Andy and Anthony talk about some recent updates and play experience to Anthony's Turbo Cube, where all spells and activated abilities cost {2} mana less.
Andy and Anthony discuss how to draft Andy's “Bun Magic Cube” including an overall summary of how the environment plays and key cards and themes to look out for.
Andy and Anthony's plan for this week's episode fell through, so instead they're sharing the audio from a stream in which they discussed Aquaone's legendary Powered Cube with the designer himself.
Andy and Anthony talk about the state of Andy's Neoclassical cube: how the environment's been playing out, things they want to tweak, and specific areas of potential change.
Andy, Anthony, and James do a live review of Anthony's Regular Cube. They talk about how the environment has been playing recently, sift through potential cuts, and make a plan for the next iteration of the Cube.
Parker joins Andy and Anthony to talk about his newest Cube design project, Pulp Nouveau, featuring a dark, flavor focused aesthetic and a mechanical variation on a desert cube where players only have free access to basic swamps.
Andy and Anthony look back at lessons learned from designing and playing Anthony's Mono Black Cube and why it makes sense to start from scratch and iterate on Cube designs.
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.
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.
Andy and Anthony collaboratively draft a deck from Anthony's Regular Cube, discussing how they approach the environment and the roles individual cards play.
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.
Andy and Anthony look at Andy's cube through the lens of Cube Cobra's new 'popularity' feature and discuss under-rated cards and why they might be worth another look.
Andy and Anthony pick apart Anthony’s new ‘Irregular Cube’ which features a separate set of ‘rare’ cards and discuss what rarity can enable in Cube design as well as its challenges.
Anthony indulges Andy in a 90 minute discussion about the project he’s been working on almost non-stop since the beginning of the first COVID-19 lockdown: his Degenerate Micro Cube.
Andy and Anthony spend an entire episode talking about Anthony’s experience designing and playtesing a cube that features a teeny-tiny modification to the core rules of Magic.
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