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I only run 7 Innistrad lands as well. I tried the uncommon multicolor utility lands from original Ravnica too, but they were uniformly terrible.

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Hi Vince! Thanks for making these. These look great and I like the colors that you've used! Very clean and professional! Eric and I are currently trying to figure out the whole marketing and branding thing, and this looks far far better than anything we've come up with. If you (or anyone...

Well, I've only done the hatedrafting thing once, but the decks pretty much felt like 8-man decks. The dynamic is a little different (you can't benefit as much from cutting a color, for example), but it's really just me floundering to find entertaining substitutes for a product that was designed...

I wonder if there's a way to balance a Black Sun's Zenith style ability on a Planeswalker. Ideas could be to have a -1/-1 ability on all creatures, or maybe somehow even a -X/-X on all creatures where X is a variable number. You could even have it as a fixed number, like: -Y: Put 3 -1/-1...

The original pitch of "Faeries versus Dredge versus Storm" sounded pretty terrible (vis a vis the Poison Principle). The actual spoilers look a bit more reasonable (so far). Given WOTC's track record with cube, what are your expectations? Will they put legitimate design muscle into an actual...

You know, I had been thinking about adding Cave in for a while. There are basically three options: 1) Put copies in the cube proper 2) Put copies in the utility land stack 3) Put copies in the basic land stack What do you think would be most interesting? Also, if we're going that route, we...

Well, the images pop up automatically. For example, I just include:

That's the one. It's for CFB, not RipLab. I'm not sure we really have the infrastructure to even run an article like that at the moment. Well, we do, but it would be with mouseover card tags instead of the nice looking CFB card pictures. For a draft article that makes a pretty big difference.

Dom, I love your enthusiasm for Magus of the Tabernacle. Are you equally enthused by its source material? Thragtusk is really satisfying in my cube. But a large part of that is because we run 3 threaten effects, so you can steal it, swing with it, then get a 3/3 off of a sacrifice effect. It...

So this latest article I wrote is a Webster style draft report. The document is 20 pages long. I'm sorry Mr. Editor!

Interesting going with the 60 card decks. Did you not find it repetitive? Also, how was the competition for cards? I've posted this elsewhere, but my current experimental 4-player format is: Draft as usual (24 packs, 8 in Pack 1, 8 in Pack 2, 8 in Pack 3). Every time you select a card, you...

I got the impression Eric was just making a comprehensive list of cards to consider, not necessarily saying they all need to go. I think there are many permutations you can go with, and I don't really see any one of those cards as uncuttable depending on the dynamic you're going for. It's just...

Well, that's kind of his wheelhouse. Murakami talks about erections more than Hank Moody.

To be fair, I don't really know of any other way it could have ended. But Book 3 was very slow with lots of needless exposition. Considering I had read 900 pages before Book 3 even started, maybe anything would have felt slow. It seemed though, that the writing in Book 3 was repetitive and...

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Oh, don't remind me. I'm supposed to watch the new season with my wife, but she is super busy with exams for the coming weeks. Which means I'll have to do the worst thing of all: lie wait.

As a budget Standard during the JTMS era, the Planeswalker uniqueness rule (via Jace Beleren) was my best friend. I would not have been able to win tournaments with this new rule.

Vince, when I watch MTGO cube matches, very often the control player is simply doing nothing in the opening turns and hoping the aggro deck stumbles along the way, which seems pretty boring and non-interactive. Then they hope to win the game by just running out a Thragtusk or whatever. In my...

That's strange, I think most have had different experiences. Maybe it's perception. When aggro gets a nut draw the game is over quickly. Playing against some control decks is really drawn out and tedious. I also don't think control decks are nearly as reliant on "nut draws". I've played games...