Highlighted because it had some of the most ridiculous nonsense going on without feeling unbalanced. I loved itĬhampions of Kamigawa / Ravnica (/ Coldsnap) ![]() You had hard control, aggro, combo, midrange, and there was a serious place for rogue decks at the local level. The diversity of this format was incredible! So many different deck types as well. My three favorite standard formats of all time are. Most of the higher power formats on the forum seem to draw inspiration from SOM-ID era of magic, which is another high point in magic's success. A lot of my impressions about that era are present in the cube blog. The eras I understand best are the original mid/late 90s era, and the original rav-cold snap standard. Its still very good though, and well worth a read. I discovered him 3 years ago, and while his work is very good in an abstract theortical sense, I found it distorted and riddled with conceptual flaws when put into practice. The only source I found that did a semi-serious break down of design, is the articles written by this guy. Thousands of hours go into making each of these formats, and its hardly looked at by the community outside of learning how to win in it. Here and there might be sprinkled a pros opinions on design, but its usually very shallow, as they are just consumers in the end. ![]() Almost of the material produced is by pros writing content for card seller websites, and it focuses on competitive meta min/maxing. There is almost nothing written about magic from a design standpoint unfortunatly.
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