General CBS

[safra]

Did you guys try out the Tinkerer's Cube Draft on Arena? I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to play synergistic decks AND farm some coins. But everytime I tried so far I got totally slaughtered (2:3, 1:3, 0:3). I don't even know why. I seriously questioning my skills now. In normal booster drafts I often get to 6 or 7 wins, but here I draft decks of which I am really, really happy, and then I look like the total rookie in every game

yeah i went 7-1, 3-3, and 7-2

be proactive and don't draft bad cards imo

 

[Velrun]

I just got thrown out from cube tutor, whenever I try to log in again it says: "Oops! Something went wrong."
Did I get banned for some weird reason or do you guys have a similar problem?

Mine works perfectly fine.
Sometimes the page is down for update for a few hours (about once after each set) but I can easily use the page right now.

 

[ravnic]

I works now again. Just a while after it said my email does not exist lol

 

[jerichoalar]

Cubetutor is still getting periodically DDoS'd.

I have no idea why exactly, CubeCobra is reportedly *not* behind it, but maybe some random folks who prefer CubeCobra (or just have it in for Ben for personal reasons, no idea) are.

 

[Velrun]

Oh yeah that might have been it. It started about two years ago but it only happens rarely. It must be so frustrating to be Ben.

 

[whydirt]

Cube Shower Thought: I wish Ravenous Chupacabra was a 5-drop instead of a 4-drop.

 

[Erik Twice]

What proxy-making website do you recommend to print out the cube? I'm getting things ready to print them soon. I have more cards in my collection than I thought, so I might save some paper

 

[blacksmithy]

Cube Shower Thought: I wish Ravenous Chupacabra was a 5-drop instead of a 4-drop.

It kind of is:

 

[whydirt]

Oh sure, there's lots of ETB kill creatures at 5, but they're all pushed above the power level I prefer building in. I just want a clean french vanilla ETB Murder dork at 5 mana.

 

[blacksmithy]

Ooh, what about ?

 

[whydirt]

The only print version is from Portal and has weird rules templating. Like it doesn’t use the actual term sacrifice.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

What proxy-making website do you recommend to print out the cube? I'm getting things ready to print them soon. I have more cards in my collection than I thought, so I might save some paper

I'd recommend using Magic Set Editor! It's a bit of an old program, but it works quite well for making professional looking cards. It has only PC native support, but it's trivially easy to get it working on Mac using an emulator such as Wine or something similar. I use the program on a Mac with no issues.

Just make sure to download the Cajun Templates! This pack includes Oracle text for new sets, the M15 frame, Adventure Frame, MDFC frame, and more! It's a must have for card designers!

EDIT: I just realized you were asking for proxies, not customs. This is not for you if you want to proxy real cards. I still recommend MSE if you're going to make customs.

 

[jerichoalar]

magiccards.info used to have a proxy sheet builder, did scryfall drop the feature?

you can download images from scryfall, probably pretty easy to drop them into Word and align/scale with ruler. (3.5x2.5 if you want the "whole card", non-border only like, 3.25x2.25 or something).

 

[TekLazar]

I use https://philo-jh.github.io/MTG-Proxy-Generator/
A bit confusing cuz rather than a "print" page you have to go file -> print (from Chrome)
But it automatically has the correct sizing and has the great feature of switching the edition for the card, and doesn't require you to have the 1 in front of a card.
Only downside is that the cards are scrunched together so you will likely lose one or two millimeters when cutting and it can be hard to tell when a card begins (especially if done by hand).
If you're using addons or extensions just make sure to disable some of them because sometimes they can show up in the print section.
If using customs, you'll have to do what jerichoalar said.

 

[Chris Taylor]

I'm one of those psychopaths that pastes a bunch of images into word and resizes everything myself, but my buddy used http://www.mtgpress.net/

Not sure how feature rich it is, but he had the ability to select oldest printing

 

[Velrun]

I'm one of those psychopaths that pastes a bunch of images into word and resizes everything myself

Me tooooooooo Two ancient psychopaths.

 

[Chris Taylor]

Hey what's wrong with this picture:

 

[sigh]

They're all pretty nice pictures if you ask me....

What are you asking?

 

[Chris Taylor]

Why do the Commons have a colorless border and the rares get the multicolored border?
(this isn't even a recent decision, passage and vitsa are both printed like this before those printings of wilds/expanse)

 

[ravnic]

Wow you're right. I feel stupid for never noticing this.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Ha! Good question! Would be interesting if someone had asked that on MaRo's blogatog account

But I found an even better answer on Reddit:

The colour of the frame is so your opponent can tell at a glance what colours of mana you have access to. Evolving Wilds gives no access to no colours the turn it's in play, Vista offers all so is gold.

 

[Chris Taylor]

Ha! Good question! Would be interesting if someone had asked that on MaRo's blogatog account

But I found an even better answer on Reddit:

If only I checked here before asking him myself

 

[jerichoalar]

I’m curious if this means future reprints of Wilds and Expanse will also get gold pin lines ?

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I assume not because of what I quoted above. There has already been a Terramorphic Expanse reprint (in Jumpstart) since they printed Prismatic Vista and Fabled Passage, and that reprint didn't have the gold pin lines.

 

[Erik Twice]

I was bored and thought about making a low-power cube. But I don't want to repeat the same themes at a lower power. What are some cool archetypes that are not the usual spells matter, blink, aristocrats, artifacts, etc?