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I don't agree to this at all. You might have some kind of point, but I think Grillo pointed it out correctly that power max cubes have less room for this kind of dynamic due to the very nature of the cards. When a single card is more complex it makes these interactions much less apparent to the...

I like this idea, since it incorporates something that by its very nature is closely related to how these different identities are meant to interact with each other. If part of the identity is its weakness, then the feel of the match up between different strategies should be much easier to make...

Something for you lurkers to do if you don't want to dive into the deep end would be to just throw suggestions for "blue control finishers". I'm pretty sure both the blue/x control players in my group last sunday just underestimate some cards (sphinx's tutelage ended up in an aggro players...

I'm just going to chime in to say that I think this streaming stuff is ballers. Fun direction for the site!

I write and theorize a shit lot on this board and then I play occasionally and that definitely brings me back into reality. We hooked up with some new peeps that drafted with us and had some really insightful things to say. I've done an order prior to the draft that led to a revamped cube...

life from the loam How do I make this card worth playing? Rebuying a fetch or two really isn't something I think is something someone in my cube should spend two mana for.

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Yes, probably. But it'll also destroy the x/1 creatures player which is why it's way to swingy arguably.

Can't we make an argument for on color duals and fetches to be a bomb?

Arachnogenesis really seems like it'll clog up the board completely.

Yarrrrr! (That's fine!)

But not you've made the assumption that you're experience is the definitive experience and that we shouldn't have this discussion. I'm not playing other peoples cubes, so I'm not primarily interested in those meta games. It's possibly arbitrary, but as I make the choice of not wanting a solved...

Both of those points feel like assumptions and/or just based on taste, would you care to elaborate on why it is a "non-existent problem"?

Yes, I agree. I could reason that it is desirable because a solved meta is undesirable and that changing the meta avoids that problem. But I think I'm making some assumptions? I usually try to fall back on the thumb rule that we want to maximize the number of meaningful decisions we can...

Isn't this essentially that we want to avoid the roshambo rock-paper-scissors? The kind of meta game that boils down to "Am I playing rock? Great, most of the field is scissors today!".

I'd also like to note that these meta game cycles as described here (A->B->C->A) can be seen as an oscillation. An oscillation is either stable and continous to cycle indefinitely, or there is some damping that causes the oscillation to slowly die out. Now, oscillation is usually describing...

It deviates even less now than it did a few weeks ago. I think the problem was partly that I drafted a 6 man with some very important archetype cards in the leftover 90 cards (partially accidentally baiting a player into drafting a reanimator deck that by chance barely had any of its card in the...

But isn't part of what makes this metagame happen the fact that you get different strategies, depending on what priorities (what picks) the players make with the resource pool your cube represents during a draft? Kind of like how a "highlander" moba (no double of the same hero on the same team)...

Probably. One comment I got was that Pod was an auto pic. I think maybe the way I want the pod decks to play out is these synergy centric combo decks that assembles its pieces with the help of the tutoring of pod. I was killed a really cool way by a pod player podding up his falkenrath...

Some of those feel a bit hamhanded but some artifact removal might be one way to do it. The others have the draw back of hitting mana bases, which may or may not be something you'd wanna do.