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I would be interested in drafting/playing, with the caveat of no mic and timezones may make things a little tricky Only one question - how does rectangle drafting works

will type up a proper response when I have more time and come to a more concrete decision, but I'm going to look at re-including fast blue because a) I'm indecisive and b) I want to test the GQ based mana denial

I am unsure if this is traditionally how y'all do it, but I'm going to be proxying up my list over the coming week in preparation for finally being able to draft in paper, and I would love any comments/suggestions/questions/critiques of the list for before I get it up in paper

Sounds like a fun format!

I should append this by clarifying that I'm not saying discussion is a bad thing, instead coming from a place of curiosity as I haven't been here in a proper sense very long and I'm unsure if this is traditional or the people of Riptide are just feeling argumentative.

I'll preface this by saying as a whole this community has been very welcoming and I've greatly enjoyed my short time here so far. But that being said, do you guys always pile on (not maliciously, but still) someone who comes at the situation from a 'controversial' perspective? Is funch not able...

Personally I'm a big fan of large pools, but that's a specific facet of the goals for my environment - testing and improving the skill of my players, and making drafting and deckbuilding a legitimate challenge and engaging part of the experience alongside constructed-esque decks.

I would argue that several people from the riptide side of things have been considerably more aggressive that funch

I believe funch's point didn't actually have anything to do with legacy, but was instead intended to convey that ramp and big mana combo only tends to be good when the upside of accelerating into a big thing outweighs the deckbuilding cost of including ramp cards. As opposed to saying ramp...

Decision paralysis is very real - it's one of the very few reasons I still maintain singleton, so i understand your sentiment

I feel like Texas Cryptic command is such a meme it's now one of the easier Texas cards to run

Pushedness is context dependent though, right?

It stems from a joke on the MtG brainstorming server where someone accidentally called the textless Cryptic Command the Texas Cryptic Command

That's my bad, sorry

Yeah I generally agree, I can completely understand not including the card I just don't agree with the "snowballing cards are bad because they have the variance of being drawn later" argument when so many other cards have a similar level of variance

I think that's simply a case of not running a deck that wants the card, not a statement against the power level of the card. It's unreasonable to expect people to evaluate a specific card in your exact context in a non cube-specific environment, so when people present their personal experiences...

I agree that those strategies can exist at a reasonable level, even for high powered cubes (although the decks will be less wacky). I may not have conveyed it well, but the intention of my point revolved more around explicit synergy decks that are 'expected' to come up even without any support...

I'm aware of that, but even in a Riptidian cube if you explicitly support white aggro and don't actively support black aggro, only incidentally, the black aggro deck is going to be considerably weaker than the white aggro deck (unless you forsake the concept of specific archetypes almost entirely)

I suppose a lot of that comes from a difference in expectations out of the draft/build phase - I love drafting wacky, unexpected decks and I like seeing them crop up in my environment (I actually often try and support them if I find room). That being said, if I play that deck and it just gets...

Young Pyromancer is a card that is dependent on the density of spells around it. It's a snowballing baneslayer that accrues value even in the late game. It can't do that if you don't have the necessary density of spells in your deck/environment to consistently trigger it. The same is true for...