Thomas Krone

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JUST THREE NIGHTS
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CUBEVITATIONAL 2025

I’m dumb btw, I can’t have Necro in 1999 Standard. Wanting to play the Davis v Maher matchup threw me off.

Yeah, I feel that!
What would you bring?
I’d want to play Necro 1999 :)

Wake excels simply by virtue of it being a now classic threat light control deck, it just runs opponent’s out of cards and goes big while doing it.

Forgot the most important part of the post… I fucking love tja you squeezed vintage into a two player draft format!

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Oh right, I did say 2002 was balanced… Rephrase and repeat ;) Tog is favored but the gap is smaller than expected

I said 2002 was diverse, I didn’t say it wasn’t Tog favored, but the gap is smaller than expected especially the more games we play :)

The mirror is the one thing we don’t have access to in any of year, because WotC chose four different decks to print and I don’t own duplicates :(

World Championship Decks/2003 2003 World Championship Decks, Berlin The 2003 World Championship took place on August 6–10, 2003 in Berlin, Germany. Four decks were released as part of the World Championship Decks series with gold-...

2000 is combo heavy, we have a lot to learn. 2001 is sometimes about who can draw Urza’s Rage, which can be a tad anticlimactic. 2002/3/4 are diverse, balanced and a lot fun. I enjoy 2003 a lot / Wake, Gobline Bidding, Reanimator and Madness

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Everything from 1997 feels badly bearing on unplayable but it’s fun because you’re all in the same boat. Selden’s 1998 is too repetitive and good against the rest. Budde’s 1999 is so much better than the rest, that winning a game against it feels like you got away with something.

our WCD games have a similar feel, they’re the classic 7 set / 2 year Standard format. It’s specifically fun to experience how decks and meta change year on year.

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we’re playing everything unchanged as is and only against decks from the same year, simply because that leads to be best matchup and most interesting games mtg.fandom.com/wiki/World_C...

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oooooooh! Good write-in :)

It just means I really like (to collect and) play the WCD against each other within their respective metagames :)

And indeed, I checked that Cube out!

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I’m a curmudgeon! How can something claim to emulate a Vintage experience if one can’t Bazaar?

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Peeps! Besides #MtGCube, what forms of Magic do you prefer to enjoy? My other vices are Vintage and Gold Bordered Constructed (without actual deck construction ;)

not enough Bazaar!?

Conversely, I kept adding removal to my one drop. cube until I broke it at some point. Everything died all the time. I think that’s boringly enough the indicator you have too much. When games end through combat but people don’t feel like they can’t answer anything, you’re at a proper volume band.

Bonus points for the judge they taught them the OG drop method :)

All of this! I’ve split my old “Vintage Cube with Legacy parts” into a combo heavy Vintage Cube, with a ton of A/B and interaction, and a combat heavy high powered Limited Legacy Cube. I enjoy both for different reasons and I never want to go back to my old Cubes.

my guy! het was voor mij alweer 15jaar geleden dat ik vrij was in die periode, maar ook voor mij is het dit jaar weer zo ver :)

Happy and proud to reveal Jan van der Vegt’s #MtGCube #CubeVitational 2024 Champion Token! Created by the talented @felix.mtg-cube.de :)

This year they’ll be available as door prize for those attending CV 2025, plus a care package going to Jan in the US who sadly can’t defend his title.

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Had already posted and didn’t feel like running it back, that said / thanks for doing the fieldwork :)

Yass! The Vintage bimonthly is again today :) Squeezed a 2-3 playing Bazaar Aggro. Lost to the mirror, Dredge and Lurrus, beat Oath.

GGs, is it January yet?

metagame
7x Lurrus PO
3x Oath
2x HollowVine
1x Dredge

Nope! He lives in the US and is starting a new job. It was all just too complicated, however unfortunate.

We’re keen to hand out the tokens to all attendees and send him a nice batch. Once we have the printed tokens I plan to post about it of course :)

Cube Cobra Build, playtest, and share your Magic the Gathering cube!

And with that we have our 32 competitors for #MtGCube #CubeVitational 2025!

Sadly, for the first time in 15yrs previous year’s Champion is unable to defend his title, but we’ll most likely extend a wildcard next year.

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The LCQ for #CubeVitational 2025 is in the books. Local cEDH favorite Bart Korteweg drafted some Vintage #MtGCube nonsense and doesn’t drop a single game :) GGs. Congrats!

🥇Bart Korteweg / Time Breach
🥈Ido Levy / Otter Initiative
🥉Friso Schous / Comet & Boo
🏅Marco Hoonderd / Thassa Painter

Thanks!

Do you have a qualification structure for these 16 players? or do you invite 16 based on some (other) metrics?