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I've been listening to a ton of Janelle Monae lately. She's so versatile and amazing.

So it's been difficult to get 8 mans going this deep into the school quarter, but we can usually gather up 4-6 people with no problem. As such, we've taken to quilt drafting. With a quilt draft, you lay out your cards in an alternating pattern in an 8 x 8 grid where you can only pick cards with...

Been a little over a month since the last update, here's a pretty big one right before the Commander 2015 adds and (hopefully) an 8-man draft in the next two weeks: OUT Defiant Strike Jace Beleren Retreat to Coralhelm Read the Bones Consuming Vapors Goblin Welder Chandra's Phoenix Arc Trail...

Someone stream, I will tune in and watch while finishing up work. Entertain me please.

I quilt-drafted with 3 other friends on Tuesday, I was on the receiving end of a beatdown by a 5c goodstuff deck that had this loop: Eternal Witness Kolaghan's Command I couldn't break out of this loop in one of the games where he just wrecked my Mardu Aggro deck by shocking and discarding...

It could happen, but most of my drafters are used to retail drafts where they know that they can't just P1P1 a bomb and hope to build around it. Sometimes an archetype can just dry up. My drafters usually like to hedge early on cards that they can slot into the majority of decks then hedge into...

I love having duals and multicolor-fixing in the main draft to keep up that draft tension, ULD is mostly just single color lands that would often be 13-15th picks and colorless utility lands. If you just have the option of picking up your colors later, it's not nearly as exciting during draft...

The thing is, it's still just a dumb beater at the end of the day that most removal will be able to deal with initially and you'll only be punished if you aren't interacting with the board-state. My drafters like being able to do super powerful things from time to time and I'm fine with letting...

Yeah, I've found that increasing to my current 420 set-up has been the best fix for same-y decks popping up all the time. My initial drafts around a year back were of a 360 build that was tweaked based off of Waddell's cube. It was fun and all, but after 3 drafts I kept seeing the same decks...

Very true, I just treat all of those gain/drain increment cards as Blood Artist-lites. Suture Priest is okay, I'm just not as big a fan of it as I am of Cutthroat b/c leveraging your dudes into draining life is the cool tech-y kinda of play that those B/W Aggro decks usually want for reach. I...

I like Lone Missionary way more because of the 2/1 body. It's no joke against an aggro deck; trading for a guy and nullifying a turn worth of damage is big game. It's an okay blink target, able to return via Ojutai's Command, helps stabilize your life total (4 life takes you out of the range of...

Looking over incidental Pod hate, I've got the following: Unexpectedly Absent Council's Judgment Banishing Light Faith's Fetters Quarantine Field Stifle Echoing Truth Into the Roil Reclamation Sage Wickerbough Elder Nature's Claim Primal Command Silumgar's Command Kolaghan's Command Qasali...

I don't find Pod to be overpowered in my Cube at all, it's been a pretty fair deck for the most part. The Pod deck doesn't come together all that often either. I think I also have enough incidental hate spread throughout the Cube that Pod isn't just a game-ender once it's on the field. Plentiful...

If I had to choose one, I'd go with the Student b/c there's more play to it. I like cards that can be utilized differently in different scenarios (which is why I LOVE commands), and Student is clearly the winner in this scenario. Given the choice between raw power and interesting plays, I'll...

I still have Pestermite in my cube, I don't see it being cut any time soon. It's been a nice flash threat, has been very useful in certain matchups by tapping down a crucial land/blocker early, and has been a nice value blink target that isn't broken. There's a lot of interesting play to it, I...

This cube looks so brutal.

I suppose a card like Deadeye is just fine in a Cube setting because of the mana investment, but I've played against it too much in EDH where it was unkillable that I don't every want to see it near my own list. That card is ridiculously annoying if they get to untap with it.

Sarkhan Unbroken Confirmed greatest planeswalker of all time.

The queen is the creature with the ETB effect in Grillo's example. You just try to generate maximum value by protecting it and just rebuying the effect over and over. As far as the blink theme is actually concerned, I like it as an incidental thing that pops up every now and then but I do not...

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