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Andy and Anthony are joined by Dan, a.k.a. “D.S.B” to talk about one of his favorite cube adjacent formats — Stone Soup. 8 players (or as many as you’ve got!) each bring their own selection of 45 sleeved cards to the draft. All the contributions are shuffled up and drafted as you would any other Cube. They talk about their experience drafting a Stone Soup and how the format plays. Choosing what cards to bring, especially if players don’t discuss their choices in advance, is an interesting question, and our hosts go deep into the nuance of it.

Inevitably they also meander off the path and talk a little bit about a lot of topics, and a lot about The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Huge thanks to Rush Coil for granting us permission to use his great chiptune version of “Too Many Cooks” as the backing track for our intro week.

Tune in to our Twitch channel this weekend, August 23-24, for some live paper Cube coverage from Cube for a Cause in New York!

Discussed in this episode:

• Stone Soup MTG Draft on YouTube
• Stone Soup Folk Tale
• 100 Monkeys Effect
• Rupert Sheldrake - Morphic Fields
• E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment
• Multiple Discovery
• Convergent Evolution
• Narrative Identity
• Broadcast Shuffle
• Cube Draft Formats
• Milkshake Duck

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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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:

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 5:42 - Main Topic: Stone Soup
• 21:20 - Andy’s Stone Soup Pool
• 26:22 - Stone Soup Etiquette
• 31:56 - Competitive Stone Soup?
• 35:35 - Anthony’s Pool, Balancing Favorites With Power
• 53:35 - Favorite Aspects of Stone Soup
• 1:03:30 - The Dispossessed