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You are my 200th love letter. This is also the day I’m going to create an actual Cube list, to see what we’ve got so far. I’ve promised myself I would write letters without the context of a list until letter 200, after that I was allowed a list. I am really enjoying this weird process of building this Cube, for the first time for me it feels more like an artistic project than a game design project. It’s a nice change. But I still want this art project to have a good game design, I still want it to be fun to play. I want people to read letters in between matches because they are curious about what I have to say to the cards they love and have drafted. So people should still want to play it, and keep playing it.
So, which is the last card I am writing this last contextless letter to. After a long thought, a couple of rewrites, I found my card, you: Umezawa’s Jitte. I played every Standard tournament I could find back in 2005 and back then the best card in Standard, and one of the best cards ever printed, was you, Jitte. There was a saying: ‘the best answer to Jitte is a Jitte’, thanks to the old Legend rule. You dominated Standard, you were a regular face of Extended, you saw Legacy play and you were on the first banned list in Modern. So after the inception of Modern you didn’t see much play, except in Cube of course. We’ve played so much Magic together, but when you were too strong, it wasn’t always easy to love you.
In my 2009 Power Cube you are still one of the better cards. There you still dominate games completely. In regular Power Cube I personally think you are still a good card, although you are more of a role player. And I love it. I love it that you are no longer overpowered. I love that you are a role player now. Your play patterns are so much fun. You give your players so many options, so many angles, so many choices. It is so hard to correctly play a game with you, and it is exactly that, that makes you so awesome. I might think you are still better than you actually are in regular Power Cube. But I also believe a lot of other people aren’t seeing what I am seeing. A powerhouse that offers its players puzzles with the opportunity to excel.
With love,
Hanjo
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