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Hey all, this is an open call for sweet cards that you really love playing with but that have no business being in your current cube. Can be from any time period, power level, whatever. Think of this as some new age bucket of inspiration. No wrong answers.

It's certainly worth testing. In any case I appreciate any and all suggestions. Once we start playtesting, the power level of different archetypes will need to be adjusted up and down, and suggestions like these are great for when I need to go back to the drawing board.

I think that's a good point. Your preference for manabases can be just that: a preference. I don't take any issue with that sentiment (wanting less fixing), but what can be a little perplexing is when the same people complain about the lack of balance in their aggro archetypes. I think the...

I gotta say I'm pretty jealous that you guys get so much play in. I looked at the records, and it seems you get 2 drafts in most weeks. Some decks even get played for 6 matches. That's pretty awesome.

From the old forum: Well, the code took all of 2 minutes to write, so now everything is ready. Only thing left to do is to find a way to get 7 other players around the table, which may be difficult considering it's prerelease season.

Cuesbey is down so I'll just make a couple manual suggestions: Call of the Herd is both good and works with the Loam package. No Skinrender? Nekrataal? Fulminator Mage is great anti-control. Geralf's Messenger has been very good with a high degree of fixing Kor Sanctifiers has been great I...

It looks like the entire site is offline.

If you're going Loam maybe try Sewer Nemesis?

On that note I do feel that anybody who has the opinion that a high density of fixing just leads to "four-color good stuff" winning every draft is probably playing with some number of awful players on a regular basis. When I play with a bunch of novices I can toss together a random 4-color pile...

Let's see... that Jund midrange deck is lacking a lot of what I am looking for in a midrange deck. Namely, meat! The best tool of midrange against aggro are meaty 4-drops like Obstinate Baloth and your hated Thrun. I know you don't like Hexproof, but I find Thrun to have an interesting effect on...

Chris, I am jealous. We have no PTQ winners in our group, and even our PTQ grinders don't seem to have the most solid grasp of cube drafting. I get good feedback from my players, but most of it is not volunteered. I have to dig for it, e.g. "What did you think about your deck? "What sorts of...

Jund deck (because I'm feeling generous): This deck is kind of all over the place. Mana dorks + Pernicious Deed is generally not my preferred play space. The curve is a little atrocious, and it feels like a pile of random cards. Was this drafted at an 8-man table?

UWR deck for reference (Blast from the Past replaced with Staggershock): BUG deck:

Hey Rob, you listening? We need a deck visualizer program. Drag and drop a list of cards, get a deck image out.

The nice thing about the set of Batallion cards is that since the benefits are marginal, the cards tend to be pretty playable on their own. Legion Loyalist, Firemane Avenger and Daring Skyjek aren't too far off of playable without a batallion clause. I like the token ideas (a little bit), but am...

I wanted to like Chrome Mox. Really. But it was always such a blank for me. The trouble is that it looks like it is a fixer, when often it is just a hand ruiner. You need black mana for some sweet spell but only have red cards in hand. Chrome Mox is (in my opinion) at its best in less-color...

Blasting Station has been really good (and fun). Last game I played with it came down to the wire. I untapped with my opponent at 8, while he sat with an army that was going to swing for lethal. Blasting Station pinged him down to 1, and on his upkeep he died to his own Dark Confidant. I thought...

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Hi Jesse, thanks for posting. I didn't play Magic in that era so I know almost none of those cards. Flicked through some "sample hands" and found this crazy looking card: Dude must buy Visine in bulk. Looking forward to seeing the decklists from your next draft.

Out of curiosity (as surely you know my stance on singleton), do you find there to be any environmental advantages to keeping singleton, or is it more of a personal preference thing? Lately I've been really embracing redundancy as a necessary factor for promoting synergy over raw card power...