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I think it's also important to note how much better fetchlands are for three-color decks than the Shockland / Checklands. A fetchland in the right deck can grab all of your colors, and depending on the land, grab any relevant two-color shock/dual.

This looks pretty good. I do think some of the monocolor sections could be a little deeper though. There are lands you aren't running that get taken every draft here.

I am seeing a bug in the "Decks" section, where only the basic lands are showing up. E.g. http://cubetutor.com/draftdeck/1182

Oh, now I remember my favorite play of the night. On the draw I play T2 Augur of Bolas, and my opponent plays T3 Call of the Herd. I topdeck Stonecloaker, exiling the Call of the Herd and rebuying the Augur. So much value for 3 mana.

Nothing too spectacular, but having an 8/8 Figure of Destiny and an 8/8 Phantasmal Image on the board at the same time is pretty satisfying. Not too bad for a 1-drop and 2-drop.

Have you done a lot of 4-player grid drafting? I really haven't played the 4-player variant much, curious how it's performed for you.

We drafted tonight and I really didn't want to play Magic after a really long work day. Forced UWR tempo. By pick 4 I had Ral Zarek, Lightning Helix, Geist of Saint Traft and a fetchland. 3 - 0. Moorland Haunt is really good. Halimar Depths is fantastic. Figure of Destiny is OP.

Yeah, let's rock the blue. Also we tried the semi-transparent thing on the front page, but I like the structure of the hard visible rectangular boundaries.

I would love to play Vintage if it was remotely affordable.

A friend of mine plays these and writes articles about the format on puremtgo. http://puremtgo.com/articles/return-classic-trilogy

That's a pretty bold claim. I guess it could depend on the deck, but... hmmm... I still think Koth is much better.

Hi Sterling, thanks for posting. I don't disagree with any of your points. My local players can attest that I usually stick to a very low curve. I've played control decks that top out at 4 CMC, and as my environment skews towards a Legacy style I think that's usually correct. But as a designer I...

On that note most of the Ascensions (Bloodchief Ascension et. al.) create some sort of minigame too.

Yeah, I was watching GP Miami and thinking that creatures have super outclassed removal these day. So many cards just laugh at 1-for-1 spot removal (Thragtusk, Voice of Resurgence, Doomed Traveler, Strangleroot Geist). If your plan is to play removal, you either need mass removal and card draw...

Somebody with more imagination than me: Is this a cube card? Massive Crystal.

Protection and shroud straddle the line. Sometimes they are really interesting and make you dance around, but can still be beaten. Other forms of protection are just like "oh, I guess the game is over now". I am more okay with them in constructed metagames because you can plan around them, or...

http://riptidelab.com/channel-waddell-cube-draft-2/

Unfortunately a lot of the pauper and peasant cards are kind of expensive (at least for this exercise). There are a lot of bulk rares that are high powered but just not T1 (like the above Sphinx of Uthuun).

I have a feeling that by the end of Magic's history Kitchen Finks will be in hundreds of infinite combos.

It looks kind of bad to me. How many hoops do you have to go through before it's better than Night's Whisper or Sign in Blood? But I could be super wrong too.