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Meh, as much as I've tried to support tribal themes like these it's pretty much never worth it to devote that amount of slots to it in your Cube. (I've written out primers much more detailed than yours and it's never worked out.) A notable exception is Jason's Zombies, but even that's subject to...

I think the results of tonight's legacy open prove it's quite good enough!

Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu are still extremely good. They've adapted at the pace of the game and remained on top. Most of the other icons from that era are nobodies now, justly so, and Flores is more comparable to them. Of course there are still a few who hang around but y'know

i think smallish gold sections are probably fine (though it's not my preference) but lots of high powered fixing is pretty indispensable. basically what this thread is hinting at is multi-color aggro is essential to support since running jungle lion is such an embarrassment

yep, youre beginning to fathom the stupidity now

What do you mean by "backwards"? AFAIK we're agreeing with each other. Of course I'm familiar with the stock character of your roommate and the "grind" (used with more than a dash of irony in poker, not in MTG!) -- 12/180s were my living for a few months in 2010. What I'm saying is these many of...

I support this, Cube needs multi-colored aggro to be well-balanced IMO. Jungle Lion is a good example of a card so laughable that it serves the purpose of showing how absurd it is to push this theme in that way. I do kind of like the Captive, though. My one-drop section: Experiment One...

But I do think the asshats at FNM or on Twitter would be better (or at least more tolerable and avoidable), because more people would be "at the top levels." Poker is a great example of this. It's inordinately popular and has probably the hugest amount of idiots in any gaming community. But...

Aether Vile Rebirth

so uh am i mistaken or http://www.dota2.com/international/home/overview/ is this game free to play and awarding 10x the prizes at a single pro tour and in the symphony hall and not a dingy showbox with 5 spectators total yeah theres no doubt that most of mtg's cultural problem comes from a lack...

I feel strongly Legacy and Modern games are quite good and Wizards is aware of this flaw, though Standard games are historically AWFUL right now. Like even a few years ago even aggro mirrors had some activated abilities. Now? "Derp, a Dragon"

An actual case for AEther Vial being playable in Cube (hint: it isn't) 60-card special cuz f it Ones 1 Student of Warfare 1 Isamaru, Hound of Konda 1 Mother of Runes 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Mutagenic Growth 1 Condemn 1 Faith's Shield 1 Champion of the Parish Twos 1 Thalia, Guardian of...

I guess one thing that holds Wargear in check in my Cube is the maximized amount of utility removal i.e. Putrefy or Decay or QPM or the Eventide tree or whatever. How do y'all enter those decks so efficiently with the new graphics? I wanted to enter a sweet 60-card D&T deck (alla Wescoe at the...

as i understand it "variance" in games refers to the extent to which the outcome of the games (or matches, tournaments, hands, whatever) are determined by luck (r^2? it's been awhile since i did stats.) so the three things you mentioned above would fall under that umbrella category. in other...

Terrific stuff, Jason. a few thoughts: -did you know the 6:3:1 ratio of C:U:R in retail sets approximates the ratio for the amount of a single card opened based on which set it's in? i.e. the ratio of serra avengers to molten disasters to tarmogoyfs opened in TPF draft is ~6:3:1 (11:6:2 is...

another sweet and totally superficial category that will enable me to quote many ridiculous figures and waste many stupid hours would be "cube value"

hmmmmmmmm yeah this is mostly true. I passionately hate the period in between the release of a new set in paper and on modo. how the hell does anyone test without modo, ever? i think you can tweak an existing archetype if you understand it and the meta well enough without the benefit of modo...

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People are really Hive Mindey no doubt. Modern is the brewers' non-rotating format and this is still true. I have no complaints though since I think the format actually benefits from the possibility of making a terrible deck and beating people over the head with it (the bannings also help to...

Right, people are far more willing to play with a broken card that's actually been printed. The custom cube project is interesting, though I wonder if I do better as a designer with the constraint "real cards" (even as I chafe at singleton and so forth)