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Using the Foundations Starter Collection as the Base for Your Own Cube — with Carmen Klomparens
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Andy and Anthony talk with Carmen Klomparens, lead designer of the Foundations Starter Collection, about the set and how it’s a great option for new Cube players looking for a starting point. They talk about what’s in the set, how and how it was designed, and then each offer ideas and specific cards they’d add and cut to use it as a cube.
Discussed in this episode:
Nile on Twitch
The full list of cards in the Foundations Starter Collection
Foundations Starter Collection on the mothership
The Uncanny Valley
The Regular Cube
Sacred Geometry
Carmen Klomparens on Bluesky
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
4:33 - Did Magic R&D consider that the Foundations Starter Collection might make a great skeleton for a Cube?
6:29 - Limited and Cube as a proxy for kitchen table Magic
8:44 - What are the high level goals of Foundations
11:24 - Using mechanics to encourage your players to discover what is cool about Magic
14:49 - What is included in the Foundations Starter Collection
19:37 - What would Carmen, Andy, and Anthony would add to the Foundations Starter Collection if they were to turn it into a Cube
20:21 - Addition: a set of mono-color Planeswalkers
22:28 - Addition: Archangel of Thune
23:23 - Addition: Emeria Angel
24:18 - Addition: another cycle of fixing lands
27:29 - Addition: Remand
28:52 - Addition: Ravnica bounce lands
29:40 - Addition: more support for the ‘gates’ theme
33:24 - Addition: Viscera Seer
36:57 - Addition: Kess, Dissident Mage
39:28 - Addition: Faithless Looting
40:46 - Addition: Irencrag Pyromancer
42:11 - Addition: Future Sight
43:19 - Addition: A good black green threat
46:06 - Addition: Krosan Tusker
47:30 - Addition: Treetop Village
49:56 - What would Carmen, Andy, and Anthony would cut from the Foundations Starter Collection if they were to turn it into a Cube
50:21 - Cut: the color hate cards
51:24 - Cut: Hidetsugu’s Second Rite
52:07 - Cut: Wishclaw Talisman
52:50 - Cut: Feldon’s Cane
55:33 - Cut: Command Tower
58:19 - Cut: Fog Bank
59:33 - Cut: Rogue’s Passage
1:01:22 - Cut: Stroke of Midnight and Harmless Offering
1:03:45 - Cut: Sol Ring
1:05:57 - The lessons Cube designers can take from Carmen’s experience with Magic R&D
1:10:09 - Llanowar Elves vs. Elvish Mystic
1:14:52 - A thank you for Burst Lightning
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By Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox
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View all cards mentioned in this episode
Andy and Anthony talk with Carmen Klomparens, lead designer of the Foundations Starter Collection, about the set and how it’s a great option for new Cube players looking for a starting point. They talk about what’s in the set, how and how it was designed, and then each offer ideas and specific cards they’d add and cut to use it as a cube.
Discussed in this episode:
Nile on Twitch
The full list of cards in the Foundations Starter Collection
Foundations Starter Collection on the mothership
The Uncanny Valley
The Regular Cube
Sacred Geometry
Carmen Klomparens on Bluesky
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
4:33 - Did Magic R&D consider that the Foundations Starter Collection might make a great skeleton for a Cube?
6:29 - Limited and Cube as a proxy for kitchen table Magic
8:44 - What are the high level goals of Foundations
11:24 - Using mechanics to encourage your players to discover what is cool about Magic
14:49 - What is included in the Foundations Starter Collection
19:37 - What would Carmen, Andy, and Anthony would add to the Foundations Starter Collection if they were to turn it into a Cube
20:21 - Addition: a set of mono-color Planeswalkers
22:28 - Addition: Archangel of Thune
23:23 - Addition: Emeria Angel
24:18 - Addition: another cycle of fixing lands
27:29 - Addition: Remand
28:52 - Addition: Ravnica bounce lands
29:40 - Addition: more support for the ‘gates’ theme
33:24 - Addition: Viscera Seer
36:57 - Addition: Kess, Dissident Mage
39:28 - Addition: Faithless Looting
40:46 - Addition: Irencrag Pyromancer
42:11 - Addition: Future Sight
43:19 - Addition: A good black green threat
46:06 - Addition: Krosan Tusker
47:30 - Addition: Treetop Village
49:56 - What would Carmen, Andy, and Anthony would cut from the Foundations Starter Collection if they were to turn it into a Cube
50:21 - Cut: the color hate cards
51:24 - Cut: Hidetsugu’s Second Rite
52:07 - Cut: Wishclaw Talisman
52:50 - Cut: Feldon’s Cane
55:33 - Cut: Command Tower
58:19 - Cut: Fog Bank
59:33 - Cut: Rogue’s Passage
1:01:22 - Cut: Stroke of Midnight and Harmless Offering
1:03:45 - Cut: Sol Ring
1:05:57 - The lessons Cube designers can take from Carmen’s experience with Magic R&D
1:10:09 - Llanowar Elves vs. Elvish Mystic
1:14:52 - A thank you for Burst Lightning
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