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Also, I just re-read the original post, and... people post on forums other than this one? BLASPHEMY!!

Alright, I think you guys sold me on Citadel Siege. I have to admit liking that, like planeswalkers, it has 'haste', unlike most of the other Sieges which make you wait until next turn. To the testing pile!

That Oppressive Cards article was most likely written by Jason, as part of the Cube Academy series of articles that he put together, with Dom pitching in as well. That was a well-intentioned and ambitious project to have a comprehensive resource for novice cube designers to reference, but it...

I do enjoy Magic, and very much so, but I'm also open to the idea that another TCG may come along one day that is outright better than Magic. So I keep an open mind, and try to play as many other games as I can, giving each one of them a fair shake. At one point, around Mirrodin Besieged, I...

hmmmmmmm i need to hear more... which ones are worth testing? please don't say all

Yes, but there is a lower barrier to acceptance for custom conspiracies and custom cards than for house rules, speaking generally. If the problem is that there is one holdout who remains resistant, adding new cards while keeping the rules of Magic the same might be a more amenable solution. Not...

Custom conspiracies and/or custom cards - possibly with cycling :0: on them, to mimic the effect you're trying to introduce at a global level - seem like a great way to test out the theory in incremental steps.

...don't get me started on the time I attended a Vanguard cube event. "You're a casual player. You'll like it!" No, I am not. And no, I did not.

Great post, Grillo. The interesting part is that I also have both hardcore Timmies and hardcore Johnnies in my playgroup. They tend to be less focused on winning, and more on enabling that "ONE GIANT OVERKILL!" or that "ONE RIDICULOUS COMBO!", and then recalling that event days or weeks down the...

Yes, I worded my argument poorly. I am not arguing that those concepts no longer exist. Only that they need to be relearned, and optimized for from the ground up for this new game. The existing shortcuts that we use today and have committed to memory would no longer be applicable. Perhaps they...

Right, I actually do want to go in the direction of continuing to lower my cube's power level even further - partially to see what'll happen, and partially to open up some new archetypes. Still, though, Chris nailed the issue on the head - even in that kind of environment, none of these sieges...

Actually, I would say it does. I believe everyone on this thread has identified how deckbuilding would fundamentally change. Ideas about mana curve, the lands-to-spells ratio, and the correct amount of fixing go out the window, among other things. That then snowballs into your draft strategy...

Try new games! There are plenty of games on the market that have addressed some of the problems that Magic has with variance, doing away with the likes of mana screw, colour screw, and mana flood. The advantage of playing one of these commercial games, rather than trying to 'fix' Magic yourself...

I don't think anyone has made the argument that a rule change of this nature would make for an unplayable game. If they have, I would also shoot down the argument as absurd. I believe what people are putting forward is that such a rule change would make Magic another game. A very Magic-like game...

And therein lies the crux of the problem, to me. On the one hand, we're saying that this is a very minor change to the game of Magic, something that really nobody should have any arguments against considering. On the other hand, we've already identified how drafting and deckbuilding will be...

it's the kind of thing that makes me actively avoid starbucks locations whenever there's an alternative nearby on the other hand i still buy their giant bags of dark roast at costco, so i might be part of the problem

It was still only $19! Came out to something like $76 USD after all was said and done - and he shipped the very next day after I ordered. It should be here pretty soon.

yeah, without having tested a single one, i kind of hate all the sieges from reading them alone... they seem like heavily overcosted modal cards, for the effects that they grant. maybe one of them will prove cubeable in the long run, but i'm not too optimistic

i really hate their pretentious names for cup sizes... tall, venti, and whatever else... it makes me irrationally angry on the other hand, i like their actual coffee. i stocked up on four bags of christmas blend so that'll carry me thru mid-April. speaking of which i should go brew myself a...

starbucks christmas blend is just about my favourite coffee ever, no joke