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Yeah. My whole system is to use a tag on CubeCobra to label the cards that I want to acquire, un-tag once I actually pick up the physical piece, then store it in my cube inclusions binder under I actually get to physically sit down and make the update. It's usually once every 2 months or so...

It's a lot to process honestly. We're pretty much in a perpetual spoiler season and if you don't have the means to regularly test your cube with a playgroup, you can go multiple sets of swaps without actually seeing any real results. It's fun to tinker around with stuff, but it can get...

This is it. The "haha" that was promised.

Sidebar: I'm a massive NBA nerd and a diehard Lakers fan. The latter being kind of rough after last night. It's super rare that I get to cross reference that in my other hobbies that have very little in common haha. Yeah, actually was thinking of the Grizz when I named that deck and that...

I don't normally do it for archetypes, but back when I could run cube drafts more often I'd usually try to come up with more flavorful names for my manual uploads based upon the gameplay of the deck. It made them more memorable in the long run and my write-ups were more fun to complete after the...

I'm in the middle of theorycrafting an Innistrad Reborn cube incorporating mechanics that like Threshold + Surveil to flesh it out and create greater decision points. I'm curious whether it'll end up in Innistrad Isle or somewhere on the way to the mainland.

Makes sense to me based off possible implementations they've done for draft AI in the back-end. They're not quite Skynet so any little bit to nudge them towards more specific decision trees when trying to analyze a given pick is sure to help. I'll probably be making the same adjustment later today.

It's kind of nebulous to define, but I'd say higher-powered cubes usually revolve around individual card inclusions and play patterns for me. Like when do your defined archetypes/decks get going in your environment assuming optimal curve out? What does your mana acceleration look like in...

Yes, I'd say Delirium is definitely more viable now with more cards utilizing the mechanic as well as newer mechanics helping to fuel it. A big one is Surveil which has allowed for additional avenues to pitch different card types into the graveyard without straying from your normal gameplan...

Evil Twin

Can confirm. I ran a draft years ago a little after Oath of the Gatewatch came out and was paired up against a buddy of mine. Unbeknownst to me, like a madman he drafted pretty much every single manland that came his way and played a deck that was mostly just removal spells and a Sylvan...

And I guess there's a 10 image limit per post, so my final inclusions that I couldn't post for now are the mana rock Liquimetal Torque and the equipment Nettlecyst. I'm a fan of the number of archetypes that are being fleshed out further with this set. A lot of them aren't for me, but I'm all...

Yeah, that was an incredible 2 1/2 minutes. It's got that Chris (Simpsons artist) energy.

Full on MLD has been pretty hit or miss in a cube setting from my experience. It's just trivially easy to break parity in many circumstances, which is something I don't like from haymaker type effects. And this is coming from someone who loves LD and tries to jam in MLD whenever possible in...

Going all snow-covered basics to better enable Dead of Winter in Mono-Black EDH might have been a bad idea.

Catching up after being away most of this weekend, but man there's been a lot of love for many fringe archetypes. MH2 looks like a goldmine for Cube. I'm especially excited about all this incidental support for my U/R Artifacts deck. The main issue with these kind of archetypes has always been...

This was pretty much my same experience with it. I liked it in KTK draft, but it was so slow to actually get going and wasn't what I was looking for out of a 1 drop white creature. It was pretty lackluster for me when I gave it a run years back, one of those cards that usually read way better...

Omelette du fromage

Just really big fans of Ferdinand Magellan and his love of exploration. He also ran double fetches before it was cool.