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Andy and Anthony first talk about their upcoming series of interviews related to Cube For a Cause: Obscura. The event will feature 17 secret Cubes from 17 well known designers created just for the event. Until the first packs are cracked, the contents of each have been kept completely unknown. Each episode in the series will feature a designer talking about their plans going in before the event and a post-mortem discussion of how their cube played.
With announcements and logistics out of the way, Andy and Anthony open up the mailbag and answer some questions from listeners.
Discussed in this episode:
Our Patreon where you can support us for faster releases of the Obscura Interviews
Andy’s Videos on Youtube
Ryan Overturf’s Videos
Degenerate Cuber featuring Lucky Paper crossed out in the thumbnail
Book Recommendations:
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Blindsight by Peter Watts. The full text is available here for free from the author.
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Top Reddits:
r/ramen
r/fermentation
r/koji
r/xbiking
r/tattooadvice
r/tattoobeginners
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
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 mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:03 - Opening up the Mailbag
5:06 - Obscura
9:34 - Patreon Support for Bonus Episode Releases
15:51 - Obscura Interview Series
17:52 - Andy's Youtube Videos
20:45 - How have we managed to keep the podcast going so long?
24:12 - What's a sign a cube isn't for you?
25:30 - What does 'winning' mean for a cube designer?
28:00 - What's up with that time you stabbed yourself?
33:47 - What's the biggest argument Andy and Anthony have had?
38:03 - What are your favorite dishes the other cooks?
40:54 - Recommend some books.
43:22 - What are your top subreddits?
48:59 - What are your other favorite TCGs or other games?

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In a strange experiment, Andy and Anthony organize drafts of their cubes Sacred Geometry and Regular Cube and then pair players against the opposite cube. The two cubes have some major similarities, and clear differences. They wanted to see how drastically skewed win records would be towards one cube, and see what else they can learn. The experiment highlighted some unexpected differences and individual cards that skewed up or down when played against a different battery of opponents.
Discussed in this episode:
Sacred Geometry
Regular Cube
Bun Magic Cube
100 Ornithopters
The Red Terror
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
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 mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
01:45 - The Experiment - Regular Cube vs Sacred Geometry
11:10 - Post-Draft
12:32 - Anthony’s Draft
13:56 - Andy vs Anthony
18:33 - Max Aggro
20:51 - Control Mirror
26:47 - Impossible Mirror
30:21 - Anthony is Outclassed
33:30 - Results
41:08 - Texture vs Density
42:29 - Subverted Expectations
46:11 - Expanding on the Concept
50:43 - Mana Fixing
53:23 - More Cube vs Cube

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Andy and Anthony talk about narrow tutors in Cubes. In contrast to the most open ended ways for players to search up a card from their library, narrow tutor effects give cube designers an opportunity to make specific sets of cards more accessible. Our hosts talk about specific “tutor” cards they include in their cubes. They talk about the ways they can create interesting draft challenges, provide targeted redundancy, or let players construct a toolbox of cards they have more opportunities to find.
Discussed in this episode:
Episode 199: Tutors in Cube Design: Creating Variety by Reducing Variety
Episode 312: Cards that are Cool — Part 2
The next Book Club book: The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
Cubes mentioned:
Sacred Geometry
Turbo Cube
100 Ornithopters
Regular Cube
Take Five
Bun Magic Cube
Neoclassical Cube
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
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 mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:18 - Narrow Tutors
13:13 - Tutor Apprehensions
15:27 - Stoneforge Mystic
19:57 - Brightglass Gearhulk
24:05 - Tribute Mage
26:45 - Sphinx Summoner
30:06 - Goblin Engineer
33:06 - Mystical Teachings
33:41 - Recruiters
35:19 - Open the Armory
42:32 - Turbo Cube
46:07 - Wizardcycling
46:29 - Scrapyard Recombiner
50:49 - Transmute
56:18 - Appeal to Turbo Cube

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Andy and Anthony report on their experience at CubeCon DMV — from the organizers of the original CubeCon — a cube event right in their back yard. They talk about their drafts in the event, highlights from games, and lunchtime highs and lows.
Discussed in this episode:
Cube Events Page
The Metabolic Machine
Take Five
Andy’s Take Five Videos
Jarvis Yube
World Championship Museum (96-04)
Sacred Geometry
100 Ornithopters
Genesis - The first Omen Machine, a.k.a. Chris’s “Completely Normal Game of Magic with One Rules Change
Dichotomy Cube
Winston Draft
Regular Cube
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
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 mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:11 - Cubecon DMV
5:53 - Metabolic Machine
15:14 - Take Five
16:40 - Cosmogoyf vs Saw In Half
23:40 - Take Five Round Timer Issues
28:41 - Jarvis Yu’s Jarvis Yube
36:26 - Pasta Pizza
38:41 - Take Five Again
43:05 - More Cool Rulings
45:06 - World Championship Museum
50:46 - Chris’s Custom Winston Format
59:23 - Anthony’s Draft of Sacred Geo
1:00:56 - Top 8

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Andy and Anthony talk about cards they think are cool. In the long anticipated follow up to episode 108, they just talk about things they think are neat. Anthony shares some cards he’s seen pop up regularly in recent cube drafts that spark some intrigue. Andy shares cards that he thinks over-deliver, in a design and gameplay sense, in his own cubes.
Discussed in this episode:
Episode 108: Cards That Are Cool
Take 5
Sacred Geometry
100 Ornithopters
Bun Magic Cube
Neoclassical Cube
Regular Cube
Turbo Cube
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
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 mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:50 - Main Topic: Cool Cards
6:24 - Botanical Brawler
10:53 - Rot-Curse Rakshasa
13:53 - Oni-Cult Anvil
19:11 - Fear of Isolation
22:11 - Paradoxical Outcome
26:22 - Reinforced Ronin
31:04 - Second Sunrise
38:58 - Fists of Flame
44:19 - Engineered Explosives
46:30 - Kessig Wolf Run
51:44 - Mystical Teachings
55:47 - Honorable Mentions