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Well, to be honest I don't really want to jam another entire cycle into the main. I am at 42 fixers of 360, and it feels fine. It's mostly a space issue. I would rather include more diverse spells (that sometimes make it, sometimes don't) than cut them for extra lands. I have the vague notion...

People love JTMS here. I'll see if I can scrape that list together, but I only kept the undefeated lists in tact from last night's draft (my sweet 4C deck, and my teammate's GW beatdown deck). I haven't shuffled yet so his deck is possibly all in once piece, but I won't know where the sideboard...

Random note, yesterday a player put together a Birthing Pod + JTMS deck. Brainstorm, put two on top, shuffle them away with pod. Every turn. It was pretty awesome. He finished one game by doing 49 damage in one turn with a combination of weird pod activations.

One game yesterday I got wrecked by a player who played Furnace Celebration, then cracked Fetchlands for four turns straight to obliterate my board. As a killing blow he Entombed for Hellspark Elemental, sacrificed it end of turn to Goblin Bombardment and payed 2 for Furnace Celebration to deal...

My biggest issue with powered cubes is not that they are doing powerful things, but that they capture so little of the interaction that actual Vintage games have. I once saw a Vintage decklist that was completely singleton, save for 4 Force of Will. There are some cards that you just really need...

Thanks for the feedback! The thing you say about goal driven cards is very relevant. I've found that, even as the cube designer, knowing which way to go can be pretty difficult. This is actually one of the big benefits to having cards of different rarities in a retail draft. If you don't know...

I just wanted to test it. People actually complained about us not doing the utility land draft though.

My theory is that in a powered cube you need to break singleton even more to get a balanced environment, and that maybe you should aim for a vintagey draft format.

I think I might take all fixers out of the utility stack. I'm not sure. We ran without the utility land draft as a test tonight, and I was able to pull off a four-color deck. I do love the man-lands though. So do the drafters. Really not sure here, thoughts?

For those who already read it, I made an update to the front-page post with some added thoughts.

This guy is pretty good in a Wildfire deck: Out of curiosity, and sample Wildfire decklists?

Holy crap, nice primer! This is going on the front page later this week (with your permission, of course)!

I only run 7 Innistrad lands as well. I tried the uncommon multicolor utility lands from original Ravnica too, but they were uniformly terrible.

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Hi Vince! Thanks for making these. These look great and I like the colors that you've used! Very clean and professional! Eric and I are currently trying to figure out the whole marketing and branding thing, and this looks far far better than anything we've come up with. If you (or anyone...

Well, I've only done the hatedrafting thing once, but the decks pretty much felt like 8-man decks. The dynamic is a little different (you can't benefit as much from cutting a color, for example), but it's really just me floundering to find entertaining substitutes for a product that was designed...

I wonder if there's a way to balance a Black Sun's Zenith style ability on a Planeswalker. Ideas could be to have a -1/-1 ability on all creatures, or maybe somehow even a -X/-X on all creatures where X is a variable number. You could even have it as a fixed number, like: -Y: Put 3 -1/-1...

The original pitch of "Faeries versus Dredge versus Storm" sounded pretty terrible (vis a vis the Poison Principle). The actual spoilers look a bit more reasonable (so far). Given WOTC's track record with cube, what are your expectations? Will they put legitimate design muscle into an actual...

You know, I had been thinking about adding Cave in for a while. There are basically three options: 1) Put copies in the cube proper 2) Put copies in the utility land stack 3) Put copies in the basic land stack What do you think would be most interesting? Also, if we're going that route, we...

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