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Well, I will say, confusion creep is a real thing, especially among newer or less experienced players. WOTC has been incredibly successful in expanding their audience and understanding what was keeping people away from the game, so I tend to give them credit in this domain. Not to say your...

As a side note, a key component of Sirlin's "Playing to Win" mantra was that the best way to have long term growth as a player is to not be focused on winning every individual games. The point is to learn lessons, improve, extend your understanding of the game, be versatile, etc. This is part of...

Yeah, I've been beating the 3-color drum for a while. I once prototyped a RWU cube for 4-player drafting, which gave us a set of colors with a nice dynamic between aggro/midrange/control. I would imagine each of the 10 3-color combinations would have a very different feel, some worse than...

Chandra's Phoenix is also a fun recursion creature that is one of the few evasive sources of creature damage red has. Sequencing your plays to rebuy a phoenix is great fun.

Cube has Grim Lavamancer! Really surprised you guys don't like Hell's Thunder. He's everything I want in a red aggro deck, and works amazingly with sacrifice effects. It's pretty much a perfect fit, mechanically speaking. These sorts of effects are perfect in the Carrion Feeder / Goblin...

Hi Chris, thanks so much for all the great feedback! Regarding specific cards (the linked list is perhaps out of date): Brimstone Volley is in the list and has been performing wonderfully. I really love the Morbid mechanic. Pyreheart Wolf has been on the border for me. My current red 3-drop...

That half-mulligan idea sounds pretty neat. I know Rosewater and others have talked about there being too much momentum with the current mulligan system, that there's not enough need for a change to warrant the confusion it would cause. But at a playgroup level it sounds perfect. I also think...

Well, there are basically three phases of learning a game. There's the basic rules section (oh, I have a main phase before and after combat?), the strategy discovery phase (maybe I should leave this guy back to defend instead of attacking) and the mastery phase, which, depending on the game, is...

Amen, Chris. There is a surprising hatred of design for something that calls itself a "cube design community".

I can't stop thinking about the duplicate idea. I was thinking that to keep deckbuilding simple and quick, there should be a limited selection of lands. Maybe 1 cycle of fixers, with a few utility lands/5-color lands. Also, the lands would be reusable, because that seems less fun to have to...

These decks look pretty sweet. Glad the utility lands worked out so well for you. You even got the Mox Diamond / Loam thing going!

Speed would also be my biggest concern here. I would also wonder how many players it works best with. With two-players auction mechanics usually don't work well, as there's pretty little actual competition over cards. Auctions are pretty great ways for handling some sort of jointly-desired...

I'm looking for other card games that you all recommend, ideally with some nice juicy design lessons in them. Netrunner? Dominion? Any of the Sirlin games? Blue Moon?

Out of curiosity, what statistics program do you use?

Well, the main problem with TappedOut is that the "pick order" statistic is based off of picks from all drafts, not just from cubes. So if some random cube was first-picked a lot in M11 or whatever, that guide the bots' cube picks. It would be an interesting exercise to build some...

Other idea I was playing with is having some sort of way to pay life to put cards from your graveyard into your library. It might not be necessary though. One thing this exercise has had me thinking about is what I would actually want out of a two-player deckbuilding activity, in Magic or...

I was under the impression that posting guides on making proxies was perhaps questionable territory to be in. I know other sites try to keep that stuff under wraps, so there must be a reason.

It's definitely something worth keeping an eye on. The statistics section is a little rough, but I'm admittedly always a little critical in that department. As far as I can see there's no way to run a multiplayer draft, correct?

For cheating stuff in quickly. (Land destruction will be available)

May need to errata Near-Death Experience to a more reasonable casting cost.