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View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about expensive cards in Cube — how high mana value cards fit into their cube designs. They talk about specific expensive cards they love, break down some specific roles they see the cards playing, and how variety makes cubes more fun. Discussed in this episode: Status and Culture by W. David Marx The Score by C. Thi Nguyen If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 5:20 - High Mana Value Cards 13:25 - Pseudo Expensive Cards 22:00 - Baneslayers 36:35 - Interaction 40:14 - Texture 43:02 - Board Wipes 44:31 - Other Threats 49:54 - Lessons

View all cards mentioned in this episode In the first installment of Obscura cube design discussions, Andy and Anthony are joined by Ollie to talk about Anthony’s cube designed around the prompt “anti-war” . Moving past the literal interpretation of a cube without war, Anthony chose to make his cube all about presenting the profound horrors of war. The cube features cards that aesthetically or mechanically express brutality, hopelessness, greed, and resource extraction. In the first half, recorded before the event, they talk about their hopes and expectations for the cube. In the second, post-event half they reflect on how well the design met its goals. Discussed in this episode: Anthony’s Anti-War Obscura Cube List Pacifism Cube C4AC Obscura The Fire Swamp Yayoi Kusama If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 5:42 - Anti-War 10:15 - Power Outliers and Balance 19:38 - Feedback 29:00 - Postgame 30:25 - Edits 35:08 - Titan of Industry 39:41 - Things Happening 42:19 - Reflections

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about recent trends in Cube design. After looking through the revealed Cube lists for the recent Cube for a Cause: Obscura our hosts noticed a few design features popping up again and again. They talk about them in the broader, evolving context of the Cube design community discussing if they reflect bigger trends. In particular, reflect on “art cards” — cards included for purely aesthetic reasons, desert cubes, cubes with no or minimal deckbuilding, and a casual approach to singleton breaks. Discussed in this episode: The Score Take Five Turbo Cube 100 Ornithopters The Amonkar Desert Loxodon Mierarchs Desert Cube The Giver Cube The Ball Pit Goblin Game Resplendent Obscura Cube Lists: Legacy by Gabor Monument by Jane Feudal by Andy Synesthesia by Lincoln Omelas by Zach Barash Cavalier by Dan Schneider Genesis by Maggie Ritual by Parker Collapse by Gabe Dangerous by Ollie Telemetry by Gwen Redemption by John Clara Sublimate by Max Worship by Scott Periodic by Jake Antiwar by Anthony Mattox Deja Vu by Brett If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:12 - Recent Cube Design Trends 8:18 - Art Cards 16:36 - Asystematic Singleton Breaks 30:05 - Desert Cubes 39:44 - Minimal Deckbuilding Cubes 47:48 - No Deckbuild Logistics 54:17 - Other Trends

View all cards mentioned in this episode Sometimes a card design just sings — all of the individual elements come together to make an elegant, resonant game piece. In this episode Andy and Anthony talk about this concept through the lens of Andy’s cube Sacred Geometry as he considers committing even harder to the bit. Discussed in this episode: Feudal Cube Auction on Ebay Sacred Geometry Hellraiser Regular Cube Virtually French Cube If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 4:07 - Sacred Geometry Ruminations 8:52 - Slots 11:42 - Tokens 13:07 - Fixing 15:29 - Card Naming Thesaurus 20:13 - Power Deltas 23:30 - Oracle Text 29:47 - Artifacts 40:14 - Artifact Ramp 43:14 - Resonance Problems 48:44 - Mindslaver 50:31 - Conclusions

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony collaboratively draft Andy’s Take Five cube, discussing their strategy through a whole draft and how they might approach this unique environment. To follow along, or try the draft yourself before listening, you can download the seeded pack list and upload it to Draftmancer . Also check out the cards mentioned page for the pack by pack view and final deck. Discussed in this episode: Download Pack List to upload to Draftmancer Take Five If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:00 - Glasses 2:20 - Draft Along - Take Five 6:14 - Pack 1 Pick 1 - How Important are Lands? 16:29 - Scroll of Fate 27:18 - Pack 2 40:22 - Pack 3 49:45 - Final Cuts 53:34 - Review and Grade

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony explore Cube Cobra ’s new analytic tools for card and deck winrates. The new features allow you to upload decks and their matchup records, or import matchup data if a Cube has been played at an event using Hedron Network to track matches. After Andy diligently imported hundreds of decks for 100 Ornithopters , they talk through all the different visualizations and how they might use them as Cube designers. Discussed in this episode: Intro Source Cube Cobra Hedron Network , the software for running Cube events 100 Ornithopters Winrate Analysis for 100 Ornithopters Andy’s Video Deep Dive on the Winrate Analysis for 100 Ornithopters Jett’s Article on winrate analysis Elo Rating System If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:30 - Draft Data 5:51 - Caveats 12:37 - Takign good Deck Photos 16:50 - Winningest Ornithopter Deck 18:03 - Winrate by Color 24:07 - WR by Type and Mana Value 29:00 - Color Performance 30:50 - Matchup Matrix 32:50 - Color Pair Performance 34:33 - All Color Combos 39:35 - Archetype Map 44:12 - Matchup Matrix 47:24 - Win Rate vs Elo 52:24 - Top Synergies 53:36 - All Cards 55:43 - Surprises and Takeaways

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony first talk about their upcoming series of interviews related to Cube For a Cause: Obscura . The event will feature 17 secret Cubes from 17 well known designers created just for the event. Until the first packs are cracked, the contents of each have been kept completely unknown. Each episode in the series will feature a designer talking about their plans going in before the event and a post-mortem discussion of how their cube played. With announcements and logistics out of the way, Andy and Anthony open up the mailbag and answer some questions from listeners. Discussed in this episode: Our Patreon where you can support us for faster releases of the Obscura Interviews Andy’s Videos on Youtube Ryan Overturf’s Videos Degenerate Cuber featuring Lucky Paper crossed out in the thumbnail Book Recommendations: A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Blindsight by Peter Watts. The full text is available here for free from the author. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Top Reddits: r/ramen r/fermentation r/koji r/xbiking r/tattooadvice r/tattoobeginners If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 2:03 - Opening up the Mailbag 5:06 - Obscura 9:34 - Patreon Support for Bonus Episode Releases 15:51 - Obscura Interview Series 17:52 - Andy's Youtube Videos 20:45 - How have we managed to keep the podcast going so long? 24:12 - What's a sign a cube isn't for you? 25:30 - What does 'winning' mean for a cube designer? 28:00 - What's up with that time you stabbed yourself? 33:47 - What's the biggest argument Andy and Anthony have had? 38:03 - What are your favorite dishes the other cooks? 40:54 - Recommend some books. 43:22 - What are your top subreddits? 48:59 - What are your other favorite TCGs or other games?

View all cards mentioned in this episode In a strange experiment, Andy and Anthony organize drafts of their cubes Sacred Geometry and Regular Cube and then pair players against the opposite cube. The two cubes have some major similarities, and clear differences. They wanted to see how drastically skewed win records would be towards one cube, and see what else they can learn. The experiment highlighted some unexpected differences and individual cards that skewed up or down when played against a different battery of opponents. Discussed in this episode: Sacred Geometry Regular Cube Bun Magic Cube 100 Ornithopters The Red Terror If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 01:45 - The Experiment - Regular Cube vs Sacred Geometry 11:10 - Post-Draft 12:32 - Anthony’s Draft 13:56 - Andy vs Anthony 18:33 - Max Aggro 20:51 - Control Mirror 26:47 - Impossible Mirror 30:21 - Anthony is Outclassed 33:30 - Results 41:08 - Texture vs Density 42:29 - Subverted Expectations 46:11 - Expanding on the Concept 50:43 - Mana Fixing 53:23 - More Cube vs Cube

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about narrow tutors in Cubes. In contrast to the most open ended ways for players to search up a card from their library, narrow tutor effects give cube designers an opportunity to make specific sets of cards more accessible. Our hosts talk about specific “tutor” cards they include in their cubes. They talk about the ways they can create interesting draft challenges, provide targeted redundancy, or let players construct a toolbox of cards they have more opportunities to find. Discussed in this episode: Episode 199: Tutors in Cube Design: Creating Variety by Reducing Variety Episode 312: Cards that are Cool — Part 2 The next Book Club book: The Score by C. Thi Nguyen Cubes mentioned: Sacred Geometry Turbo Cube 100 Ornithopters Regular Cube Take Five Bun Magic Cube Neoclassical Cube If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 2:18 - Narrow Tutors 13:13 - Tutor Apprehensions 15:27 - Stoneforge Mystic 19:57 - Brightglass Gearhulk 24:05 - Tribute Mage 26:45 - Sphinx Summoner 30:06 - Goblin Engineer 33:06 - Mystical Teachings 33:41 - Recruiters 35:19 - Open the Armory 42:32 - Turbo Cube 46:07 - Wizardcycling 46:29 - Scrapyard Recombiner 50:49 - Transmute 56:18 - Appeal to Turbo Cube

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony report on their experience at CubeCon DMV — from the organizers of the original CubeCon — a cube event right in their back yard. They talk about their drafts in the event, highlights from games, and lunchtime highs and lows. Discussed in this episode: Cube Events Page The Metabolic Machine Take Five Andy’s Take Five Videos Jarvis Yube World Championship Museum (96-04) Sacred Geometry 100 Ornithopters Genesis - The first Omen Machine , a.k.a. Chris’s “Completely Normal Game of Magic with One Rules Change Dichotomy Cube Winston Draft Regular Cube If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 2:11 - Cubecon DMV 5:53 - Metabolic Machine 15:14 - Take Five 16:40 - Cosmogoyf vs Saw In Half 23:40 - Take Five Round Timer Issues 28:41 - Jarvis Yu’s Jarvis Yube 36:26 - Pasta Pizza 38:41 - Take Five Again 43:05 - More Cool Rulings 45:06 - World Championship Museum 50:46 - Chris’s Custom Winston Format 59:23 - Anthony’s Draft of Sacred Geo 1:00:56 - Top 8

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about cards they think are cool. In the long anticipated follow up to episode 108 , they just talk about things they think are neat. Anthony shares some cards he’s seen pop up regularly in recent cube drafts that spark some intrigue. Andy shares cards that he thinks over-deliver, in a design and gameplay sense, in his own cubes. Discussed in this episode: Episode 108: Cards That Are Cool Take 5 Sacred Geometry 100 Ornithopters Bun Magic Cube Neoclassical Cube Regular Cube Turbo Cube If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 2:50 - Main Topic: Cool Cards 6:24 - Botanical Brawler 10:53 - Rot-Curse Rakshasa 13:53 - Oni-Cult Anvil 19:11 - Fear of Isolation 22:11 - Paradoxical Outcome 26:22 - Reinforced Ronin 31:04 - Second Sunrise 38:58 - Fists of Flame 44:19 - Engineered Explosives 46:30 - Kessig Wolf Run 51:44 - Mystical Teachings 55:47 - Honorable Mentions

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about board stalls and Cube. They talk about what they don’t like about this particular genera of board state. They theorize about some aspects of a cube’s design would lead to more stalls, and ways they might, as a designer, try to minimize them. This weeks topic was suggested by listener MZ. Thanks, MZ! Discussed in this episode: Lucky Paper Cube Events Page Sam Black’s article describing “big” and “small” games Bun Magic Cube Sacred Geometry 100 Ornithopters Neoclassical Cube If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:01 - Andy’s Pool Adventure 4:14 - Board Stalls 18:33 - Who’s the Beatdown? 22:35 - Equilibrium 26:10 - Creature Sizing 30:11 - Evasion 31:40 - Combat Tricks and Friends 33:12 - Equipment 35:42 - 2 for 1s and Big vs Small Games 42:00 - Great Game in Sacred Geometry 44:32 - Ornithopters and Neutral States 49:18 - Milling Out 55:15 - Conclusion

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about the logistics of tokens for Cube. They talk about different ways they’ve managed them over the years and for different Cubes. They make recommendations for the best way to approach the problem, and even how their Cube design is influenced by token makers. Discussed in this episode: InfiniTokens MPC Autofill Example Token Page on Cube Cobra Cubes Discussed: Sacred Geometry Regular Cube Neoclassical Cube Penrose Cube Take 5 100 Ornithopters If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:44 - Main Topic: Token Logistics 6:15 - Anthony’s Approach to Tokens 9:04 - Challenges Managing Tokens 15:28 - Dry Erase Token Rant 18:03 - Tokencreep 21:29 - Sacred Geometry Tokens 27:00 - Green In Sacred Geometry 32:47 - How Token Restriction Influences Sacred Geometry 34:51 - Bun Magic Tokens 39:16 - Problems with Token Bags 43:06 - New Token System 48:15 - Why Streamline Your Tokens? 51:04 - Andy’s Other Tokens 56:23 - Other Token Solutions

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony are joined by Jake and Parker to talk about their shifts in approach to each of their eternal cubes. While Jake, Parker, and Andy have long maintained generally “power motivated” eternal cubes, they’ve each grappled with concerns about aesthetics, complexity, or gameplay in the last few years of Magic releases. They talk about how they’ve changed their design philosophies in light of those changes and how they’ve reframed the way they make decisions about the cards they choose to play. Discussed in this episode: Bodleian Cube Bun Magic Cube Theseus Turbo Cube Atavus Pulp Nouveau Midwinter Cascade Cascade Four TCGs in Magic’s Trench Coat , article by Parker LaMascus If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 2:57 - Main Topic: Power Motivated Cube 11:21 - The Vibeshift 17:08 - Gameplay Styles 19:33 - Paper Drafting and Taste 24:41 - Why Play High Power Level Magic 30:53 - Stat Inflation 39:33 - Power Motivation in 2026 45:46 - Theorycrafting with Powerful Cards 49:26 - Concluding Games 53:14 - Make Your Cube About Something 55:57 - Advice

View all cards mentioned in this episode Riffing on last week’s slightly divisive topic, Andy and Anthony talk about cards in their own cubes that players hate. They comb through their cubes discussing the many reasons players might dislike a card and why they might still be justifiable inclusions. Discussed in this episode: Numberphile Episode 307: Hate Cards in Cube Sacred Geometry Regular Cube Bun Magic Cube Irregular Cube 100 Ornithopters Episode 293: The Last Echo of a Boon If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 5:20 - Hated Cards 10:00 - What Makes a Card a “Groaner” 11:57 - Bun Magic 22:52 - Irregular Cube 25:37 - Mill 28:31 - Silver Border 32:02 - Conspiracies 36:49 - 100 Ornithopters and Reactive Spells 47:30 - Thrumming Stone 52:07 - Sacred Geometry 57:34 - Regular Cube and Clunky Mana 1:02:42 - Neoclassical Cube

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about hate cards, and how they fit into Cube design in particular. Of course, they start by trying to define the term. They talk through the pros and cons of them and how different types may play a role in Cubes. They go through a number of their own cubes, analyzing them from this perspective. Discussed in this episode: Take 5 Sacred Geometry 100 Ornithopters Bun Magic Cube Neoclassical Cube Turbo Cube Regular Cube If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:45 - Main Topic: Hate Cards 9:15 - Examples of Hate Cards 13:05 - Hate Cards We Cube 16:09 - Talking About Constructed 17:14 - Aura Shards 22:09 - Bun Magic Hate Cards 23:53 - Teferi, Time Raveler 28:38 - Changing the Math vs Hate 31:11 - Take Five 34:11 - Hate Combos 36:30 - Neoclassical Cube 38:48 - White in Neoclassical 42:00 - Groundseal 44:37 - Humility 48:47 - Turbo Cube 55:39 - Context Shift Hate 59:57 - Mailbag 1:02:15 - Garfield

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony scour the cutting room floor for unfinished gems. They offer up some of their half-baked, unfinished cube ideas for you to steal. Andy shares his ideas for an aesthetic sun-bleached cube, a cube where your deck is your life total, and an environment built around wishes. Anthony digs up an all alternate win conditions cube and a battle box where the entire game happens in one stack . Discussed in this episode: Anthony’s Alternate Win Condition Cube Anthony’s Single Stack Battle Box Creatureless Cube Degenerate Microcube Loam Cube Companion Cube Arcane Lessons If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:19 - Main Topic: Steal Our Ideas 1:57 - Sunbleached Cube 6:59 - Alternate Win Cons Cube 13:06 - No Life Total Cube 24:33 - Where Do Ideas Come From 27:33 - Omniscience Battlebox 37:24 - Three Wishes Cube 49:02 - Custom Ante Cards

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony are joined by Cube Person of the Year 2024, Ollie, to talk about whether it’s irresponsible to present a cube for drafting without any playtesting. What is the difference between ‘playing’ and ‘playtesting’? Can you design a cube iteratively without playtesting? Just how bad can a cube really be? Discussed in this episode: Upkeep NY/C4AC Bodlean Cube Creatureless Cube Episode 302 — Theory Drafting the Best Decks in Regular Cube The Ball Pit Episode 206 — The Joy of Gaming with Richard Garfield 100 Ornithopters Marina Abramovic - The Artist is Present (2010) Boston Cube Party If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:41 - Secret Project: Obscura 9:13 - Playtesting 16:46 - The Case Against Playtesting 21:03 - Non-Playtest Data 23:09 - The Process 29:45 - Playing Vs Playtesting 35:17 - Cube First Impressions 43:33 - Expectations 47:28 - Designing for an Experience 52:10 - Marina Abramovic and Artistic Intent 58:26 - Logistics

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony are joined by the de facto Cube judge — Bones! The three recap The Salt Box, a small Cube event in Baltimore. At this event, Andy debuted Take Five and Judge Bones Arcane Lessons . They share what they learned from players drafting their cubes for the very first time and their own experience as cube designers drafting cubes for the first time in a public event. Discussed in this episode: Salt Box Take 5 Take 5 Youtube Videos Arcane Lessons Bones on Cube Cobra Changeling Cube Sacred Geometry Regular Cube https://cubecobra.com/cube/about/regular?view=primer Kulashov Cube The Wetlands The Red Terror Magic History with Bones and Deinonychus If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:00 - Special Guest Judge Bones 5:11 - Arcane Lessons 11:31 - Debuting Arcane Lessons 15:38 - Lesson/Learn 17:19 - Arcane 19:35 - Iteration 21:12 - Lessons Learned 29:09 - Take Five Debut 42:45 - Designing Cubes for Events 47:35 - Take Five Feedback 51:48 - Anthony’s Salt Box Highlights 60:08 - Fun Judge Calls with Judge Bones

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony are joined by returning guest Zach Barash. They talk about about different lenses Cube designers can use to approach designing a new cube. They finish on a pack 1, pick 1 from Andy’s new cube Take Five . Previous episodes with Zach: 001 The Principles of Game Design 002 On Terminology, Communication, and Community 003 Reflections on Cube Drafts Past 004 Building Skill vs. Building Community and Learning from Your Mistakes 005 Playtesting and Cube Feedback Discussed in this episode: Upkeep NY Episode 197: Cube Design Iron Chef: Goblin Charbelcher Episode 182: Emergent Cube Design by Example Cubes referenced: Bun Magic Cube Cascade Cube Turbo Cube Reading Rainbow Sacred Geometry The Ball Pit Companion Cube Perilous Seas Dichotomy Cube UMA+ Cube Take Five If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:27 - Guest: Zach Barash 4:59 - Lenses for Approaching Cube Design 14:12 - Making a “Good Cube” 15:05 - Duplication 19:28 - Balance 24:13 - Homage 25:18 - Powermaxing Diversion 33:39 - Novelty 37:14 - Balancing Goals vs Taste 42:01 - Icebergs 46:11 - Restrictions 51:33 - Head vs Heart 53:43 - Summary 58:01 - Crack-a-Pack of Take Five