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I'm really glad to see some more love for this format after all this time. We played it exclusively for quite a while, though it was usually in a multiplayer round-robin format, as opposed to the two-player best-of-7 marathon as originally designed. I eventually experimented with eliminating the...

I highly recommend encouraging sideboarding in microsealed. 1. With such a vast pool relative to your deck, sideboarding offers a lot of choice and just a couple changes can flip your deck from being a loser to being unbeatable in a particular matchup. This skill, which provides marginal...

Hi again! I missed your comment, Zoss, about power and toughness. Very astute, and I appreciate you looking just at the commons for that, as they're the main contributors to your pool! This disparity is definitely worth tracking. It's been working out so far, but if we find games starting to...

Hi Zoss, Thanks for checking this out! I really appreciate the feedback. Through playtesting, we have found that card draw is actually quite bad in this format, which has been counter-intuitive and takes some adjustment. If this were a higher power cube, it might be otherwise, but here card...

Hi everyone, I'm interested in any feedback you might have on a low-power cube explicitly designed for 15-card "microdecks." For this format, each of four players will get a 45-card pool comprised of 33 commons, 9 uncommons, and 3 rares. From this they will build up to 3 decks microdecks that...

Yes, I have been digging this format of late and linked to it a couple times. Tutors of all stripes are excellent in this format. I know they are already great, but the ability to pull in cards from your entire card pool opens up a world of possibilities. I recently added Myr Incubator to my...

Hey everyone, I'm hoping I might get some feedback on a one-off format I want to try with my players. I've been putting together a cube for each plane, and we recently tried a Microsealed variant for multiple players. My new idea tries to marry these two approaches for our upcoming run through...

Hey everyone, We tried this last night, and it went over very well! We had five players who each built two or three decks on the evening. I had been hoping the metagame would be a factor, as we typically don't see this manifest itself in a single draft. In the second round, I got my ass kicked...

This is a good idea. I think I'm going to give 1 point per per game won by a player and 1 point per match won by that player's deck(s). If you go 2-1 with your own deck, you get 3 points, and your opponent gets 1. If I go 2-0 with someone else's deck, I get 2 points, the deckbuilder gets 1, and...

Ah, rule 6 should be tweaked to "If a player would ever play a deck for a third time in a row, that deck is immediately retired." That way, the match loser still has the option to take over the deck.

Hi Jason, Thanks for your reply. Really, the play preferences come down to: Veteran player who plays extensively on MTGO, is game for most everything, but is less inclined to engage in something like a bunch of precons Experienced player who prefers drafting and enjoys deckbuilding Less...

Hi all, I'm interested in your thoughts on this variant format I want to try out with my players soon. I'm hoping you can notice issues or provide suggestions in advance of our session, so it avoids stumbling out of the gate. This idea is based on Jason's Microsealed format but tweaks it for...

We finally tried team sealed last night, and I must confess results were mixed. I think this is largely due to the fact that I am putting new sets in front of my players so often and is exacerbated by their relative inexperience with Magic in general. When handed 135 cards from my Core Cube, one...

Yeah, that's a good point. Green has plenty of rare options in this block that could sub in for a White one. I'll leave it as is a little while longer; I don't think there's anywhere else on the internet that lets you draft the Kitsune Mystic deck, and I don't want to take that away from people...

Thank you for forcing the Kitsune Mystic deck! Yes, I had taken it out per Kirblinx's recommendation, but put it back in not for Fox tribal deck (which I'm no longer trying to support) but instead because it's the least bad 11th rare that costs less than $1. Alternatives are Pure Intentions...

I've made a number of updates to the original post to reflect the current state of this project. The following sets have gotten significant changes over the last few months: Amonkhet: I put this together, trying to capture the Hour of Devastation version of this block rather than the Amonkhet...

That looks amazing. It's probably too much for some of my players, but we can definitely mix it up with this at some point! Yes, that's actually how we usually do it, and I think the group as a whole prefers this to multiplayer. Typically we do a sealed-draft hybrid, wherein each player...

Yes, although I didn't say it in the OP, this approach--which we have yet to try--was an underlying impetus for my question. If we're almost always going to do a multiplayer format (necessary for 3 or 5 and done in teams with 4) and we do sealed every time, then the format seems like it would be...

Thank you! I've dipped into your thread on occasion, but I somehow didn't realize your format was for 3. Sounds perfect! Yes, we've done cutting colors for 2-player grid drafting, and that works very well, in my opinion. The 270-card cubes work very well for this, as I usually cut two colors...

Hi everyone, My group is almost always just 3 to 5 players. I already make smaller sets (270 cards) focused on specific planes, but even these are probably ideal with 6. I'm wondering if anyone has ever designed their cube for 3 to 5 players. I read the threads on these forums for how to draft...