Lucky Paper Radio

Playtesting & Theorycrafting


Listen Later

Andy and Anthony are tackling a big subject in this episode: how do you turn experience playing your cube into informed design decisions that improve your environment? What do you do when your players insist that cards you included are either too good or not good enough and need to be cut? How do you handle people that are unwilling to draft or maindeck certain cards that you think are good?

The listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week is actually a pack 1, pick 2, because the boys are discussing Only on Tuesday’s Two-Headed Giant Cube. You can read more about the cube, and creator Jacob’s other writing about Magic, on his blog.

Topics addressed in this episode include:

  • Two-Headed Giant
  • Jett’s article on Analyzing Your Own Cube Drafts
  • Why you should care about the experience from a playtesting session rather than the results
  • Putting yourself in your drafters’ shoes
  • Using hypotheses to build explanatory knowledge about your cube
  • The ideal kinds of feedback to get from your players, and give to other cube designers
  • How to strike a balance between playtesting and theorycrafting, and the respective value of each
  • You can find the hosts’ primary Cubes on Cube Cobra:

    • Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
    • Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
    • If you want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube on air send a link to your cube, your name, and pronouns to [email protected].

      Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

      ...more
      View all episodesView all episodes
      Download on the App Store

      Lucky Paper RadioBy Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox

      • 4.7
      • 4.7
      • 4.7
      • 4.7
      • 4.7

      4.7

      107 ratings


      More shows like Lucky Paper Radio

      View all
      Limited Resources by Marshall Sutcliffe

      Limited Resources

      1,101 Listeners

      Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast by Mark Rosewater

      Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

      725 Listeners

      The Command Zone by The Command Zone

      The Command Zone

      2,133 Listeners

      MTGGoldfish Podcast by MTGGoldfish

      MTGGoldfish Podcast

      527 Listeners

      Lords of Limited by Lords of Limited

      Lords of Limited

      313 Listeners

      EDHRECast by EDHRECast

      EDHRECast

      513 Listeners

      Limited Level-Ups by Alex Nikolic

      Limited Level-Ups

      69 Listeners

      The Play to Win Podcast by Dylan Sweeney, and Cameron Hawk

      The Play to Win Podcast

      100 Listeners

      Drafting Archetypes by Drafting Archetypes

      Drafting Archetypes

      76 Listeners

      MTGGoldfish Commander Clash Podcast by MTGGoldfish, Inc.

      MTGGoldfish Commander Clash Podcast

      215 Listeners

      Uber Cube by Anthony, Stu, and May.

      Uber Cube

      21 Listeners

      Powerful Nothing by Too Sweet MTG

      Powerful Nothing

      0 Listeners

      Recross the Paths by Kade Goforth

      Recross the Paths

      6 Listeners

      Cuberviews by Ian Braverman

      Cuberviews

      4 Listeners

      Cube Engineers by TrainmasterGT

      Cube Engineers

      0 Listeners