By Thea on Apr 14, 2011 in Draft Strategy, Submission | 6 Comments
This is a guest post written by Doug Lambert. If you’d like to contribute to cubedrafting.com, contact evan dot erwin at starcitygames dot com. I’ve been playing cube drafts for about three years and it constitutes about 90 percent of my time playing Magic. I draft on a regular basis with a group of about [...]
By Thea on Feb 26, 2011 in Draft Strategy | 4 Comments
This is a deck I had yesterday in a Winston draft. It’s not outstanding- the mana isn’t great and it’s lacking in removal- but I thought it was an interesting example of how you can draft a more aggressive base-U deck, even without including specific blue aggro cards like Horizon Drake. I had a lot [...]
By Thea on Nov 26, 2010 in Draft Strategy | 2 Comments
I did a Winston draft tonight and ended up with this deck: 1 Fire-Lit Thicket 1 Forest 1 Lavaclaw Reaches 4 Mountain 1 Raging Ravine 1 Stomping Ground 1 Strip Mine 6 Swamp 1 Bloodbraid Elf 1 Dauthi Marauder 1 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief 1 Graveborn Muse 1 Grim Lavamancer 1 Hearth Kami 1 Kargan Dragonlord [...]
By Thea on Sep 19, 2010 in Draft Strategy, HowTo | 20 Comments
I’m trying something new here, so bear with me if it’s not entirely well-executed. A few nights ago I wrote down the details of my cube draft (picks, deckbuilding, and games), and I’m going to transcribe it here. I hope it is entertaining, interesting, or at least not too embarrassing in retrospect. Let me know [...]
By Evan on Aug 27, 2010 in Draft Strategy, First Four Picks | 16 Comments
This is an auto-generated random pack from my cube, and you tell me your first four picks and feel free to debate others’ choices in the comments. This is assuming this is Pack 1 Pick 1. Imagine picking a card (Pick #1) and then imagine seeing this pack without that card (pick #2). Then imagine [...]
By Evan on Aug 26, 2010 in Draft Strategy, First Four Picks | 13 Comments
This is an auto-generated random pack from my cube, and you tell me your first four picks and feel free to debate others’ choices in the comments. This is assuming this is Pack 1 Pick 1. Imagine picking a card (Pick #1) and then imagine seeing this pack without that card (pick #2). Then imagine [...]
By Evan on Aug 25, 2010 in Draft Strategy, First Four Picks | 8 Comments
This is an auto-generated random pack from my cube, and you tell me your first four picks and feel free to debate others’ choices in the comments. This is assuming this is Pack 1 Pick 1. Imagine picking a card (Pick #1) and then imagine seeing this pack without that card (pick #2). Then imagine [...]
By Evan on Aug 24, 2010 in Draft Strategy, First Four Picks | 11 Comments
This is an auto-generated random pack from my cube, and you tell me your first four picks and feel free to debate others’ choices in the comments. This is assuming this is Pack 1 Pick 1. Imagine picking a card (Pick #1) and then imagine seeing this pack without that card (pick #2). Then imagine [...]
By Evan on Aug 23, 2010 in Draft Strategy, First Four Picks | 15 Comments
This is an auto-generated random pack from my cube, and you tell me your first four picks and feel free to debate others’ choices in the comments. This is assuming this is Pack 1 Pick 1. Imagine picking a card (Pick #1) and then imagine seeing this pack without that card (pick #2). Then imagine [...]
By Evan on Aug 20, 2010 in Draft Strategy, First Four Picks | 18 Comments
This is an auto-generated random pack from my cube, and you tell me your first four picks and feel free to debate others’ choices in the comments. This is assuming this is Pack 1 Pick 1. Imagine picking a card (Pick #1) and then imagine seeing this pack without that card (pick #2). Then imagine [...]