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This is my favorite post in a long time.

That was a great excerpt CML. Your writing style has developed nicely. Personally, as someone who tried to spectate the Brussels Pro Tour in question, I can conform that it was not only a super depressing venue, but also excruciatingly boring. James and I struggled to spend more than about 10...

Mad Prophet, what are your thoughts on Land // Spell split cards?

Whoa, other people are doing the "Temple of Choice" thing? Cool!

So you're saying there's a chance for a multicolor semi-tribal cube?

Deck diversity definitely changes as a function of drafting method. At a certain level, so does observed spell density. Many niche cards rarely if ever see play in formats like sealed because they require a certain density of effect. Sealed and grid are both far more "good stuff" centric than...

Here's what I'm getting at. Say we have a cube that is: 340 spells 20 lands With these 340 spells, we have certain archetypal support. Now make a cube that is: 340 spells 44 lands Yes, the mana is better, and certain things will change as a function of that. I get the surface level...

Right, yeah, I agree with you there. I mostly meant in terms of some vague "archetypal support". Obviously most decks get worse (in objective terms, not relative) by having lands trimmed.

I really don't see the distinction, design-wise, between a card that is added as a "16th" card and a card that takes the place of a land that's been cut. Let's say we have a fixed 24 spells we want to add. Does it matter if we do it by adding 1 card to each pack, or by replacing one land in each...

Which song lyric is this?

I just secretly hope mine wins so I can stream drafting it errday. But somebody please cut the suspense and tell me the selections have been made.

This uncertainty about whether any finalist have been selected feels very Golden Ticket-esque.

That's weeks from now. Hmm... it might not even be timely then. Anyone free this week / end? Chris Taylor? Persons?

It's more of just a theorycrafting / slippery slope question. Cubes already expanded from 14 -> 15 card packs, so, now we're just talking about degrees, aren't we?