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I tried my proposed two-tier system for the first time tonight, and to my surprise, my group loved it. They consider it an improvement over the regular utility land draft. I'm not sure I'm as swayed as they are, but I'll probably stick with it for the time being. Putting two stars on the inner...

I've started to dislike clone effects in cube - except for those that are reasonably costed - because they let the owner too easily piggyback off of their opponent's hard work, for very little investment. Even as someone who would take Phyrexian Metamorph and Phantasmal Image really early, I...

Beseech is horrible. I.. actually tried to cube with it for one week, much to my shame. Just play Diabolic Tutor instead if you're that desperate. Which you shouldn't be.

all knights in magic are mounted everyone knows that (especially if they have flanking!!!`11)

Yeah, I suspect it's in that ballpark. 1/3 chance of tying, 1/3 chance of losing outright, and 1/3 chance of winning?

Someone I respect said somewhere at some point that you have a 25% chance of winning a random clash. In my own experience, I think the number is probably closer to 30 or 35%.

This is a pretty interesting idea. The first thing that comes to mind is that a format somewhere in between normal limited and normal constructed should have a deck size in between the two. Maybe a fifty card minimum? The reason being that with 45 picks and roughly 23 spells in a regular draft...

Yeah, it's kind of surprising how sparingly scry 1 was used before this block. As a player, I always dig a good scry 2 rider, as it adds a bit of kick to an already meaty card. But scry 1 is something that they can throw on most any spell - or land! - and help out those cards that were almost...

Same. I'm a big fan both of his writing style and his content. It doesn't hurt that he's written some of the best flavour text ever, too. They really need to let him loose on that front once in a while. Man can write.

It's surprisingly good here. I think they've finally nailed the perfect rider for a three mana Counterspell.

I dunno. Some of them are pretty sweet! But I can see the arguments against them, too. They gum up the ground, clogging board states and prolonging games. Planeswalkers that do this are even worse, because they're hard to answer to begin with, and even moreso when they plop down a bunch of...

Four shouldn't be necessary, as the idea is that you'll dig through the majority of your deck, and you only need to find a single copy to start going off. We had a good discussion about this in the Skype chat, and I think I might go with one Worm Harvest along with a Spider Spawning. I wonder...

To be fair, Azorius Charm was quite good here in the short period I ran it, and slotted very well into control decks, much the same way as it's doing in Standard. I recently 'upgraded' it into Unexpectedly Absent.. and now that card wheels more than a NASCAR stock car. I.. I don't get it.

Is it just me, or do all the best UW cards already have very good analogues in mono-white? Detention Sphere = Oblivion Ring Supreme Verdict = Wrath of God Azorius Charm = Unexpectedly Absent Granted, most of the gold cards have a slight advantage over their mono-colour siblings. Just not...

Given that I already run this batch of stuff, mainly for the {U}{B}{G} reanimator decks... Darkblast Stinkweed Imp Satyr Wayfinder Grisly Salvage Dakmor Salvage Raven's Crime Is it worth the slots to toss in a mini-Worm Harvest package, which could allow the graveyard decks to ditch the blue...

I've actually thought about doubling up on Oblivion Rings, because the thought of wasting a gold slot on Detention Sphere seems silly when it's only very marginally worse. But, for whatever reason, I've never actually pulled the trigger on this change. Mostly because Faith's Fetters stops a lot...

goldenpineapple stop tantalizing us when are you going to post your list we must see it

Alright, I gotta admit, I'm loving that a few people have picked non-default avatars in the last day or two. I usually just eyeball the avatar to see who posted, so it gets really confusing when lots of people with the default pic post in a row. And yes, when something like that happens, just...

Yeah, I think there's something to this. My own theory is that every game has a 'critical turn' in which the outcome of the game is more or less decided, even though the game itself may then drag out for another five or ten turns afterwards. In those scenarios I described earlier, the critical...

This. I've wanted to talk about this topic for quite some time, actually, but never really knew how to articulate it, nor do I have the empirical evidence to back up my assertions. My gut feeling, though, based mostly on personal experience, is that the play vs. draw conundrum matters most in...