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Welcome, Limited Resources listeners!
I hope that you enjoyed the latest episode of Limited Resources featuring yours truly. 🙂 If you haven’t built a cube or don’t know someone who has one, I hope that my appearance on the show helped inspired you to do so. It’s seems like a pretty daunting process, but it’s not as daunting…
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Different strokes for different colors.
Some colors are just better at some things at others and when colors get things that aren’t in their normal strengths, sometimes even those “leftovers” are good enough for a cube. Harmonize is a really good example. It was a “planeshifted” copy of Concentrate, a card that has fallen by the wayside in many cube…
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An commonly good change.
So sayeth the poll, I’m keeping the blog name. So I’m going deep into the tank to change my commons cube. It’s been the equivalent of a side project (one that’s taught me a lot of lessons and has been incredibly fun, even though it’s been drafted less than I’d like) and it’s time to…
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Six Sides of Context
(Originally written for Mananation.com, now Coolstuffinc on 11/10/10. Porting it over here, since they don’t really deserve my views anymore.) When considering cards for a cube, many people look first to those that perform successfully in other formats. Cards that are good in cubes have typically had success in other formats. Spectral Procession has enabled…
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Opportunity Cost
Opportunity Cost is one of the fundamental ideas in economics and understanding it can help with deciding between cards in your cube. The basic concept is that because all people have with limited resources (not referring to the awesome podcast of the same name) to allocate, decisions with mutually exclusive decisions (if I do A,…
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Pay 1U, morph into target cube.
The cube at Ogre’s is going to become an exact copy of my personal list. The headers up top will reflect this once the change is fully made, for now, this is an idea in my head. Not only will this allow for more drafters, but will allow for more variety, as an 8-man draft…
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Tapped Out from Online Cube Drafting
There’s a site – tappedout.net, which lets you draft cubes with AI bots and/or people. You have to register to the site to do cube drafts, but as far as I know, the registration was pretty painless. That way, if you’re wondering how my various cubes play out, you can do some sample drafts to…
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Commons List Update – 10/29/2010
I took my sweet time, but here’s my commons cube update. I focused my attention towards my commons cube when I was helping to build Ogre’s Games’ cube (which, unfortunately was never drafted since conversations tended to go “Sure, I’d like to cube draft.” “I just have my commons one here, my regular cube’s still…
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You’re So Cyclical
From the Magic’s humble beginnings in Alpha, the game has had many cycles. Alpha had 7 cycles and 3 vertical ones, one of the more notorious ones was its 1-mana “boon” cycle, giving Ancestral Recall to blue, Lightning Bolt to red and black Dark Ritual while giving Giant Growth to green and giving white… Healing Salve. Cycles that…
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Updates to cube lists/draft report.
The store cube was drafted last night (with an 8-man draft) and it went rather well. There was someone who tried forcing 5CC and from what I could tell, didn’t do that well and the black aggro cards were taken by someone who ended up just making an awkward BU control deck which would have…