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Commentating on ravenous chupacabra "...all of the play is in immediacy, there is nothing about investment and drama and suspense...the format is more creatures that summon and do something immediadly, more jackle pups, and more creatures you can't kill." Cathartic to listen to.

Saw this article on channel fireball which really framed the synergy vs. power schools of design surprisingly well. Part of the problem is that synergy isn't actually a real word--its just a neologism invented by corporate culture, and tends to function more as a buzzword than anything...

Inventors' Fair Welcome to what is the updated and redesigned Penny cube. While I did not intend this, Kaladesh is an amazing block that brought some revolutionary mechanical changes to the game, which could only be properly implemented with a total makeover. This may not represent the type...

List Link here. Super long post incoming, will break it into a couple of parts. I don't know if you guys remember this article, which framed the notion of "midrange" cubes, which our forums' design predominantly consist of. With a lot of the changes that new sets have released, I was...

This is kind of a rough idea I've gotten from drafting people's cubes, but it sort of revolves around the ways that color pairs overlap with one another to create wedge/shard relationships that foundationally support each individual color pair identity in the wedge/shard. For example, these...

Normally, when we talk about cube design, we come at it from the perspective that technical complexity and balance should be the end result of a "well designed" cube. I've begun to wonder if this isn't largely nonsense, or at least, substantially self-deceptive. In one of my numerous...

time warp undead alchemist haakon, stromgald scourge laboratory maniac abyssal persecutor living death Not necessarily build around, but what cards most excite your inner muse?

One of the things that made pre-mythic era magic, pre-mythic era magic, was that not every creature had to have an ETB in order to be competitive. giant solifuge rumbling slum burning-tree shaman keiga, the tide star yosei, the morning star kokusho, the evening star meloku the clouded...

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this as a combo deck for cube. The basic strategy is to run out a bunch of tokens, than sacrifice them to instant kill an opponent using death trigger creatures. zulaport cutthroat blood artist falkenrath noble hissing iguanar rage thrower I...

Draft List Link. ------------ So, with the release of SOI, I've been getting some requests to redesign the innistrad theme cube, which I have not been doing out of laziness. That cube was built on riptide ideas from two years ago, and those dealt more with spreading themes throughout your...

Since no one has posted, list off your ideas! I thought it might be fun to have: 1. A challenge to design a fair storm card that is still good; or 2. A top-down design contest. Something where you select a line of poetry or prose, for flavor text, and than have to design a card that...

Its your turn, you're on the draw with a seven card keep, opponent has a suspended rift bolt. Oppo deck is burn, and you just drew daze. Format specifics shouldn't matter. Whats your plan for sequencing this hand?

Round 1: Grillo v. Aston Grid Drafting! Pack 1 Pack 2 Pack 3 Pack 4 Pack 5 Pack 6 Pack 7 Pack 8 Pack 9 Pack 10 Pack 11 Pack 12 Pack 13 Pack 14 Pack 15 Pack 16

As promised, I set up a thread, just coordinate with my via PM times: much easier than using MTGO. Check out the grid draft sticky at the top if you have any questions still. I generate the grid draft via rstudio, so you don't want to look at the packs prior to the draft, as I haven't seen...

So Kirblinx and I have been brainstorming the setup for a grid draft league, and we're at the point where can start taking signups if anyone is interested. League Details Cube: The Penny Pincher cube, which can be found here. Its a low power, bounceland based budget format. I strongly...

Grid Drafting! Let us finish the set Pack 1 Pack 2 Pack 3 Pack 4 Pack 5 Pack 6 Pack 7 Pack 8 Pack 9 Pack 10 Pack 11 Pack 12 Pack 13 Pack 14 Pack 15 Pack 16

As requested, a place to talk about all of the great commons, uncommons, and rares that don't make the cut in more powered cubes. I'll kick it off with: Rude Awakening 1. Ramps with bouncelands 2. Ramp target and finisher in itself 3. Interesting tensions between bounceland ramping it out...

So I stumbled across this old extra credits video Which got me thinking about a few things. The basic idea is that games are made more interesting by having a meta game, and you create meta games by including a certain level of deliberate imbalance. I wish they had a transcript instead of...

Few of these I wanted to share. SCGDET - Legacy - Quarterfinals - Thomas Herzog vs Ben Wienburg This is probably my favorite match of magic. Both games are incredible, but its game 2 that really is amazing. SCGDC - Legacy - Round 5 - James Rynkiewicz vs Brian Braun-Duin Watch this for...

With spoilers for BOZ winding up, and it becoming increasingly suggestive that this will probably not be a very exciting set for cube (prove me wrong WOTC...prove me wrong), I thought I would take this moment to brainstorm ideas about the new tango lands from the set (tango being more positive...