guul draz assassin...

In the beginning Richard Garfield created Magic, and Richard Garfield created terrible creatures and awesome counterspells. The design success of NWO has been to bring the creature into parity with the non-creature, but -- when you see Standard decks from this season and last season that are...

On Mondays I play Legacy with the homies and on occasion like to waste my judge's time for no reason. I noted in another thread that FSR should probably move to Seattle as he is a natural at this: This is possibly the wrong place to ask this question and if I were to delve into the depths of...

On the cast Wadds and I were talking about what a pain in the ass it is to get people to do anything and how getting an 8-man together, let alone a forum of any lifespan, is an impressive achievement. It's also been awesome to see an uptick in discussion over the last few weeks. However! Said...

people aren't having as much fun cubing as they ought to be. now as far as tragedies go in MTG this is not a huge one in comparison to "god Theros games are miserable" or "why don't the top players in this massively successful and profitable game, one of the best games of all time, make a...

this is the penultimate in my series of design principles that, in my mind, differentiate the cube thought process here from most everywhere else in Magic. scraps of these thought processes exist elsewhere -- i am greatly indebted to Rob Van Leuven of Seattle for yelling at me to support aggro...

the planeswalker is a card type loathed by the conventional cube world, mainly because they are too willfully stupid to design their cube in such a way that someone could answer one in a timely fashion ("multicolor aggro? what's that??? here, have another thran dynamo), and also because they...

Fans of mine (there are about 3?) will know of my contempt for the Modo-style mono-colored support feat. Cabal Coffers, Phyrexian Obliterator and other cards that nobody else would ever pick in a million years. They will also know of my love of Eventide, the best "set that was a commercial...

So Wizards, in all their wisdom and foresight, decided to stop printing efficient land destruction long ago (the last Stone Rain was in Champions, and things really came to a halt after the abusable Boom // Bust and the super-powerful Fulminator Mage). This plan has worked brilliantly, as...