Full Vintage Rotisserie Draft with Alex and Aran

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? ⁠View all cards mentioned in the episode →⁠ 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 Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Musical production by DJ James Nasty.