Episode 76— December 13th, 2021

Un-Cards for Cube

1:59
Listener submitted pack , pick 1
7:13
Why un-cards are interesting
9:47
The history of un-cards
12:50
Un-adjacent cards
14:06
Should you put un-cards in your cube?
17:38
The different categories of un-cards
18:17
Cards that care about some aspect of a card that black border can’t
26:39
Physical challenge cards
28:31
Cards that care about something outside the game
32:30
Outside assistance cards
36:03
Unclassified cards that just don’t work in black border
53:56
Cards with weird flavor
58:05
Cards with extreme variance
1:00:27
Draft matters cards
1:07:18
Conspiracies
1:09:26
The most uncube unmaginable

Andy and Anthony talk about all things un-. They discuss the history of silver-bordered and other non-tournament Magic cards, how they’re designed, and the categories they fall into so you can choose if and how to play them in your Cube.

Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Myagic’s Storytime Cube featuring fairytale themes and a sprinkling of un-cards.

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

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