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Anyone want to get on Skype and play some cube in the next few hours?

What are your thoughts on Murderous Cut?

Hey Skrap, PM me with what you need (and I guess your email address). I'll try to ship it over today. There's a sticky post on this forum that explains decklists, but I think the screenshot you used is also perfectly acceptable.

I think for a meta to be cyclical, it has to be able to return to where it started. I don't see that happening. You can argue that people learned to evaluate spider spawning properly, or that Troll players learned to play other creatures (lol), but these things aren't ever going in reverse...

I think a better way to approach the Trygon Predator angle is to eliminate the need for it. Don't run "must kill" artifacts and enchantments, then spend your gold card on something that's sweeter.

Here's a question I've always had in mind. Do you think it would be possible to build a static set of, say, 8 "duel decks" that are approximately balanced with interesting and compelling gameplay? It would have to be a set of deep and skill-intensive decks, that ideally take years to master...

In my experience there are very few utility lands that are actually worth picking up over a dual. Constructed has given us plenty of evidence to this effect over the years.

I think Vault gets stronger the slower the environment, and the more prone you are to board stalls. It was okay in Standard, but the looser you get the more it takes over.

Uh... I'm actually not much of a Brussels fan. If you come to Antwerp I can show you around and let you crash at my place though.

It's important to keep in mind the "size" of the pool you are drafting from. Cube is probably much more akin to a highlander moba with 12 champions than 100. We actually draft 100% of the resources (even if some end up in sideboards). From my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong), a large...

This is actually the first time I've heard somebody call pod in cube overpowered. It's very average in my cube. What are other people's experiences? Rasmus, any ways your environment deviates from the norm?

Perhaps I was unclear. By fixed resources, I mean, there is a finite supply of cards in your environment. The players can "want" to play more edicts (or whatever), but there are a finite number of edicts. The "meta" so to speak is static. This is not a bad thing, or a good thing, it's just a...

Short (possibly not useful) answer: it depends on the bombs in question. But I think as a designer you're in control of that, via your selection of cards, and how you weight raw power in your card selection, relative to cards with sequencing options. As usual, I think a lot of this happens...

I don't think cyclical balance exists in a fixed-resource setting. In constructed, players choose which resources to bring to the player, and on a given day you can have, say, 50% of the players wielding a certain aggro variant. This doesn't exist in cube. An "evolving meta" isn't a very...

Squelch Aven Mindcensor Smash to Smithereens Shadow of Doubt

Yeah, white's super boring. I don't know what to do about it. I should probably push white control more.

It's borderline. I ran it for a while and it fits in great into UR Tempo (already gave my ticket) shell, and featured in lots of 3-0 lists. It's currently not in there, but I never felt bad playing it.

Yeah, it would be ideally a fun mini-game that the opponent is usually not aware of, but could theoretically play around if they choose to respect it. Probably better the more Brainstorms you have to shuffle away a situational card.

I've thought about putting this in my cube actually. I think it's got great fun mileage / card.

I don't really get any joy out of Armada losing. Nothing against him, it just doesn't do anything for me.