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With all of the bouncelands, this card would be pretty cool: Zhalfirin Void Not sure where it would fit though

I like Browbeat, it's a fun card. Fits well into the 7-bolts plan. This should be cool.

Lol. If retail limited is about CABS (Cards Affecting Board State), then the Riptonian ideal is about CRABS (Cards Rarely Affecting Board State or Cards Reluctantly Affecting Board State)

If The Scarab God is a 5.0 on the Scarab God Scale, what’s a 4 or 4.5?

So I have a couple retail simulation cubes, ISDx3 and ROEx3. Commons, uncommons, and rares are separated and boosters are made with the normal retail distribution of rarities. After a while, I pruned some of the cards that just don’t work in limited and replaced them with a little more fixing...

I’m interested in seeing the results and your thoughts.

I think it’s probably fine in a higher-powered cube. First, it’s a baneslayer, not a mulldrifter. It’s not going to hit the board and give you immediate value like grave Titan, merchant, thragtusk, hellkite, etc. It has to stick. Second, it isn’t even as good of a roadblock of a baneslayer as...

Did this ever pan out?

Global enchantments that could either be played as a body or as this type of effect might have a bit more play. Or replace body with conditional removal, or any other thing that might be able to be played and have an immediate impact on the board. Since wotc seems to be pushing that kind of...

Tangent: Something I've been thinking about is making 8-16 modern decks (via quality proxies) and doing a little random constructed tournament where you get assigned a deck to pilot. Sometimes I want to play Limited and improvise heavily on deck construction. Sometimes I want to make a...

Are these still the basic archetypes? RB: Hellbent//madness//sacrifice RG: lands // Berserkers//Horizontal Aggro RU: Spells Tempo RW: Artifacts//Tiny Control//Horizontal Aggro UG: Ophidian Tempo GB: Reanimator GW: ++ Counters//Humans//Reanimator BW: Zombies UB: Ninjas//Zombies...

Seems kind of like it would thin your cube in the same way that cantrips and tutors thin your deck .. but is that desirable? I think I'd rather just have another planeswalker for the variety. Edit: Maybe if they make more walkers like Daretti, but that seems a little narrow

Yes, ‘twas phone-posted (like this)

This is really good. A breath of fresh air from the usual channel fireball non-critical style piece (which I read too, of course)

This is still an interesting idea! I do something similar with retail drafting sets, where I have 5 of each common in one stack, 4 of each uncommon, and then 1 of each rare/mythic, and then a I create boosters with similar distribution to retail. You don't end up seeing the whole set in a draft...

I agree that this is a complicated enough endeavor that necessitates the collective wisdom of a bunch of obsessive people on the internet! Perhaps cubes wouldn't exist at all if the power max crowd didn't initially pioneer things? Although, I wonder if slightly remastered retail set draft...

Luis Scott Vargas set reviews. Just one example.

Yeah, I am extremely grateful for this site and forum.

Also, while it's true some people love the comfort of their favorite cast of banned-from-constructed goons (heh), just as many people seem to go into a frenzy when release events come out. I imagine there are some that prefer comfort and some that prefer novelty (and some that like a balance of...

Oh and on a complete tangent, if anyone has any links to people deconstructing successful retail draft formats, I'm all ears (eyes?).