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Remind me to take more of a look at this later, but for now here's my article on card color classification: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cube-design-declassified-information/

Yes, Frostburn is a real card, but I think, in my cube at least, you don't really make blue tempo better with some of these random beaters. Like, I thought your post on CML's thread was spot on, and then this last wave of suggestions had me scratching my head a bit. In the same way the...

Eric gets a damn say when he ponies up his own cash for this thing. Why let him share in the puppetry? :)

We can get Eric if you want the damn thing to be published in 2015. I'm pretty sure the kid writes by cutting letters out of newspapers, pasting them to a sheet and then scanning them with some image to text conversion. He's still working on his first RL article. But maybe since I already have...

Part of the problem I always had with people who tried to make green aggro work (as a primary color) is that the color really didn't do anything new. They were just running bad white cards that had green colored frames. I get it, support aggro, blah blah, but at a certain point if we're jamming...

Yeah, I mean, I am sure there is a theoretical environment where Aquamoeba is not a huge pile, but even Wild Mongrel is pretty terrible these days so I'm not optimistic.

I dunno Chris, normally I am with you but a lot of these cards look like turds. If doing this requires running them, I start to wonder whether the archetype is worth pursuing in the first place.

I was kind of thinking along the lines of Next Great Designer search, where half the fun is seeing what the contestants come up with, and half is the response of the judges.

You got 100 alerts in a couple days? I only get like... 15 per day tops maybe?

Hmm... that means I have to write them all at once. Or, I could release the raw submissions, and then later post my critiques one by one. But I don't really just want to dump all the critiques in one article or whatever. Need to milk this for sweet sweet content.

This is kind of vague, and I don't have any good answers in mind, but does anybody have any concrete ideas about ways our cubes are held back by the limitations of the printed Magic cardpool? The first one that comes to mind for me is that the strength of black has been too heavily placed into...

Christ, you never click on that?

What you describe is exactly why Wizards splits things into Design and Development. There would need to be two project leads.

I mean like, Daze, Force Spike, etc.

Well, something like your cube, but I think we could be a bit more aggressive. The way I think is... one card (for example Gravecrawler) was able to completely change the way my cube performed. What if we could improve on things we didn't even see as problems? What if we could make designs that...

Wait, in your Cube Tutor link you have more than just Mana Leak and Miscalculation. Am I confused?

Bah, am I the only one who loves Bloodgift Demon? Are there even suitable replacements? I've won so many games with that card in a ton of different deck builds. Part of black's thing is paying life for various advantages, and I like to have pepperings of lifegain in there. Zombie decks will...

I would say, borrow from the existing card pool as liberally as is needed.

Yeah, there was one made by Ali Antrazi and Justin Parnell. I liked a lot of what they did, but thought that on the whole many cards were overly complex for the sake of being complex. Making it must have been a gargantuan task though, and I certainly appreciate the effort. I probably don't have...