How are you coming about getting the cards? Are you just buying all of the cards again? I want to build one for my store but I feel like that I’ll just have to spend some $$$ to do it.
I bought a set off someone selling their set on ebay, much cheaper than buying retail. Sure, I end up with a bunch of extra cards, but you can never have too many Hedge Funds. Came with 6 copies of Jackson, too. 3 for the cube, 3 for me…
Now updated for The Universe of Tomorrow:
StimHack Cube up to The Universe of Tomorrow.
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To make things easy for people who keep their cubes up to date, here are the changes from Old Hollywood to Universe of Tomorrow:
-1x Fetal AI
-1x Eve Campaign
-1x Corporate War
-1x Geothermal Fracking
-1x Veterans Program
-1x Firmware Updates
-1x Tech Startup
+1x Accelerated Beta Test
+1x Braintrust
+1x Philotic Entanglement
+1x Explode-a-palooza
+1x Product Placement
+1x Public Support
+1x The Future is Now
-1x Plascrete Carapace
-1x Keyhole
-1x Planned Assault
+1x DDoS
+1x Fisk Investment Seminar
+1x Bookmark
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I just bought 3 cores and data packs off somebody leaving the game for a cube and has anyone made up alternative starters than the pri reqs, etc? I’m using clear sleeves so I can’t use any of my old draft cards to supplement this.
I guess I could go into my constructed stash and pull out the shards and other 5/3s like Restructured Datapool or labyrinthine servers.
However for the runner, I feel bad having the starters be pipeline and force of nature. I did like system crash’s starter of chameleons but I wouldn’t have enough for a 6 person draft.
If your players are experienced enough (or if you provide a reference sheet), you can use identities as proxies. So, for example, any corp ID is Priority Requisition, any Runner ID is Chameleon (or, for something more fine-grained, any Anarch ID is Force of Nature, etc).
This can totally work. Feel free to experiment with different starting cards!
Another solution is to have a pool of PriReqs and only give them to people who need them. No one is going to run 5x PriReq, maybe 1-2 at most. That could help.
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I think there should be a couple Rolodex b/c Oracle May.
Okay… I know nothing about the science of forming the card pool for a drafting cube. But my gut feeling is if I put 2 cores together plus one copy of each big box expansion I can have an evergreen cube for 8 players.
How well do you think this will work ? Am I off here ? do I need extras to use as a starting pack ?? any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I have a few questions about cube draft. Supposing my local league wanted to run a cube draft evening, but had more than 8 players that wanted to attend, would I be best served to break the attendees up in two groups of 8 or fewer, have them draft in those ‘pods’, then play swiss as normal from there? Or is there a relatively simple method to bump up the number of cards in the Stimhack cubes to support more than 8 players?
I’m leaning towards having the attendees perform their draft on Meteor ahead of time, to avoid using up valuable playtime on the day - any particular gotchas or things to be aware of with this method?
You’d have a cube, but it would probably be a very dismal and unbalanced experience for most players. It could be that the power is very skewed towards one strategy or there isn’t enough variety in archetypes or you have cards that do nothing or a bunch of other things.
Cubes need to be very carefully designed to be optimally fun for all parties involved, and though you could technically draft with that sort of set up, there wouldn’t be many archetypes to draft, and there’d be a hell of a lot of clicking for credits. If you want to make a permanent economically, that’s perfectly fine, but I’d wager there are better purchases than that particular set of cards. Remember, you don’t need to cube with cards currently in rotation, either. I’ve not done this sort of endeavour myself (purchasing a set of cards I intend to solely use as a cube), but I’m sure there are better ways to do it than just throwing together all the expansions. Maybe look at what sort of sets have cards regularly in cubes?
Yeah run two pods, then play Swiss in normal for there. You will need to bring two separate cubes, but we’ve done this at our FLGS before and it went great! Remember never to mix the draft pods, though.
Honestly, this might work, but physically drafting the cards is almost certainly more fun for everyone. Table banter and the physicality of having a pile of deck in front of you is invaluable, especially if you’re going to be physically playing with them anyway. This might drive a lot of people away, because putting aside some time other than the time you’re using to play with the cards is probably very unappealing. I’d certainly be less attracted to a draft with this sort of system.
Drafting doesn’t take super long, I’d say about 1h should be put aside for the whole drafting/deckbuilding/sleeving part, and then you probably play 3 rounds of Swiss (draft games are usually faster than normal games, which makes this take even less time). I’ve got full drafts (including the drafting of cards) done in just over three hours, so unless you’ve very very tight time constraints I don’t think you need to worry! The absolute maximum you’ll need is maybe four hours with quite slow players.
For those interested: We held a number of drafts with this cube (up through UoT) at the SMC Finals. I was able to stream one of these drafts, including the draft process watching over @Cory_Hockman’s shoulder + 3 rounds of Swiss, and I finally uploaded the playlist to YouTube. You can find it here:
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Thanks for your feedback
Honestly, I don’t feel like this is such a big deal.
Any news on a D&D version?
Didn’t the Mumbad draft start today? The cube needs to catch up already! 
Nope, they weren’t released today. FFG reneged.
Tomorrow?