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I seem to remember singles being available as soon as the prereleases happened on a recent set. But this time they are back to making us wait the extra week to buy singles. Did that happen, or am I showing signs of cognitive decline?

Is this any good? Into the Pit It can sacrifice Demonic Pact, which is neat. It's a nice use for your recurring weenies and tokens, especially something cheap like a treasure. I'll probably buy a copy.

Nice article idea! I like the idea of a top five with my reasons why, so here's mine: 5)Reclusive Taxidermist This is my favorite 2 mana elf right now, because it can also support aggro and graveyard. Love it. 4)Cathar Commando It's hard to find enchantment and artifact removal that isn't just...

I like the most boring stuff, but this can probably go into my beginner cube along with Bear Trap. Frantic Strength That cube runs some combat tricks, and I like equipment and auras with flash. This is now the best green flash aura option for me unless they decide to make something at two mana...

Manifest Dread is a cool mechanic. It's too many lines of text for my tastes, but I can't deny how many cool things it does. Putting it into the same set as delirium made a lot of sense.

Vengeful Possession[ Adding a rummage to this makes it nicely versatile. I always think it would be cool to have a Act of Treason spell for sacrifice, aggro, and spells, but it always seems too weak. Maybe with the rummage it's enough to make it worth the while. I guess Bloody Betrayal is...

I'm not sold on the idea that 3/2 for 2 mana is a great idea for my cube. I'm also excited to have Bear Trap. It's better than Silver Bolt because it doesn't have lame werewolf text.

I'm into any source of reprints that has updated oracle text and is free of watermarks and other oddities. Planeswalker themes kinda suck when the new cards are all called "Chandra's Spatula" and "Jace's Spoon" and such. Give me flavor that makes sense in my cube alongside my non-planeswalker...

I think it's fine if some players decide to play red aggro. It would be a matter of balancing the speed of aggro compared to the chimera exile creatures. Aggro decks could be looking for creatures (to exile with chimeras) with damage, evasion, removing blockers, drawing cards, and so on to help...

Yeah, I remember being really into the timeshifted stuff when Time Spiral block was getting previewed and released. We all knew that the time shifted stuff in Future Sight needed to be from the future, so it was fascinating to see what they actually gave us.

Which do you like best between the white borders and future frames? I started out with lots of white border cards during revised and eventually 4th Edition and Chronicles. So I am on the fence between "it's cool nostalgia" and "white borders are less desirable reprints and black borders are...

White border and future frame reprints are a little too weird for me. I could have used a normal Smokestack original art reprint instead of future frame. But what the hell. It's an interesting concept, and somebody will find this to be cool.

I would take the Legion Extruder for this reason. Value engines! I'd be tempted by the shiny new Kitsune, but extruder is also shiny and new. The Wight also interests me, but first picking a gold card is risky. That's a crazy pack. Picking in cubes with that much card power is wild. From Fair...

Yep, I fully agree with all of what you're saying. I've thought a little about what it would take to adjust for some of these types of things, but it seems pretty daunting. Part of this would involve making a dictionary of common phrases and giving a discount for cards that let you chunk the...

Case Study: Words Read in Outlaws of Thunder Junction Retail Draft Goal: make more of a fair comparison between the words read in a retail set draft and a cube draft. Note these two differences between typical cubes and typical retail sets: 1) Retail draft sets have a smaller list of...

It will depend on some semi-qualitative aspects of the card's rules, definitely. As I think about this, I'm settling on the theory that you spend 100% of the time it takes to read a card the very first time, and then the percentage decays from there. I think a second read is going to take...

If you're looking at a card for the second time in a draft, or reading a piece of flavor text for a new mechanic for the second time, how much of a "discount" do you get, in your estimation? In other words, what percentage of reading time do you save when you're understanding a new card that...

They aren't marked as DFC's, so sleeving a copy in each direction doesn't look different than it would as two separate printings with "Deckmaster" card backs. But if that detracts from your subjective enjoyment of the card, that's a good enough reason not to buy it. I guess I'm thinking from...

If you have Kitsa and Reckless Charge or Berserk, you would briefly care about vigilance for the purposes of maximizing your attack. I think vigilance is a reasonable inclusion on this card design. I'll buy a copy of Kitsa. It's 8 lines of text, 37 words, 51 with prowess reminder text. This is...

I haven't put hybrids into cubes yet due to the scarcity of hybrids that I like. If they do a common cycle here and there, this could change. I largely ignore the gold sections of new sets, because they're gentally more wordy and fit into less decks. But hybrid cards could become very...