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This is an interesting situation, and honestly I'm not sure what way this would go regarding niche archetypes... The basic question in my mind is: Is the "unique cards per person" or "total amount of cube drafted" more important to niche archetypes? The answer might be more multifaceted than...

If you don't mind, could we see an example deck that utilizes it? Your examples are making it mad tempting to at least try....

I have been casually facing decks off against eack other as I go to see if there are any glaring issues. Once I round out all 10 polished decks and do some solitaire, I might ask my wife to help in getting some actual person v. person data. After noting anything intersting that comes out of...

Yeah, probably should've explained that, but you are correct; its adding up pack card counts until you get your starting pack back, summed across the number of packs opened. I didnt notice the similarity in cards seen between those two styles, that is interesting. Funchs cube is at least 512...

Overall a really solid set of custom campuses. The names sound good to me except maybe "chesslea". hard for me to say because my Brain wants to say "Chelsea" like the first name. Maybe it's a reference I don't understand? "Onyxwrits" also sounds a little better to me as "Onyxwrit" without the...

Smaller packs, if drafted per normal means (draft all cards until gone), reduce the number of unique cards that a player sees. This combines with higher overall pack power variance and less ability to wheel cards. Overall a drafter's ability to consistently seek out and chase niche archetypes is...

Man... that drafting style is awesome! It's a little hard to grok at first, but I understand the underlying design rationale you have. That has me thinking about trying a size-shifted Tenchester style... something like: (Per player, so 4x each row) This still hits the 100/400 my cube would...

Artifact fatties are awesome. I'm looking to add phyrexian triniform or one of it's ilk in my cube as a color-agnostic way to give a deck a fattie to play with.

This tidbit is one of the main reasons I like the Tenchester style. The packs are maxed out on size (in the constraints of the style), so you have decently broad packs to select from. And you get to see a huge fraction of the cube at each seat, which helps with navigating narrower archetypes. It...

I did clarify in the post that I draft considering 4 people :P

You don't get the later-pick signaling from other players snatching things you wanted to wheel, and the inverse is also true, you don't get that gauge of openness from a risky wheel that does in fact make it back to you. You don't compete on card selections the same way, because everyone only...

If packs don't wheel, you have less of a traditional draft experience and more like a "advanced sealed" style of play. There is a lot less of the traditional interplay that wheeling provides. This isn't a condemnation of non-wheeling strategies, it just feels different to do. My most common...

This is a primary angle I use my green for; it is very effective at it as TGT mentions.

Predator only gets a counter when the tap resolves, right? So max one counter a turn barring untap abilities regardless of sac quantity. You can't like blast 5 counters onto it in one go. Regardless I comprehend the above sentiments loud and clear! I see that Aristocrat is likely the better pick :)

I definitely agree that preordain is a perfectly reasonable first pick option in many packs. Obviously there are some loaded packs that make the drafter sweat bullets, but usually I see the standout choices limiting themselves to 7 items or less, even counting for cards like preordain. In any...

Can the predator really snowball all that quickly? You can usually only get one tap effect per turn cycle. Is that once per turn still too snowball-y in your experience? I could red decks having a harder time dealing with the predator since it can put itself out of burn range after just one or...

I specifically don't call it that in my cube setting lol. But a strong point. Guess I'll have to look at adding Cartel Aristocrat now too....

Magic cards are laid out in such a way that even on a first pick a drafter is rarely actually making a decision across 15 evenly competing items. WotC has provided several heuristic tools in the innate designs of their cards, such that it's rarely more than 7 items actually being considered for...

{B}{R} Sacrifice Aggro Finally! Made it through the color wheel. Quite the slog, but I think worth it! Gameplan: This deck is well known on RTL, and I'm not aiming to making any groundbreaking changes to the formula that's been polished over the years. The deck will be gaining value over time...

falkenrath aristocrat immersturm predator?