Designing Set Cubes

Andy and Anthony are joined by Aran, from their local playgroup, to talk about the design of Set Cubes. The talk about the spectra of ways to approach building Set Cubes ranging from faithfully recreating a limited environment, to loosely basing a Cube on a set or theme. They also talk about how they can be one of the easiest entry points to Cube, offering a starting point that already leverages the themes and balance of a limited environment that Cube designers can build off of.

They finish the episode with a pack 1, pick 1 from Aran’s Kamigawa Remastered Cube, which he started by sleeving up a curated selection from a box of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and has iterated on as we’ve been drafting it.

Discussed in this episode:

• Tolarian Community College on Building Set Cubes
• Cube Design – Set Cubes, by Jason Waddell on Channel Fireball
• Articles on DraftSim
• MTG Arena Zone
• The Magic Multiverse Project
• Drafting Archetypes with Sam Black
• Past Lucky Paper Radio Episodes
  • Episode 31: Bread and Butter Breakdown
  • Episode 111: The Texture of Removal
  • Neon Dynasty Episodes
  • Episode 60: Cube Logistics: Sleeves, Storage, Shuffling, and More
  • Episode 105: Scholar of the Game
• The Cube Map on Lucky Paper
• 17Lands
• As-Fan Calculator
• How Many Lands Should You Include in Your Cube?
• Drive to Work Podcast

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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. Send in questions to the show at [email protected]. You can also find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord.

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.