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01:12:53

Cube Cards That Are Hated

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2026/06/15

View all cards mentioned in this episodeRiffing on last week’s slightly divisive topic, Andy and Anthony talk about cards in their own cubes that players hate. They comb through their cubes discussing the many reasons players might dislike a card and why they might still be justifiable inclusions.Discussed in this episode:NumberphileEpisode 307: Hate Cards in CubeSacred GeometryRegular CubeBun Magic CubeIrregular Cube100 OrnithoptersEpisode 293: The Last Echo of a BoonIf you’d like to show your

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01:06:34

Hate Cards in Cube

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2026/06/08

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about hate cards, and how they fit into Cube design in particular. Of course, they start by trying to define the term. They talk through the pros and cons of them and how different types may play a role in Cubes. They go through a number of their own cubes, analyzing them from this perspective.Discussed in this episode:Take 5Sacred Geometry100 OrnithoptersBun Magic CubeNeoclassical CubeTurbo CubeRegular CubeIf you’d like to show your

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00:53:36

Steal Our Cube Ideas

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2026/06/01

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony scour the cutting room floor for unfinished gems. They offer up some of their half-baked, unfinished cube ideas for you to steal. Andy shares his ideas for an aesthetic sun-bleached cube, a cube where your deck is your life total, and an environment built around wishes. Anthony digs up an all alternate win conditions cube and a battle box where the entire game happens in one stack.Discussed in this episode:Anthony’s Alternate Win Condition

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01:03:53

The Scorpion and The Cube with Ollie Beeks

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2026/05/25

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony are joined by Cube Person of the Year 2024, Ollie, to talk about whether it’s irresponsible to present a cube for drafting without any playtesting. What is the difference between ‘playing’ and ‘playtesting’? Can you design a cube iteratively without playtesting? Just how bad can a cube really be?Discussed in this episode:Upkeep NY/C4ACBodlean CubeCreatureless CubeEpisode 302 — Theory Drafting the Best Decks in Regular CubeThe Ball PitEpisode

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01:10:07

Salt Box Recap with Judge Bones

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2026/05/18

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony are joined by the de facto Cube judge — Bones! The three recap The Salt Box, a small Cube event in Baltimore. At this event, Andy debuted Take Five and Judge Bones Arcane Lessons. They share what they learned from players drafting their cubes for the very first time and their own experience as cube designers drafting cubes for the first time in a public event.Discussed in this episode:Salt BoxTake 5Take 5 Youtube VideosArcane LessonsBones on

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01:13:17

The Barash Files 006 — Cube Design Lenses

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2026/05/11

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony are joined by returning guest Zach Barash. They talk about about different lenses Cube designers can use to approach designing a new cube. They finish on a pack 1, pick 1 from Andy’s new cube Take Five.Previous episodes with Zach:001 The Principles of Game Design002 On Terminology, Communication, and Community003 Reflections on Cube Drafts Past004 Building Skill vs. Building Community and Learning from Your Mistakes005 Playtesting and Cube

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01:14:09

Theory Drafting the Best Decks in Regular Cube

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2026/05/04

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony and joined by Adam, a local player who suggested a novel way to cube. All players involved built what they thought would be the best deck that could ever be drafted from Anthony’s Regular Cube. They talked about the decks they built, their processes for building, and what it revealed about an environment which is typically intended to be drafted.Discussed in this episode:Regular CubeSuper Magic Fun TimeDegenerate MicrocubeIf you’d like to show

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00:55:22

Playing Proactive Green Decks

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2026/04/27

View all cards mentioned in this episodeFollowing their previous episode about playing with Young Pyromancer Andy and Anthony talk about how to win with proactive green decks. They look back at some of Anthony’s successful decks and try to get some insight into what makes them tick, exploring card types and distribution and gameplay heuristics.Discussed in this episode:Deck PhotosEpisode 299: How to Win with Young PyromancerEpisode 260: The ABC’s of MidrangeRed TerrorIf you’d like to show your

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01:29:08

Tricentennial Q & A

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2026/04/20

View all cards mentioned in this episodeCelebrating 300 episodes, Andy and Anthony answer listener submitted questions. They address their favorite gummy candies, opinions on the free will of jellyfish, the most technologically advanced things they could build from scratch on a desert island, and so much more.Discussed in this episode:Arena CubeShoeboxShrimp Welfare ProjectErich’s Packing CenterSockerbitGo BidetBooks:A Pattern Language,by Christopher AlexanderA People’s History of the United States)

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01:03:04

How to Win with Young Pyromancer

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2026/04/13

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about one of Andy’s all time favorite cards Young Pyromancer. After a recent draft of a peasant cube at their weekly cube night, Anthony realized that despite it’s iconic status, it’s not a card he feels like he know’s how to optimize. Andy shares his experience with the card, what he thinks it takes to support it, and a handful of his cube draft decks it headlined.View the full decklists of Andy’s referenced drafts on the cards

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01:00:01

On Colorless Cards

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2026/04/06

View all cards mentioned in this episodeMost of the time when listeners suggest topics we’ve already recorded a whole episode dedicated to that subject. Sometimes we’ve even recorded three. It turns out almost six years is a long time to have a weekly podcast about a niche interest like Cube design. So when someone recently suggested we record an episode about ‘colorless cards’ I was surprised to discover that we have never actually dedicated an entire episode to the subject, and it turns out we

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00:53:53

Book Club: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald...

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2026/03/30

View all cards mentioned in this episodeIn the third book club Episode, Anthony and Parker talk about Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. Originally published in 1988, the book was an influential criticism of the built world and interfaces establishing many concepts fundamental to user interface and industrial design today. It also introduces a metric ton of jargon per page.Our book club members talk about how these concepts apply to game and Cube design and their thinking about things

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01:24:48

Shoebox Recap with Patrick

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2026/03/23

View all cards mentioned in this episodeIn this explicit episode of Lucky Paper Radio, Andy, Anthony, and Patrick recap their experience at Shoebox in St Paul, Minnesota. Shoebox celebrated a range of casual formats including team limited, pauper, and, of course, Cube! They talk about highlights from the weekend and the decks they drafted.Discussed in this episode:The Monster FuckDee Dee Mega Doo DooArties CubeShoeboxEiganjo DriftAquaone PoweredPenrose CubeHeatherCubeBoudican Destruction Horizon100

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01:00:54

How Do We Know What We Know About Magic: The Gathering

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2026/03/16

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony finally just talk about epistemology and sort of address Magic: the Gathering. They talk about the way we all generally learn things and incorporate them into our understanding of the world around us, and how that manifests in the smaller world of the game.Discussed in this episode:ContraPoints on YouTubeThe Beginning of Infinity by David DeutschEvery Living Thing by Jason Roberts100 OrnithoptersRegular CubeCascade CascadeCube MapIf you’d like

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00:50:17

Three Years of the Companion Cube, with Greg Cortazzo

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2026/03/09

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk with Greg about his Companion Cube. In this Cube, each player chooses a card from their deck before each game to be their ‘companion’, which their guaranteed access to. They talk about the history of the cube and the difference between the early days of frequent edits and the longer stable phase with less frequent changes.Greg is also one of the organizers of Shoebox an event happening next week in St Paul, Minnesota. Shoebox will

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00:59:56

The Last Echo of a Boon

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2026/03/02

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about cutting a long-standing, controversial card from 100 Ornithopters: Echoing Boon. They talk about gameplay experiences with the card and why Andy decided to include a conspiracy in the cube in the first place. The ‘always on’ nature of conspiracies put certain constraints on the cube’s design. Andy talks about some of those limitations and changes he’s planning to make after they’re gone.Discussed in this episode:100 OrnithoptersCube

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00:56:20

Packing and Mapping Synergies in Cubes

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2026/02/23

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony discuss how they think about themes within cubes. As always, our hosts beginning with a thorough defining of terms. They talk about how they think about thematically related sets of cards and how many they think can fit, or would want to, in a Cube. Andy has been exploring fitting a tight network of synergistic cards in his cube Take Five.They also talk about a new app Anthony built specifically for mapping synergies between cards within a

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00:52:05

Power Level and Game Impact in Cube Design

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2026/02/16

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about the concept of power level band or range in Cubes. It’s sometimes said a Cube should have a pretty even power level, with the strongest card being not too much stronger than the weakest, is a good idea. Our hosts talk about why that doesn’t always make sense and strategies for making Cubes with a wide band of power that still make sense.Discussed in this episode:Regular CubeSacred GeometryRecross the PathsNeoclassical CubeBun Magic

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01:00:37

Lunchbox Tournament Report

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2026/02/09

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy, Anthony, and Patrick recap their experience at Lunch Box, a 1 day Cube event in their home town of Baltimore raising funds for the Maryland Food Bank. They discuss the cubes they drafted, the highs and lows of their matches, and their overall experiences at the event.Discussed in this episode:Lunch BoxTwilight CubeRed TerrorLibrary of BabelScience CubeIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on

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00:53:54

Star Magic — The Best Way to Cube with Five Players

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2026/02/02

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about Star Magic, a unique multiplayer format that also happens to be a way to accommodate a draft with 5 players — a notoriously awkward number.In a Star Magic game, 5 players engage in a free-for-all game with a specific win condition. The game ends when any one player eliminates the two others seated furthest from them. Players sitting next to each other are neutrally affiliated but are motivated to collaborate by their one shared

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