This 'Cube Blog' subforum is a little bit different than what you might be used to at other cube websites, so please take a minute to get acquainted.
The following aren't strict, hard-and-fast rules, but more suggestions on how to structure your posts and threads in order to get people to engage with you and respond in a meaningful way.
DON'T:
The following aren't strict, hard-and-fast rules, but more suggestions on how to structure your posts and threads in order to get people to engage with you and respond in a meaningful way.
DON'T:
- Post a link to your CubeTutor thread that you've only mentally put together, scrawl out ten two-colour archetypes, then ask for feedback.
The reality is that everyone who posts on this forum does so out of their passion for their hobby - but what a post like the above essentially amounts to is requesting someone donate up to an hour of their time to go through your list in order to analyze it and make suggestions. You only get out of your posts what you put in, so don't make everyone else do the legwork - help everyone here help you.
DO:- Post patch notes!
Everyone loves to hear about what you've changed from draft to draft, why you're including some quirky, oddball new cards, and what didn't work from your batch of cuts.
- Post draft recaps!
It's always great to get to peek in on someone else's environment, see how their playgroup and draft dynamics evolve, and just get a sense of how much fun they're having.
- Post actual draft decks!
Related to the last point, people are much more able to give useful advice to you if they observe some of the actual decks being constructed with your list 'out in the wild'. It's one thing to run a CubeTutor simulator over and over again, and quite another to see how the synergies and archetypes come together with real human beings.
- Post inner musings!
Maybe it's not something related to one of your most recent events, but you had an epiphany while brushing your teeth about your own format, or you're done some reflecting and are just generally unhappy about one aspect of your environment. Let us hear about it.
- Experiment!
While all of the above points would seem to heavily favour real-world test data, there's definitely still room on this subforum for theorycrafting. But if you do go down this route, just make sure to do it in a way that encourages feedback. One of the best experiments to take place here is the 4-at-a-time Cube, which was a collaborative effort to build a cube, post by post, card image by card image.
If you insist on posting an untested germ of an idea in this subforum, by all means, go for it. Rather than throwing up a link to a CubeTutor, though, I would encourage you to post your draft archetypes in an image-based format, like in this thread. Basically, post at an early enough stage in your brainstorming, where your themes are mostly solidified, but not all of your card choices are locked in yet.
