Tiny Leaders: Reborn

       Greetings , friends! Today I am happy to announce the arrival of the Cube Spotlight Series on the TL:R server! This has been a longtime dream of mine, to share my love of this unique format that not only by its very nature almost requires community support, but also thrives on, enhances, and is compounded by the community around it.     Cube is both the most pure form of Magic and the least Magic-like format I have encountered yet. The near-infinite degree to which a Cube can be customized, the fathomless depth of the available card pool to draw from, the boundless creativity of the human spirit, and the expression of these to meet any of a number of varying goals means that no two Cubes are alike, and even the same Cube will play differently each time.     By hosting this recurring, bi-weekly draft series, I aim to continue strengthening our community through shared experience, providing opportunity for creative expression both in gameplay...

  Foreword Recently, the TL:R community was shaken to varying degrees by what was to most an unforeseen, unexpected, and unnecessary change to the format rules. Here I will attempt to describe the series of events that led up to the change, some of the process behind it, what the change actually means, and announce a nonfunctional update with that change . To read that announcement, scroll to " An Identity of Our Own ". Bottom Line Up Front: a nonfunction rules update will introduce the concepts of “Tiny” and <cost identity> (skip to the announcement for details). This nonfunctional (meaning has no effect on the function of the rules or the game) will define and use these concepts to help players of all skill and experience levels better understand, apply, and explain the updated rules as well as help with as-yet-unseen hurdles. Explicitly: A card’s <cost identity> is the set of each mana value among all sets of characteristics on a card; put simply, the mana co...