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By Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox
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Andy and Anthony talk about randomness in Magic, and specifically just how much randomness there is in a Cube draft. They talk about where randomness comes from and how different mechanics use the library or other sets of cards as a random source to make them work. They also go into their own preferences and how they thing about randomness in their Cube designs.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction and why you should cut your opponent’s deck
5:03 - Why randomness is maybe the most fundamental aspect of Magic: the Gathering
7:08 - Andy says some really big numbers to convince you Magic is really random
19:22 - Using your library as a random number generator
26:57 - Categorizing different types of ‘random’ cards
49:09 - Andy and Anthony’s approach to randomness as Cube designers, in summary
55:41 - Andy and Anthony’s favorite ‘random’ moments from games they’ve played
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Andy and Anthony talk about some of the past and pending Cube events they are attending. This year has seen a proliferation of new small Cube events. Anthony reviews his experience at the Capitol Cube Champs and they talk about what they’re excited about in the upcoming Cube 4 Charity hosted by Upkeep New York.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:42 - Capitol Cube Champs Tournament Report
22:04 - Mailbag
25:01 - Anthony’s Irregular Cube Preparation for Cube 4 Charity
39:17 - Andy’s 100 Ornithopters Preparation for Cube 4 Charity
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Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
No regular episode of Lucky Paper Radio this week, sadly, but in an effort to not leave y’all empty handed and to help highlight a great new Cube podcast, we’re bringing you and episode of Kade Goforth’s Recross the Paths.
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Andy and Anthony each rank every evergreen creature ability and then, tier by tier, discuss what they love each adds (or doesn’t) to the game.
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Discussed in this episode:
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - Tier list and evergreen keyword ability overview
3:45 - F Tier
8:56 - D Tier
27:29 - C Tier
33:15 - B Tier
40:11 - A Tier
45:20 - S Tier
52:40 - The biggest differences between Anthony’s and Andy’s Tier Lists
53:57 - Why are aggressive mechanics so good and the defensive mechanics so bad?
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Andy and Anthony take a first look at Bloomburrow, breaking down the mechanics, flavor, and the cards their interested in giving a try in their on Cube environments.
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Discussed in this episode:
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:46 - Bloomburrow Flavor and Vibes
6:11 - Mail bag
8:28 - Offspring
11:24 - Gift
15:32 - Forage
16:58 - Valiant
20:24 - Expend
26:03 - Pawprints
29:08 - Creature Type Matters
34:18 - Other Returning and Unnamed Mechanics
38:22 - 100 Ornithopters Cube Inclusions
39:28 - Honorable Mention: Heirloom Epic
40:35 - Honorable Mention: Dawn’s Truce
41:03 - Honorable Mention: Season of Gathering
43:30 - Gossip’s Talent
45:15 - Innkeeper’s Talent
48:05 - Three Tree City
49:22 - Turbo Cube Inclusions
49:49 - Barkform Harvester
50:29 - Agate Assault
51:39 - Coruscation Mage
52:45 - Heaped Harvest
53:40 - Stocking the Pantry
54:38 - Wear Down
55:04 - Briya, Riptide Rogue
57:30 - Bun Magic Cube Inclusions
58:41 - Honorable Mention: The Infamous Cruelclaw
59:37 - Honorable Mention: Hired Claw
1:01:27 - Honorable Mention: Iridescent Vinelasher
1:02:48 - Honorable Mention: Mockingbird
1:04:07 - Darkstar Augur
1:05:57 - Emberheart Challenger
1:06:42 - Kitsa, Otterball Elite
1:08:22 - Stormchaser’s Talent
1:10:48 - Fell
1:12:00 - Regular Cube Additions
1:12:17 - Honorable Mention: Mousetrapper
1:12:51 - Honorable Mention: Heartfire Hero
1:15:09 - Honorable Mention: Sazcap’s Brew
1:15:53 - Honorable Mention: Peerless Recycling
1:17:04 - Honorable Mention: Patchwork Banner
1:17:40 - Bravekin Duo
1:18:38 - Eddymurk Crab
1:19:48 - Tempest Angler
1:20:51 - Bonus: Flowerfoot Swordmaster
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
In the first “book club” episode, Andy, Anthony, and Parker talk about The Beauty of Games by Frank Lantz. The book sets out to defend the thesis that games are artistic works (or, more descriptively, “aesthetic works”) worth the same level of appreciation as other art forms and teach sophisticated, systems-thinking. After reading the book, our hosts talk about what they took away from the book and some aspects they were a little more critical of. Thank you to the listeners who joined the book club and send in their own takes!
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Discussed in this episode:
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
4:13 - What is a book club, anyway?
5:51 - Summary of The Beauty of Games
9:17 - Do we need to defend the position that games are meaningful?
14:02 - Andy’s Two Main Criticisms of The Beauty of Games
17:07 - Games as an aesthetic experience
21:34 - Gamer Knowledge™️
23:31 - The Reasons for Doubt and Frank’s rebuttal to them
31:36 - Unpacking the conclusion of The Beauty of Games
41:19 - Ought we blame the beneficiaries of inequitable systems?
45:07 - How games crystalize satisfying action, and what satisfying actions does Magic capture?
58:17 - Why do we as Cube designers put so much knowledge between our players and the satisfying experiences Magic offers?
1:06:50 - Listener Submitted Clips
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Andy and Anthony talk about complexity in Magic. After their discussion on the previous episode on Andy’s Neoclassical Cube comparing arguable simplicity of old school Magic cards, and continued discussion on the MTG Cube Talk Discord, they talk about the nature and different types of complexity. They compare cards which are simpler to read vs to play with and how different types of complexity effect the feel of the game.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
3:06 - GayTransMulldrifter’s Belated MH3 Hot Take
12:27 - Strategic Complexity and its costs
33:26 - Kitsa, Otterball Elite Korner
39:45 - Lenticular design
50:52 - The tension between accessible and skill testing environments
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Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our P.O. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Andy and Anthony talk about Andy’s Neoclassical Cube. They talk about some of the changes Andy’s been making leading up to it being played by a wider audience at Steel City Cube. They talk about how the design philosophy has evolved and their recent experience playing the Cube.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction and Airplane Corner
6:04 - Overview of the Neoclassical Cube and why old school Magic might appeal to players due to its simplicity
10:44 - The Beauty of Games Book Club Check In
12:15 - Lucky Paper Mail Bag: bird p1p1 and custom cards in cube
20:07 - Deep-dive on the design of the Neoclassical Cube: what defines ‘old school’ Magic?
27:16 - Dialing in the right quantity and quality of powerful enablers
32:41 - Storm in the Neoclassical Cube
38:37 - Resource denial, creatureless decks, and other aesthetic departures from modern Magic
47:46 - The Kiki Jiki Question
52:41 - The state of Reanimator
55:07 - The death of the cycling deck
57:37 - The state of the Burn deck
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Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Andy, Anthony, and Parker review the results of the Modern Horizons 3 Cube Community Set Review. As usual, we asked the Cube community to share what cards from the set they’re interested in trying in their Cubes, for whatever reasons that are relevant to their own curation goals, and how confident they are the cards will be hits. We compiled the results and our hosts talk through the top cards, as well as some trends and interesting patterns in the communities expectations for the set.
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Discussed in this episode:
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
4:03 - Overview of Set Review Structure
5:23 - Broad Modern Horizons 3 survey facts and figures
9:21 - Headline mechanics that didn’t crack the top cards tested
17:29 - Individual Card Discussion
17:53 - 11. Emperor of Bones
24:38 - 10. Brainsurge
27:34 - 9. Reckless Pyrosurfer
30:20 - 8. Wight of the Reliquary
33:21 - 7. Warren Soultrader
37:59 - 6. Phlage, Titan of Nature’s Fury
42:48 - 5. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
46:05 - 4. Six
49:23 - 3. Nethergoyf
55:32 - 2. Psychic Frog
1:00:24 - 1. Marionette Apprentice
1:03:48 - Honorable Mention: The Landscape Cycle
1:06:26 - Honorable Mention: Accursed Marauder
1:08:01 - The powerful cards people are mostly not testing
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Fresh off of Boston Cube Party, Andy, Anthony, and Patrick recap their weekend of Cubing. They talk through highlights of the event and the Cubes they drafted over a great weekend of Magic.
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Discussed in this episode:
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
5:39 - Boston Cube Party Tournament Report
9:33 - Neoclassical Cube Train Draft
14:55 - 100 Ornithopters Cube Draft
18:00 - Saturday Morning Draft
27:44 - Saturday Afternoon Draft
37:55 - Sunday Morning Draft
49:15 - Sunday Afternoon Draft
1:05:49 - Top 8 Draft
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
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Baltimore, MD 21211
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