I’ll do a primer on this in a future article. In the meantime, check out the info page for the Limited Resources cube, which gives some good instructions on how you do a MTGO cube draft: http://limitedresourcescube.tumblr.com/

Your comment seems to be talking generally, not specifically about MTGO, right?

I can’t talk about economies in general, but it’s known that if everyone thinks a bank will crash, the influx of people withdrawing money can in fact cause it to crash, making it a self fulfilling prophecy.

been there, done that. ok thanks 😀

My MTGO clan has a cube for years. Our clan leader just spent the money to upgrade into a power cube. We use to draft it once or twice a week but some of the core clan member left and we are lucky to get the cube running one a month now. Also the limited resource clan has a cube. I have my second account in that clan incase I wanted to cube with them. http://tappedout.net. is the only play I still know that can run the cube draft. There where better option but they all seems to be gone now.

I was referring to the prerelease phantom points and item received on any account visited since 2008. Allowing you to enter prerelease sealed for free, and maybe draft with subsequent earned boosters.

Alternatively, you can also draft any phantom events anytime with these 35 phantom points.

Crash may have been a little bit strong. I meant by that an abrupt decrease (~20%, or more) of most MTGO prices, such as what we observed when special events were canceled last year or during the V2-V3 transition.

Some players (probably less than expected) stopped playing and/or sold their account.

As of know, it’s like nothing happened.

As Alexander Carl pointed out at me it is indirectly possible:

Gather the card you want to play cube with, maybe in one separated MTGO account so there’s only the cube cards on it.

Then draft your cube via a draft software where you can build your card pool, such as http://tappedout.net.

Then each player get the cards from his/her draft from the cube account.

Better do that with friends and or people you, as the cube owner have to trust them to return the card when done.

Also, you can only build a pauper cube or any cheap cube, not necessarily a Powered cube such as the one played on MTGO.

Nonetheless, it remains kind of possible to reproduce the cube as on MTGO and “practice” with people you trust.

With this possibility I’m seriously considering building a powered cube over the next months, turning some of my profit into cube pieces, and waiting for reprints/flashback drafts to gather expensive cards.
With VMA, that’s a great occasion to gather a lot of vintage/legacy cards cheaper than ever.

I mean, the biggest crashes were, at least to my limited knowledge, unexpected.

If the economy is not peeking, and everyone expects a crash, than everyone is very protective and no one will take risks anymore.

so it’s not a surprise there is no crash now.

What? Is this really possible?