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My games tonight were soooo much fun. I'm going to write a full CFB draft write-up. This is what I love about Magic. I was smiling the whole time. Epic games between me and James.

We are starting this in an hourish, fellas (and lurking lady-fellas). If you want to join, post your Skype info in this thread.

I think it's pretty valid from a player perspective to complain about just about anything. You play games to enjoy them, and if something is limiting that, certainly voice your opinion. From a design perspective you have to consider whether fixing such a complaint actually makes the game more...

Per-per-per-persecutorrrr

This has not been my experience at all. Shelldock is usually very marginal here. I'd put Volrath top the list, although sometimes tapping for colorless is a huge drawback.

I dunno, I think Brainstorm is legitimately skill testing. It's just the right amount of strategic complexity without being overwhelming. Watch someone cast it in cube sometime and see how often they do exactly what you would do.

I can't see your name without thinking of Markov chain Monte Carlo.

It seems good potentially good. Both cards require something "extra" to get good value out of. Broodmaster has a natural line to putting 19 (!) power on the board on Turn 7, but requires a full untap and has no trample. Baloths can get you 14 the turn you play it, if you hold a fetchland. They...

Ah, sorry to hear that. No worries if you have to drop, hope you get that all sorted out.

Uh, well, this always happens. We'll get last minute pile-ons. Last time we ran an 8-man draft and then 4 actually played. I'm not counting it out yet.

If it weren't for the fact that I'd be promoting proxies on CFB I'd write a whole article on this. I think we're dealing with real differences in kind here. Real cards -> proxies is a difference in aesthetics. Real cards -> made up cards is a difference in design. I only have so much...

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It's also out of action for a long long time. And has no evasion. Seems like a super bad Vorapede.

Re: proxies, I find that you don't actually notice when you are drafting / playing with them. I notice when I sit around and just look at my cube, but when I'm trying to think strategically it never crosses my mind that my Volcanic Island or whatever is a fake. It helps that I have super...

I will just say, I didn't really start designing until I removed cost as a constraint in my cube. I was never experimenting because I spent so much time just trying to acquire certain cards. I'm not going to say it's 1000x better, but my cubing experience is so much better now that the cards I...

I think I would have agreed in the pre Utility Land Draft days. Now I value Prime Time much higher.

Pssh... real men cast Messenger off of a swamp and a colorless land. Gravecrawler Phyrexian Tower Geralf's Messenger

That'd be some mana base...

I dunno, Sun Titan usually isn't wrecking the game by pulling things out of the graveyard. Unless you've built for that. Getting back a Liliana or that artifact murderbomb is pretty fun.

Hmm, I think this is pretty close, but I might swap Frost and Sun.