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Emergent Cube Design by Example


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Andy and Anthony talk through emergent cube design by example. Starting with a listener submitted card — Trade Routes — they explore ways to create a context where the card is a role player. Moving beyond direct synergies, they demonstrate how they’d use on card as a seed crystal to generate ideas for a mechanically coherent Cube.

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Discussed in this episode:

  • Scryfall search "fo:/whenever.*you.*discard/"
  • Our article about using Scryfall
  • Our article about regular expressions
  • BoshNRoll YouTube Channel Sharkstill Decks
  • Tolarian Community College Cube Video
  • Ship of Theseus
  • Timestamps

    0:00 - Introduction

    1:18 - Episode Overview

    6:29 - Step 0: Look for redundancy

    8:35 - Step 1: Identify Cards with First Order Synergy

    24:47 - Step 2: Identify Cards with Second Order Synergy and Emergent Themes

    36:01 - Step 3: Look for natural answers to your emergent themes

    40:33 - Step 4: Look at the bigger picture: What does aggro look like? What does interaction look like? What does fixing look like?

    47:15 - Conclusion

    Cubes Mentioned

    • The Turbo Cube
    • 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
      • If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co. You can also find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord.

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        Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

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