Ever want to knock a mana off a creature? Remove a bad drawback from a land? Sharpie Cube is the idea of redacting rules text. Always subtraction, never addition. Community member Otter has extensive experience making these edits and walks us through his principals and rules for modifying cards. Then we sharpie some cards live!
Topics and Tidbits
- making original dual lands by sharpie-ing commons
- uncovering keywords in flavor text
- mana symbols are the easiest thing to sharpie
- Otter’s rules for redacting cards
- redaction can get you into confusion territory fast
- confusion can be funny, but can also be tedious during a draft phase when silence is necessary
- “made to meme with” and “made to play with”
- spreadsheet set design vs incremental set design
- deciding on your own rules
- tempering a goofy part of your set with “one per set”
- shewer
- guessing what was redacted
- thornbow archer’s original text mystery
- attacking outside combat
- actual sharpies aren’t that great for redacting glossy cards!?
- all sharpie cards must be an overall upgrade
- adding an S for clarity
- sharpie cube is for bulk lovers
- do you just blow the top off the power level with sharpies?
- sunbleaching cards
- linocutting magic cards!?
- secret battlecry
- the Modern Masters “must have 3 of a keyword” rule
- the “top 1000 most famous magic cards” test
- people know blight now, will they know it in 3 years?
- are color pie breaks more ok in sharpie land?
- draw a spell I need
- what should a “shell counter” do?
- what would a card with no types represent?
- everyone’s debt to otter
Otter’s list of rules for Sharpie
Otters’ list of rule for sharpie
- legability is paramount single letter silliness to make 5 letters does not work
- try to match wotc style
- sharpie must make it stronger in at least 1 dimension but can remove upsides
- sharpie to get a real card is silly such a lightning strike can be redacted to bolt but what is the point?
- redaction only ( i have explored adding S or change – to +)
- flavor text becomes rules text so all nonruled text is redacted
- names do not need to be charge unless it make it clearer such as removing storm from name
- budget friendly sharpie bulk
- This has forced me to rego through the same bulk box many time a discover new tricks and more
- Don’t sharpie until ready to use but give yourself time to do coats as it can take a time for sharpie to dry, also keeping bulk unsharpied leaves options open.
- redacting mana cost is great, redeacting limit like morbid is great
- redacting mana should not drop color frame unless bleached/scared and that is still untested
- generic is harder to redact than most colors. Hardest is equipment just hard to find numbers that can be removed
- readeacting full mana cost is not 0 mana it is like suspend spell
- Exception forestcycling
2is fine as 0
- Exception forestcycling
- addeding text viz flavor text is harder then you would think
- storm works on everything but is powerful but also need support
- how does alt payment work like if the word ‘evoke’ is in the flavor text how much do they pay ?
- what if the players don’t know the keyword, like provoke.
Otter’s sample sharpie cards
