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I made a board game! Coalition: Councils of the Republic, a negotiation party game for 6-12 players (0r 20 with expansion). Come try it out at Gen Con! I credit Riptidelab for helping me hone my game design instincts. Cubing is a great design exercise. Was originally planning on crowdfunding...

Embrace the Unknown is such a cool design. Glad to see them printing new Retrace cards. Loam for the Loam god!

Myth Realized.dec is so much fun! I wish we had more prowess cards in white!

Haven’t played much MTG lately and mostly been lurking. However… Fastbond Crucible of Worlds Plus the cards you mentioned up there. Now we’re cooking.

All the Food cards in this set really have the gears turning in my brain. I’ve never really liked Lifegain as an archetype, but I have always loved artifact synergies, especially with random “junk” tokens. Maybe now there’s a density of enough effects to tie them together well? Some Lifegain...

Aspiring game designer! Currently working on Coalition: Councils of the Republic, a social negotiation game for 6-20 players about shifting alliances in a medieval city-state.

Hi all! I’ve not done a whole lot of cubing in the last year - my paper cube is in dire need of an update, and I’ve mostly been playing board games or working on my own game Coalition. However, I still like to keep an eye on new spoilers and this forum. So, taking inspiration from a similar...

Springboarding off of this: I think Magic as a franchise does a lot of different types of storytelling really well. Its worldbuilding is often incredible, and the lengths artists go to bring those worlds to life is enchanting. I love the coffee table art books (the Kaladesh one being my fave by...

This card rocks! I love more support for RB or UB discard. Getting an evasive body off of a Looting is the dream. EDIT: Discard and Sacrifice are both popular archetypes for Rakdos. If your cube tries to do a little bit of both, this could be a decent bridge! He plays really well with Rankle!

Something that may or may not stay in the game, stolen shamelessly from Two Rooms and a Boom. Basically, let’s say we have an 8 player game, meaning there are two players per Party. Usually, we select two roles (for example: Knight and Judge). So every Party will have a Knight and a Judge...

Oh I’d looove to. Downside: this is the first time I won’t have access to a car while I’m there, so getting around won’t be quite as easy, but I’m sure I’ll figure something out. I’ll be sure to hit you up closer to the date! Also @blacksmithy it’s August 3-7 this year!

It’ll be in the First Exposure playtest hall! You can see the current draft of the rules and some design musings on my blog: https://magiccirclegaming.wordpress.com/coalition/ Also, I’ve just commissioned some art for the game. Hoping to have it looking a lot prettier by the time GenCon rolls...

Will any of you fine folks be attending GenCon in Indianapolis this year? If so, I’d highly encourage you to register to host a cube event. I’d love a chance to meet some incredible cube designers and draft their creations! The events catalog went live yesterday and I see a noticeable lack of...

Can’t wait to see this thread once SNC spoilers are done!

Have you considered some sort of lands-matter theme for the Giants? Naya isn’t a bad home for that sort of thing. It could play into the “slumbering giant landscape” thing. If you go for a particularly Loam-y lands archetype, it would overlap very well with the broader Graveyard theme and...

MID-SEASON CUBE UPDATE, CONT. 3. EXTRA GRAVELANDS SUPPORT {G}{R} lands can come together as a fairly typical landfall beatdown deck, but it can also become a classic "lands in the 'yard" strategy with key cards such as: Life From the Loam, Molten Vortex, Wildfire, Countryside Crusher...

MID-SEASON CUBE UPDATE After last week's cube draft, the second of our current season, I did some thinking about the format. I came to a realization: token/weenie decks and ETB decks are the most consistently powerful decks in the cube. This does not mean that there are not other decks that...

~~~~ CUBE LEAGUE SEASON 2 ~~~~ My playgroup's spring season of Cube League is live! This post will contain a few design musings on changes I made between seasons and will be periodically updated with top decklists. We play every Thursday, so feel free to tune in on Twitch if you'd like to...

2/25/21 Cube League Update Hey everyone! After a couple months' hiatus from cubing and most Magic in general, tonight I will be back in full force! My group's cube league is firing up again tonight regularly at 8 PM CST. I'll be updating the blog with cube changes and draft reports as we...

Thanks so much for the feedback you've given so far! A few thoughts on the comments you left with your draft decks: You're right, Path to Exile sits at the very top of the cube's power band. The rest of White's removal is tied up with enchantments or creatures. I don't want to cut out removal...