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I run Vamp Tutor. Fun times card, season to taste with miracles and other top of library stuff.

Maze of Ith is miserable to play against. It's a permanent removal spell that gets super duper OP with board wipes. They have to overcommit to get through Maze, then you wrath, then they have to overcommit to get through Maze... (I think you see where this is going)

Okay, here is my issue with Overwatch. I love, love, love Pharah. I just had a game where I went like 28 - 2 with her, all over the place ripping it up. But sometimes the enemy comp hard-counters me, so I switch around heroes. But I'm mostly bored. I haven't learned to love any of the other...

Yeah, for sure. Sometimes it is really fun, but sometimes you get just a turd of a team and feel miserable for the duration of the game. Running back after respawning feels super tedious, especially since I'm used to small Halo maps where you're in the action almost immediately. I think it...

I got Overwatch, can't decide if it's good or not. Some aspects I really don't like, but there's no denying it's well made. Still think Shadowrun was a better class-based shooter.

I'm down. Who else wants to join?

My cube. It's a splashable 3-mana Cryptic. Uh, it's great when it hits, and this is cube, nobody is playing creatureless. Pretty good as a late game hard-counter, early game you don't want to hold it up without some alternate instant-speed play available.

One game revolved around me planning to chain Cryptic -> Eternal Witness -> Cryptic, but I got blown out by Exclude. :(

You're making some convincing arguments. I'll see if I can set Halo aside to try out a new shooter.

Lots of good games against Dom, but I lost. Sorry fam.

I wasn't like a huge fan of TF2, but had some fun pubbing around as Soldier / Scout. I did love Shadowrun, which was a class-based shooter with a huge skill cap and all sorts of abilities that linked together in creative ways. Also, I would be a plebe and buy it for Xbox One.

So... should I buy Overwatch?

My mana was pretty great, the splash felt fairly free. I think I played one basic swamp? My deck felt a bit light on meat and answers, and all the removal came from black. Would have had to draft very differently to get UG to function properly.

I think Sun Titan and Hero of Bladehold qualify as win conditions. I do like that you were able to field a straight-up functional two color deck.

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All the hype for Overwatch makes me really sad that Shadowrun didn't catch on. That was the most addicting, innovative team-based game I've ever played. Such brilliant design, that was panned in its era for "not having single player".

I remember spending a good chunk of money to get one a few years ago, and then cutting it almost immediately for being underpowered.

If I were to do something like this, I think it'd have to be more simple, e.g. after 10 picks, take away one chip of each color. It's not so important at the moment really. Probability mechanisms are easy to tweak, I think the bigger question is: what kind of behavior do you want your draft to...

Another thought: there should maybe be some correlation matrix between archetypes. Like, if you take Spells-Matters cards, you probably want other Spells Matters cards, but you also want spells. Madness wants self-discard. I mean, maybe Delver should just have the "spells" tag and the "spells...

Yeah, that could be useful. I've been playing with a couple ideas. 1) sampling without replacement Say we have our initial pack, WWUUBBRRGG. If we sample without replacement, we cap the initial packs at a max of two cards of a color per pack. Initial packs tend to be more diverse this way...