MTG

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20739848

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20641451

Nearly 1200 players in this tournament! Congrats to Cory Lack with Rakdos Cauldron.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20498466

The Dynasty Cube is a collaborative, league-style draft in which teams of players draft through the history of Magic, starting with the first handful of sets, and cumulatively adding sets in chronological order in subsequent Seasons. Drafts are done rotisserie style online, with matches played through the following weeks to determine a Champion. The collaborative aspects of The Dynasty Cube have also heavily inspired by Blaseball - expect The League to evolve into something entirely different over time.

The League is currently looking for additional participation to keep the final Beta phase moving before the first Season begins at the end of this month.

The first Beta phase (Season 0) just completed (congrats to the Season 0 Champions, Innistrad Creeps!), and The Season 0.5 Draft begins today, Thursday Oct 3rd. This will be a "Draft-Only" Season intended to work out any bugs in the progression between seasons. The League will reset before beginning the first real Season that follows.

As no matches will be played in Season 0.5 and everything resets shortly after, the stakes are as low as they're ever going to be to jump in and see what The Dynasty Cube is all about!

The inaugural Season 1 will begin the week following CubeCon, with the Draft kicking off Oct 24th.

Additional details about The League and Season 1 list.

The Season 0.5 draft list

Discord server where you can join a Team and start participating!

If you have any questions about The League that aren't answered in the links above (or, hell, if you're just to lazy to click them), I'll be answering them here for as long as people are asking 'em!

Tl;dw shamelessly stolen from Reddit:

• "We all, WOTC and RC, reached this conclusion together."
• They are taking precautions to ensure the safety of RC members.
• They still want to keep it a community-driven format.
• Gavin plans to establish a committee similar to Pauper Format Panel. RC and CAG members are likely members.
• Aaron addresses the worries about profit-driven actions. "I'm also here for the love of the game(like RC).Yes Hasbro wants things. Yes my bosses wants things. I have a lot of freedom to do what I think is best. Our goal is to make things last forever. Keeping the community happy is our way to make money."
• They want to wait until the Panel is established to talk about the banlist. Beyond the initial banlist changes they don't want to make changes too often.
• Quarterly banlist updates similar to RC. It won't follow B&R of other formats.
• Power brackets: E.g. tier 1 swords, tier 2 thalia, tier 3 drannith magistrate, tier 4 armageddon etc.
• Aaron Forsythe used to play Armageddon 😱
• They aren't trying to replace Rule 0, they are trying to make it easier.
• At least 1 person from the CEDH community will be part of the panel. WOTC will still focus on casual commander.
• No separate banlists. Brackets will already do that job.
• Aaron: "4th bracket will be cards that you will rarely see in precons."
• Sol Ring isn't going anywhere. Sol Ring is "Bracket 0" so to say.
• Points system similar to Canlander is too complex and competitive for casual commander.
• Brawl in Arena already separates decks into 4 categories.
• Jeweled Lotus, Arcane Signet, Dockside etc. were mistakes. Cards that were banned recently are the kinds of cards they wouldn't want to make today. They want to reduce ubiquitousness going forward.
• They are discussing implementing more digital tools. E.g. you enter your decklist and it tells you your bracket.
• They want to release first Brackets article before MagicCon Las Vegas.
• Committee will be in the range of 10-20 people. There are also 10 commander designers working in WOTC.
• They are not tied to number 4. They can make a 5th bracket for CEDH.
• It is undecided whether the Committee will be anonymous. At least some names will be known.
• They can divide combos into different brackets: Thoracle combos bracket 4, SangBond+EqBlood bracket 3 etc.
• Gavin reads reddit a lot.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20355770

The Professor talks about the recent bans in Commander