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safra

safra

Language learning rules. I've been impressed with the Peace Corps documents for self-guided study, but it looks like they don't have German. Their Arabic course rules though, for anyone learning that language.

ALSO ALSO ALSO I totally scrubbed out at Chris Taylor's cube. How on earth did I go 0-4 with this incredible superfriends list? If I managed to stabilize I'd typically win but gosh dang was it surprisingly difficult to stabilize. I drafted 16 land and cut my two green duals for a basic Island and Plains. I'm sure I could've at least 1-3'd if I'd played tighter, or read my opponents' cards. Maybe I'll try that next time.
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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor

Contributor
Unfortunatly the problem I have is specifically with these guys:



and so the only one of the above 8 that helps is actually werebear (if he does that is :p)
It'll be weird if I double up on sylvan advocate o_O

But like
Kalonian Tusker, nothing we like similar to that? All GG eh? dang
Well, I could try Rogue Elephant :p
 
safra

safra

Chris Taylor said:
Unfortunatly the problem I have is specifically with these guys:



and so the only one of the above 8 that helps is actually werebear (if he does that is :p)
It'll be weird if I double up on sylvan advocate o_O

But like
Kalonian Tusker, nothing we like similar to that? All GG eh? dang
Well, I could try Rogue Elephant :p
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Please include R.E tonight, ty!

Strangleroot when it comes back is a 3/2 and much more playable than the tusker imo
 
whydirt

whydirt

Conspiracy 2 plus Eternal Masters should really make this a great summer for cubes! I'm actually pretty bearish on EM making Legacy more affordable, but I bet there will be quite a few fun but pricy reprints that are good for us!
 
Onderzeeboot

Onderzeeboot

Ecstatic Orb
Eric Chan said:
is it weird that I'm super hyped about Conspiracy 2, and all of the little tidbits they're feeding us

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Is that the Ancient Fang? How did that end up back on Fiora? Regardless, stoked as well, because I have very fond memories of that draft format. Didn't draft it a ton, and all of it two-player, but had great fun every time! One of the more ridiculous things I can remember was someone at the talble revealing two Brago's Favor and a Double Stroke on Rousing of Souls on turn one, hitting for four tokens, and following that up with a Intangible Virtue o_O *Gulp*
 
Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor

Contributor
Does someone have an article somewhere that shows how many cards you need in a cube to come close to the odds of opening
  • a specific common
  • a specific uncommon
  • Rare/Mythic
 
Eric Chan

Eric Chan

Hyalopterous Lemure
Staff member
I may or may not have done my math correctly, but assuming we're talking about a large retail set, ignoring foils, and opening a single pack, then using a hypergeometric calculator, the chances of opening any specific card of a given rarity:

Common (Assuming 101 commons / set, 10 commons / pack): 9.9%
Uncommon (Assuming 80 uncommons / set, 3 uncommons / pack): 3.8%
Rare (Assuming 53 rares / set, 7 rares / 8 packs): 1.7%
Mythic (Assuming 15 mythics / set, 1 mythic / 8 packs): 0.83%

In cube, if we go with a 360 card cube, then opening any single "pack" of 15 cards, the chances of seeing at least one copy of a specific card, given the number of copies of that card in your cube:

4 Copies: 16%
3 Copies: 12%
2 Copies: 8.2%
1 Copy: 4.2%

So somewhere between two and three copies approximates a common, and one copy approximates an uncommon. Everything in cube is way more common than a rare, though, unless you start increasing your cube size.
 
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