27 cubes ported from XMage

[Agetian]

Here's the outcome of implementing my latest deck-related idea: porting cube definitions from XMage to Forge. Currently it's done in a semi-automatic way (XMage .java definitions are automatically converted to Forge .dck/.draft pairs, and then card sets are added based on their availability in the draft rankings file, for cards for which at least one ranking definition exists).

Last Updated: January 15, 2017

All draft cubes supported in XMage v1.4.21r0 are converted for use in Forge. Namely, the following ones:

Adam Styborkski's Pauper Cube
Ben's Cube (720 cards)
Cube From Deck
Cube Tutor 360 Pauper
Cube Tutor 720
Eric Klug's Pro Tour Cube
Guillaume Matignon's Jenny's-Johnny's Cube
Jim Davis's Cube (469 cards)
Jospeh Vasoli's Peasant Cube
Legendary Cube (598 cards)
Legendary Cube April 2016 (566 cards)
Mono Blue Cube
MTGO Cube March 2014
MTGO Legacy Cube (600 cards)
MTGO Legacy Cube January 2016 (600 cards)
MTGO Legacy Cube March 2015 (600 cards)
MTGO Legacy Cube September 2015 (600 cards)
MTGO Legacy Cube September 2016 (600 cards)
MTGO Legacy Cube January 2017 (600 cards)
MTGO Vintage Cube 2013
MTGO Vintage Cube 2014
MTGO Vintage Cube 2015
MTGO Vintage Cube 2016
MTGO Vintage Cube June 2016
The Peasant's Toolbox
Timothee Simonot's Twisted Color Pie Cube
http://www.mtgcube.com (502 cards)


Some of the cubes contained several cards that are not currently supported in Forge. Those cards were removed from the cube files. Here's the breakdown of what is missing and what is fully supported:

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'MTGO Legacy Cube September 2015 (600 cards)' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'Eric Klug's Pro Tour Cube' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'MTGO Legacy Cube January 2016 (600 cards)' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'MTGO Vintage Cube 2016' is FULLY SUPPORTED

Unsupported card in 'Adam Styborkski's Pauper Cube': Borderland Explorer
Unsupported card in 'Adam Styborkski's Pauper Cube': Borrowed Grave
Unsupported card in 'Adam Styborkski's Pauper Cube': Carnivorous Death-Parrot
Unsupported card in 'Adam Styborkski's Pauper Cube': Coalition Honor Guard
Unsupported card in 'Adam Styborkski's Pauper Cube': Cogwork Librarian
Unsupported card in 'Adam Styborkski's Pauper Cube': Lurking Automaton
Unsupported card in 'Adam Styborkski's Pauper Cube': Regicide

'MTGO Vintage Cube June 2016' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'MTGO Legacy Cube March 2015 (600 cards)' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'MTGO Vintage Cube 2013' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'MTGO Vintage Cube November 2016' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'Cube Tutor 720' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'MTGO Vintage Cube 2014' is FULLY SUPPORTED

Unsupported card in 'Legendary Cube April 2016 (566 cards)': Divine Deflection

'www.mtgcube.com (502 cards)' is FULLY SUPPORTED

Unsupported card in 'Jospeh Vasoli's Peasant Cube': Coalition Honor Guard
Unsupported card in 'Jospeh Vasoli's Peasant Cube': Harm's Way

'Mono Blue Cube' is FULLY SUPPORTED

Unsupported card in 'Jim Davis's Cube (469 cards)': Agent of Acquisitions
Unsupported card in 'Jim Davis's Cube (469 cards)': Backup Plan
Unsupported card in 'Jim Davis's Cube (469 cards)': Cogwork Librarian
Unsupported card in 'Jim Davis's Cube (469 cards)': Deal Broker
Unsupported card in 'Jim Davis's Cube (469 cards)': Lore Seeker

'Legendary Cube (598 cards)' is FULLY SUPPORTED

Unsupported card in 'Guillaume Matignon's Jenny's/Johnny's Cube': Harm's Way

Unsupported card in 'Ben's Cube (720 cards)': Booster Tutor
Unsupported card in 'Ben's Cube (720 cards)': Chaos Orb

'MTGO Legacy Cube January 2017 (600 cards)' is FULLY SUPPORTED

Unsupported card in 'Cube Tutor 360 Pauper': Coalition Honor Guard

'MTGO Vintage Cube 2015' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'MTGO Legacy Cube (600 cards)' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'MTGO Legacy Cube September 2016 (600 cards)' is FULLY SUPPORTED

'Timothee Simonot's Twisted Color Pie Cube' is FULLY SUPPORTED

Unsupported card in 'The Peasant's Toolbox': Agent of Acquisitions
Unsupported card in 'The Peasant's Toolbox': Cogwork Librarian
Unsupported card in 'The Peasant's Toolbox': Cogwork Spy
Unsupported card in 'The Peasant's Toolbox': Harm's Way
Unsupported card in 'The Peasant's Toolbox': Refraction Trap
Unsupported card in 'The Peasant's Toolbox': Whispergear Sneak

'MTGO Cube March 2014' is FULLY SUPPORTED


Installation and usage:
- Download and unpack the archive.
- Move the "cube" and "draft" folders into the "res" folder of your Forge installation (NOTE: you need a recent Forge beta or SVN trunk version).
- Launch Forge and start a booster draft. Click the "Custom" category. The new drafts should be available for selection in the list.

Enjoy!

- Agetian

[friarsol]

I wonder if it would be useful to have a "cuberankings" file that works specifically for each cube for the AI. Instead of relying on draftrankings which while generally could be helpful, can be a fair amount different based on the cube.

[Agetian]

I wonder if it would be useful to have a "cuberankings" file that works specifically for each cube for the AI. Instead of relying on draftrankings which while generally could be helpful, can be a fair amount different based on the cube.

Indeed, this would be optimal, I agree, albeit I'm not sure if it's possible to find reliable information on relative card ratings for cubes (but I may be wrong though). It'd still be a nice option to have in case someone would like to come up with cube card rating definitions on their own, too!

EDIT: Come to think of it, I think Bestiaire has some info on cube ratings (at least it has two categories - Cube MTGO and Cube Drafting, which may actually cover most of what we need for at least a good amount of these cubes...).

- Agetian

[Agetian]

r30780-30781: I added support for custom rankings for drafts (defined in the .draft files via the CustomRankings parameter specifying the name of the file to load in addition to rankings.txt). Custom ranking files are meant for custom cubes and should use the identifier "CUSTOM" instead of the set name (and the card is ranked in an edition-agnostic way). Custom rankings are parsed before the default ones. If a card is not found in the custom ranking definitions, then the default rankings.txt is scanned (standard, per-edition scanning).

I added an example cube "MTGO Vintage Cube 2016" that specifies a custom rankings file.

I don't know of a good enough source for cube draft rankings. I added two example ranking sets from Bestiaire (called Cube MTGO and Cube Drafting), but they're largely incomplete and do not contain entries for every single card in the cube (moreover, it's unclear which cube(s) those rankings are actually based on, to be honest...). Does anyone know of a better way to come up with cube rankings, e.g. for the cubes in this thread?

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (06/23/16): Updated the cubes. Added 2 cubes from XMage v1.4.12r0, updated the other ones for compatibility with the latest Forge SVN (and upcoming 1.5.33 beta).

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (11/28/16): Updated the cubes (against XMage v1.4.19r0).

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (01/15/17): Updated the cubes (against XMage v1.4.21r0).

[Agetian]

A little heads-up: these have now been integrated as a part of Forge (in the current trunk builds).

- Agetian

[murray3911]

r30780-30781: I added support for custom rankings for drafts (defined in the .draft files via the CustomRankings parameter specifying the name of the file to load in addition to rankings.txt). Custom ranking files are meant for custom cubes and should use the identifier "CUSTOM" instead of the set name (and the card is ranked in an edition-agnostic way). Custom rankings are parsed before the default ones. If a card is not found in the custom ranking definitions, then the default rankings.txt is scanned (standard, per-edition scanning).

I added an example cube "MTGO Vintage Cube 2016" that specifies a custom rankings file.

- Agetian

I realize this is reviving an old topic, but I'm having a little trouble with this. I created a ranking for the MTGO Modern Cube using CubeTutor, but I'm having trouble getting Forge to recognize/use those rankings and the example doesn't appear to still have the CustomRankings parameter.