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eric -- i think 13/410 might be a little too high for sweepers, i can't find the damn cooperfauss article on it but i think he mentions the appallingly high rate on modo as being a blight on that format, which it is. yours is (i assume) lower than that but i always advise to err on the side of...

you're right, i shoulda clarified that it was the twin drawbacks of cipt + damage (or cipt + only basic) that rubbed me wrong. i think a little cipt action could spice up your otherwise eternal-worthy manabases. i can't claim to know your cube better than you but! my best guess is the shard...

i know, that's why i typically run 3-5 fewer than the other colors (and far fewer gold cards in U). sweet deck though, drafted by the finest legacy player in WA -- i love having over people who push the boundaries of cube on one hand. on the other i guess i just like losing to my dad edit: i...

for some reason nobody was into black this time bant (good) naya (better) MUC (best)

RGD is completely and utterly the best draft format of all time and it is impossible to print anything like it again under NWO. lucre, you'll find that the power level is fairly low for pretty much all cubes here -- if not low then 'flat.' or maybe the cards individually have low power levels...

2x of each ZEN. i was tryna encourage people to wedge it up. (nobody did) the list is more or less current right now check out the link!

HAHA oh man. multiple cities, why not? card is nuts. 6 / 8 drafters picking fixing first? maybe toss in some more main-cube. i agree with you that the end is interesting decision dynamics, i just find drawing the line somewhat arbitrarily at vault, township, wolf run, cradle, all fixing...

i almost never watch magic videos but make an exception for caleb's content. his brews are beautiful and his play is instructive. plus legacy makes for better viewing, in a game that (for how good it is) is astonishingly bad as a spectator sport. plus, his voice sounds like a minnesotan muppet...

'lies, damned lies, and statistics' jason: i agree that having an objective standard to look to -- 'results' -- is ultimately helpful even if 'results-oriented' is a limpid description of a cognitive bias itself. results are great! they're what separate us from the edh retards. cube was...

venser goes from ok to ludicrously good depending on environment

jason -- not with you on this update. if i cut oracle from cube there would be an open rebellion and i would quickly join said rebellion. gemstone mine is a great card that's probably worth a pick in cube, the rest of those cards are just too bad imo. with the speed of your cube especially...

--theory post-- right, and also have a sense of what's worth testing. the guy who comes to our LGS talking about 'bred for the hunt' in standard and refuses to let go of his halfwit ideas comes to mind. (what do you call someone whose ideas are all good? a libertarian -- i mean, an idiot.) a...

i wonder why jitte isn't overpowered in your cube. could it be a card whose power level scales to that of the format? that would be so surprising to me! re. spot removal -- i like it too though it's odd that the legacy-playable mirran crusader, who laughs in the face of doom blade, would be...

the mill plan didn't work out -- i might have written a few deets in that thread but most of them are above (the effects have to be symmetrical, and soft graveyard themes are tedious to play with and against.) it's funny, i wrote that primer and most of it was well-reasoned yet none of it ended...

pool fills a nice niche by helping with the more restrictive mana costs, like in SHM standard

god this is wonderful. i've heard of mono-colored theme cubes (or guilds or w/e) but i've never read about how they're experienced. who plays them? who drafts what? what are the games like?

yeah, like when we crunched the numbers your avg CMC was slightly but significantly (it seems) lower than mine. legacy curves are so low as to trivialize that discrepancy, though, so there must be another reason that wasteland wasn't working for me, significant as the lower curve is. i'm also...

brief comments: there are no signals in a good cube ever, which is fine. it's a multicolored format nbd interesting that jitte is a 'clear first pick' in that pack -- is such a pack where it isn't (being colorless and all)? i get that it's way sweeter in your cube than a modo abomination but...

no such thing as overpromoting aggro, magic is fun when it starts on turn 1!

ok, cube was pretty excellent last night (9 people, long session, beer, weed) with the exception of three things: zombies / sac theme, loam, and wasteland. the failure of sac / recursion etc. is easily explained -- the cards weren't really good enough. the failure of loam is a little...