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A word of warning before we begin our tale. This story starts out in a pretty dark place; I actually considered omitting the beginning. Ultimately, I decided that the story lacked both honesty and a bit of context without it, so I’m forging ahead. I did my best to kinda time-lapse it so you just...

We usually end up doing this bit every spoiler season where we transition from SCD to a list of inclusions. It's a bit early yet, but I'm curious, so here goes. What's everyone's short list looking like for their test pools thus far?

I thought it might be cool to have a thread to post little tidbits learned from our cube sessions. These can be more on the design side or on the draft/play strategy side. More and more I'm realizing that if I want to get better as a designer, I also need to improve as a player. I'll start us...

I feel like we need a centralized place to talk about making our twitch streams good. A few things I know we need: A publicized list somewhere of everyone's stream URLs A decent overlay that works at multiple resolutions Some random feedback after watching Jason/Aston grid draft earlier...

What Is Cloudshift? Cloudshift is a utility for use when doing online cube drafts with the RiptideLab account. Actually, it works for any do-it-yourself cube on modo, just with a bit more work. I'll keep this brief and let you check out the site itself and the demo video! You can use a shitty...

This might be controversial enough that I should be posting it over at BTP instead, but here goes. The recent discussion of manabases in this thread (among a few others) sparked ideas for me about treating the "basic land box" differently than we have in cube thus far. I'm making some pretty big...

I'm trying to decide how deep I want to go on Blood-Chin Rager or whether I even want to run the card at all. He'd be competing for slots against 2x bloodghast, 2x blood artist, 2x dark confidant, 1x oona's prowler. I'm not sure I'm willing to cut anything other than the prowler (which doesn't...

I've been considering asking my drafters to track their 15th cards for a while now and I've always stopped short of doing it for fear of being a nag, or of slowing down the draft, or of having to find a pen. So, I was drinking alone and photoshopping proxies mid-workweek when I had this idea...

Hey gents, it has been a while. I was just thinking about this thread again and considering finally implementing the concept. Some context: I'm still working with a lower power level cube. I've got a somewhat "classical" Riptide cube as well, but I like exploring some different design spaces...

For certain cards, the overall context of your cube is very important. To put it generally, we make implicit assumptions about the contents of a given format when we evaluate cards. There are other cards which really don't care about context and will shine regardless: huntmaster of the fells...

This cube is one I am evolving from an older cube which had a very different ethos. The original incarnation was based on simplicity and a low barrier to entry. The new version focuses on creating a highly interactive environment using cards at a lower power level than traditional cubes. This...

Just want to give a huge thumbs up for the view on CT that shows me decks other people have made. It is really really awesome to get feedback from people who happen to draft my cube. And it is really a treat to see the decks they make :D

Rob, I know it can be a bit of a pain to constantly hear people asking you to do more dev work... ...but is there any possibility of adding an export to .txt for your full cube list? If this feature is low-hanging fruit I'd really love to have it. 95% of the time I'm totally content for my...

I'm not sure what stack CubeTutor is running on, but if you guys are using .NET, it would be pretty easy to set up SignalR such that two players could do grid drafts live head to head. Obviously they'd have to go to an outside program to actually play one another, but still, I think it would be...

Hey all, looking for some cool ideas from you guys for a cube reboot I'm about to do. I've been through lots of phases with it since my original 360, and it has become a confused jumble. So I'm laying out a handful of principles for myself and starting over! What I'm trying to achieve: Fairly...