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Dom Harvey
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Just abandon the colour identity concept altogether. It's a somewhat arbitrary relic of EDH from a decade ago that doesn't translate well into Limited and only serves to constrain players' options
For more dense cards:
For more dense cards:
Player constraints is what makes games fun 
Universally! Golf wouldn’t be fun if you could pick up the ball and walk it all the way to the hole and drop it in We constrain the players by telling them they may only use weird shaped clubs to transport the ball with. Same goes for Magic and EDH.
The reason why the color constraints are fun in my format is because we wish to push players to switch colors of their decks several times throughout the tournament. This means they’ll have to construct their deck again but with a new Commander and in new colors because of those restraints.
After a player wins a game he will no longer keep the winning commander but will instead get a random new one. The player will at all points in time have access to several commanders.
I don’t think I should worry about someone getting 3 monocolored Commanders of the same color when there are only 4 in each mono color and 180 Commanders in total. Right? And I guess if it happens once in our lifetime then we can simply give that player the option to cycle one of his Commanders.
Universally! Golf wouldn’t be fun if you could pick up the ball and walk it all the way to the hole and drop it in We constrain the players by telling them they may only use weird shaped clubs to transport the ball with. Same goes for Magic and EDH.The reason why the color constraints are fun in my format is because we wish to push players to switch colors of their decks several times throughout the tournament. This means they’ll have to construct their deck again but with a new Commander and in new colors because of those restraints.
After a player wins a game he will no longer keep the winning commander but will instead get a random new one. The player will at all points in time have access to several commanders.
I don’t think I should worry about someone getting 3 monocolored Commanders of the same color when there are only 4 in each mono color and 180 Commanders in total. Right? And I guess if it happens once in our lifetime then we can simply give that player the option to cycle one of his Commanders.
Or you have 6 piles of commanders, 5 monocolor ones and one multicolored. Pick a 20 sided die, 1 and 2 are white, 3 and 4 are blue, and so on. 11 to 20 are multicolored. The first two are with a die, for the third the player keeps throwing until the player gets a pile he did not get with the first 2 throws. When the player gets a new one the player is allowed to skip a pile beforehand. E.g. the player does not want white and throws a 2, then he throws again until he does not throw a 1 or 2. Adjust the numbers to your liking.
That's an option too. I think I'll try this sealed version where everyone gets random cards but with a certain amount of cards in each mono color.
Initially. Every time someone loses they gain new cards in a draft structure.
I will try that for a 3-player tournament on the 12'th of December. More can be found here:
https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/commander-cube.3186/
Initially. Every time someone loses they gain new cards in a draft structure.
I will try that for a 3-player tournament on the 12'th of December. More can be found here:
https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/commander-cube.3186/
Is any part of this double cycle worth cubing? I once built a casual GW aggro/midrange deck focused around the White and Green guys (plus Loam Lion and Hedge Troll) that I remember with some fondness, but I'm worried that there isn't enough critical mass once you take away the ability to play with 4-ofs.
They are effectively gold cards, so though they are fine and I've considered running many of them, ultimately there is so much interesting stuff to run on gold slots that these get sort of sidelined.
They are nice designs though, have great stats, are mana sinks, and somewhat mitigate the "oh no I only drew forests" problem of gold cards. If you're making a core set or simple cards cube, definitely consider them.
They are nice designs though, have great stats, are mana sinks, and somewhat mitigate the "oh no I only drew forests" problem of gold cards. If you're making a core set or simple cards cube, definitely consider them.
Flinthoof Boar is one of the strongest (if uninspiring) aggro cards you can run. I'd say it's even deceptively strong. The ability for a card to be either a 2-drop or a 3-drop massively improves the consistency of an aggro deck's output.
I used to love making UR tempo decks:
Super fun to play, just keep them on the back foot and kill them with one or two creatures. It plays nicely with some spells-matter cards, but they're not essential.
It just so happens that I am. And it just so happens that these didn't show up when I searched multicolor cards...
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Add -t:land if you want to exclude lands from that search
There are a few mediocre cards which become pretty good when you can splice them on to anything:
If it were a different color it could be good, but as it stands, green is not very likely to be playing a ton of instants and sorcery spells.Ooh, yeah, that's what I'm looking for.
Are any of the Spiritcraft cards any good? I've always been fond of this guy:
But I'm not sure that it'd be good even if it triggered off of any instant or sorcery.
I think you're looking for cards more along the lines of:
Tallowisp also seems bad at 180 given the limited amount of space you'll have to fit in auras, however, it's much better at 360 where you can include a lot of aura-based removal spells without taxing your white section too heavily. Most of the "spiritcraft" cards are just not going to fit well into a non-dedicated environment even with "all spells are arcane" errata, unfortunately.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Ooh, yeah, that's what I'm looking for.
Are any of the Spiritcraft cards any good? I've always been fond of this guy:
But I'm not sure that it'd be good even if it triggered off of any instant or sorcery.
Remember that these also trigger on spirits. Depending on your power level, and the depth of your spiritcraft theme, there are definitely a few playables there.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Ideally you'ld want gold multicolored spirits in green to anchor that theme, but there aren't any playable ones I think in Bant colors. Though, Overbeing of Myth is a cool card! Oversoul of Dusk is just annoying with triple protection, and Storm Spirit and Phantom Nishoba are too expensive, I think. Though maybe they could sit at a truly lower power level cube with good fixing.
o:"you control a" -olaneswalker -o:commander c=1
Yields a rather massive 334 cards. c over ci due to Flinthoof Boar etc, and because I didn't see anything lacking on c=2.
o:"you control a" -olaneswalker -o:commander c=1 (o:white or o:blue or o:black or o:red or o:green or olains or o:island or o:swamp or o:mountain or o:forest)
Gets it down to 123 cards, but is a chore to type and still quite inaccurate.
We need a scryfall master.
EDIT: I dunno how to not have it do faces, so I'm leaving them
laneswalker -o:commander c=1Yields a rather massive 334 cards. c over ci due to Flinthoof Boar etc, and because I didn't see anything lacking on c=2.
o:"you control a" -o
laneswalker -o:commander c=1 (o:white or o:blue or o:black or o:red or o:green or olains or o:island or o:swamp or o:mountain or o:forest)Gets it down to 123 cards, but is a chore to type and still quite inaccurate.
We need a scryfall master.
EDIT: I dunno how to not have it do
faces, so I'm leaving them