I never post on these, uh, "peripheral" forums, but I just wanted to mention that I was drafting on MTGO and watching the RNC at the same time tonight, and ended up chatting with another player who was doing the same thing. We're both west coasters, so I needn't tell you what party we support, but we discussed what we were seeing at the convention from our own perspectives in real time, and it was pretty cool, and respectful to boot.
So, kudos to that random online dude. I hope you all get to have polite, substantial talks with random nerds this election cycle like I did tonight.
It's been more than a year since we did a team cube draft here on the MTGS forums. I had a blast, learned a lot about deckbuilding from my teammates, and would love to see another one of these happen.
Did other people enjoy it last time? Would anyone have the time or know-how to run one again?
This is so funny. I just made an Eldrazi cube based loosely on that post as well. We had our first draft last week, and I say without exaggeration it was the best limited experience I've had in a long time, both drafting and playing.
I did it a bit different, however, because I opted for a 360 card cube. This meant you could count on every copy of every card being there every time. I like the additional level of strategy this creates. So I opted for 1x rares (30 cards total), 2x uncommons (90 cards total) and 3x commons (240 cards total). This creates 1/3/8 pack distributions in theory, but I'm too lazy to make proper packs anyway: everyone just got 15 random cards, and we loved it.
To get the cube down to 360, I had to cut some cards that weren't OP or unplayable, like brood birthing and, most contentiously, jadda lifestrider (by my math, it was that or the broodwarden). I did this to maintain the spell/creature ratios and aura/creature ratios with the colors and the set.
One quick note: when you're ordering up all these cards, don't forget to stock up on eldrazi spawn! They have beautiful art, and you'll need plenty when half the players inevitably draft green ramp/tokens.
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So, kudos to that random online dude. I hope you all get to have polite, substantial talks with random nerds this election cycle like I did tonight.
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It's been more than a year since we did a team cube draft here on the MTGS forums. I had a blast, learned a lot about deckbuilding from my teammates, and would love to see another one of these happen.
Did other people enjoy it last time? Would anyone have the time or know-how to run one again?
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I did it a bit different, however, because I opted for a 360 card cube. This meant you could count on every copy of every card being there every time. I like the additional level of strategy this creates. So I opted for 1x rares (30 cards total), 2x uncommons (90 cards total) and 3x commons (240 cards total). This creates 1/3/8 pack distributions in theory, but I'm too lazy to make proper packs anyway: everyone just got 15 random cards, and we loved it.
To get the cube down to 360, I had to cut some cards that weren't OP or unplayable, like brood birthing and, most contentiously, jadda lifestrider (by my math, it was that or the broodwarden). I did this to maintain the spell/creature ratios and aura/creature ratios with the colors and the set.
One quick note: when you're ordering up all these cards, don't forget to stock up on eldrazi spawn! They have beautiful art, and you'll need plenty when half the players inevitably draft green ramp/tokens.