I just realized I have 6 60-card decks, and five of them are in monocolor of different colors. The 6th is 5c Gates 😂

if i get bored between packs during a draft i WILL go on my phone

I don't run any UB cards in my decks, and generally avoid them in cube design too (have used maybe 3-4 total ever). Never owned more than 5 at a time. Most of my objection has been aesthetic/personal preference. But Harry Potter would be a line in the sand. Would sell everything and get a new hobby.

Did this update last B&R. Was planning on doing another one this time, but I don't have many deep thoughts on it since the majority of changes were commander, and pretty tame at that (Biorhythm funny but probably too slow for most lists, Lutri w/o companion is a bit awkward, Farewell probably didn't

Woke up with the sicko mode idea that all of my commanders could technically be tuned down into tiny leaders decks

1/5 in EDH Correctly predicted no change in standard Half credit in pauper? (Spy on watchlist)

Rip, my garbage B3 is now B4 (4th GC w/farewell)

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to those who celebrate

Calling my shot before I go to bed on various B&R shots for Monday: Standard: No changes, meta too diverse at Pro Tour ECL. Pauper: Balustrade Spy? (I actually think Spy is pretty fair in Pauper w/o MDFC's but I know it's disliked widely) ...

Today's singles order. Mostly cube, but a little edh (2nd copy of apex) and pauper (4x gaze)

Worked really hard on this one. Give it a share if you can m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ58...

Yep, 2-1 FNM Andy right here. Deck still felt strong in the games I lost (had board control and lost to combo wins vs Golgari shenanigans). Each game was a half turn from being over in the other direction if they didn't have it in hand.

Time to 2-1 my standard showdown with mono-G elfball. Finally sleeved up the new toys from ECL. * This is assuming the aggro decks don't just run me over, lol 😅

Been working on this list for a hot minute, and I haven't had much chance to test draft, but every back of the envelope calculation/bot test seems to make it look like it's ready. Introducing, Hate-Berzattos: cubecobra.com/cube/list/33...

Playing midweek magic on Arena and disappointed to find out that Cast Down is only uncommon on Arena and not common. Really ruined my sideboard after the first match

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I know most people skipped the cowboy set, but having a strictly better quench is pretty good in Pauper Mono-U Terror!

CubeCobra UI refresh looks sick! cubecobra.com/dev/blog

These PT top 8 decklists give me hope

Just put out the fifth of these, and have another four picked out for the rest of the month (easy part of going through the evergreens first). (Also, I just realized that they were not saving properly, so a bunch of previously not free ones should be free now)

Me looking at the various decks of the #PTECL:

Out: BREAD drafting In: It's about drive, it's about power

Y'all ever go 2-1 in retail draft by forcing 5c aggro? Because I did tonight, and hell yeah.

Brewing some haut garbage on Arena timeless rn. One part Insidious Roots, one part aristocrats, one part striplock lmao

Oh, hey, look, I did a deck tech on Standard Mono White Lifegain because people don't believe I 2-1 at FNM with it regularly: ajohnnyspridemate.substack.com/p/standard-d...

youtu.be/HDFu38ydwlk?... Tl;dw color balance in #mtgcube really doesn't matter and you can just kinda do whatever

Pushed a late-night cube update: cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl...

Haven't worked on this in a minute for various reasons, but I decided to dig back into the data analysis side of the SABRCube, and recalculated ELO values for all the cards: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Wrote about my experiences at P1P1 LA as a designer! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thinking about rebuilding my beloved Ghalta, Primal Hunger Elfball EDH deck w/some of the new Lorwyn cards. My fave deck ever possibly, so much that I've been trying to force standard Elfball since FDN released.

Went 1-2 because I got the bye :)

Time to show the LGS who's boss* *(Go 1-2 playing Gates in Standard)

The issue is that this was a POSITIVE thing for players or NEUTRAL thing for players that didn't have a downside for players Complaining about it is like saying "oh gorshhh my lobster is too buttery" THAT is the underlying problem, they're taking away all the small joys in this game

Standard is so back

Was trying the pick 2 draft for LCE on my computer and it had an error/needed to restart 😔

Can confirm this deck was good by the way it blew out my Golgari recursion deck (part of the problem may be that I overvalued Demo Field thinking it targeted basics, part of the problem may be that Rachel is just a much better Magic player than me, lol).

Was trying to do a detailed write up on @packonepickonela.bsky.social, but the thread disappeared while I was tab flipping, lol. Instead, here are the pics of the decks I made/largely lost with, lol. (It was a fun weekend, but man, I have a lot to learn still about drafting cubes other than mine!)

Lorwyn Eclipsed should have been a two set block. It's as clear as night and day.

Played a lot of cube today at P1P1 LA, but by far the best games of the day came at the very beginning and very end, outside scheduled cubing. Won a party box by uno reversing lethal damage, and played Boros control deck all the way to the bottom of my opponent's library in OG Lorwyn cube!

Ended up on an abzan elves midrange list because I got the toes lady, the command spell, new Rhys, the mass reanimate, and the giant that reanimates slow. Went extremely grindy, including a 3rd round 1st game that went 40 mins (that I still somehow had the time to 2-0). Drew both other rounds tho 😅

Really want to build changeling kindred tonight. Can't wait to crack some packs!!!

Was going to have a WFH day before going to prerelease tomorrow night, but I guess not! The machine must turn onwards/demands the ever increasing labor of the young + overeducated. Yay capitalism!

I started writing a rundown of all the new cards I like for a bunch of formats for ECL, but I think I'm too tired to finish it. Working a 40hr week isn't exactly conducive to putting out hot takes, lol.

"I just don't think a company would force their own OC into a profitable system like this. It seems like, extra risky, and shareholders hate risk. So like, doesn't it make a lot more sense if it's, like, from a novella that both us have never heard of?"

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New main series post on Substack tomorrow btw.

Dawg my deck is aaaassssss

Everyone knows the Prof is in the pocket of Big Merfolk! (It's almost as if someone who likes Magic The Gathering would push people to support a real set of Magic the Gathering)

Went 2-1 tonight at the shop via mono-W lifegain. Lost only to Izzet Lessons because I flooded turns 2-5.