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dom -- i fully agree. in a 720/singleton swords probably help balance things (and not in the palsied gymnast / 1W sorcery sense). the same goes for powered cubes.

vince -- you have a power cube, swords seem fun there! on the topic of cubes that are not fun: i just had the joy of getting cataclysmed and verdicted, then land taxed for a cool dozen basics and verdicted and sphinxed and whatever else. so i hated myself some more once i realized that i'd...

live-tweeting the modo cube: CML ‏@CMLisawesome12s playing the modo cube is an act of self-hatred on the order of watching the maury show or reading a romance novel Expand CML ‏@CMLisawesome1m my theory is the modo cube is brought back at 3-month intervals because that's how long it takes...

yooooooooooooooooooo one of my best mtg/poker friends is a houston dude and we collaborated on this article. you know him? http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/legacy/23802-A-Tale-Of-Fortune-And-Romance-SCG-Legacy-Open-Dallas-1st.html

Every so often you see RW and BW in maindecks, they're pretty rare. This week's decks of the week (http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/activity/1280) feature mono-white d&t with UR and BW UW midrange with GB GW d&t with (sideboard) GB six tournaments, 4 swords (3...

Man I also really love Cloak and both Guides (Griffin too!) but nobody ever played them. Cube design is so sensitive to any number of factors that individual card values fluctuate violently and unpredictably. For example Adventuring Gear is an awesome card that is unplayable in my Cube. Part...

(Maybe we could turn this one into an article too, once I've synthesized all the smart things other people say with the better thoughts here...) The original Mirrodin block had bad art, an ugly new card face with ugly gray mana symbols, bland flavor, bland flavor text, a cheesy plot, and...

I think my mediocre results at RTRx3 draft were mainly due to _not_ forcing something (ok, "Selesnya")

Guess we could post the OP to the main page? P2 vs. P3 -- it's true that power levels across packs are never flat. The biggest discrepancy is Alara Reborn vs. Conflux (though Conflux was also shitty compared to Shards of Alara). Other examples that come to mind are EVE over SHM and MOR vs. LOR...

I haven't watched it. Making a film out of Nabokov seems sacrilegious

BenS is one of the few top MTG players that maximizes the function (charisma * popularity * visibility * results), so his articles are always a treat. http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/stark-reality-drafting-the-hard-way/ You could draw analogies between his methods of consistently...

Ben -- would it be possible to --arrange the main list page by {type, rarity, color, latest set, name, CMC} and various permutations thereof in addition to the current option --have the same functionality on 'edit list,' and be able to use the filter functionality on cubes that aren't one's...

like flavor text and set names (i was certain dragon's maze was an asian porn site), card names have gotten much worse in recent years, and most of it is the 'corny' problem. (high points for the mtg creative team: mirage block, alliances, original RGD, time spiral block, coldsnap -- though i...

mmmmmmm baloths. a smash hit if there ever was one. my constructed-oriented playgroup thinks one of the great things about cube is that a 50¢ mythic like the baloths can show up on the other side of the table and laugh in the face of Mind Sculptor. i think jason's analysis is probably right...

I will not hear any put-downs against Tunnel Ignus, which reminds me (and probably you) of that classic Tina Fey SNL skit. I learned a ton about English as a kid playing MTG which is why the stupid, stupid names below are so easily called to mind. dual lands are often named feebly. "hmmm, ok...

yeah i dunno it probably sucks. one of those cards i try once and then wonder what the hell i'm doing. the opposite -- cards that end up being way better than i expected -- are bigger errors, though. so i tend to err on the side of trying everything

Skrap: the CubeTutor solitaire method works, but there's no substitute for getting a good playgroup of people with heterogeneous yet good taste and playing together a bunch. Actively invite criticism, note which cards never get played, note which cards never get passed (or are accompanied by a...

sweet review, wish there had been more space to explain the elvish mystic joke and wallow in snark i really just think lifebane zombie is the best card in the set, though that kind of color hoser may not be something everyone's interested in. YET ANOTHER SKINRENDER MENTION WITHOUT THE...