Erich and Hayden introduce The Shard Cube, an environment focused on Magic’s allied three colour groups and built with a love of Alara block. Rich discussions on the initial difficulty of achieving one’s desired power level and what criteria to examine cards with when making changes ensue.

The cube list and all cards mentioned can be found here

Cube Cruisin - The Shard Cube v1

Cube Cruisin - The Shard Cube v2

Links discussed in this episode

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

00:37 Episode overview & background with Shards

04:00 Cube philosophies/What are Shards to us?

07:25 Cube construction & archetypes

15:15 What do we hope to learn?

24:33 How we’re drafting

27:07 First draft discussion

40:59 Cube changes & second draft discussion

47:54 How did we like & what did we learn?

55:29 Peek at the Week!

1:02:51 Outro & Credits

You can find the hosts’ on Cube Cobra:

Cover art by Brittanie Thompson

Music

My District by Lesfm/Oleksii Kaplunskyi -- ⁠https://pixabay.com/music/funk-my-district-152701/⁠

guitar riff 1.wav by kaponja -- ⁠https://freesound.org/s/54253/⁠ -- License: Attribution 3.0