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When you are looking to build a deck, how many pieces for the strategy you're planning do you want available? How many cards need to show up in a scryfall search for you to think "This deck will function".

Example: I am building Francisco, Fowl Marauder partnered with Malcolm. I want to attack with pirates. I search in BU with type "pirate" and get 100 results. I think, that is enough pirates. Pirates can be a theme. I will prob even have enough that I can choose my fav pirates from among several good options.

I suspect at ~20 results, you end up with mostly the same cards as every other deck with that strategy, and have a very tough time trying to assemble something viable.

I'm sure many of you have done this. Looking for a fun cube recommendatio. for moderately experienced commander players that we can iterate on and make our own over time.

My other question is format. I am aware some people have attempted to make "commander cubes" where you still select a commander and build around. I don't think that's what we want yet, but doesn't cube mean we would not be playing as a group?

Do you find you miss playing all together? Or do you find the smaller individual games end up being fun/fast enough that everyone feels involved? Are there other ways you deal with that?

Thanks so much 😁

After years of working on my guitars on kitchen tables, ottomans, and computer desks, I am finally setting up a dedicated workbench for setups, repairs, troubleshooting, etc etc.

The biggest thing I can't seem to get right when working on my guitars is lighting. Generally I am working with desktop lamp of some kind plus the ambient lighting of the room.

It seems like I am always too bright, too dim, blocking the light...it's just never where I need it to be. I have a chance now to intentionally set up effective lighting and I am unsure what the best way to do that is.

Right now, I am using a conventional computer desk in my basement as my new "work bench". I feel that in all this I am missing some basic principles that everyone else understands, so apologies if this seems like a very basic question.

Thanks all!

I am new to all this and looking for some article or video or overly long response to this question that can explain what happened with White wolf, paradox, etc. Basically, why and how are there so many editions, who is running things now, what does the future looks like, etc.

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Even just the product history seems v interesting to me as WoD seems unafraid to step into a lot of cultural stuff that has changed a lot over the time it has existed. I find that very interesting, as well as seeing how diff game editions have adapted, course corrected, etc.

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Just looking for more info to learn about these aspects.

What commander would you pick that would enable you to play tons of pet cards, wacky cards, old cards, etc

I am looking for something to build around that gives me a HUGE pool of viable synergy pieces, preferably creatures that I can just pick my favs from and know the commander will make the rest work