Andy and Anthony talk with Ryan Saxe about his latest Magic passion project. Inspired by one of his favorite video game genres, auto battlers, Ryan has been working to create a Magic variant that incorporates the feeling of quick mini-games and constant upgrades and expansion of your arsenal. In his format, players face of in a series of mini-games with only a few cards available to each player. After each quick game, players get to modify and expand their available pool of cards to use by trading with a random new selection of cards from the Cube list. Players are eliminated as they accrue a certain number of losses leaving one the champion.

The three talk about the design process, challenges and successes Ryan’s had through iterating on the rules system, and their experience drafting the auto battler cube.

Discussed in this episode:

• George W. Hart’s Geometric Sculptures
• Pai Gow
• Auto Battler Cube Rules and Card List
• Ryan’s Auto Battler Discord
• Ogre Battle Tactics: Match of the Black Queen
• Team Fight Tactics
• Loading, Ready, Run Auto Battler Stream
• Slay the Spire

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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

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

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.