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Overall, the last draft felt pretty good, but it did showcase a few weaknesses in card inclusion that I hope to address in my next update. No deck was completely unplayable, with my RW deck and my teammate's UB decks by far the best decks. (I wish we would've played to see how the matchup...

I made some changes (mostly increased power level, added some removal and "improved" themes, while weakening infect through some frequency tweaks) and drafted twice this Monday: a 4-p and 6-p. It. Was. A. Disaster. In the first draft, everyone but one player had drafted before. Two decks were...

Before I forget, this class of card has funny application here: Frontier Siege Black Market Sakura-Tribe Springcaller Shizuko, Caller of Autumn Eladamri's Vineyard Magus of the Vineyard Elemental Resonance Thran Turbine Especially that double-mana boost from the Siege!

I think this is the case! Also, a lot of "my" players seem to think of tri-lands as inferior color-fixing lands UNLESS they are playing all 3 colors. I would really love to know how many times a tri-land is passed when a player would've taken a ETBT dual in their color pair. I am trying to...

I think I failed to communicate a pain portion of my musing yesterday, but you have done so nicely- thanks! FWIW, I wasn't recommending representing the functionality with a wall of text, but rather was curious on the implications of including them with the notion that they are predominantly...

Now edited to maybe make some sense! {W/P}_{W/P} I have been trying out tri lands from KTK and ALA as modal, ETBT duals, but my players don't intuitively view them the same. What are the pros and cons to including (essentially) lands with this text in a cube (beyond the slowness associated...

Hoard-Smelter has left many bitter from Scars experiences (where it was both hard to kill & killed a lot). It probably isn't too powerful, but evasion coupled with board control is hard to legitimize to people that have miserably lost to a card in Limited 10 times. I am a bit sad, as I think...

I am curious about a few things: What price tag for mana-fixing lands do you consider to be affordable? What will this cube's card size be? Can you offer a few examples of "acceptable", "unacceptable: too weak", "unacceptable: too strong", etc., for different classes of cards? (Land...

Oh no, I forgot the reinstall my form history plugin and just closed a few paragraph long response... :( sorry that this one will be much less polished. Goblin Welder Orcish Mechanics Magmaw Artillerize Welder is cheap now, and offers aggro artifacts card adv for low-to-no mana (as well as...

Draft 2 last week: 4-players All but one of the players participated in the previous draft. Deck 1: Golgari Half-Infect This player played the Izzet deck last draft. I believe he went 1-1, losing to the Boros Celebration Artifacts and beating the Mono-White deck. IIRC, he first-picked...

Draft 1 last week: 6-person pod (Disclaimer: I will never again take deck photos during the day. I could not find a way to avoid glare :() No one had drafted this before, but several players had some experience with Rise and/or Scars. I got a lot of feedback on the day and have made a large...

Maybe think of it like a WANTED poster... Blue-Red WANTED For Crimes Against Artifacts Goblin Welder And accomplices: Tormenting Voice, Myr Battlesphere, Great Furnace, Sphinx of the Steel Wind REWARD: Sweet deck. :cool:

Hmmm, maybe you just need to teach them explicitly. I am lucky enough to play with a bunch of one-time-PT players and old-school limited addicts, but I made some large-print cheat sheets to aid novices and quickly communicate to experienced players. The information format of my aids: color(s)...

I cannot provide a concise list of cards, but I have noticed that players of my cube-like experiences enjoy (a) drawing cards, (b) obtaining value from the graveyard, (c) assembling card synergies and (d) abusing underpowered cards to great effect. Most of the time, players enjoy the cards in a...

Famous! ... well, kinda. ;) "A new Featured Cube – The Penny Pincher Cube!"

Yes, exactly! This 90-pack behemoth (pack rarity division of 6-3-4-1-1 (c1-c2-u1-u2-r)) required: c1, 60 unique cards, 9 of each (540 total) c2, 45 unique cards, 6 of each (270 total) u1, 120 unique cards, 4 of each (480 total). Additional note: One of the neatest things about VMA on MTGO was...

I am VERY excited to replace Nantuko Vigilante with the Ainok in my fantasy set :D

This idea interests me from a power cube (or double power cube...) mentality, since I yearn for my power cube experience to feel something like vintage 15 years ago (inconsistent & with really funny cards). I know that it's common practice to just add more copies of lands to cubes, but what...

I watch netflix or streams while making packs. As far as memorization... I just forget "important" things to make space for this ;)

Way #2, this set Please note that I need to rewrite the OP for this post, as I have learned a lot (and my mind was very muddled by the scope of this project when I first posted). This particular set is much more complicated than the prior set (and cannot be packed so easily) for several...