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Tutors in Cube Design: Creating Variety by Reducing Variety


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Andy and Anthony talk about “tutors” in Cube and how cards that give you access to any card in your library impact the game. Historically, both of our hosts have tended to avoid them in most of their Cube designs, but the serve a unique function that could make them worth considering.

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Discussed in this episode:

  • Intro
  • 100 Ornithopters
  • Neoclassical Cube
  • Irregular Cube
  • All Tutors on Scryfall
  • The Cube Map
  • Timestamps

    0:00 - Introduction

    2:12 - Andy’s Salty Bad Beats

    8:20 - What is a tutor?

    11:10 - What tutors have Anthony and Andy been playing since the beginning and why?

    16:21 - Why have Anthony and Andy mostly avoided unconditional tutors in their Cube designs?

    18:48 - Tutors in the Neoclassical Cube

    37:24 - Tutors in 100 Ornithopters

    43:47 - Our hosts current advice on designing with tutors

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    You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

    • Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
    • Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
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      Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

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