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Lucky Paper Radio

Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox

Lucky Paper Radio is a podcast about Magic: the Gathering hosted by lifelong friends Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox. Focused primarily on sandbox formats like Cube, which are free of banlists, rotation, and net decking, the show is about the best parts of Magic and how to get the most out of the game.

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00:56:16

Lessons From the Death of an Experimental Cube

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/11/07

After one last draft, Andy and Anthony look back on the now disassembled Mono Black Cube. They talk about highlights and lessons learned from the particular design. Unique constraints pushed Anthony to explore new space that will inform future projects. More broadly, they discuss the life-cycle of cubes: why it makes sense to start from scratch and iterate rather than circling around a local maximum to improve one’s Cube design skills. View all cards mentioned in the episode → Our listener submitted

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01:05:41

CubeCon "Tournament Report"

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/10/31

After a fantastic, if exhausting, inaugural CubeCon, Andy and Anthony are joined by Patrick, Daniel, and Theo to talk about highlights from the weekend. They talk about their favorite Cubes they drafted, top gameplay moments, and what they learned over an amazing few days of Cube. View all cards mentioned in the episode → Timestamps: 5:30 — Our Favorite Cubes 28:56 — Cards that Surprised Us 40:58 — Complexity Chat 52:21 — Scumboi’s Personal Pack 1, Pick 1 59:11 — Our favorite moments from

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00:54:41

The Duality of Power Outliers

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/10/24

View all cards mentioned in the episode → Andy and Anthony respond to an episode of The Eternal Glory Podcast on the recent pauper bans. Drawing comparisons between managing a constructed format with bans and Cube design, the boys examine the difference between welcome power outliers and toxic, ban-worthy cards, talk about the nature of evolving metagames, small and large, and interrogate the concept of a “good Magic purist”. Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Lukas’s The

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00:06:53

The Road to Cube Con

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/10/19

We’re on our way to Cube Con! We can’t wait to meet listeners and friends from all over. If you’re attending CubeCon, introduce yourself! We’ll be posting a photo of ourselves on our Twitter account so you know who to look for. Anthony is going to have his battlebox on hand and Andy is looking to grind some games of his mono-colored starter decks. If you’re not attending CubeCon, you can still join in on the fun remotely. The event is streaming all weekend on twitch.tv/cloudgoatranger, and Andy is

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01:05:29

How to Use Scryfall: Improving Your Decks, Improving...

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/10/17

View all cards mentioned in the episode → Andy and Anthony talk about a fundamental component of playing Magic, exploring and finding new cards. They talk about their goals and process for finding new cards and talk about leveraging Scryfall’s powerful search features to make this critical component a breeze. They even touch on some of the advanced features that can save you from missing potential pieces. Check out Anthony’s articles on using Scryfall’s search syntax and advanced searches with

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01:22:10

Turbo Cube Draft Primer

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/10/10

View all cards mentioned in the episode → If you don’t yet have tickets to CubeCon, you can now sign up for the wait list Andy and Anthony talk about how they approach drafting Anthony’s novel Turbo Cube where all spells and activated abilities cost less. The Cube will be featured at the inaugural Cube Con. Our hosts talk about the themes and individual cards that define the format. They talk about the ramification of the rules modification and what to look out for when approaching the

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01:22:22

Regular Cube Draft Primer

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/10/03

View all cards mentioned in the episode → In advance of Anthony’s Regular Cube being featured at CubeCon, Andy and Anthony talk about how they approach the format. The talk about the themes and strategies they think are the most powerful, cards that overperform, and cards that don’t behave like you might expect. Timestamps: 2:14 — Topic Introduction 4:51 — Overview of The Regular Cube 7:00 — Tip: Look for Synergy 11:40 — Theme: Zombies 14:20 — Archetype: Red Black Sacrifice 19:37 — Theme:

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01:59:27

Cards We Were Wrong About: 2022 Standard Rotation

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/09/26

The full timestamps were too long for the RSS feed, so check them out on our website. View all cards mentioned in the episode → Andy, Anthony, and Parker take the 2022 standard set rotation as an opportunity to look back on sets from the not-too-distant past. Sets rotating out of standard include everything from Zendikar Rising to Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. They look back on card they rated (or conspicuously didn’t rate) in Lucky Paper’s prospective surveys, each picking the cards they feel

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01:30:58

Dominaria United Cube Community Set Review

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/09/19

View all cards mentioned in the episode → Andy, Anthony, and Parker talk about the results from the Dominaria United community set review. Almost 350 Cube designers submitted the cards they were interested in from DMU and rated them on how likely they expected to stay in their environment long term. Our hosts talk about the most tested and top-rated cards, examine trends, look at how the set compares to past sets, and offer their own qualitative observations. Check out the full survey results. Our

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01:16:05

Dominaria United Cube Additions

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/09/12

Our Cube Prospective Surveys for Dominaria United and accompanying commander sets are closing soon! Andy and Anthony discuss the new cards from Dominaria United they’re interested in for their own Cube environments. They talk about some powerful new options for Andy’s eternal cube, off-color kicker cards and clean variations on classic cards for Anthony’s unrestricted cube, and a few cards that fit more novel environments. View all cards mentioned in the episode → Discussed in this episode:

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00:49:03

Dominaria United Mechanics & First Impressions

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/09/05

Our Cube Prospective Surveys for Dominaria United and accompanying commander sets are now open! Andy and Anthony talk about the new mechanics, themes, and their first impressions of Dominaria United and what they’re most excited about for Cube. View all cards mentioned in the episode → Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. Timestamps: 1:40 — Episode Structure and Introduction 3:50 — Enlist 9:37 — Read Ahead 13:18 — Domain 19:55 — Kicker 27:19 — Stun Counters 32:22

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01:19:24

Cube as a Personal History with Dom Harvey

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/08/29

Andy and Anthony are joined by competitive grinder, latent Cube content creator, and actually good Magic player Dom Harvey to talk about his relationship with the game. Together, they discuss Dom’s storied competitive career, the early days of Cube, how a Cube can serve as a document of your personal history with Magic, whether or not experience with constructed Magic can inform playing and designing Cubes, and how to think about combo as a strategy. View all cards mentioned in the episode → This

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01:14:26

The Texture of Removal

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/08/22

Having discussed the impact of different densities of removal ad nauseam, Andy and Anthony turn their attention to the different types of removal spells and how they play differently. They examine the costs of playing too much unconditional removal, wax poetic on their love of "small" removal spells like Portable Hole and Disfigure, and discuss how given two removal spells with equal costs, sometimes the one that hits fewer targets is actually better. They recorded this episode before Cut Down was

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00:53:07

Tarmogoyfs & Elvish Visionaries

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/08/15

Andy and Anthony are back at it again, returning to the font of endless Magic discussion: Baneslayers and Mulldrifters. After years of not consciously thinking about this dichotomy, Andy has discovered that his primary cube has skewed heavily towards “Baneslayers”. The boys get into why this descriptor is so often used derogatorily, some reasons why “Mulldrifter” maybe should be used derogatorily, and how people’s perceptions of the difference between these two iconic cards changes when you choose

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01:01:13

State of the Game 2022

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/08/08

6:35 — Listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 14:45 — Overview of the State of Design article 19:06 — Complexity in Magic in 2022 26:40 — Adjustments to the color pie, how that reflects high-level changes in Wizards’ approach to design, and how good game design does or does not have an inherent tension with success under capitalism 46:57 — Feedback Andy was surprised by from CLB 48:36 — Our favorite things from the last year in Magic 56:18 — Closing thoughts View all cards mentioned in the episode → Andy

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00:56:32

Cards That Are Cool

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/08/01

Andy and Anthony compare their main cubes, Andy’s unpowered Vintage Cube that emulates the gameplay of Legacy and Anthony’s comparatively low powered Regular Cube which is more akin to a masters set draft. They compare the cards shared between the two and how they function in these very different environments. View all cards mentioned in the episode → Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from michaeldkarp’s Box of Cards. Timestamps: 3:59 — Listener Submitted Pack 1, Pick 1 8:40 —

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01:00:33

How Many Lands Should You Include in Your Cube?

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/07/25

View all cards mentioned in the episode → Read Andy's article informing this episode! Andy and Anthony talk about how many lands to run in a Cube. While Cube design is subjective and largely a matter of taste, our hosts discuss things we can objectively measure about the proportion of lands included in a Cube, and precedent from other Magic formats. Andy breaks down data from Cube Cobra from his new article on the same subject about how Cubes are generally constructed. Our listener submitted pack 1,

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01:08:45

Commander Deck Building Inspiration, Self-Imposed...

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/07/18

View all cards mentioned in the episode → Andy and Anthony discuss Commander and their personal approaches to deck building. They talk about some of their favorite decks, what they look for in the format, and what motivates them to brew. Discussed in this episode: MythBusters Lucky Paper Commander Map Guardian Project Podcast Command Zone’s New Commander Deck Template Catcher in the Rye EDHREC Deck: Zedruu Voltron: Little Auras, Great Beats Deck: Nazahn, Revered Bladesmith Spy Kit

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01:09:25

Scholar of the Game

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/07/11

The show notes for this episode are too long to fit in the RSS feed, so check out our website for linked timestamps, cards mentioned, and the full list of links. One of the great aspects of Cube is that it is somewhat all-encompassing — anything you like about Magic, whether it’s part a Commander deck, the Legacy metagame, or a specific sideboarding strategy in Pioneer, can inform how a cube is designed. On this episode, Andy and Anthony share all of the Magic podcasts, videos, and articles that

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00:48:35

Introducing the Commander Map

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2022/07/05

View the Commander Map! Andy and Anthony are joined by Jett to talk about Lucky Paper’s brand new project: the Commander Map! The map visualizes the wide world of EDH showing every deck on EDHREC organized in 2d space based on the cards they contain. Like the Cube Map, the Commander Map algorithmically organizes every deck, (all 1.2 million of them!) into an interactive visualization showing patterns in the way people build decks. They discuss how the map was made, what else the dimension reduction

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