Games went great, stuff was very balanced.

However, every deck in my pod had red in it. I think red might be a smidgen stronger than the other colours. Or atleast its' a very strong supporting colour giving tools to many archtypes. The other Pod though had only one red deck so mabye it was just the split.

I wanna take out Papercraft Decoy. Not a very affective rool for the artifact decks. All the other stuff I added though has been very effective and I built a great Jan Jansen list.

The draft went great, congrats to Jakob for winning this Quarter. Thanks to EVERYONE who drafted these past four months, looking forward to the next four.

Notes

Sliver Hive Regalia is too strong. In my head it was just a cool Odric with a downside that would surly make it balanced. Really it was worse than any eminence ability with a downside that didn't matter much at all.

I did manage to win against it with the distgusting steal/cascade/copy deck I drafted, however it then once again took over the board in the third game. Not in a quick way, but in a 'no removal/boardwipe you draw can stop this'.

So yeh that's gone.

Gonna take out planeschase and Archenemy Regalia's.

• Having to use my laptop for it means I can't take notes during the draft (This is being written two weeks after)
• I didn't expect the majority of my Drafters to be new players and having to explain to them what these formats are adds to my stress.

Really Like the Aminatou Regalia. Gave Jakob a taste of his own medicine and allowed Tom to play with a more powerful deck drafted by an experienced player.

Gonna add some toys for the artifact and sacrifice decks.

More Treachery spells needed

One or two more Control Magic Aura's needed

The five color commander options arn't nessecary. If you really want, Players can play fice colors via the Regalia. I'd rather have more playables in the cube and have tighter picks for all the nische themes throughout.

Gonna take out more multicolored spells for more playables.

Gonna remove the multicolored cards from the regalia and replace with three color legenderies than can be used as commanders if players didn't draft good/wanted options.

Considering removing the tri-lands and replacing with fetchable duals. Will mabye even put in a second copy of each OG Dual. I do want Top Teir Mana Bases all around.

Notes on the day:

Feedback:

Grusilda boring
Take out planechase?
Jitte take out?
Ancient copper Dragon (note after draft he can stay)
Proliferate/poison might not be a thing take out
Aminatou regalia take out? (note after draft stays)
Add too do to always wear a rainbow [t-shirt]
More copy tokens
Read out rules sheet [to everyone before hand]
Add points to totals
Give lewis his cards
Give jon his token
Do Prize packs
Take awaken the woods out cube
Get rest of tokens of cardy
Get multiple tokens of:
Treasure
Boar
Zombie
Clue
Food
Copy
Insect
Make table of stats for each colour category
Make online regalia pool list and link it on the main cube overview
Find the missing white card in regalia pool

Cards to remove:

Awakened awarness
Umezawa's jitte so Johnathan stops moaning
Grisly spectacle

Thoughts:

Everyone enjoyed aminatou regalia
Take out planechase cus everyone moans about it (by everyone jacob and jonanthan)
Add one more counterspell
Add one more removal spell for each colour
Add one more dragon in red and/or green
Add two more graveyard shufflers
Zaxara weak, fix.
Add more lands?
Give the stocking tiger intimidate
Take out yidris
Add satrou umezawai
Add imprisoned in the moon
Add jin Gitaxis
Add raff capashen to cube
Put more instants into cube

Stress

This is meant to be fun for me afterall. The past few Drafts has been stressful. Keeping track of admin stuff on the laptop, answering questions around the table, hearing constant 'feedback' from established players making the world known to their many opinions, sorting out kinks/shit that goes wrong WHILST trying to Draft a good deck and play some EDH leaves me feeling like I ran a marathon afterwards.

Some tips to make future Drafts less Stressful:

1. Start Ealier - no rushing, no skipping important things (like rules)
2. Ignore the blabbering from players and get them to tell you about their opinions after the draft
3. Set Boundries
4. Don't Argue with Players, it's your Cube
5. Take a 5min break in the middle, get some air.
6. Invite people you enjoy being around.

;p

The Next Level

Got told about a great software from Jonathan called Notion imma use to organise the cube individually into the themes/archtypes so i can see mathematically how everything has been spread out.
I could use the tags on Cube Cobra but using something built for that organisation purpose that I can link on the cube overview I think is much cleaner. Don't want a shit ton of tags all over the place when I look at cards here.

Gonna try get rid of even more of the weaker cards in the list. Also have a MUCH better idea of what I want in the cube after 4 proper proper drafts now.

Also using Hairbands instead of the Cube Shells so now Regalia can fit in packs and I the hairbands are super portable once taken off. Big upgrade also another way to reduce stress. (And their cheaper than other options + take up les space in Gamegenic Dungeon)

Gonna get some Ultra Pro plastic deckboxes to hold the Regalia Pool and Spare Sleeves. (Quality of cube upgrades = less stress = more fun/better expierience)

Gonna get all the tokens needed for the cube. not having to scrounge around for tokens will also make it so much less stresssful.

Things to add/change/do

Mention somewhere that Undrafted cards become part of the Regalia Pool.

Add Wish cards.

Mabye Remove Command Tower and make it so all players get a Command Tower after Drafting to put into their decks.

Add Fetchlands.

Make sure Players ACTUALLY READ THE RULES AND INFO.

Mention that Players should remove all basic lands from their deck before they leave.

Maybe add a sticker to Regalia Pool cards to easily differentiate them.

Remove one Planechase Regalia from the Regalia's.

A Regalia that lets you start the game with a Dictate of Karametra on the Battlefield.

Try add a shuffle effect card. Decks are small, card draw and ramp effects are big, games go long so decks have often ended up with veryyyy few cards left in graveyard - an option to keep gas should be there.

Add more X spell payoffs. Magus Lucea Kane mabye juiced with Rosheen Meanderer

Another treasure payoff?

Add more Hybrid Cards. Mention on Rules that Hybrid Cards can be run in either colour deck. Gyruda, Doom of Depths, Jegantha, the Wellspring, Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second, Keruga, the Macrosage, Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner, Spiteful Visions, Sygg, River Cutthroat

Positives

• Regalia Pool worked great!
• Planechase got a bit long at times but they enjoyed it and it didn't effect game length that much. If anything it sped the game up.
• Board wipes were plentiful it felt.
• new Drafters such as Joseph built a really powerful deck despite being a rookie.
• Games were fun and balanced (except my first one, kinda ran away with the game)
• Banter was good. Which is always nice

Negatives

• More cheaper card draw??
• Slightly bigger Regalia Pool??
• Need a way to get Regalia to fit better with packs.
• Find a way to help new players build better decks?
• Two empty seats!
• Find a way to mabye easily and quickly add Undrafted cards to Regalia Pool for when less than 8 seats are filled. (Mabye set in stone the number of players day before so you have the nessecary amount of cards loose before hand)
• Get a Planechase Dice to avoid confusion. (If cheap)
• Simon and Joseph felt a bit salty after I crushed em first game. (don't know how to fix that)

Last Picks/Weak cards (Cards to Consider Changing)

Timeless Dragon
Taurean Mauler
Ogre-Head Helm
Surge to Victory
Arguel's Bloodfast
Prismari Command
Share the Spoils?
Sorcerer Class
Curse of Hospitality
Nighthowler
Aether Searcher
Closing Statement
Agent of the Iron Throne
Symbol Status
Shield of the Oversoul
Viconia Drow Apostate
Form of the Mulldrifter
pathbreaker Ibex
The Grand Calculatron
Steel of the Godhead
Rift
Ulvenwald tracker

A Regalia that lets you start the game with a Dictate of Karametra on the Battlefield