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The Rules 1) Everyone make a thread for your drafting. The first post should have a spoiler for your drafted cards, and a spoiler for your opening triangle (found below). The file with the triangles is in the next post. 2) No peaking. Peaking is a huge advantage in this format, so please...

You have my noisy neighbors to thank for this one. After they blasted music at 1 in the morning (a very late hour for new parents), I couldn't fall back to sleep. It wasn't just the noise. A thought was eating away at me. 'There has to be a better way to do asynchronous online 8-player drafts'...

8p Triangle Draft

Drop 'em here.

My 39-week pregnant wife brought home some packs for Pack Wars over the weekend. She likes Magic but hates deckbuilding, so most of the formats I've invented are ill-suited for her taste. When we play Pack Wars, I tend to fiddle with the mana base to smooth things out a bit. I wanted to make a...

https://riptidelab.com/pokemon-tcg-the-budget-vintage-you-didnt-know-existed/

I was wondering if you guys had thoughts on designing single card stacks. For the purposes of this discussion, I mean a format where players are randomly given cards (through some mechanism) from a stack of cards. More specifically, for my purposes I mean designing a pile to do cube pack wars...

Just a general question, do you guys feel that NWO is still working as advertised? Maybe I am becoming an old fogey, and spent too much time on Hearthstone, but these days when I look through Magic spoilers all I can think is "so much text". It's possible that perception doesn't match reality...

Let's say some theoretical (*cough*) cube designer hadn't updated their cube since Battle for Zendikar. Recommend them 3 cards from the sets that follow. That is: Dominaria Ixlan Amonkhet Kaladesh Shadows over Innistrad

Ode to James James, you irreverent Brushwagg, unsummarized by card tag, Your socks, unmatched, and your enemies dispatched, With zero artifacts in play. I’ve never met someone so naturally handy, With the aesthetic of a discarded Raggedy Andy. Your stories, some Plathian nightmare: “With...

Hearthstone Players get an additional mana per turn. Max 10 mana. Consequences: Reliable X mana on Turn X. Quick. All cards can be cast with same mana. Magic: Max 1 land per turn. Lands are cards in deck. Consequences: Mana screw / flood. Cool land cards. WOW TCG: (haven't actually...

This is exactly cube related, but I am interested in discussing the fundamental combat systems in Magic-like games. For example. Hearthstone Restriction: Players only act on their own turn Attacking: One creature at a time, creatures or enemy can be targetted Defending: Taunt (passive...

What cards are your favorite closers? Most fun to win the game with? Or make you happy because you had to satisfy some deckbuilding requirements to get them to work? Make it rain card images.

Uhh... so, I messed up the password thing on the forum sign up. AGAIN. (shame shame shame). If you wanted to sign up and couldn't, now you can. Feel free to call me names.

No, this is not a multiplayer Magic format thread. Recently James visited, and we played Magic along with my girlfriend. I've been pretty into pick-up and play formats lately (see Cube pack wars), so we brewed up a new format. For me, the biggest issue with three player formats is, how do...

https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/07/magic-the-gathering-is-becoming-an-mmo/ Setting the over / under at 99%.

Grid Drafting was one of my most successful cube designs, and I've always had the idea that you could build a game from the ground up around it. But what if instead of drafting then playing, you draft while you play. I've run several iterations of prototypes for this game, and it's still very...

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Contest time! Lately I've been having a blast with pick-up-and-play Magic formats. James and I have played a dozen+ matches of cube pack wars, and I want to take it a step further. I want fun decks locked and loaded to battle for whenever I get that Magic itch. Duel Decks! Your task is to...