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I was kind of thinking along the lines of Next Great Designer search, where half the fun is seeing what the contestants come up with, and half is the response of the judges.

You got 100 alerts in a couple days? I only get like... 15 per day tops maybe?

Hmm... that means I have to write them all at once. Or, I could release the raw submissions, and then later post my critiques one by one. But I don't really just want to dump all the critiques in one article or whatever. Need to milk this for sweet sweet content.

This is kind of vague, and I don't have any good answers in mind, but does anybody have any concrete ideas about ways our cubes are held back by the limitations of the printed Magic cardpool? The first one that comes to mind for me is that the strength of black has been too heavily placed into...

Christ, you never click on that?

What you describe is exactly why Wizards splits things into Design and Development. There would need to be two project leads.

I mean like, Daze, Force Spike, etc.

Well, something like your cube, but I think we could be a bit more aggressive. The way I think is... one card (for example Gravecrawler) was able to completely change the way my cube performed. What if we could improve on things we didn't even see as problems? What if we could make designs that...

Wait, in your Cube Tutor link you have more than just Mana Leak and Miscalculation. Am I confused?

Bah, am I the only one who loves Bloodgift Demon? Are there even suitable replacements? I've won so many games with that card in a ton of different deck builds. Part of black's thing is paying life for various advantages, and I like to have pepperings of lifegain in there. Zombie decks will...

I would say, borrow from the existing card pool as liberally as is needed.

Yeah, there was one made by Ali Antrazi and Justin Parnell. I liked a lot of what they did, but thought that on the whole many cards were overly complex for the sake of being complex. Making it must have been a gargantuan task though, and I certainly appreciate the effort. I probably don't have...

Just between you and me and the rest of everybody who visits this site, I think we could build a much better custom cube than the "Custom Cube".

So we're going to hit 6 submissions at least, that much is clear now. Here are my thoughts on judging: Once the contest is closed, I will use an RNG to choose the order in which I will present the submissions. Each day, I will present a submission, along with my (very honest) critique of the...

Ahhhhh! That card looks like fun!

Well, as you know from the formats I have designed (Grid, Tenchester), I am a big proponent of presenting more cards than will be drafted, particularly when doing a small table draft with a cube that is designed for 8. The bottom row clear is the mechanism for achieving this, so it seems like...

Ah, neat! Have you actually done one of these yet? I wonder how well the bottom row tension really comes together, considering that you'll have already drafted the best 50% of the pile. Either way, it seems like a good mechanic for cycling the cards out of the pool.

If CML wrote about anything would it be anonymous?

Yeah, I just realized I didn't have the details of the deadline in the OP or front page post. Updated.

I'll be generous and give people til midnight, California time. I'm actually getting a bit trigger happy. I want to throw these up on the site, but I know I should wait until the contest is over.