RiptideLab Podcast

RiptideLab Podcast

By Jason WaddellLeisureGames
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RiptideLab Podcast episodes

  • The Gathering with Anthony Mattox

    It's Anthony 'Whiteman Lion' Mattox!  

    00:00 Intro and the Origins of Lucky Paper

    07:40 Theoretical Resources for First Time Cube Builders
    15:20 Al Gore Eating a Sandwich and Fractured Experiences
    17:19 Your Brain on Retail vs Your Brain on WOTC Cube
    22:20 The WOTC Cubes are Smash with Items On
    26:50 Getting Anthony in Trouble With Andy
    30:04 Hoping Your Opponent Gets Mana Screwed Forever
    34:42 Anthony's Primers and the Turbo Cube
    41:02 Jason says Offensive Stuff He Shouldn't About Commander
    47:22 Cube is Not Very Popular (and the Future of Cubing)
    57:20 LuckyPaperCon, RipCon and CubeCon
    1:02:06 Getting Anthony in Trouble With Andy (Reprise)

    1 hr 8 min
  • Modern Horizons 2 Week Two Review

    Time for Part 2 of our Modern Horizons 2 Cube Review! Here are your timestamps!

    00:00 Intro and Dom's Groupies

    03:05 Stealing Conversations from Cookie Cutters: The (Limited) Power of One-Drops
    11:45 A Soft Transition to Hard Evidence and the new Tombstalker
    19:33 Is Jason's Wife Instagram Stalking a Former Lover?
    21:55 The Name's Garth. (And other Prismatic Endings)
    29:18 3-Mana Planeswalkers
    37:35 Kaleidoscorch and the Obsoletion of Flametongue Kavu
    44:34 Hymn to Tourach, Dread Cantor
    52:47 100,000 Posts on RiptideLab and Dom is Still Undefeated
    54:35 Expanded Zombie Dragon Anatomy
    57:30 Ignoble Hierarch, A Card We Already Know Everything About
    1:00:17 Ravenous Squirrel and the Madness Archetype (Unrelated)
    1:07:30 Does Mark Rosewater care about Pauper?
    1:10:24 The Perfect Card Review
    1:16:42 Why does Dom love Calibrated Blast? (still not sure...)
    1:19:19 Disappointing Delirium
    1:22:51 Dom's Pre-Show Post-Show Modern Rant

    1 hr 35 min
  • Modern Horizons 2 Cube Review with Dom Harvey (part 1?)

    Modern Horizons 2 has a truckload of interesting and powerful cards. Today Dom Harvey and Jason Waddell take a look at as many as they can, with a few signature tangents mixed in for good measure.   

    00:00 Intro and the Infinite Spoiler Season

    07:57 When Stoneforge was Banned but also Not Banned
    12:28 MH2 Failure Case and Sets Serving Many Masters
    14:30 General Ferrous Rokiric
    18:00 Sam Black's Companions and Academy Fabricator
    22:00 The (un)importance of Card Evaluation  
    32:35 Domain, Territorial Kavu and Scion of Draco
    45:45 Red One Drops: Ragavan and Dragon's Rage Channeler
    55:57 Artifact Archetypes and New MH2 Artifact Cards
    59:00 Tireless Provisioner and Oko, for some reason
    1:08:05 Lonis, Cryptozoologist
    1:12:34 Damn
    1:16:02 Madness, some Bait, and Dom Showing Off
    1:24:50 Master of Death and Squee
    1:28:40 "Lazotep Commander" and Amass
    1:30:30 The MH2 Evoke Cycle
    1:36:34 Blue Breaking the Color Pie and Novel Constructed Formats
    1:45:00 The Riptide Podcast is now on Spotify (and other places too)!

    1 hr 46 min
  • Cube Communication with Parker LaMascus

    Today we sit down with Parker LaMascus (landofMordor) to discuss how we talk about cubes, where restrictions fit into the design process, and the future of cubing.  

    Watch with video at: https://youtu.be/NzKG2li6p50

    Parker's Cubes on CubeCobra: https://cubecobra.com/user/view/5d35b48796dd684d71e9fc2d

    00:00 Intro - Strix Scale

    05:00 Restrictions
    12:00 Parker's Cubes and the Need to Design
    17:45 Playtesting Paucity and Eldrazi Domain
    23:25 Power Level As a Design Space Reducer
    26:35 Parker's Midrange Unpowered Cubes
    30:40 Allocating Brain Space to Cards
    38:00 Goals and 'Best in Slot' Discourse
    42:20 First Four Cube Questions  
    48:00 Restrictions Clashing with Goals
    51:40 The Cube Map
    58:25 Specific Singleton Breaks
    1:04:20 The Future of Cubing and Challenging Assumptions
    1:11:30 Coming of Age and Digital Identities
    1:14:40 Designing for Rotisserie / Sealed

    1 hr 26 min
  • Custom Cards with Chris Taylor

    Today we have a chat with custom card guru Chris Taylor to pick his brain. Your host (hello, it's me, Jason Waddell) was sick while filming, so if my ability to mentally compute calendar years seems off, that's why.

    Watch with video here: https://youtu.be/qx1oGpirkqA

    1 hr 25 min
  • Strixhaven Cube Review

    Dom and Jason dig into Strixhaven, and how they evaluate the new cards from a cube perspective. Do Strixhaven students love reading some of the wordiest Magic cards ever printed?

    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro / Lesson - Learn

    09:50 Multiplayer Cards in Standard Sets
    12:35 Wordy McWordface
    23:30 Magecraft
    39:00 Lifegain Tangent
    49:45 Flagstones of Trokair and Elvish Reclaimer
    54:05 Strixhaven Removal
    1:06:06 Efreet Flamepainter and Prismari Spells
    1:13:50 Assorted Cards, Odds and Ends
    1:31:30 New Cards from Commander and Archives

    1 hr 46 min
  • The Reanimator Number

    Is the Power Max approach proper game design? Does it matter? How can we get better at describing cubes? Where do Dom and Jason draw design inspiration from, and how do they approach the Reanimator archetype? Find out on Episode 2 of the RiptideLab Podcast!

    1 hr 3 min
  • Cube Philosophy with Dom Harvey

    Jason Waddell sits down with multi-tournament winner and Star City Game's contributor Dom Harvey to discuss a gluttony of cube topics. Even when he's got a trophy in his hand, Dom has cube on the brain. Find out why Dom has soured on the Vintage Cube, whether he thinks "5-color goodstuff" is actually a problem, what makes a card "too good", and Magic as an esport.

    2 hr 31 min

About RiptideLab Podcast

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The RiptideLab podcast is a podcast hosted by Jason Waddell, focusing primarily on Magic: the Gathering cube design and picking the brains of riptidelab.com community members.