Great read, Gloomy.

Keep it up and you might just replace Danny as my favorite Metagame writer.

Good read.

Gave a few tips on making a muli-team deck.

Cool, thanks for the complements. I felt it was still simplistic compared to the curve article but... I think I'm kinda gonna be thinking about most of what I write for the next while. The next instalment, the final one in the series, deals with forms of costing seen in Origins, and should hopefully provide a decent range of depth.

Thanks!

-Gloom

And might I ask what comes after these series? Previews of DC perhaps?

Come on, Gloomy, you know we're ready for 'em!

I don't even know the street date on DC... o_o I do know it includes some pretty awesome new mechanics, but if I say anything, I know ninjas are gonna burst through my windows and kill me. If anyone's going to be doing previews, I'm sure it'll be danny or another one of the dev/design guys.

My next column, which will be permanent and just got the green light, will be based on groups of cards that share similar, or the same, mechanics and effects. The column will analyse the effectiveness of the effects/mechanics as a whole, as well as on a card-by-card basis, for both Constructed and Limited formats.

I think it'll be pretty cool, because there are alot of cards that share sort of the same effect that are not really front-runners in most Constructed contexts, but are easy first-round picks in a draft (for instance, the "a team + b team = one big friendly shared team" cards, like Mutant Nation and Unlikely Allies, are good but not primo material in constructed - however they rock in Limited). The opposite is true for some groups of cards as well. Should be cool, it'll be written with the advanced player who's heavily into Vs. in mind, and that seems to be what the fan base wants. I'm pleasantly surprised at the response I've gotten on these boards, so hopefully I can find ways to keep the column as interactive as possible.

-Gloom

I think Heroes United and Mutant Nation are great in constructed if you build your deck around them.

Although it is hard to make a Common Enemy or Unlikely Allies deck. Maybe I'm just not thinking creatively enough.