Tim MurtaughOn the off chance that you're a Magic player, you might be interested in this variant I came up with — it's meant to reduce mana variance and make life generally nicer (especially for new players):
GrimDeck.comThis actually looks really clever. Separating lands from spells removes so much of the feel-bad moments when you're stuck on three lands for six turns straight. How's it been playing out in practice?
@GrimDeck Pretty good so far! Although I've only played a few games with beginners and it works great there. I suspect that as the power level of decks goes up, the effectiveness of the variant goes down :)
@murtaugh That makes sense. Once you hit cEDH-level consistency the lands pile probably becomes less relevant since those decks already run tons of fast mana and card selection. But for kitchen table games where someone's stuck watching the table for four turns? Huge quality of life improvement.