u/No_Giraffe_1551

Eternal Format All Stars that rarely make it in powered cubes: Why and what conditions would make them good?

This is inspired by thinking about [[Kozilek's Command]], a card that is a dominant force in modern and legacy but because of the two colorless pips is not something that generally makes it into vintage/legacy cubes. I think some shift to make the package of modern/legacy eldrazi an interesting thing to include would need to happen, I think that's unlikely philosophically for cubes and as a likely are for further power creep in that particular archetype.

Conversely, perhaps not an "all star" anymore but a legacy-pedigree card in [[Goblin Welder]] somewhat recently saw the conditions to be worth including arise in powered cube.

This makes me curious about any cards on your radar as a card that just needs the environment to shift enough to be good.

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u/No_Giraffe_1551 — 4 days ago
▲ 11 r/mtgcube

Making Sense of CubeCobra's Draft Simulator

I have a somewhat normal vintage cube and I notice a few things about the CubeCobra's Draft Simulator that I'm curious to make sense of. I ran a fairly large simulation of 1000 drafts and I notice a few things that feel like flaws, perhaps I'm missing something

  1. UB Reanimator was the second most drafted deck. It also was a separate category that finished fifth as well. The one in fifth seems to be more like a tempo deck, with exemplary cards like [[Fallen Shinobi]] and [[Ertai Resurrected]]

  2. U Artifacts was #3 and also #13. I cannot see any meaningful distinction between these. I thought perhaps it would split by something like it split out combo from regular "fair" artifact decks, but the exemplary decks have [[Tinker]] in both. One does seem to have a non-artifact combo-ish win con of [[Brain Freeze]] and [[Thassa's Oracle]] and the other seems like it really does win by turning creatures sideways. Perhaps that's it?

  3. It says a grand total of 2.1% of decks were mono-white, but then says 3.9% are white aggro. Perhaps this counts a splash as "White Aggro" still but moves it over to some color pair for the deck color stats? Then it separately says 2.0% of decks are W Weenie?

  4. This thing never seems to draft the Bazaar deck quite right, though it does reliably pick Bazaar and puts it into decks it doesn't belong in.

  5. There are like 7 different iterations of "G Midrange Combo" and they're all seemingly referring to decks with cards that do unfair lands stuff. Perhaps there are varying levels or types of unfair lands stuff. They also all reliably ID as green but there are many multicolored cards included in the example cards. [[Wrenn and Six]] is #1 on nearly all of them.

Curious if anyone has insights on how I am maybe using this tool wrong.

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u/No_Giraffe_1551 — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/CRM

CRM with capabilities for both development and program data

Hello,

When I do any search for non-profit CRMs, I reliably only see feedback about how it works for development staff. I never see anyone review how they handle tracking program participant data of any kind (ie, tracking someone's progress through program phases, intaking program applications, etc.). You'd think more people would report on how their CRM does at, say, reporting how many people stayed in stable housing or the % growth in student test results or whatever other relevant topic a non-profit might have. I wonder if I'm biasing my search in some way that programs-focused reviews never seem to come up? I am curious if anyone has any experience using one tool for dual purposes:

  1. Donor/Volunteer management

  2. Programmatic documentation and reporting

If it helps to tailor the response, we have ~20k records on the development side and annually have about ~1k records on the program side.

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u/No_Giraffe_1551 — 5 months ago