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Anyone plays 'smaller decks' with 'smaller packs'?

So I have this 4-person, rather casual and occasional family playgroup. and we gradually shifted towards drafting two 15-card packs (or three 10-card packs sometimes) and having 30 as a minimum deck size. Not only it speeds up drafting and deckbuilding, it also strenghtens deck consistency, which in turn allows better saturation of things scarce in premodern card pool (like aggro) and cuts game drag via decking.

Also, it kinda naturally vectors towards a bit smaller, travel- and shuffle-friendly cubes, like 330 or even 270.

So, do you consider 3x15=40minimum rather set in stone?

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u/Littorina_Sea — 13 days ago

Looking for some advice on improving blue in my cube

Hey all, I got a few drafts under my belt with my Sleeveless cube. Overall its been a great time. It's a slower cube that still plays a lot of heavy hitters. I tried to build in some archetypes while still making it a cube you can brew to your hearts desire. I'm trying to avoid A+B combos.

Anyway one of the players in my group mentioned that he feels like blue has no real wincons, to which I didn't have a super great response. Its a great color in multi color decks but itself is sort of missing that piece. The closest thing is has is probably brain freeze + high tide. Maybe that's fine but I wanted to discuss with those of yall who have more experience than me. Any idea on some nice pieces I could add? I could use some better blink pieces.

One thing to note: I try my best to play cards from Tempest-Ravnica (all old boarder) but I'm open to any old boarder cards that fit the power level.

Thanks!
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/5d59ee0d-c4bc-4318-9c4f-ea96a9e9d563

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u/meka_ghidorah — 13 days ago