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I like this (obviously, I don't usually comment on these threads). I have a few brief comments on card choices: adarkar valkyrie (and close cousin Gleancrawler) are not a lot of fun in Limited, esp. something capped power-wise like this i would add a snapcaster mage in general i'm in favor...

i mainly played on pokerstars

where is usman

manamorphose never worked for me. my experience of gitaxian probe in constructed makes me think the thing about free spells is that they ain't free

i would like to invite you and your bank account to my home game i remember simmons made an assertion like this on grantland (obviously it stuck out on that otherwise in-depth and well-considered site) and i was torn between wanting to disabuse him of that misconception and, at the time...

there was the "jund deck," which tried to cheese people. with 19 mana sources i'm surprised he didn't play living inferno, along with the traditionally sweet gather courage and silhana ledgewalker. more importantly:

the best reducing-variance technique is A LARGE SAMPLE SIZE, which is not really possible in Magic and is also very difficult to attain in live poker or even online tournament poker. this is one of many reasons MTG theory these days reads like "Super System" or that generation of poker books...

yep i'm with you. would require careful power level mgmt though legacy does only to a lesser extent but you're right. some guy ripped lilly into shardless into deathrite tonight whilst hellbent with his BUG delver deck. it was awesome i ground him out with my dumb manland christ is...

I love 'em but unless you have both an artifact theme and a sacrifice theme, ideally overlap ... these seem like great candidates for lower-power-level cubes

I doubt it's more than a 52% to 48% edge just eyeballing various limited formats, but i have no basis for saying this and would be oh so grateful to anyone who can pull up the figures for Standard, Modern and Legacy (cube is slower than Standard). Maybe Block is a good comparison?

i understand your bias thing but after drafting every format, RGD is the very best. http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=10649 on one hand you could do OK not committing to the board early. on the other hand there was a certain advantage to doing so, and you had to do something of your...

any Yawg Barg experiences?

Doomed Traveler is awesome and will never leave my Cube. I could just be being an idiot about Boros Elite

I really think poker is the perfect design. A minute to learn, a lifetime to master. I hear the same things about bridge but I've never played. You guys are right about Scrabble and I am dumb. It is pretty good though. Keep iteratin

nearly all of the creatures were gloriously inefficient in RGD. 'value' is the buzzword. everything was so incremental and there were not many haymakers and even fewer that couldn't be answered.

i do like backup plan too, i guess. i drafted cns last night and it sucked though this may have been a function of the overall environment being lame + mtg not being a multiplayer game. i wouldn't run any of the conspiracies except backup plan and worldknit. i feel very positively about any of...

Yeah Lynx is cool. There are a lot of great choices at this slot. Boros Elite is of great interest. Soldier of the Pantheon is kind of boring but his human buddies are all a delight. Isamaru is there because there is no Neapolitan without vanilla.

Xenagos is actually kinda cool, Sarkhan is a role player, I can't imagine not running Domri I like Ghor-Clan Rampager and Huntmaster and to a lesser extent Bloodbraid and as 2RG cards already The main idea I have here is that guild sections can only be so big (though the fixing in these...

I'm not advocating Arbiter, I'm arguing you should design to create greater diversity of WW decks

Everyone agrees there shouldn't be Monopoly-level luck, but I'm sure there should be more than chess has. We should also yak about different notions of luck: -Guy gets dealt AA three times in a row while we get KK. We are unlucky here but once both players have wagered everything we would be...