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General MTGO 'Vintage Cube'
- Thread starter safra
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The original joke (as I've heard it here in the States) goes like this: someone says something ending with the "-er" sound. For example:
Friend: "I sure could use a helper."
You: "Helper? I hardly know her!" (helper == "help her")
Friend, continuing the joke: "Know her? But she's your sister!"
You: "Sister? But she's a mister?"
Friend: "A mister? You almost kissed her!"
You: ... (continue until you get bored or it stops making sense)
Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
Oooooooooo
That is lame lol
I was trying to figure out why you would threaten to punch someone and than turn around and make jokes about kissing a women.
That is lame lol
I was trying to figure out why you would threaten to punch someone and than turn around and make jokes about kissing a women.
Yeah, its a kinda lame, low effort joke, that for some reason, is fairly popular and we (my friend group irl) find funny.
You isn't missing much.
so I realized why calling this the Vintage Cube was irking me, on a level beyond the facile '9 pieces of power in 540 cards' thing. It's because I remembered Mike Lucas, who actually keeps a "Vintage Constructed Cube" of his own and plays 60-card games. (if you draft a card not on the Vintage restricted list, you get four copies for deckbuilding - do you wanna first-pick Recall or Preordain?)
(oh, here's a vintage 360 he made that I just found! maybe this will be helpful to those of us who wanna refigure Powered formats)
Here's a ManaDeprived article talking about the VCC cube. I could swear there's another post by the owner where he talks about the Vintage Constructed Cube and in the opening grafs there's a lil rant at WotC for including Time Vault in their holiday cube but I can't find it right now. after much thought scouring I def. remember some kind of cheap dig early on in the post but nothing else, sorry!
(oh, here's a vintage 360 he made that I just found! maybe this will be helpful to those of us who wanna refigure Powered formats)
Here's a ManaDeprived article talking about the VCC cube. I could swear there's another post by the owner where he talks about the Vintage Constructed Cube and in the opening grafs there's a lil rant at WotC for including Time Vault in their holiday cube but I can't find it right now. after much thought scouring I def. remember some kind of cheap dig early on in the post but nothing else, sorry!
The next time i get three spare hours and internet access, this will exist. For now though, try my REAL POWER CUBE for a sloppy, self-parodic attempt.
I have been drafting the MTGO Holiday/Power cube some. I am still trying to figure out the best g1 configuration for this Gw "stax" deck:
Round 1 saw lots of changes in g2/3: I first took out Smokestack and the Natural Order+Terastadon. Then, I brought stack back in and cut some white cards.Waiting for R2 to start after a win versus Esper control.
Anyone else been playing? I'll post more of my decks later!
Round 1 saw lots of changes in g2/3: I first took out Smokestack and the Natural Order+Terastadon. Then, I brought stack back in and cut some white cards.Waiting for R2 to start after a win versus Esper control.
Anyone else been playing? I'll post more of my decks later!
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
That cube is all kinds of wrong 
A buddy drafted this beauty:
Spot the win condition...
Apparently it's Frost Titan + Upheaval
A buddy drafted this beauty:
Spot the win condition...
Apparently it's Frost Titan + Upheaval
A perfectly fair little WW deck.
- Baleful Strix was never castable. Mana didn't stretch that far.
- I didn't draw Time Walk and Black Lotus much. Mana Crypt showed up often enough.
- It did go 3-0. Lingering Souls was the all-star. Skullclamp also did a lot of work.
- Some games were pretty entertaining - in particular, dropping a sideboarded Moat off a Show and Tell to combat a Progenitus and carrying on with a beatdown via Lingering Souls tokens.
- Some games were brutally short - one on-the-play t1 consisted of Plains, Mana Crypt, Black Lotus, Lingering Souls, Figure of Destiny, Spirit of the Labyrinth, pass.
- It was probably more fun to play than play against.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Gross (but that is the point of the Vintage Cube)!
I had no idea this was where that came from. I thought it was some obscure reference to the fact that we add cards to our cube and then cut them 15 minutes later (like I hardly knew that card because really I didn't even play the damn thing before it left my list).
Clearly that was totally fucking wrong. lol
My only problem with this is the fact that it is the vintage cube and you just be blown out by the most stupid thing in the first round and lose.
This is why I like the swiss as you can lose the first round, then if you win the next two you break even and can draft again. Plus you get a solid 3 rounds in. I guess each to their own.
Dom Harvey
Contributor
not a fan of Vintage Cube
BUT
sometimes you go T2 Dark Ritual, Seething Song, Sneak Attack -> Emrakul + Griselbrand
BUT
sometimes you go T2 Dark Ritual, Seething Song, Sneak Attack -> Emrakul + Griselbrand
Sounds like a good addictive loop. Sometimes you get a win, sometimes you don't, either way it's quick and easy to pull the lever again!
Dom Harvey
Contributor
speaking of addictive loops:
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Courser Fastbond Meloku is infinite isnt it
It may curb your desire knowing I have yet to lose round one in single elim with mono white or mono red (one of which always seems open unless I force a "fun" archetype). Mono white is often so deep that I can draft a fast hate bear WW and SB into midrange (or add a plethora slower card adv cards) versus other fair decks. Here is a deck waiting to play in the finals (get bored):
Chris Taylor
Contributor
You know, if you'd told me mono white would be good in a predominatly combo cube, I wouldn't have believed you
Non-artifact-based mono white's success rate seems to be inversely related to the skill/flexibility of the other drafters.