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That's the one. It's for CFB, not RipLab. I'm not sure we really have the infrastructure to even run an article like that at the moment. Well, we do, but it would be with mouseover card tags instead of the nice looking CFB card pictures. For a draft article that makes a pretty big difference.

Dom, I love your enthusiasm for Magus of the Tabernacle. Are you equally enthused by its source material? Thragtusk is really satisfying in my cube. But a large part of that is because we run 3 threaten effects, so you can steal it, swing with it, then get a 3/3 off of a sacrifice effect. It...

So this latest article I wrote is a Webster style draft report. The document is 20 pages long. I'm sorry Mr. Editor!

Interesting going with the 60 card decks. Did you not find it repetitive? Also, how was the competition for cards? I've posted this elsewhere, but my current experimental 4-player format is: Draft as usual (24 packs, 8 in Pack 1, 8 in Pack 2, 8 in Pack 3). Every time you select a card, you...

I got the impression Eric was just making a comprehensive list of cards to consider, not necessarily saying they all need to go. I think there are many permutations you can go with, and I don't really see any one of those cards as uncuttable depending on the dynamic you're going for. It's just...

Well, that's kind of his wheelhouse. Murakami talks about erections more than Hank Moody.

To be fair, I don't really know of any other way it could have ended. But Book 3 was very slow with lots of needless exposition. Considering I had read 900 pages before Book 3 even started, maybe anything would have felt slow. It seemed though, that the writing in Book 3 was repetitive and...

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Oh, don't remind me. I'm supposed to watch the new season with my wife, but she is super busy with exams for the coming weeks. Which means I'll have to do the worst thing of all: lie wait.

As a budget Standard during the JTMS era, the Planeswalker uniqueness rule (via Jace Beleren) was my best friend. I would not have been able to win tournaments with this new rule.

Vince, when I watch MTGO cube matches, very often the control player is simply doing nothing in the opening turns and hoping the aggro deck stumbles along the way, which seems pretty boring and non-interactive. Then they hope to win the game by just running out a Thragtusk or whatever. In my...

That's strange, I think most have had different experiences. Maybe it's perception. When aggro gets a nut draw the game is over quickly. Playing against some control decks is really drawn out and tedious. I also don't think control decks are nearly as reliant on "nut draws". I've played games...

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No, I never said too strong. I was simply saying that of the two (and they really are competing for a slot) I find Brimstone Volley to be more interesting as a design. Having to figure out a way to get Morbid online is very fun, and it plays well with my sacrifice theme. Red is fairly well...

I played against Blood Scrivener once. My opponent played him out with an empty hand, and I killed it with Tragic Slip (there's that card again) before he could untap.

The last time we ran into the Planeswalker rule (it's been a while) was when a newcomer played Jace Beleren with his own JTMS on the field. We let him undo it, of course.

I'm in Book 3 now, and it's starting to feel more work-like to trudge through it. I am, however, happy to see the introduction of a third perspective character, who happens to have one of the best visual descriptions ever:

It's probably super incorrect but sometimes Shelldock goes undrafted here.

Drafted it online or in person? Interested either way. Eric: Not that anything is "uncuttable", but I would be a little sad to see Dark Confidant go (at least from my cube). The life-loss is often very relevant, and I find it to be a very fun card to have around. If something has to be OP...

I agree with Benny that there were some loose ends in the article. Then again, there's only so much ground you can cover in 1500 words. Looking forward to the next one Chris!