22 Episodes Tagged “Cube Play”
Episode 263
Inland Northwest Cube Fest Tournament Report
August 4th, 2025
Andy and Anthony recap their drafts from the Inland Northwest Cube Fest, a local Cube event in Spokane Washington.
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Episode 262
8 Players, 8 Cubes, 1 Weekend, 1 Cabin
July 28th, 2025
Andy and Anthony recap their experience of 8 back-to-back Cube drafts over the course of a long weekend in a cabin in the woods.
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Episode 260
The ABC’s of Midrange
July 14th, 2025
Andy and Anthony break down the midrange macro-archetype, how it fits into the meta game and how it can be used as a framework to think about strategy and cube design.
Cube Play
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Episode 258
Open Drafting the Neoclassical Cube
June 30th, 2025
Andy and Anthony separately draft the exact same seat of Andy's Neoclassical cube and discuss how their card evaluations, picks, and ultimately decks, differed.
Cube Play
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Episode 248
Boston Cube Party Two and Sacred Geometry First Impressions
April 21st, 2025
In the afterglow of the second annual Boston Cube Party, Andy and Anthony recap their experience at the tournament, paying special attention to reviewing the deckslists from the first few drafts of Andy's new cube, Sacred Geometry.
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Episode 244
The Salt Box Tournament Report
March 24th, 2025
Andy, Anthony, and Patrick report on their experience at Baltimore's first mid-sized cube event - The Salt Box.
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Episode 236
The Barash Files 003 — Reflections on Cube Drafts Past
January 27th, 2025
Zach shares stories of his drafts of Andy and Anthony's Cubes over the last few years, offering insights into their designs and how he approaches them as a player.
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Cube Play
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Episode 224
Heuristics for Having a Good Time
November 4th, 2024
Andy and Anthony, in the wake of CubeCon 2024, talk about how they approach drafting new Cubes.
Cube Play
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Episode 223
2–1 Into 3–0 Into 3–0 Into 3–0 Into Drop and Go Eat Ramen
October 28th, 2024
Andy, Anthony, and Patrick recap their CubeCon 2024 experience draft-by-draft and meal-by-meal.
Cube Play
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Episode 216
Randomness Revisited — Strategy vs. Tactics in Game Design
September 9th, 2024
Andy and Anthony go even deeper on randomness in Magic with resources and perspectives from listeners.
Cube Theory
Cube Play
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Episode 155
Deeper than Winrate: Measuring Growth as a Player in Casual Magic
June 26th, 2023
Andy and Anthony talk about Andy's six month exercise in tracking the details of all of his Cube games and why he is abandoning the spreadsheet for a new model.
Cube Play
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Episode 144
How to Play Your Own, Custom Cube on Arena
April 10th, 2023
Andy and Anthony are joined by Chris and Tim from the Jank Diver Gaming Community to talk about how to play your own, custom-designed cube on Arena.
Cube Play
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Episode 139
A Weeklong Game of Chicken with Justin Parnell
March 6th, 2023
Andy and Anthony and joined by Justin Parnell and discuss their recent rotisserie draft of Anthony's Regular Cube at Magic Con Philadelphia.
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Cube Play
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Episode 131
Cube Drafting with Smaller Groups
January 9th, 2023
Andy and Anthony talk about ways to draft Cube with any number of players.
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Episode 118
Turbo Cube Draft Primer
October 10th, 2022
Andy and Anthony turn their attention to Anthony's "Turbo Cube" where all spells and activated abilities cost {2} less to cast, talking about how they approach drafting this novel environment and the cards and strategies that define the format.
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Episode 117
Regular Cube Draft Primer
October 3rd, 2022
Andy and Anthony discuss how to draft Anthony's “Regular Cube”, including the themes and strategies they think are the most powerful and key cards that overperform or shape the environment in some way.
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Episode 102
Regular Cube Draft Along
June 20th, 2022
Andy and Anthony collaboratively draft a deck from Anthony's Regular Cube, discussing how they approach the environment and the roles individual cards play.
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Episode 98
Are Synergy and a High Density of Interaction Incompatible?
May 23rd, 2022
Andy and Anthony talk about the drafts of Caleb Gannon's Powered Synergy Cube posted to Youtube and whether extremely synergistic decks can thrive in an environment with a high density of interaction.
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Episode 89
Housman, Grid, and Beyond: Cube Drafting with Two Players
March 14th, 2022
Andy and Anthony talk about their first experiences with Housman draft and other Cube draft formats for two players.
Cube Play
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Episode 80
Open Drafting the Bun Magic Cube
January 10th, 2022
Andy and Anthony separately draft the exact same seat of Andy's Bun Magic Cube and discuss where their decks and card evaluations diverged.
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Episode 58
The Cube Player’s Guide to Manabases
August 2nd, 2021
Andy and Anthony discuss a challenge unique to Cube: how to optimize drafting and deckbuilding great manabases.
Cube Play
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Episode 48
Playing to Win: Evaluating New Cubes
May 24th, 2021
Andy and Anthony talk about how they approach a new cube — what they look for in the list to set themselves up for success, and a good time, while drafting.
Cube Play
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