thankfully, i don’t have such a policy
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I'm definitely not a fan of how the border "fades out" on extended art cards. I feel like the Japanese mystical archives had the right idea about how to handle it:
You’ve located my only issue and I think you’ve located the perfect solution as well.
Except maybe not as full art. I like the extensions to the left and right but not the fading of the type line.
Do you guys think it is confusing to run Sagas and Classes in the same cube? For newbies drafting it, I mean? Will they mix them up or be irritaed when they just understood how one thing works and then they see the other (with mana costs to level or with chapters for example). I know they don't look identical, but still, I am hesitant to add a class. I'm only running two sagas at this point btw.
in a word, yes. of the two, i think sagas are cooler in general. that said, if you have regular drafters, you could “teach” one first and then work in the other once mastery over the first has been attainedDo you guys think it is confusing to run Sagas and Classes in the same cube? For newbies drafting it, I mean? Will they mix them up or be irritaed when they just understood how one thing works and then they see the other (with mana costs to level or with chapters for example). I know they don't look identical, but still, I am hesitant to add a class. I'm only running two sagas at this point btw.
this definitely mitigates it a lot, i would be much more worried if there were, for example, a bunch of sagas and one class card
Is there a way to use scryfall to grab all the art from a set/block/search? I feel like there is, but I don't know enough. @Onderzeeboot
Onderzeeboot
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I drafted Alpha once (online, not IRL) which is and isn't the same as what you describe. My deck was nine Circles of Protection spread throughout all five colors and forty-two cards so that I could win by mill. It was about as fun as you'd think for the first couple of hours, but when we got to the second match it started to get a little stale and I think most intentionally shitty draft experiences are like that.
Lol I'm just trying to think of something funny for the kids, but that makes sense.
That said, I think the cards can be intentionally shitty without the draft being shitty.
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With the joke being that the cards are bad? I'd look at morphs and creatures with weird activated abilities.
Onderzeeboot
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I played a reject rare draft once, and walked away with a Yawgmoth's Will that one of the richer drafters threw in as a joke because it is pretty abyssmal in a format full with expensive underperformers (it was only $15 or so back then, oops). My MVPs were the two Phyrexian Infiltrators that I picked up. Turns out 
is a good price to swap your worst creature with their best
is a good price to swap your worst creature with their best Wow. That card shouldn't work like that, but it does ...I played a reject rare draft once, and walked away with a Yawgmoth's Will that one of the richer drafters threw in as a joke because it is pretty abyssmal in a format full with expensive underperformers (it was only $15 or so back then, oops). My MVPs were the two Phyrexian Infiltrators that I picked up. Turns out
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Sounds like a sweet 19-20 land limited format. I mean, I imagine that a basic land is better than half the cards in the draft!I played a reject rare draft once, and walked away with a Yawgmoth's Will that one of the richer drafters threw in as a joke because it is pretty abyssmal in a format full with expensive underperformers (it was only $15 or so back then, oops). My MVPs were the two Phyrexian Infiltrators that I picked up. Turns out
Onderzeeboot
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Correct
For those who don't know the format; every drafter brings 45 different bad rares (whether objectively or in the context of draft), everything gets shuffled together, and then boosters are made from 15 random rares from the pool each. It's a blast. Removal used to be relatively hard to come by back when I played that game, which made dealing with your opponent's less-than-duds quite challenging!
You know, bring shit like this!
Onderzeeboot
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But was it fun?I once played the “Power Min Cube” a friend of mine had made. His design phisolophy was to do the opposite of a power max cube. With each set release he would go over the cube and cut the best card.
The cube ran powerhouses like
and
Titania + Wood Elemental time
Fun fun as in we laughed a lot.
Not fun as in diversive, competitive and skill rewarding.
The kids at work drafted VOW today and it went pretty well. I definitely think they could handle a cube, considering quite a few of those VOW cards are 50+ words with the front and back combined.
The main downside is that they have a dedicated two hour MtG block each week (they play outside of this, but this is the only time I'm guaranteed to supervise) and that's about how long it took them to settle down, draft, and play one game. Their decks are together for next week to play matches.
Might get back into the Pokemon cube project because they seem ready to handle it and I think they'd really appreciate that I'm such a nerd that I made my own shit.
The main downside is that they have a dedicated two hour MtG block each week (they play outside of this, but this is the only time I'm guaranteed to supervise) and that's about how long it took them to settle down, draft, and play one game. Their decks are together for next week to play matches.
Might get back into the Pokemon cube project because they seem ready to handle it and I think they'd really appreciate that I'm such a nerd that I made my own shit.
Have you guys ever not had fun playing your cube? Usually, when I draft and play with mine, I'm having close to maximum fun, but today was a different experience. I mean, of course I had fun, I was playing MtG with one of my best friends, but the gameplay was kind of dull.
I guess the reason were the weird decks we've drafted, it was me with mono blue mill (I had a Lab Man but ended up milling him) vs. mono black discard (didn't know that was thing). Those are probably two of the most annoying decks to face in Mtg outside of weird combo bs, real ass hole decks you wouldn't use for teaching someone
G1 he lost to a turn two Drowned Secrets
G2 he lost to a turn one Hedron Crab with two fetches following
G3 he emptied my whole hand with Pilfering Imp, Hypnotic Specter, Agonizing Remorse and Okiba-Gang Shinobi. Yeah, he had like 60% of my cube's hand disruption effects.
I guess it was a one-in-a-thousand scenario, but still was weird to have a game play that uninteractive and low in agency, compared to what I usually experience.
I guess the reason were the weird decks we've drafted, it was me with mono blue mill (I had a Lab Man but ended up milling him) vs. mono black discard (didn't know that was thing). Those are probably two of the most annoying decks to face in Mtg outside of weird combo bs, real ass hole decks you wouldn't use for teaching someone
G1 he lost to a turn two Drowned Secrets
G2 he lost to a turn one Hedron Crab with two fetches following
G3 he emptied my whole hand with Pilfering Imp, Hypnotic Specter, Agonizing Remorse and Okiba-Gang Shinobi. Yeah, he had like 60% of my cube's hand disruption effects.
I guess it was a one-in-a-thousand scenario, but still was weird to have a game play that uninteractive and low in agency, compared to what I usually experience.