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Really impressed with the performance of the typing auto-complete, Rob! I don't know how you managed to get the widget to respond so quickly, especially compared to most of the existing commercial Magic databases.

Yep, colorless cards were definitely guilty here of getting picked early for being strong and non-committal. I lost track of the number of times I took a Wurmcoil Engine early yet again and went into some kind of blue-based controlling strategy, rather than taking the sweet but less powerful...

Man, you are on top of things, CML. I only made that change last night, so it hasn't been put through the wringer yet. When I had it in a while back it was fine, and I vividly remember killing Garruk's beast token and then Garruk with it. Yeah, I got lucky, but.. it's gotta be better than...

I thought this would be fun to post, because "reanimator" (and I use that term quite loosely) only happens once a in blue moon over here in Modern land. All the stars have to align, and the all the sacrifices to the gods have to be proffered. And even then, it's not particularly stellar. I...

Hoo boy. I don't know really know much more than what I've already posted. I don't think that gatherer API is officially documented anywhere, unfortunately. The most I could find was this discussion, which confirms its lack of documentation. We better call in the big guns. Rob! Do you know...

That's a fantastic idea, to have the editor button give you a template! Will definitely implement that when I get around to those darned buttons (which I will!). And yep, I can ignore blank lines on [c] and [ci] tags easily enough.

Yeah, all of our decks looked like turds after the drafting portion. It was pretty funny/sweet how the three of you on your team basically were cutting each other the whole draft, while my team mostly managed to stay out of each other's way. But man, those were some games, huh? We had a nice...

I checked your CubeTutor link to compare notes on cheap red aggro creatures, and I noticed you run a pretty nice one in your two drop section. GOBLIN PIKER. Is that some kind of tech, or is that some kind of tech...?

I've been known to first pick a Looter il-Kor and then force tempo all the way through. Like Vince mentioned, any equipment + looter is boss. I think that Modern Masters shows how a light sprinkling of tribal can be done right. Granted, the power level of that set is a lot lower than even the...

Could you post a mock up? I'm not sure I follow entirely what you mean. I could put all the basics on a far right column, and stack them vertically, like with the spells. But then it would probably stretch the height of the whole deckbox. I'm kinda loathe to waste space like that, but I...

Trying something out. Basic lands beyond the first one automatically tuck behind now, as long as you're listing all your basics at the end. If the whole tucked train of cards won't fit on a line, then it'll wrap. It's not what I would call Robustly Tested, but then, that's what you guys are...

Already on my to-do list. Don't you read my development updates on my threads? ;)

Yeah, baby Jace is pretty insane in these decks. Probably even moreso than in control decks, because you're exerting pressure on the opponent and forcing them to do something. Anything!

Blue tempo is one of my favourite decks to draft in cube, especially when paired with either white or red, but I don't know that I've ever gone as far as going mono-blue. The opportunity cost of dipping into another colour is so low, and the rewards so.. well, rewarding, that I'm not sure why...

Everyone who’s Cubed has had the experience of playing a haymaker and apologizing as a game, which once held the promise of decisions, depth, and interaction, degenerates into a one-sided slugfest. Love the short, sweet, and punchy article, and especially that quote. It's all too true. ...

Ones 1 Intimidator Initiate 1 Bonesplitter 1 Shock Twos 1 Ash Zealot 1 Kargan Dragonlord 1 Torch Fiend 1 Oona's Prowler 1 Dreadbore 1 Magma Jet 1 Mizzium Mortars 1 Searing Blaze 1 Shrine of Burning Rage Threes 1 Chandra's Phoenix 1 Fulminator Mage 1 Manic Vandal 1 Vampire Nighthawk 1 Grafted...

I've changed my mind. I think painlands might actually be at exactly the perfect power level, at least here. It turns out that aggro isn't too good in my cube after all, and I'm witnessing that decks of all shapes and sizes can stretch to support a painland or two. I feel like anything stronger...

Hey Ben, I've been using the "secret" Gatherer API for my own deck layouts. Maybe this would be useful to you too. Compared to the URLs you specified, this one does come with an ugly border, so you'd have to crop that. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?type=card&name=wind drake...

Thanks for the great feedback, guys. Rob, the PHP code for this isn't in the templates on the development forum, but I can ship you the source. (Or maybe it's time I finally started using source control and GitHub...) I like Vince and Rob's ideas to just show numerically the number of lands...

Yes, absolutely! I almost didn't release this tonight, because I badly wanted that exact functionality incorporated. Unfortunately, the mouseover tooltips that I'm pulling from deckbox.org don't work properly on card images - they only work on text links. So I suppose I'll have to roll up my...