Andy and Anthony talk about common pitfalls new Cube designers fall into. There’s no right way to build a Cube, but new designers very often fall into similar patterns and a few pieces of feedback consistently come up.

• Play more mana fixing lands
• Lower the average mana cost of cards
• Increase the amount of interactive spells
• Lower the number of multi-color cards
• Don’t let power outliers outshine the fun
• Don’t feel obligated to adhere to 10 themes for each two color pair
• Be aware of the high cost of rules modifications

Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Garrett Townsend’s Frozen Solid Cube.

Discussed in this episode:

• MagicCon Philly
• Neoclassical Cube
• Dear Gonti, Love Sophie
• Neoclassical Cube Want List
• Guardian Project Podcast
• Regular Cube Games on YouTube
• r/mtgcube
• How Many Lands Should You Include in Your Cube?
• Lucky Paper Radio Episode on Archetype Driven Design
• The Trolley Problem

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

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.