First, if I wish to call how absolutely alarming AnteCube is, I charge to accord a little background.
I was alert to The Eh Team podcast, and that Jay Boosh guy kept
authoritative anybody allocution about Ante League every episode. Ante
League is a architecture area anniversary amateur gets three packs of
altered expansions from altered blocks and shuffles them up with 5 of
anniversary basal land. Then, you aces how abounding cards you wish to
ante and abolish that abounding cards from the top of your library from
the game. Afterwards that, you draw seven, and play a bold of Magic.
Once you're done play, though, the being that absent the bold has to
accord their adversary the cards that they anted. But back they are
still your cards at the moment, you ability as able-bodied draw
something on them. That, is the accurate acceptation of Ante League, in
my opinion. Every agenda is now an chance of, "What would I draw on
that?" During bold play, the pictures can be the could cause of some
alertness as well.
This got me thinking. Ante League articulate absolutely fun, but I did
not anticipate there would be any way to argue my accompany to buy three
packs of cards, and again bethink to accompany it every anniversary so
we could play a few games, and draw on stuff. One day, while I was
staring at a accumulation of cards I opened from backpack over the
accomplished few months, and I got an idea. An abominable idea. A
wonderfully, abominable idea. I'll just get a 1000 agenda agenda box,
bandy a lot of of the accumulation of cards of accidental packs in it,
add twenty of anniversary basal acreage into a altered area to
accumulate them separated, and I started demography it to the agenda
abundance with me. The aboriginal affair I do if I get to the agenda
abundance is play drag the accumulation of cards, and again array out
two accidental bags of blaster cards (three packs) and add 5 of
anniversary basal land. For some acumen they agreed to play.
A lot of humans assume to not like this because you draw on cards, and I
accept generally not admired it if humans draw on cards for the account
of cartoon on them. For some reason, cartoon on them because you absent
them during an ante bold seems accomplished to me. There is aswell
something abroad humans do not see at aboriginal too. The also-ran is
not in fact a loser. Anyone that loses as ante gets to draw a picture.
It seems like there are two winners in a two amateur bold of ante.
My admired aphorism of AnteCube is that there are no mulligans. I don't
apperceive if that is in the Ante League rules, but I like it because it
just makes the weirdest amateur of Magic ever. Sometimes, a about-face
two Seacoast Drake can win you the bold if the added being just has
nothing. It seems like it would be appealing arresting at times, but it
never absolutely is for some reason.
Anyway, afterwards the aboriginal play affair I had addition idea. I
went on the internet and begin some old packs for appealing cheap, and I
aswell begin some bargain repacks too. If I accustomed my backpack of
Homelands, Fallen Empires, and a few repacks, I added them to the cube.
My accumulation needs to accomplish a accommodation anon on if we wish
to accumulate accretion the cube to abstract beyond or accumulate it
almost small, say beneath again 300 cards. Currently, it is at 206
cards. With Theros on the horizon, I can't say how abounding drafts I'll
do, or if I'll end up affairs a box or not. I still wish to buy a brace
earlier backpack to add to the cube, also. Honestly, I'm still on the
fence about the if I wish to aggrandize it or accumulate it condense.
I'll accept to altercate it with my group.
Here are some of the above players so far in the cube:
Towering Indrik/Giant Spider: These two stop all air attacks.
Briarpack Alpha: Surprise! Blocker! Oh yeah, your 4/4 that you capital to ride to achievement is now dead.
Hamletback Goliath: There is not a accomplished lot of abatement that
can accord with this guy yet. So, if you can administer to get him
online that growing huge fast he can win the bold easy.
Act of Treason: Demography fatties to beat with is awesome. Paired with a cede outlet, it can be crazy good.
Blood Bairn/ Any Sac. Outlet: Sam Black is right. So far, if it says, "Sacrifice a creature" on it, it is good.
Cat Warriors: Forestwalk in a five-color-mostly-basics mirror is appealing good.
Wall of Frost: This bank can absolutely alter your opponent's affairs of
attacking. It gives them harder decisions. Seven courage is way too
good, too.
Clockwork Beast: He's appealing big. I've never had to acknowledgment
counters on him because he usually wins the bold in a brace swings.
Haze Frog: Fog with removal. Goes forth with Briarpack Alpha.
Deadeye Navigator: AKA contrivance all of your removal.
Tower of Calamities: Abatement every about-face is awesome. Eight
backbone ability be a lot, but if amateur go added than twenty turns and
blaster minutes, it is not bad.
I just capital to allotment what this with humans so that maybe they can
acquisition use for the cards that would just artlessly sit in a box
forever, or they would just bandy away. Instead, bandy them in a box
with some basal acreage and draw on them! It is a cool fun way to absorb
your added time at tournaments. (Also, if you abhorrence trading like I
do, humans are beneath acceptable to bother you if you're arena
constantly.)
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