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So many of the "conventional" cube design choices have so very little to do with game design.

It's a causality issue. You were saying (or so I thought, maybe I misread) that the higher stakes caused you to be less angry. I was saying it's the other way around. Not getting angry leads you to higher stakes. Either way, if we think of the "PTQ syndrome" as the population that is just...

I still think you have it completely backwards. Poker was a big thing when I was in university, and naturally I paid my bills by multi-tabling sit-n-gos on PartyPoker and tracking profits / hour in an Excel sheet. Meanwhile, my roommate played a lot of low level poker. He complained at the...

Oops, I'm bad at words.

I think it is possible to do the deckbuilding for this thing in an easy way through MTGO. Unfortunately that also means no strange custom rules (you can lower the life total and have people concede, but you can't have people not die from decking). To pull it off we would need ways to return...

FWIW I run all of the latter cards (Burning-Tree through Kird Ape) and none of the former (Jungle Lions and Wolf-Bitten Captive). As far as classification goes, everything I have to say on the subject is found in this article...

I talked with Eric about this once. Every game seems to be nicer at the top levels. Halo has a notoriously bad community, but its very best players were genuinely nice and intelligent people. It's always the ones who think they should be the best but arent who cause problems. Your PTQ grinders...

Oh, and France punts pretty hard in the finals. EDIT: And Hungary punts it right back.

I might try taking the Eldrazi out of this cube. Do some parallel design and see how it plays with a different configuration.

Did you like Rotlung Reanimator?

I've told this story before, but there's a local player who swears that Aether Vile is cubeable. I let him include it in his decks without drafting it (he just slots it in from his personal collection), and if he plays against me I let him include it automatically in his opening hand. It's still...

If you think that prize support is the cause of cultural problems then I think you're pretty badly mistaken. LOL and DOTA get tons of support and are known to be two of the most vile gaming communities out there. If anything, it works the other way. The best communities I have known (Netrunner...

I don't actually think it's about this at all. Limited games play themselves more than any other format. Sure, there's variability in the form of ever changing decks, but I don't think this actually creates depth of gameplay. Depth of deckbuilding, sure. I think if anything depth increases...

Yeah, I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes Magic a good game, what's bad about it, and why people play it. I think the deckbuilding / deck choice, but many many matchups between Deck A and Deck B just have no depth to them. I think this is a pretty big flaw in the game's design.

Oh wait, it's standard. These games are abysmal to watch. About 1 relevant decision per game between both players.

http://www.twitch.tv/magic Belgium on camera.

Don't encourage him.

Oh, uh, I see what he's saying. I didn't realize they were all same rarity / different set cards.

For you newspaper fans, my analysis features quite centrally in this Guardian article: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/02/ubuntu-edge-crowdfunding-prediction-miss

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm not really sure what you were saying. Were you being tautalogical? The rate at which a card is opened equates to the rate at which cards are in the packs?