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Topic: CUBE idea. New format for me.
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Jubert39 Member
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posted February 09, 2015 05:41 PM
After contemplating for a long time about building a cube, I was wondering what you guys would think. I want it to be just vintage. My idea was to buy the following 1 complete set of Collectors edition. 1 complete set of revised edition. and 1 extra copy of each common NOT including the ones from the sets.This would roughly mean (in the pool) 1x of each power 9 (from the collectors set) 2x of each dual land (from collectors and revised) 2x of most of the rares (from collectors and every rare reprinted in revised) 2x of each uncommon 3x of each common Roughly 800 card count Is this ratio too off?
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thror Member
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posted February 09, 2015 07:44 PM
800 cards is too many for a cube imo. if you have a full 8 players, cracking 3 packs each, that's 45x8 = 360 available cards. you have more than twice that. at this point, you'll see less than half the power, ~1 of each rare/unc, and 1.4 of each of the commons. not to mention how terrible a lot of these cards are to start with. if you do the 800 card cube like this, for an 8 man draft, i would expect about 3 players to end up with 17 playables or less, because they saw 4 decent cards per pack and then a ton of healing salve/benalish hero/blue blast/CoP garbage.__________________ "He fights you not because you have wronged him, but because you are there."<crypticfreak1> jazaray got ahold of me. he also had a hard time finding the email. <Jazaray> She...
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Aznopium Member
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posted February 10, 2015 06:32 AM
there would be too much variance in whoever gets to draft power and people just seeing the crap c/u's from those setsif you want to even it out, take out the power & sol ring and maybe demonic tutor and it should be ok
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paragondave Member
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posted February 10, 2015 11:43 PM
quote: Originally posted by Aznopium: there would be too much variance in whoever gets to draft power and people just seeing the crap c/u's from those setsif you want to even it out, take out the power & sol ring and maybe demonic tutor and it should be ok
this.
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Volcanon Member
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posted February 11, 2015 01:03 AM
quote: Originally posted by Aznopium: there would be too much variance in whoever gets to draft power and people just seeing the crap c/u's from those setsif you want to even it out, take out the power & sol ring and maybe demonic tutor and it should be ok
In a limited format consisting of Revised and Beta none of the power is particularly unfair. A turn 1 mox does not necessarily mean much when nearly every creature that's even kind of good costs 5 or 6. These are sloooooow formats barring something like dark rit - hippie on turn 1 or something. Sol Ring is, though, broken in half times two. The problem with these formats is that there's a much larger percentage of playable creatures in red and green. You're going to end up with everybody playing those colors just to make sure they have enough creatures. Then again just like the Ye Olde Days, the best card is going to be Shivan Dragon, followed by anything big that flies and clockwork beast. Demonic Tutor is nowhere near as strong as many other powerful cards in these sets.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Volcanon on February 11, 2015]
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