Pre-Play Pauper Cube: Advice Needed

Hi all. I made some overhauls to my Pauper Cube (previously a fork of The Pauper Cube) and would like some advice. You can find a link to it here. (Also, sorry if the bulleted lists sound AI-ish. It's all natural and kinda just how my brain works.)

Changes I'm making:

  • Pre-Play: As a general rule, no Play Booster commons. Two exceptions: cards downshifted in play boosters and P-T-MV duplicates (swapping [[wary thespian]] for [[lys alana informant]]).
  • Minimal Non-Standard, No UB: No UB cards and no cards from commander sets (cutting some monarch cards and the CLB adventure critters). [[Custodi Squire]] is in unless I can find another white 5-drop I enjoy.
  • 360 Cards: I'm going down from 450 to 360 in order to see all the cards more often.

Archetypes:

  • White-Blue: Flicker
  • Blue-Black: Trad Control
  • Black-Red: Aristocrats or "Reckless" Aggro
  • Red-Green: "Caveman" Aggro (focus on 3-to-5 drops and hasty creatures)
  • Green-White: +1/+1 Counters
  • White-Black: ?????
  • Red-Blue: Spellslinger
  • Black-Green: Graveyard
  • Red-White: Go-Wide Aggro
  • Green-Blue: Tempo Ramp or Splashy Soup

Stuff I'd Like Feedback About:

  • Aggro Across Multiple Pairs: Do other colors have enough tools to build aggro in a pair other than RW?
  • Balance Between Archetypes: Is four board wipes (3 in black, 1 in red) too many? Will having 3 of them in one color make black-based control too oppressive? Do more aggressive decks have the tools to close out games?
  • Too Much Fixing? Does 38 color-fixing lands, plus hybrid cards, plus landcyclers, plus green's tools leave soup decks too accessible? Would it still be too much if I cut a cycle of dual lands?

Any advice on these (or other cards I should add / cut) would be appreciated!

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u/RCV0015 — 4 days ago

Making Magic: The Lorwyn Five

Beyond the design details, the article also has a couple of old Duelist articles about the original nature of the multiverse

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u/RCV0015 — 1 month ago

My wife wants us to name child Squee, and i hesitant and just want thoughts

TLDR; me and my wife like the name, but idk if it would be something that she could get made fun of, or have to deal with negative things because of the name though out her life. thoughts?

So we got a daughter on the way, and i said it as kind of a throw away comment that we should name our daughter Squee, but she actaully really, really likes it. I dont think it sounds bad at all, and she wants us to name her that because we bonded and met through MTG, so she thought it would be a good idea to name her after something that not only something we love, but something that represents our love. She also brought up Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar as a second option. i was just hesitant because the name doesnt have any history or meaning (not like it doesnt have any emotional meaning, but literally. like you know how some names will mean "bringer of light" or w/e the heck, you get what i mean) and i just dont know if its a name that a child would get made fun of. or if she asks what her name means as she grows up, and thats what tell her, would she be upset? im trying to think about how her life would be outside of us, and i think im too bias. so as people who play the game, what would you think if you met someone names Squee in the wild, and would it even be a big deal to people who know nothing about the game? and if you think the idea is a good thought, what other names would be a better idea?

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u/RCV0015 — 2 months ago
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Maps I made for Len Lakofka's L-Series modules

A couple of notes:

  • X's represent the highest points of each hill/mountain.
  • Locations for points of interest are based on their descriptions from the modules. Feel free to start with the player map and move them around if needed.
  • For the farmland around Restinford and Garotten, I built it out based on how many farmers would be needed to support their urban populations.
  • The location of L3's dungeon (on the Western edge of Garden Peak) is based on posts Lakofka made on his Facebook page, collected by the ZENOPUS ARCHIVES blog in this post. It also helps explains why the road goes North through the Kelman Hills instead of cutting south along the coast.

Let me know if you have any questions about layout or setup- I plan to do the rest of Lendore Isle in a similar fashion. The use of contour lines for hills really speaks to me after a lot of years of just using grassland/hill/mountain hexes.

u/ArtharntheCleric — 2 months ago
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The amount of water coming off this chicken as it cooks

seriously, I know they inject meat with water but idk how they even got this much in it. Its massively slowing down dinner as well.

EDIT: FAQs

wtf is that? Diced chicken, unfortunately

why isn’t it seasoned? I was going to brown it then add veg, seasoning, sauce, etc

What was it before it looked like that? Sainsbury’s diced chicken

Did you put it in there frozen/how long was it frozen for: Came straight from the supermarket that day, no freezing

How did it taste? Bland, like somebody boiled a chicken — not helped by the fact that both children just don’t really tolerate spice.

you are karma farming believe me when I say if I were karma farming I wouldn’t inconvenience myself to do so, let alone waste food and money on it.

u/Bad_Combination — 4 months ago
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Set Cube: Time Spiral Remastered or Dominaria Remastered?

Now having opened a box of each (one as an anniversary present and another as a "surviving my first job" present), I want to sleeve one of these up to make a Set Cube, but I'm not sure which one. What do y'all think?

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u/RCV0015 — 5 months ago
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Inspired by a post my buddy made on discord.

Did the other members of the Gatewatch (or other planeswalkers in general) like Jace? How many people considered him a friend?

u/RCV0015 — 6 months ago