There's way too much value in modern set design.

In the lab.

This may come as a surprise from me, but the Vintage Supreme Cube that’s up on MTGO right now is MUCH better than regular vintage cube.

Sorting out an order and had a flashback to being ten years old.

This one isn’t on MTGO, so I’ll throw it to the crowd.

We’ve reached the Hatching Plans era.

I’ve once again begun hosting drafts of my cubes on MTGO. Right now just A Study in Harmony (with updates!), but idk, maybe other ones in the future? If you’d like to play sometime, join my discord server! Drafts are open to all and all cards are provided. discord.gg/KeFc32tCzn

The problem with updating a cube is eventually you end up with a cat theme.

Fried Chicken

This was a nice one.

Nice little trophy in @matt-grenier.bsky.social 's study in harmony cube available on modo right now. This might be the coolest cube that's ever been on the platform. Matt cooked so hard

My cube goes live for a week starting tomorrow, but if you want to learn about it ahead of time you can check out this article. Hope to see you in the queues.

bring back the BATMAN tv show and keep up the stunt casting. I want to see Werner Herzog's Mister Freeze

Big news, Cube fam.

Made a no-supplemental-product Vintage Cube on a lark last night, and idk, looks kinda sick. cubecobra.com/cube/list/Wh...

The GOAT Mid

As we prepare to have two concurrent vintage cubes on MTGO, I have to ask: did cube ruin magic?

i joke but it genuinely really hurts to watch the game that in many ways saved my life a decade ago turn into a case study for everything that's bad about corporate art and intellectual property

I’ve come up with a new format that I’m naming after one of my heroes, John Cage. This is kind of a joke but also serious. Here’s how it works: find the cards you’ve intentionally drafted over the years or buy cards that you think would be good draft picks. Shuffle them together and draft.

Magic spent 30 years building karma then sold its account.

I got the bug to update my vintage cube at the end of last week (and add power back to it for that matter) and reached what I feel is close to a resting point.

More Boros Storm

Played some Spiderpaths drafts. Turns out when you start off with a product not designed to be played it remains unplayable.

Redford by the great Phil Noto. Sad day 🖤

My favorite part about MTGO Vintage Cube discourse is when people point out new cards that provide novel and fun gameplay patterns but then just say “yeah but it won’t be good enough compared to all these boring cards we’re required to play with.”

“Move to combat?” Bear swings into my spider Well, do they have it?

Sometimes I feel bad about spending $30 in a week on comics, but then I remember I used to buy Magic cards.

Golgari Mystic Forge Combo

It’s pretty cool that in a time of mounting economic uncertainty and increasing wealth disparity, the response from WotC to the outcry that they’re undermining the nature of the game that provides meaning and community to so many is, “but we’re making so much money.”

Magic players love the game in the same way investors love NVIDIA.

A mostly updated version of my cube A Study in Harmony was run by its new owner and his Denver-based crew. Here’s the decks from draft.

Still this. Absolute scar on the body of Magic.

Actual military occupation of the opposing side.

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it's easier to buy a gun in the united states than high-rise trousers

Given that the political divide in the US is so Urban v Rural in nature, it feels like deploying the National Guard in cities like Chicago would be an act of war.

Magic culture is like the artist statement at a middling show in that it seeks to explain to you what the art failed to deliver.

Jeskai Storm

The worst set of all time is Modern Horizons 3 and it’s not even close.

I don’t let my neighbors tell me what to draft.

Vivi Shoal Gaming.

I finally got the chance to draft this (regular team draft, not roto) and my takeaway was that there were too many basics.

If you break it down in basic resource terms, Vivi essentially generates ~2.5 mana every time you cast a noncreature spell. That goes a long way to show how insanely broken the card is.

One of the most logical answers to over a year of completely bunk constructed formats and an expressed unwillingness to fix the problem is that WotC doesn’t actually want you to play Magic, and in fact to them, playing Magic is a distraction from the desired activity of purchasing Magic.

How many times does this have to happen for people to realize that the quality of the gameplay is not a primary concern for Wizards?

With EOE coming out (and looking pretty cool), I spent some time tidying up A Study in Harmony. The changelist here is massive, but I think the whole project stays true to its concept.