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I think lowering the power of the cube feels like the correct play. I think a lot of the friction you've been experiencing is trying to maintain this balancing act between all these legacy cube staples and these big clunky payoffs, and I think refocusing on making sure every part of the...

if there's a gay mulldrifter in the new lorwyn i'm suing those bastards for all they're worth

They gotta put me on the show now so I can defeat Parker in some sort of kart race or tennis match.

I think your last point here about comprehension complexity not necessarily being directly correlated with wordiness is pretty salient. I feel like one of the things I'm trying to avoid when cutting down on "wordy" cards is actually moreso the (reads card) "wait what" (reads card again) "okay I...

I think banning cards is sort of part of the fun for these kinds of projects. I like to keep all the banned cards in my redacted cube in a box together as a kind of "hall of fame" of broken shit, which are fun to show off to people who are new to the cube. You're inevitably going to get things...

I'd read that rant!

Glad you enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun recording that and it was cool to get to hear it on the show. Lucky Paper was like a guiding philosophy for me when I was figuring out cubing a few years ago so it was a fun little thing for me to participate in it a little bit. I think you're right that...

After being back into the game for a few years now, I'm definitely hitting that "release fatigue" wall that everybody who's invested in the game seems to run into lately. I just cannot do a round of cube updates every like, two months while also trying to gauge how the cards from the last set...

Seedshark is more of a control card in my experience. Good for decks that can hold up mana and lets you immediately have a body after a board wipe. Not so good for decks that are trying to get quick damage in.

Really interested in the fact that you run the conspiracies here. How have they been playing for you and how do they tend to affect the draft? I feel like they're still sort of untapped potential for high power cubes despite how long they've been around.

I think there's just a weird disconnect because "fear of missing out" feels like such an extremely contemporary phrase (I'm not sure that it's actually particularly new, but it's definitely caught on more recently), so it just feels dissonant with the general aesthetic. Feels weird to see a card...

"What would a set simply called Magic: the Gathering look like?" goes insanely hard and appeals to my very particular brain. More excited about this than almost anything else announced recently lol. Also wild that they are committing to having Llanowar Elves and Day of Judgement in standard for...

Yeah I personally am way more of a hater for the actual Universes Beyond stuff than I am for anything like this. Maybe it's just because I honestly don't really care for high fantasy that much in general, I always liked the more sci-fi leaning stuff that the game has had for years with the...

I wonder if some of the trouble you've been having with making this cube work is rooted in the fact that you're sort of trying to combine a lot of traditional high power fair cube heuristics and card choices with a cube where people are trying to somewhat fairly cast 8 mana spells. Not quite...

you guys are all talking to Brad like the green goblin mask

I think you can keep it an Eldrazi cube without including C mana. It's not like that was what the Eldrazi were about in their original and most iconic form. For me the fact that the big Eldrazi could go in any mana base back then was one of the cool things about them.

Updates Nothing new right now, I haven't been particularly focused on Magic lately. I've got some stuff on standby that I'd like to try out, but I'll do that when I inevitably feel like it. Fine with just getting more reps on the current iteration of the cube. People overall seem to like where...

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I run like one 6 and one 7 (technically two more with Elvish Aberration and Krosan Tusker but those have alternative modes, and I guess Honored Hydra sort of does too. But Avenger of Zendikar is a pure example) in green as ramp payoffs and then cap out at 5 in every other color. I think you'd...