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Andy and Anthony talk with Brett about his Obscura Cube. Prompted with the phrase “Déjà vu” Brett explored some wild, logistically impossible ideas before settling on a cube filled to the brim with subtle repetitions. The feeling of things having happened before manifests in my ways from multiple copies of Accumulated Knowledge, Memory Lapses that create repeated moments, and repetitive single card engines.

Discussed in this episode:

• Brett’s Déjà Vu Cube
• C4AC Obscura
• The Fire Swamp
• Low Country Boil
• Take Five

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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 [email protected] or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:14 - Déjà vu
• 11:46 - One Card Decks
• 14:55 - Balancing
• 20:50 - Hatebears
• 26:02 - Defining Déjà vu
• 29:44 - Callbacks
• 34:44 - Postgame
• 38:08 - Familiarity
• 41:21 - Blue-White Blink
• 45:25 - Blind Cubes
• 47:53 - Tension
• 49:32 - Moodboarding
• 51:58 - Future Updates

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Andy and Anthony recap their experience at Capitol Cube Championship in Washington D.C. They talk about the five different cube drafts they did between them and their overall experience at the event.

Discussed in this episode:

• Team Fundraiser for Birds of Paradise
• 100 Ornithopters Champion’s Draft Digital Qualifier
• Capitol Cube Champs
• The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
• The Desert Bird
• Upkeep Zine
• Trinket Cube
• Synesthesia
• 100 Ornithopters
• Invasion to Kamigawa 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 [email protected] or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 4:36 - Capitol Cube Champs
• 4:52 - Andy’s Desert Bird Draft
• 16:49 - Andy’s Desert Bird Games
• 27:45 - Anthony’s Desert Bird Draft
• 33:27 - Anthony’s Desert Bird Games
• 37:36 - Alex Responds
• 39:02 - Trinket Cube Draft
• 49:09 - Synesthesia Draft
• 53:28 - Synesthesia Games
• 61:18 - Invastion to Kamigawa Draft
• 69:51 - Invasion to Kamigawa Games

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Andy and Anthony talk with Ollie about their Obscura Cube with the prompt “Dangerous.” Ollie’s interpretation of the prompt led them to build a desert cube where all lands cost life to generate colored mana. Limiting each player to 20 colored pips of mana over the course of a game reshapes the way player’s engage with their life total as a resource and creates a truly dangerous feeling sensation.

Discussed in this episode:

• Ollie’s Dangerous Cube
• C4AC Obscura
• Hoopin

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 [email protected] or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 2:54 - Dangerous
• 12:45 - Lifegain
• 20:09 - Swamps
• 32:40 - Flavor
• 35:42 - Postgame
• 37:02 - Coverage
• 40:38 - Maintaining Dangerous
• 45:21 - Feedback
• 51:53 - New Cards

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Andy, Anthony, and Parker talk about how to draft cubes better by framing their thinking in terms of the scarcest resource in any give context. Flipping the perspective, they talk about how to leverage a diversity of themes as a cube designer.

Discussed in this episode:

• Birds of Paradise Fundraiser
• Level Up Your Cube Drafting With Scarcity article by Parker
• The Self-Defeating Irony of Cube Conceits article by Parker
• Parker’s Articles on Cascade Cascade
• Turbo Cube
• Tupelo Honey
• 100 Ornithopters
• Sacred Geometry

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 [email protected] or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 5:15 - Turbo Cube
• 16:11 - Tupelo Honey
• 20:18 - Scarcity
• 26:41 - Applying Scarcity to New Cubes
• 34:24 - Scarcity for Designers
• 41:29 - Metagame Degeneration
• 56:57 - CASCADE CASCADE

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Gabe joins Andy and Anthony talk about his Obscura cube, starting with the prompt “collapse”. Gabe chose to build on the theme in both aesthetic and mechanical ways. Pulling heavily from zendikar sets he set a tone of a world after the collapse of civilization. Mechanically he hoped to create gameplay that put players in committed positions that could easily crumble. In the first half, before the event, they talk about the design process and fears and expectations. In the second they reflect on how the cube played out.

Discussed in this episode:

• Collapse Cube by Gabe
• Tupelo Honey Cube
• Obscura Vods
• Etherium Landscape

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 [email protected] or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 3:12 - Collapse
• 7:17 - Risk / Reward
• 14:05 - Balancing Vibes
• 18:21 - Expectations
• 23:09 - Postgame
• 26:31 - Hatching Plans
• 29:10 - Speed
• 31:45 - Landcallers
• 36:33 - Inferno Titan
• 40:21 - Desert Cubes
• 45:31 - Hindsight

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Andy and Anthony are joined by Cube icon Ryan Overturf to talk about drafting and designing weird cubes. They talk about his experience at CubeConbroadening his experience into novel designs. They go more in depth into Ryan’s cube Stadium Stampede where all players start with a copy of Strixhaven Stadium in play.

Discussed in this episode:

• Ryan’s Cubes on Cube Cobra
• The Onebert
• Ryan’s Youtube
• 180 MTG Podcast
• 1UP Cube
• Aquaone Powered Cube
• Episode 238: Vintage Cube Sucks
• Obscura
• Stadium Stampede
• Grixis Cube
• Eiganjo Drift
• Death by 10 Cuts
• Bridges Over Troubled Water

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 [email protected] or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:16 - Welcome Ryan Overturf
• 8:29 - Weird Cubes
• 14:11 - CubeCon
• 26:02 - Stadium Stampede, Ryan's Strixhaven Stadium Cube
• 31:40 - Uninteractible Permanents
• 36:43 - Stampede Continued
• 42:02 - Conceit Breaking
• 56:50 - Trusting Cube Designers, or Not
• 1:06:46 - Taking Weird Cubes Seriously

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Andy and Anthony talk with Dan, best known for creating the Devoid Cube, about his cube for Cube for a Cause: Obscura. Starting with the prompt “cavalier” Dan dove into the world of knights and found himself with a cube pulling heavily from the plane of Eldraine.

Discussed in this episode:

• Dan’s Cavalier Cube
• Dan’s Cubes on Cube Cobra
• Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons
• King Charles
• Ikoria at Home
• Arena Planar Cube
• Midwinter
• Dragons of Winters Night

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 [email protected] or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 3:42 - Cavalier
• 7:53 - Eldraine at Home
• 12:45 - Flavor v. Mechanics
• 13:56 - Goals and Apprehensions
• 22:00 - Aesthetic Breaks
• 26:57 - Planar Cube
• 29:16 - Postgame / Selling the Cube
• 38:48 - The Other Prompts
• 41:42 - Resonance
• 48:05 - Lessons
• 50:40 - Bulk Sorting

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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 [email protected] 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

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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 [email protected] 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

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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 [email protected] 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