Anthony is taking a break this week and it takes no less than two other people to fill his shoes, so Andy is joined by two other friends from their Baltimore playgroup to discuss two recent roto drafts of the full vintage card pool. They share their strategies surrounding this complicated draft format and talk about whether or not it led to actually fun games, while also touching on how this exercise informs their own Cube designs and why some cards from Magic’s history are just miserable to play with and against. Is full vintage roto the future? Or just an overwhelming way to ineveitably get Strip Mine locked?
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Discussed in this episode:

MH3 Community Review Survey and the
Rotisserie Draft Template
First Full Vintage Roto Card Pool
Second Full Vintage Roto Card Pool
Splendor
Cascadia
The Beauty of Games

0:00 - Introduction
3:12 - Overview of Rotisserie Draft
4:54 - Our experience with Full Vintage Rotisserie Drafting
31:35 - Does this draft format actually lead to fun games?
37:35 - Observations on which cards got drafted and which didn’t
43:51 - Andy’s rant against the Initiative
51:10 - The way full vintage rotos impact cube design considerations
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Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

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