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I would much rather them downgrade some uncommon lands to common rarity.

Good point Eric. I hadn't checked back to see how my comment was doing.

Ah, delayed triggers again! Also this still feels a bit color bleedy (black). I like the sorceries that make creatures fight, but this version feels a little clunky and not like an actual card. I could maybe see a fight sorcery with a (creature) regrowth stapled to it, though.

Feel free to look at the block that had suspend and storm cards. This isn't really a new phenomenon.

The biggest point against Exploding Borders is that it is a gold card. The second issue is that I don't know if this is really the effect those sorts of decks are looking for. Damage to the player isn't that important to a ramp deck. It's mostly a really expensive rampant growth. If it could...

Well my current Utility Land Assortment of fixers is: Celestial Colonnade Creeping Tar Pit Lavaclaw Reaches Raging Ravine Horizon Canopy Cascade Bluffs Rugged Prairie Fetid Heath Twilight Mire Flooded Grove I run 20 fetches with 10 shocks and 10 duals in 360 and it works wonderfully...

From the DeMars article: You could replace "Vintage" with "Cube" and it would pretty accurately reflect the opinions of a certain Magic writer I know.

I could always put only 5-color fixers in the utility draft (~ 5 of them), then push a few of the better lands (Colonnade, Tar Pit, GW Future Sight leafy card I can't think of the name of) to the main.

Well, to be honest I don't really want to jam another entire cycle into the main. I am at 42 fixers of 360, and it feels fine. It's mostly a space issue. I would rather include more diverse spells (that sometimes make it, sometimes don't) than cut them for extra lands. I have the vague notion...

People love JTMS here. I'll see if I can scrape that list together, but I only kept the undefeated lists in tact from last night's draft (my sweet 4C deck, and my teammate's GW beatdown deck). I haven't shuffled yet so his deck is possibly all in once piece, but I won't know where the sideboard...

Random note, yesterday a player put together a Birthing Pod + JTMS deck. Brainstorm, put two on top, shuffle them away with pod. Every turn. It was pretty awesome. He finished one game by doing 49 damage in one turn with a combination of weird pod activations.

One game yesterday I got wrecked by a player who played Furnace Celebration, then cracked Fetchlands for four turns straight to obliterate my board. As a killing blow he Entombed for Hellspark Elemental, sacrificed it end of turn to Goblin Bombardment and payed 2 for Furnace Celebration to deal...

My biggest issue with powered cubes is not that they are doing powerful things, but that they capture so little of the interaction that actual Vintage games have. I once saw a Vintage decklist that was completely singleton, save for 4 Force of Will. There are some cards that you just really need...

Thanks for the feedback! The thing you say about goal driven cards is very relevant. I've found that, even as the cube designer, knowing which way to go can be pretty difficult. This is actually one of the big benefits to having cards of different rarities in a retail draft. If you don't know...

I just wanted to test it. People actually complained about us not doing the utility land draft though.

My theory is that in a powered cube you need to break singleton even more to get a balanced environment, and that maybe you should aim for a vintagey draft format.

I think I might take all fixers out of the utility stack. I'm not sure. We ran without the utility land draft as a test tonight, and I was able to pull off a four-color deck. I do love the man-lands though. So do the drafters. Really not sure here, thoughts?

For those who already read it, I made an update to the front-page post with some added thoughts.

This guy is pretty good in a Wildfire deck: Out of curiosity, and sample Wildfire decklists?

Holy crap, nice primer! This is going on the front page later this week (with your permission, of course)!