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Totally irrelevant, but I wrote a company blog post that just got put on the front page of Slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/08/02/0139230/using-kickstarter-data-to-predict-ubuntu-edges-success

Welcome to America.

These were pretty fun to watch: http://www.channelfireball.com/videos/channel-twoo-modern-complex-dredge/

Pancakes.

http://riptidelab.com/channelfireball-set-cubes/

Maybe a dumb question, but as a statistician I have to know, how are we defining variance here? Variability in experience from draft to draft? Variability in deck power levels? Variability in car power level?

No, no sarcasm at all. Last year I found the cubing section pretty unwatchable, but the Modern constructed portion to be immensely entertaining.

I just can't imagine who they would determine who would become the governing body for such a thing. I'm sure it's possible, but there would be some really dumb political positioning.

Standard Jund has to be my least favorite constructed archetype in a long time. Just a bunch of big dumb dudes with very little finesse.

You do have a point there. Smash also went through a ton of turmoil though. As an MLG employee I had access to the "Smash Back Room" forum where all the decisions were made, and witnessed years of arguments about what the stages should be, whether a character (Metaknight) should be banned, what...

I found the Rebels to be pretty repetitive in Modern, but really like the Birthing Pod decks in cube. The combination of a much higher density of removal coupled with the fact that Birthing Pod takes a creature away from the board makes for much more fluid game states. Rebels just kind of...

I'm pretty glad there's no cube in the Players' Championship this year.

This is a little pie in the sky though. Like, there were people who thought Super Smash Bros. Brawl was terrible, and tried to "take it over" with their own mod that fixes a lot of the dumb stuff in the game, but it's so hard to gain traction for a non-official product. Instead everybody just...

I think that if you were really building cards from scratch that things would look a lot different. Cube-level tribal cards could be much better designed. Storm is a cool mechanic that would be much more fun in draft if the cards gave you good value at, say, Storm count = 2. That solves a lot of...