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Perhaps I was unclear. By fixed resources, I mean, there is a finite supply of cards in your environment. The players can "want" to play more edicts (or whatever), but there are a finite number of edicts. The "meta" so to speak is static. This is not a bad thing, or a good thing, it's just a...

Short (possibly not useful) answer: it depends on the bombs in question. But I think as a designer you're in control of that, via your selection of cards, and how you weight raw power in your card selection, relative to cards with sequencing options. As usual, I think a lot of this happens...

I don't think cyclical balance exists in a fixed-resource setting. In constructed, players choose which resources to bring to the player, and on a given day you can have, say, 50% of the players wielding a certain aggro variant. This doesn't exist in cube. An "evolving meta" isn't a very...

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Yeah, white's super boring. I don't know what to do about it. I should probably push white control more.

It's borderline. I ran it for a while and it fits in great into UR Tempo (already gave my ticket) shell, and featured in lots of 3-0 lists. It's currently not in there, but I never felt bad playing it.

Yeah, it would be ideally a fun mini-game that the opponent is usually not aware of, but could theoretically play around if they choose to respect it. Probably better the more Brainstorms you have to shuffle away a situational card.

I've thought about putting this in my cube actually. I think it's got great fun mileage / card.

I don't really get any joy out of Armada losing. Nothing against him, it just doesn't do anything for me.

I tried it once and the games were super anticlimactic. Cube will (likely) never have the same dynamics as Modern (the decks aren't built to dance around the war of resolving an "I win" combo).

I will unfortunately have to pass. I'll be on stage in Luxembourg at that time.

He's actually really into cube and used to PM me on Facebook to discuss my CFB articles.

Done.

I see it more in idealogical terms, not in terms of power level.

Power level counts. A 3/1 Ajani's Pridemate is less poisonous than a 2/2 one. I think of it as the amount of support needed to make a card viable in a deck. Case in point, some of the later Infect cards were in fact less poisonous than the ones in SOM.

They've already broken singleton.

I mean, Cryptic is still amazing in Modern. What classifies as a "pet" card in this day and age?

Actually I think the power level makes it less poisonous. If the reward is twice as great, you need fewer lifegain triggers in your deck to make it worthwhile. Karlov can more organically become threatening than Pridemate (who needed a ton of support).

Sounds like random variability to me. With 6 drafters you tend to have one color that has at least 4 players in it (if on average they are on 3 colors per deck, 3/5 * 6 = 3.6 avg drafters per color), and with random chance you'll have a fifth player joining in.

That should be enough time to draft and get 2-3 rounds in. Things should run smoother this time anyways.