Andy and Anthony are joined by Ryan Saxe for a deep conversation on Cube design. They talk about the design of “low power” Cubes, lessons we can take from limited sets and apply to Cubes, and the important impacts of power level disparities on gameplay.

Discussed in this episode:

• The Iron Giant
• Limited Resources
• R House in Baltimore
• Who’s on First?
• The Degenerate Micro Cube
• Ryan’s Buildaround Cube
• Internet’s Pauper Cube
• Using the Other Half of Your Cube
• Zach Barash on Twitter
• Anthony’s Irregular Cube
• Playing the Irregular Cube on Stream
• Anthony’s Turbo Cube
• Andy’s Day Zero Prediction About Companions
• Ryan’s Constructed Cube
• Ryan on Twitter
• The Cube Map
• Graph Theory
• Topology
• Regression Learning
• UMAP Projection
• Hypercube

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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.