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Hannes, you raise some good points. Restrictions do breed creativity (thanks Rosewater), but the really really key thing to keep in mind is that creativity doesn't necessarily lead to good results. In anything. Further, it's often the people with the best technical skills that are able to...

How does the autocard thing handle it? Do we host a database with the card images ourselves? How is what we do any different from copying the BB codes off of magiccards.info? Pardon my ignorance, I really don't know anything about image leeching.

Well it's not really my call. Autocarding is out of my range of expertise, so it really comes down to whether Eric has the time or desire to implement it. I will say, for draft lists, a picture is worth a thousand words. It's so much easier to understand a MODO photo of a decklist than to read...

Sunlance was fine. I like Condemn more (especially in my current design), and might add Oust before Sunlance. Chris, I know you run Dredge in your cube, so maybe Oust has (marginally) more play to it? These days I am gravitating towards removal that has some mechanical relevance. For example...

I think in order to allow for some mild synergies in drafting I'll go with 2 Overgrown Battlement instead of Overgrown + Vine Trellis.

Hi Hannes. So, is this in addition to your other cube or replacing it? Perhaps we should keep this all in one thread. I'm going to be completely honest and say that perhaps you should try being a little less experimental in your design for now. That probably sounds weird coming from me, but it...

Yeah, I guess you can just copy and paste directly (especially from Gatherer). Considering how really really easy it is to put in card images, I wonder how necessary an autocard feature even is. The threads on this board are really beautiful with all the card images pasted in. Perhaps we can do...

Perhaps this would work better as a Planeswalker in a spawn-token filled environment? Regarding the Ninjas, one of the biproducts of Jund being so ramp heavy in Rise of Eldrazi is that Blue and White had to pick up some of the slack as the attackers (the Blue-White leveller deck). Similarly...

Hmm.. I am very tempted by some Ninjas, but these have the same anti-synergy with Morbid that Bloodthirst did. Maybe we turn it into a color-identity thing? Jund Morbid, Blue(ish) Ninjas?

Mox Diamond gets a lot of play, particularly out of decks that can benefit from the tempo boost of a 2-mana Turn 1 play. Say, a deck playing super high-impact stuff like Stoneforge and Bitterblossom. It also combines frequently with Life from the Loam and Crucible of Worlds decks. Often-times...

I have all three of the red sweepers you mentioned in the file. I wouldn't play Liliana in a regular cube, but this one will be a bit slower with more of a ramp emphasis. It also has a land-types matters domain theme, so Liliana checks both boxes. I will keep an eye on Ajani though. He never...

I play Augur nearly every opportunity I get. It gets on board early, holds back 2/1 attackers, and I seem to hit with it around 80% of the time. Perhaps I've just been lucky though. Anyways, players were always asking for more three-toughness two-drops in their control decks, and Augur turned...

I don't really view mana rocks as an essential part of my design. I run a few, but each one tips the balance towards midrange / control. For reference, my cube contains: Mox Diamond Sphere of the Suns Coalition Relic Mind Stone Coldsteel Heart Everflowing Chalice

Planned planeswalkers of the set. Very open to suggestions though. Devour (yay!) plus board wipe. Perfect for our blue domain home. Possible proliferate target (plus anti-ramp card). Intersection between proliferate and all of our fetchlands. Eldrazi token quest. Black...

More ludicrous ideas: I'm guessing this card should not be in a set with Stoneforge Mystic? I'm having a hard time deciding which of these ideas are super sweet and which are super broken.

So, this guy? The file has a ton of changes, if anyone is interested. Still trying to figure out the overall power level. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmGq9EqXDoidDFneWw2MEVRRFd2RVl4T3RRYkU2S0E#gid=0

I currently have in my file 3 Nest Invader's. The average ROE draft would have 2.4 copies, so this feels like pushing it already, but maybe 4 is good. I am fine with pushing it harder, just have to remember that the more I push the threats the more I need to push the answers. Also need to be...

I ran Sunlance until I cut down to 360. It's definitely a useful card.

Hi Chris, sorry to hear about your pet. As I write this I have a dog sitting in my lap. My condolences. Regarding Riptide Laboratory, I don't think I would include it in my main cube. Even with the utility draft thing it only gets played every 3 or 4 drafts. In that sense, lands like this were...

After grid-drafting your set, the biggest comments I would have is that it didn't feel like there were enough colors picking up the aggro slack where red was missing out. It also felt like the most successful approaches were to take expensive evasive bombs (Kaiga, Drogskol Reaver, Wolfir...