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I would love Tireless Tracker if it did not grow with cracking clues. I'm experimenting with a modular cube, and the major challenge right now is the same that other Riptidecubes have: how to have viable archetypes without feeling the draft is on rails.

I run very few planeswalkers and a low-ish amount of artifact mana (only Mox Diamond below 2 mana). I had to cut Balance because nobody played it, and when they did, it sucked.

That is the reason why cards like Tireless Tracker that combo with themselves are much less satisfying than pulling interactions that you had to identify and build a deck around. That's where value cards fail to be fun. Tirelass Tracker comboes with lands, Swords combo with creatures. It's too...

That's too easy to disrupt. Try this: Titania, Protector of Argoth Sylvan Safekeeper It's ugly.

Other nice minigames, not all of which are necessarily healthy: Manabarbs Luminarch Ascension Worship I too believe "swingy" is not an inherently bad characteristic, and "fun" is underrated.

Why and how do you white border cards?

That looks pretty cool. It's actually a BR card though, like the others in this cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_superstitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunrei In short, 4 is considered an unlucky number and related to death. Bunrei is the process in which a Kami divides and each piece lodges somewhere else.

Wow, even the Modern Masters reprint omitted the reminder text on Suspend. I get it, the text box would get crowded but... Suspend really, really needs reminder text. One thing people did complain a bit about in my 4-player simple cube was that there were still too many keywords. Let me...

I like cards that might or might not be top-down, but the metaphor is perfect. Crystal Ball Shrapnel Blast Ensoul Artifact Tragic Slip Dragon Fodder Visara the Dreadful Some that are definitely top-down but are cool too: Tuktuk the Explorer Reassembling Skeleton Promise of Bunrei Jaya...

Cabal Therapy is awesome, but I hate cards that stimulate people to build their decks in an anti-social way. Brain Pry is the same thing, but more boring.

Agreed on elegant design and inelegant execution, that's a precise way of putting it. I don't get why Unsubtantiate can be more elegant in one format and less on another though.

I do think Morphs are kind of inelegant because the way you play against them depends a lot of the cube list rather than the cards that are in front of you. This problem is diminished in full draft, where you see ~90% of cards. It creates an advantage to people familiar with the cube and...

Yes, there is definitely a sweet spot somewhere between overly simple and overwhelmingly complex. I get that veteran players are often in for the challenge and want things complicated. I did that, and what I like was that it had some massive disadvantages: 1. Being inaccessible to non-hardcore...

My method is: The cube is divided into 6 sections: one for each color, one with artifacts+lands+multicolor (ALM). For each player, take 6 cards of each colored section and 15 from ALM, for a total of 45 cards. Each player shuffles their pile and divide into 3 boosters of 15. Each player...

The lessons learned for me were: 1. Reading 15 simple cards > reading 15 complex cards. 2. Nostalgia and resonance are fun by themselves. 3. Basic Lego blocks stimulate creativity. Specialized Lego blocks do not. 4. Magic is complex enough that simple cards can create interesting games. I...

Just wanted to say I put together a mini-cube for 4 people (180 cards) focusing on simple cards and drafted it this week. Man, was it fun. And that's despite being an unbalanced mess. I intended to use it for teaching people to play, but turns out MtG already is a pretty complex game with...

Bonesplitter is my favorite first pick - powerful and noncommittal, goes well in any beatdown deck.

Wait, this is real? The artist font is off, and the bad rules text alignment sort of gives it away. No one is raising this possibility, so I suppose I may be overlooking something but... it doesn't look real. Edit: it's real. A friend pointed out the source of this spoiler - a video which...

It's so messy it looks like a reprint from The Dark. Interesting take on colorless reanimator, though.