Episode 68 — October 11th, 2021
Mark Rosewater is My Personal Design Intern with Jason Waddell
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Breaker
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6:20Magic burnout
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18:02The lifecycle of cube updates
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21:13The misguided pursuit of perfection
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25:55Magic cards are arbitrary
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30:32The complicated architecture of Jason’s cube
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34:10Why a “strict upgrade” is not necessarily an upgrade
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35:48The “Party Pace” of Magic and the Riptide Lab Origin story
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42:34Cube is always fun, except for when it’s not
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45:37Heartstone Tavern brawl
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49:17What we can learn about cube from Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
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57:15The mana system is fun, actually
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1:00:43Why don’t Andy and Anthony play Slay the spire?
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1:07:43Has 17Lands ruined limited and do we associate too much of our identity with our hobbies?
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1:10:41What cube design assumptions should be thrown out?
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1:14:17Two-player draft formats
Andy and Anthony talk with Jason Waddell about Cube, game design, and the emotional complications of Magic as a hobby. Jason shares his experience with the ups and downs in his relationship with the game.
Follow along with the card image gallery.
Discussed in this episode:
- Riptide Lab
- Who’s the beatdown
- UB Trippin (not actually by PVDDR, please excuse Andy’s mistake)
- Jason’s CFB Article Archive
- Bike Burnout on A Path Less Pedaled
- Three different recent interviews with Richard Garfield on Drive to Work
- The Cube Map
- The Bant Cube
- Nickelodeon All star brawl
- Project M
- Apex Legends
- Skinner box
- Slay the Spire
- Roguelike
- Dominion
- 17lands
- Degenerate Micro Cube
- Turbo Cube
- Grid draftWinchester draft, and Winston draft
- Roguebook
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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.