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StormEntity's list of land interactions is cool and thought provoking. Largely, it makes me think about building a new environment from the ground up with a different mana base. For context, one of the main benefits to switching to a double-fetch environment was that it immediately improved...

Go for it saf.

I don't need my players singing Backstreet Boys during cube night.

Genuinely curious: what percentage of lands do you think end up in sideboards? It's gotta be under 10% right?

Chris: that solution would be fairly easy to implement (randomly sampling different guilds to support each time). I don't know that I want to, but, code-wise it wouldn't be difficult. I'd take a look at the article Onderzeeboot and see if you have any different questions. By and large my...

Right, and I appreciate the argument. In my original article about double-fetch, I talked about how fetches have increased competing demand among drafters (as opposed to regular duals, which are frequently only wanted by a single player). It was after tons of playtesting at different...

It's mostly that "worse mana in cube" is very much an old idea.

I guess what I'm saying is, when you allow them to play multiple colors, they can find cool synergies that borrow from multiple colors. Like, say, Jeskai tokens splashing Abzan Ascendancy and Voice of Resurgence. Or some cool 4-color pod brews I've seen, that feel very unique. I agree that...

It's not really an idea that's gained any traction (but I still have fun using it), but part of the original motivation of the polycubing idea was that I could have different spells everytime but not fuck with my manabase. Shuffling up a 540 and having all your dual lands of a given color...

Okay, I see an interesting argument here. Say I'm in an :u::r: deck. I will take a Steam Vents over Ral Zarek pretty much every time, unless I already have something like a Volcanic Island. The cost of missing out of an on-color dual is too large. And I think I've just accepted that as good...

I've been kind of sitting this thread out, but I think most of you know where I stand on this issue. Cube has long been the home of "constructed quality cards, limited quality manabases". I play a ton of lands, and an ULD. Yet, drafting is still chock-full of choices. In the two forum-drafts...

Sounds kinda packratty.

I mean, that elephant is trained.

(super rough concept) Basics I've had a concept for a game kicking around my head for a while. Basically, it's a 2-player game (30-60 minutes?) based around grid drafting. The idea is that you draft cards while playing the game. Priorities evolve based on the board state. Each turn has two...

I dunno, I think we'll have to see it in play to get an appreciation for it. One of the biggest things I learned is that ramp decks already have to tool around with their proportions to get things functioning properly. Saving 2 mana likely isn't worth the hoop of having to have 6 things hit the...

I started playing during Scars of Mirodin *ducks*

Sorry I've been a bit AWOL recently. An illness in the family has kind of drained my energy for hobbie-time as of late. I submitted my entry today (thanks Kirb for the reminder). Fingers crossed!

I don't know, I think Energy seems super sweet for a low-level cube. The mechanic really intrigues me. Resource management in Netrunner was phenomenal, and this appears to borrow some of that. The design is at its most interesting through when you have a variety of energy sinks in your deck, as...

The thing people don't realize, about the Gearhulk, is that it was was never really about the gears at all.