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Episode | Date |
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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Cube Set Review
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Apr 28, 2025 |
Boston Cube Party Two and Sacred Geometry First Impressions
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Apr 21, 2025 |
The Barash Files 005 — Playtesting and Cube Feedback
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Apr 14, 2025 |
The ↑↑↓↓←→←→ABCs of Combo
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Apr 07, 2025 |
Judge Bones Teaches You How To Organize Your Own Grassroots Cube Event
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Mar 31, 2025 |
The Salt Box Tournament Report
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Mar 24, 2025 |
Aetherdrift Cube Set Review
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Mar 17, 2025 |
The Barash Files 004 — Building Skill vs. Building Community and Learning from Your Mistakes
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Mar 10, 2025 |
Mindbreak Trap Forgives All Sins with Julien Henry
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Mar 03, 2025 |
Our Favorite Cards from 2024
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Feb 24, 2025 |
Aesthetic Values and Style in Cube Design
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Feb 17, 2025 |
Vintage Cube Sucks
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Feb 10, 2025 |
Debriefing Vertex Philadelphia & 100 Ornithopters Unite
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Feb 03, 2025 |
The Barash Files 003 — Reflections on Cube Drafts Past
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Jan 27, 2025 |
Using the Foundations Starter Collection as the Base for Your Own Cube — with Carmen Klomparens
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Jan 20, 2025 |
Changing Patterns in Magic R&D
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Jan 13, 2025 |
The Barash Files 002 — On Terminology, Communication, and Community
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Jan 06, 2025 |
Always Be Cubing — 2024 in Review
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Dec 30, 2024 |
The Barash Files 001 — The Principles of Game Design
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Dec 23, 2024 |
A Loom Made of Yarn: the Tools of Cube Design
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Dec 16, 2024 |
Fixing is Cringe with Jenn the Judge
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Dec 09, 2024 |
Foundations Community Set Review
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Dec 02, 2024 |
On Board Wipes and Cube Design
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Nov 25, 2024 |
Clown Shoes Cubes and How to Use Feedback
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Nov 18, 2024 |
Foundations First Impressions
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Nov 11, 2024 |
Heuristics for Having a Good Time
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Nov 04, 2024 |
2–1 Into 3–0 Into 3–0 Into 3–0 Into Drop and Go Eat Ramen
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Oct 28, 2024 |
Bloomburrow and Duskmourn: House of Horror Cube Community Set Reviews
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Oct 21, 2024 |
Ryan Saxe’s Auto Battler Inspired Format
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Oct 14, 2024 |
Commander Bans and Consumption as Self Expression
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Oct 07, 2024 |
Boromir Sucks and Oko is a Joke-O: Sweeping Updates to the Turbo Cube
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Sep 30, 2024 |
State of the Game 2024
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Sep 23, 2024 |
Cards We Were Wrong About: 2024 Standard Rotation
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Sep 16, 2024 |
Randomness Revisited — Strategy vs. Tactics in Game Design
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Sep 09, 2024 |
Using Little Pieces of Paper as a Supermassive Random Number Generator
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Sep 02, 2024 |
Grassroots Cube Event Potpurri
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Aug 26, 2024 |
Spotlight: Recross the Paths
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Aug 19, 2024 |
French Vanilla Face-Off
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Aug 12, 2024 |
Bloomburrow First Impressions, Mechanics, and Personal Cube Additions
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Aug 05, 2024 |
Book Club: The Beauty of Games by Frank Lantz
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Jul 29, 2024 |
Text, Subtext, and Cards with Secrets
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Jul 22, 2024 |
It Feels Good to Riffle Shuffle Duals: Preparing the Neoclassical Cube for Steel City
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Jul 15, 2024 |
Modern Horizons 3 Cube Community Set Review
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Jul 08, 2024 |
Boston Cube Party Tournament Report with Patrick ‘Dirt’ Doherty
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Jul 01, 2024 |
The Joy of Gaming with Richard Garfield
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Jun 24, 2024 |
Full Vintage Rotisserie Draft with Alex and Aran
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Jun 17, 2024 |
A Review of All the Coolest Cards from Modern Horizons 3
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Jun 10, 2024 |
A Cube is Like a Building
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Jun 03, 2024 |
Reading Series — The Creator of ‘Magic the Gathering’ Knows Exactly Where it All Went Wrong
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May 27, 2024 |
Commitment to the Bit — On Context Shift Cubes
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May 20, 2024 |
We Can Cut This if You Want
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May 13, 2024 |
Tutors in Cube Design: Creating Variety by Reducing Variety
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May 06, 2024 |
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Cube Community Set Review
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Apr 29, 2024 |
Cube Design Iron Chef: Goblin Charbelcher
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Apr 22, 2024 |
The Hardest Part is Just Getting Started, with Sam from Rhystic Studies
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Magic on the Holodeck: Outlaws of Thunder Junction First Impressions and Personal Cube Additions
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Striving for a More Accountable and Inclusive Playgroup
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Apr 01, 2024 |
100 Ornithopters in a Trenchcoat
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Mar 25, 2024 |
The episode concerning the art provokes.
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Mar 18, 2024 |
Vibes-Forward Cube Design with Ryan Overturf
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Mar 11, 2024 |
Murders at Karlov Manor Cube Community Set Review
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Mar 04, 2024 |
Second Order Interaction in Cube Design
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Feb 26, 2024 |
Peasant Cube, Accessibility, and Playing within Restrictions with Emma Partlow
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Feb 19, 2024 |
Murders at Karlov Manor and Ravnica: Clue Edition Personal Cube Additions
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Murders at Karlov Manor and Ravnica: Clue Edition First Impressions
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Solving Game Design Issues with Marshmallows
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Jan 29, 2024 |
Designing and Playtesting a New Archetype for the Turbo Cube
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Jan 22, 2024 |
Designing and Drafting a Cube on a Budget
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Jan 15, 2024 |
Emergent Cube Design by Example
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Jan 08, 2024 |
Gold Cards and You
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Jan 01, 2024 |
Live from Maro’s Lap: the Cubesmas Wishlist Spectacular
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Dec 25, 2023 |
The Changing Landscape of Magic — 2023 in Review
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Dec 18, 2023 |
Holiday Mailbag
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Dec 11, 2023 |
The Nature of Combo in Cube
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Dec 04, 2023 |
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Cube Community Set Review
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Nov 27, 2023 |
What Can and Cannot Be Learned From Studying Draft Pools
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Nov 20, 2023 |
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan First Impressions, Mechanics, and Personal Cube Additions
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Nov 13, 2023 |
Riding Siege Rhinos to Victory with Tim Meyers
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Nov 06, 2023 |
Refreshingly Dangerous Confusion with Dom Harvey
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Oct 30, 2023 |
Cube Accessibility: Making Magic Approachable and Welcoming
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Oct 23, 2023 |
The Road to CubeCon 2023
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Oct 19, 2023 |
In Praise of Lower Mana Curves
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Oct 16, 2023 |
Spike University Part Two with Justin Parnell
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Oct 09, 2023 |
Spike University Part One with Justin Parnell
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Oct 02, 2023 |
Bun Magic Cube Draft Primer
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Sep 25, 2023 |
Wilds of Eldraine Cube Community Set Review
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Sep 18, 2023 |
The ABCs of Control
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Sep 11, 2023 |
Wilds of Eldraine First Impressions, Mechanics, and Personal Cube Additions
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Sep 04, 2023 |
Draft Matters
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Aug 28, 2023 |
State of the Game 2023
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Aug 21, 2023 |
Admiring and Analyzing Aquaone’s Powered Cube
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Aug 14, 2023 |
Man vs. Machine 2: Judgment Day
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Aug 07, 2023 |
Restrictions Breed Podcast Topics
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Jul 31, 2023 |
Wishes, Lesson/Learn, and Companions: The Dynamics of Outside the Game Mechanics
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Cheese Two Ways
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Jul 17, 2023 |
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Cube Community Set Review
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Jul 10, 2023 |
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Mechanics & Cube Additions
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Deeper than Winrate: Measuring Growth as a Player in Casual Magic
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Jun 26, 2023 |
Live from SCGCon Baltimore 2023: Bun Magic Cube Rotisserie Draft Review
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Jun 19, 2023 |
In Defense of Forcing: How to Draft Cube Successfully with Ryan Saxe
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Jun 12, 2023 |
The Risks and Rewards of Custom Rules in Cube
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Jun 05, 2023 |
Xerox Theory and You
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May 29, 2023 |
Going Against Your Intuition: A Different Approach to Tuning the Neoclassical Cube
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May 22, 2023 |
All About Ramp
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May 15, 2023 |
Talking Cube Cuts with the Boys: Real-Time Regular Cube Update
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May 08, 2023 |
March of the Machine Cube Community Set Review
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May 01, 2023 |
Big and Small Games Revisited
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Apr 24, 2023 |
March of the Machine Mechanics and Cube Additions
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Apr 17, 2023 |
How to Play Your Own, Custom Cube on Arena
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Apr 10, 2023 |
Big and Small Games with Sam Black
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Apr 03, 2023 |
Pulp Nouveau and Drafting Your Basics with Parker LaMascus
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Mar 27, 2023 |
Introducing Your Cube, With Myagic!
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Mar 20, 2023 |
Cube and the Soul of Limited With Ryan Saxe
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Mar 13, 2023 |
A Weeklong Game of Chicken with Justin Parnell
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Mar 06, 2023 |
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Cube Community Set Review
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Feb 27, 2023 |
Cube Update Potpourri
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Feb 20, 2023 |
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Cube Additions
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Feb 13, 2023 |
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Mechanics & First Impressions
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Feb 06, 2023 |
The Neoclassical Cube: The Spirit of Old-School Magic, With a Twist
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Jan 30, 2023 |
The Common Pitfalls of First-Time Cube Designers
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Jan 23, 2023 |
Designing Set Cubes
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Jan 16, 2023 |
Cube Drafting with Smaller Groups
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Jan 09, 2023 |
Cube Community Building
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Jan 02, 2023 |
Seasons of Cube
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Dec 26, 2022 |
Live Cube Update: Making Removal Better in the Bun Magic Cube
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Dec 19, 2022 |
Threat Density & Value Against Removal
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Dec 12, 2022 |
The Brothers’ War Cube Community Set Review
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Dec 05, 2022 |
How to Test Your Cube
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Nov 28, 2022 |
The Brothers’ War Cube Additions
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Nov 21, 2022 |
The Brothers’ War Mechanics & First Impressions
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Nov 14, 2022 |
Lessons From the Death of an Experimental Cube
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Nov 07, 2022 |
CubeCon "Tournament Report"
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Oct 31, 2022 |
The Duality of Power Outliers
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Oct 24, 2022 |
The Road to Cube Con
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Oct 19, 2022 |
How to Use Scryfall: Improving Your Decks, Improving Your Cubes, Improving Your Life
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Oct 17, 2022 |
Turbo Cube Draft Primer
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Oct 10, 2022 |
Regular Cube Draft Primer
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Oct 03, 2022 |
Cards We Were Wrong About: 2022 Standard Rotation
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Sep 26, 2022 |
Dominaria United Cube Community Set Review
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Sep 19, 2022 |
Dominaria United Cube Additions
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Sep 12, 2022 |
Dominaria United Mechanics & First Impressions
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Sep 05, 2022 |
Cube as a Personal History with Dom Harvey
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Aug 29, 2022 |
The Texture of Removal
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Aug 22, 2022 |
Tarmogoyfs & Elvish Visionaries
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Aug 15, 2022 |
State of the Game 2022
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Aug 08, 2022 |
Cards That Are Cool
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Aug 01, 2022 |
How Many Lands Should You Include in Your Cube?
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Jul 25, 2022 |
Commander Deck Building Inspiration, Self-Imposed Restrictions, and Guidelines
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Jul 18, 2022 |
Scholar of the Game
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Jul 11, 2022 |
Introducing the Commander Map
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Jul 05, 2022 |
Deciding Which Cards to Cut from Your Cube
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Jul 04, 2022 |
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate Cube Set Review
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Jun 27, 2022 |
Regular Cube Draft Along
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Jun 20, 2022 |
A Deep Dive on Disruption Density in Cube
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Jun 13, 2022 |
Centennial Retrospective
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Jun 06, 2022 |
How To Build a Cube From Your Collection
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May 30, 2022 |
Are Synergy and a High Density of Interaction Incompatible?
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May 23, 2022 |
Lands That Do Things: All About Fetch Lands
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May 16, 2022 |
Streets of New Capenna Cube Community Set Review
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May 09, 2022 |
The Powered Synergy Cube with Caleb Gannon
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May 02, 2022 |
Cooking & Cube, Breaking Bread & Cracking Packs
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Apr 25, 2022 |
Streets of New Capenna Cube Additions
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Apr 18, 2022 |
Streets of New Capenna Mechanics & First Impressions
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Apr 11, 2022 |
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Recap
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Apr 04, 2022 |
Rock Beats Paper, Paper Beats Scissors, Scissors Beats Rock
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Slay the Spire with Parker LaMascus and Jason Waddell
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Hausman, Grid, and Beyond: Cube Drafting with Two Players
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Mar 14, 2022 |
How To Use the Other Half of Your Cube
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Mar 07, 2022 |
My Deck Is a 7 With Mike Coyle & Andy Floury
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Cube Community Set Review
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Feb 21, 2022 |
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Cube Additions
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Feb 14, 2022 |
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Mechanics & First Impressions
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Feb 07, 2022 |
Bottling an Iconic Mirror Match: the Jeskai Control Battle Box
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Jan 31, 2022 |
Just Slap It Down and Start Playing
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Jan 24, 2022 |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Magic
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Jan 17, 2022 |
Open Drafting the Bun Magic Cube
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Jan 10, 2022 |
Power Cuts Both Ways
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Jan 03, 2022 |
Looking Backwards; Moving Forwards
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Dec 27, 2021 |
Inaugural Draft of the Irregular Cube
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Dec 20, 2021 |
Un-Cards for Cube
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Dec 13, 2021 |
All About Brainstorm
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Dec 06, 2021 |
Innistrad: Crimson Vow Cube Community Set Review
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Nov 29, 2021 |
Innistrad: Crimson Vow Cube Additions
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Nov 22, 2021 |
Innistrad: Crimson Vow Mechanics & First Impressions
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Nov 15, 2021 |
The Use and Abuse of Archetype Driven Design
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Nov 08, 2021 |
A Farewell to Cube Tutor
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Nov 01, 2021 |
Evolving Cubes and the Power of Novelty
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Oct 25, 2021 |
A Normal Conversation About Magic Cards
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Oct 18, 2021 |
Mark Rosewater is My Personal Design Intern with Jason Waddell
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Oct 11, 2021 |
CubeTutor Shutdown
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Oct 06, 2021 |
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Cube Set Review
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Oct 04, 2021 |
Cube Feelbads: Breaking Zero-Sum Fun in Magic
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Sep 20, 2021 |
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Mechanics and First Impressions
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Sep 13, 2021 |
Single Card Discussion
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Sep 06, 2021 |
Atomic Spells: The Role of One Mana Cards in Cube
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Aug 30, 2021 |
Live from Cube Weekend '21
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Cube Logistics: Sleeves, Storage, Shuffling, and More
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Battlebox: No Setup, No Bad Mana, All Magic
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Aug 09, 2021 |
The Cube Player's Guide to Manabases
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Aug 02, 2021 |
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Cube Set Review
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Jul 26, 2021 |
The Mechanics of Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
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Jul 19, 2021 |
In Defense of Unpopular Cards
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Jul 12, 2021 |
The Chromatic Cube with David McDarby
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Jul 05, 2021 |
Magic: the Gathering is a Difficult Game
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Jun 28, 2021 |
Modern Horizons 2 Cube Set Review
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Jun 21, 2021 |
How to Win Friends & Influence People (into Playing Your Cube)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
Midrange Matchups with Parker LaMascus
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Jun 07, 2021 |
Hope Tender & Devoted Druid & Ragavan & Laelia
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May 31, 2021 |
Playing to Win: Evaluating New Cubes
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May 24, 2021 |
Irregular Cube: Rarity in Custom Draft Formats
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May 17, 2021 |
Strixhaven and Commander 2021 Cube Set Review
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May 10, 2021 |
Smells Like Synergy
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May 03, 2021 |
Strixhaven Mechanics and Kinds of Decisions
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Apr 26, 2021 |
The Show Must Go On
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Cube, Art School, & Critical Discourse
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Apr 12, 2021 |
Cube Is Not a Monolith
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Apr 05, 2021 |
More Mana, Faster Mana
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Mar 29, 2021 |
Introducing the Cube Map
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Mar 24, 2021 |
A Flat Power Level
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Mar 22, 2021 |
Cubers Anonymous with Justin Parnell
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Mar 15, 2021 |
Spring Cleaning
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Mar 08, 2021 |
Restrictions & Inspiration
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Mar 01, 2021 |
Spreadsheet: the Gathering
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Feb 22, 2021 |
Card Evaluation and the Playtesting Paradox
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Feb 15, 2021 |
Kaldheim Cube Set Review
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Feb 08, 2021 |
Personal Cube Level Ups
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Feb 01, 2021 |
Bread and Butter Breakdown
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Jan 25, 2021 |
Kaldheim First Look
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Jan 18, 2021 |
Vision Design vs. Play Design in Cube
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Jan 11, 2021 |
On Being a Cube Spike
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Jan 04, 2021 |
Listener Submitted Chaos Supreme
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Dec 28, 2020 |
Tribal Themes and Parasitism
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Dec 21, 2020 |
The Making of the Degenerate Micro Cube
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Dec 14, 2020 |
Setting the Tempo
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Dec 07, 2020 |
Cube Potpourri
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Nov 30, 2020 |
Designing a Commander Cube
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Nov 23, 2020 |
Commander Legends and a Cube That Glitters
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Nov 16, 2020 |
Designing for the Draft
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Nov 09, 2020 |
Man vs. Machine
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Nov 02, 2020 |
Context is King
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Oct 26, 2020 |
How and Why to Build a Cube
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Oct 19, 2020 |
Complexity in Cube Design
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Oct 12, 2020 |
Playtesting & Theorycrafting
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Oct 05, 2020 |
Zendikar Rising Cube Set Review
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Sep 28, 2020 |
Turbo Eggs
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Sep 21, 2020 |
Power Creep, Sacred Cows, and Boiled Frogs
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Sep 14, 2020 |
Lay of the Lands
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Sep 07, 2020 |
Zendikar Rising First Look
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Sep 02, 2020 |
Analysis Paralysis
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Aug 31, 2020 |
Rotisserie Rundown
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Aug 24, 2020 |
Matchup Matrix
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Aug 17, 2020 |
The Spirit of Singleton
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Aug 10, 2020 |
The ABCs of Aggro
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Aug 03, 2020 |
The Problem with Five-Color Goodstuff
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Jul 27, 2020 |
Drafting Your Own Cube Poorly
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Jul 20, 2020 |
Optimal Sealed Environment
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Jul 13, 2020 |
A Cube with No Color
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Jul 05, 2020 |
Core Set 2021 Cube Set Review
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Jul 05, 2020 |
Teaser
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Jun 30, 2020 |