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Clearly the strategy is to have one main cube of 360 cards, and two side cubes of 120 cards each. Sometimes you draft with three packs each from the main cube, sometimes you do two packs from the main cube and one pack from a side cube, and sometimes you draft one pack from each cube. Shrimple!

Yeah, broadly speaking it's fine as a mechanic, but the memory issues push it towards being something that you need to make space for. I feel like we need a term for that kind of thing - stuff like Daybound/Nightbound or Speed aren't exactly parasitic (you can run a single card with the...

"Whenever the ring tempts you, draw a card, then gain two poison counters". :p

The actual lore is that Valgavoth was bound to a single house, but got powerful enough to fudge the rules by making the house expand until it completely filled the plane from top to bottom.

I think it was just this set of posts from earlier in this thread?

I think the idea was to reflect the infinite sprawl of the House more than exploring the House, if that makes sense. If it wasn't An Enchantment Set, I fully expect that Room would've been a land subtype.

Oh, I'm sure - I was just flashing back to brewing with Surging Aether and man, "I'm going to put you back a completely random number of lands" is complete nonsense, especially if you have ways of shuffling used Ripple cards back into your library.

As someone who doesn't have draft experience with them... I'd love to know who OK'd Surging Aether. (I do find it funny that they specified "Ripple 4", like this is a mechanic that they were going to expand on and fiddle with.)

God I love Rooms. I've been long-term fiddling with a Pauper brew based on using Etali's Favor to Discover Ancestral Mask, and Grand Entryway giving you a 1/1 enchantment creature is actively perfect for the deck. Rooms also have some pretty nice play patterns - I like that bouncing them and...

There were actually quite a few cards that showed the "warning signs" of the incoming invasion before the "main event": Furtive Analyst Preening Champion Nezumi Informant Placid Rottentail Portent Tracker It's the same issue Streets of New Capenna ran into, where they shoved an old-school...

I know, right? Personally, I'm a little curious about how this "new" drafting method is going to mess with drafting odds. Assuming everyone values the cards equally (which I know isn't true, but let's pretend), you're going from getting the 1st and 9th cards of your packs to getting the 1st...

There's a reason I used the past-tense.

I've seen more than that, but that's because I had a friend who refused to believe that I didn't like superheroes and kept dragging me to see Marvel movies. That's pretty much what made it go from "neutral" to "negative" for me. There's been some conversation about Spider-Man, Web-Slinger...

I already hate this set with a burning passion, and it's not just because I really dislike superheroes. It's because WotC made the active decision to print a bunch of legendary creatures in the Welcome Decks at common, and what that feels like to me. Until recently, my three ways of engaging...

It also has the "Lazav is not just posing in a room" art perk! I vote Wearer of Faces unless your cube actively avoids using clues.

You're going to hate me for this, but I unironically like the art for Familiar Stranger more than the art for Multifarious. It's the one art out of his four cards where the sneaky shapeshifter that could be disguised as anyone is actually in disguise and not just posing in a room somewhere. I'm...

To be fair, a lot of the spacesuit/armor designs that aren't Knight Luminary look pretty ugly at card-art scale. I think they'd be fine as larger pieces, but they're just too busy with greebles and garbage.

As someone who does a lot of dumb Pauper brewing (I like the challenge)... I can't think of anything? Believe me, I've been wracking my brain since it was first leaked (because like you said, it's unique for its colors), but everything I've thought of either wants to go into extra colors...

You're right for Pauper and Peasant cubes, but it honestly isn't that good in Pauper constructed - I think Turbo Fog is the only remotely meta deck that might be interested in Green Murder, since everything else I can think of has access to more efficient removal.

Self-fighting has apparently been in black, red, and white over the years, though it does seem to have settled in red, since it's the only color that's gotten it in the last 20 years. Diplomatic Relations seems like a clear misprint... though there's the faint possibility that they might leave...