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I am willing to pay $5 for a speculative card. However, have a friend who also cubes and makes casual decks all the time, so I can rest assured that any card I end up not using will probably not go to waste. Communal card pools are OP.

Does anyone know of a resource that has the history of restrictions/bans for Type 1/1.5? I found one list and it is very informative, but it unfortunately incomplete. I know it is incomplete because balance isn't on it. I'm trying to remember when balance was restricted and I think it must have...

How do you find a balance between including the cards you love and keeping the draft environment functional and coherent?

I have no idea. I'm picking one up, throwing it in the utility land pile and hoping someone smarter then me will figure out what its for.

I haven't watched all of Archer, but I'd estimate its about 70% hilarious, 20% decent and 10% why the hell am I watching this. You've got pretty good odds whenever you watch that show of having a good time.

This article reminds of me two things: 1) Your cube looks hilariously fun to play even though its pretty far removed from what I typically enjoy. 2) I really don't like tutors.

Serendipity! I just picked one up! Also, I love Lolteth Troll, but I DID just order a Hunting Moa, so that such endorsement may or not may be ringing.

I can't say I bought anything today, but last week I did some shopping. Its sad, but I've gotten to the point that its easier to just buy a common that I know I already have then to try to find it. In my defense, though, my mtg collection doesn't live in my house. Then again the person's house...

Well, in Paizo's case no one determined it. They just started doing it and people started following. I think the question is due people really enjoy it enough to step up and do something about it dying, or they only like it enough to whine that someone else should fix it, then give up and...

Normal drafts have commons that compromise a disproportionate amount of the card pool, which reduce the level of variance significantly. I'd agree that this reduction of variability doesn't outweigh things like "I pulled Drana GG" that plague certain booster draft formats, but it is an...

Well, this very sort of thing happened in another WotC run product: Dungeons and Dragons. Pathfinder is fundamentally D&D 3rd edition as stewarded by Paizo Publishing after WotC abandoned it in favor of D&D 4e (which has subsequently been abandoned for D&D Next). Paizo was a third party...

But, the Smash Brothers community is the perfect example of a group of fans that took personal stewardship of their format rather then wait for an official source to do so for them. Nintendo doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the Smash Brothers community. They didn't design the format (what game...

So I read this article (and the comments in the forum about it) and it tangentially related to this topic. http://www.mtgsalvation.com/1399-legacy-analysis-reflections-slivers.html Long story short, the author complains that WotC doesn't care about Legacy, that the format is going into...

That's funny!

There is, I think, a difference between the pride and joy of owning a genuine card and the need to exclude people from playing the game because they don't. The pride of being a collector doesn't have anything to do with playing the game. Think about baseball cards or vinyl. I've never met...

I have a copy of the game Vineta. It's a charming little game where the players represent the Norse Gods and destroy an island of their worshipers for some reason. One of the components of the game is wooden figures shaped like houses. One day I wanted to play and I noticed that one of my...

Annex has been great in my cube. It is a completely unblue effect (land denial + ramp), done in a distinctly blue way. I would hate this card for being a better mwonvoli acid moss, but being an enchantment can be a liability. Yavimaya Dryad is a vetted veteran in my cube that will never...

The most basic step in any of these processes is naming the experiences you intend to capture. You said that you want "Synergy, build around me cards and combo enablers." This is interesting. I think the first thing that comes to mind when I read this statement is not what you should...

Betrothed of Fire was a complete non-factor in Mirage/Visions/Weatherlight limited. Granted its hard to remember because it was like 16 or so years ago, but I really don't think it was ever maindecked for any reason other then total desperation. I don't think it even made an impact in junk...

My story is very simple. My store stopped supporting Type 1 and 1.5 I didn't really like Type 2. I was tired of buying Tempest boosters every week just to play Magic. Pulling random cards out of the shoebox was slipshod. So, I stopped randomly pulling the cards out of the shoebox. My...