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  1. Jason Waddell

    Article ChannelFireball: Dragon's Maze Review

    http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cube-design-dgm-review/ Enjoy! Or don't.
  2. Jason Waddell

    General ChannelFireball: Learning from Legacy, Part 1

    Hi guys, just posting this here for posterity, as it's been lost in the site migration. --------------------------------- When looking for ways to improve and refine my cube, my most common approach is to study constructed environments. Not only can this help for finding quality cards that...
  3. Jason Waddell

    General Simulating 8-man decks with 2 players

    Hi guys, I've been trying to brainstorm ways to deal with the testing bottleneck. I often have the opportunity to run two-player drafts, but I don't find Grid Drafting (or any other variant) super useful for actually tuning and iterating my cube. I've been trying to brainstorm an easy drafting...
  4. Jason Waddell

    Card/Deck Thought experiment: Tinker

    Here's a quick little thought experiment: in what environment would the card Tinker be the most fun? If you could build an environment specifically to make tinker a really fun spell to cast, what would it look like?
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    General Sweet cards you would love to draft with

    Hey all, this is an open call for sweet cards that you really love playing with but that have no business being in your current cube. Can be from any time period, power level, whatever. Think of this as some new age bucket of inspiration. No wrong answers.
  6. Jason Waddell

    General Recording Paper Drafts

    From the old forum: Well, the code took all of 2 minutes to write, so now everything is ready. Only thing left to do is to find a way to get 7 other players around the table, which may be difficult considering it's prerelease season.
  7. Jason Waddell

    RipLab Marketing

    Hi guys, so as you may have noticed we're a small community. That's nice, as people here are all respectful and make great insightful posts, but it would be great if there were more of you! Do you guys have any ideas on ways to get more contributing members? I think there are many people who...
  8. Jason Waddell

    General ChannelFireball: Remodeling, Part 2

    Here it is! http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cube-design-remodeling-part-two/
  9. Jason Waddell

    Sets Dragon's Maze fully revealed

    http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/dragonsmaze/cig# Now that Dragon's Maze has been fully revealed, which cards will be slotting into your cube(s)?
  10. Jason Waddell

    How to: Card Images in Threads!

    We're working on implementing a site-wide autocard feature. In addition, it is super easy to insert card images directly into threads. My current process goes: Step 1: Right-click, copy URL Step 2: Click the 'Insert/edit image' button Step 3: Ctrl+V Viola!
  11. Jason Waddell

    Sets Innistrad Block Retrospective

    Now that we've had a year with all the cards of the Innistrad block, how have the cards held up compared to your initial expectations? Were there any hyped cards that didn't pan out for you? Hidden gems that have been overlooked by the cube community? Cards that were more or less fun than you...
  12. Jason Waddell

    Jason Waddell's Cube

    Cube List: #Link# Cube Cobra Random Samplings: #Link#
  13. Jason Waddell

    Eldrazi Domain Cube

    https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/eldrazidomain Lately I've been building towards the idea that there's a large swath of unexplored design space in the world of cubing. For the sake of clarity, I'll define cube here as a custom limited environment using only cards that have been printed by...
  14. Jason Waddell

    General Say hello!

    Hi, I'm Jason Waddell, an American living and working in Belgium. I recently started writing Cube articles for ChannelFireball.com. I am relatively new to Magic, and come from a background of working with Major League Gaming, a company that creates competitive rulesets and gametypes to be used...
  15. Jason Waddell

    Card/Deck Ral Zarek

  16. Jason Waddell

    Card/Deck Aetherling

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