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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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02:47:17

Strixhaven and Commander 2021 Cube Set Review

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/05/10

Our Strixhaven: School of Mages and Commander 2021 prospectives are out! Thank you to everyone who participated. Andy and Anthony are joined by Lucky Paper contributor Jett for a deep dive on what they believe to be the noteworthy cards from Strixhaven and Commander 2021. In their discussion, they reference their Strixhaven mechanics episode and their episode on Card Evaluation and the Playtesting Paradox. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 8:28 Elite Spellbinder 14:43 Leonin Lightscribe (and white

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01:04:23

Smells Like Synergy

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/05/03

Our Strixhaven set review episode is coming to you next week. We weren’t able to do the episode in a timely fashion due to life circumstances, but we’re going to make sure we bring the quality. Thanks for your patience! On this week’s episode, Andy and Anthony talk about Cube and synergy. Synergy means many things to many different cube players and designers and is used to talk about both environments and decks. We tease out a few ways to define synergy, and how we use it to frame our goals as cube

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00:58:06

Strixhaven Mechanics and Kinds of Decisions

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/04/26

Our Strixhaven and Commander 2021 Cube surveys are open! Please take a few minutes to let us know what you’re testing in your cube from the new sets. Andy and Anthony talk about the new mechanics in Strixhaven and what they have us most excited for in cube. They cover the unique draft mechanic of Learn and Lesson and the ways it can be applied to cube, and the exciting expansion of spells matter and protection mechanics. Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from captainawesome’s The

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00:30:14

The Show Must Go On

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/04/19

Our Strixhaven and Commander 2021 Cube surveys are open! Please take a few minutes to let us know what you’re testing in your cube from the new sets. Due to the loss of a close, personal friend, Andy and Anthony are off this week. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please consult the resources available from The American Association of Suicidology. If you’re able, please consider donating blood through The Red Cross. This week, guest hosts Parker and Kennedy discuss their most recent Cube

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01:13:53

Cube, Art School, & Critical Discourse

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/04/12

Our Strixhaven and Commander 2021 Cube surveys are open! Please take a few minutes to let us know what you’re testing in your cube from the new sets. This week, Andy and Anthony share a little of their personal history and how important their tools for critical discourse they learned in art school have been to their lives, Magic very much included. They talk about how they first met and the ubiquitous art school critique. From their pack 1, pick 1 of Jean’s Fast Multiplayer Cube they delve into they

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01:03:05

Cube Is Not a Monolith

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/04/05

This week, Andy and Anthony take aim at the dominating rhetoric about Cube which takes for granted it is a format showcasing the most powerful cards in Magic. They tackle the big effects that small patterns in language can have, excluding huge areas of creative cube design. Our hosts reflect on just how effective the Cube Map is at visualizing the existing diversity in the format, and hinting at the vast empty spaces yet to be explored. Our pack 1, pick 1 comes from the Nega Cube, currently taking

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00:56:08

More Mana, Faster Mana

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/03/29

This week, Andy and Anthony discuss changes to Andy’s Bun Magic Cube, updated to include a dramatic increase in the number of mana fixing lands and filling out a suite of fast mana. Our hosts discuss how this level of mana fixing changes a draft, and what questions they’re asking themselves to try to recalibrate expectations when drafting the shifted environment. Andy argues increasing the amount of ‘broken’ fast mana decreases variance, creating a more fun draft environment. And Anthony,

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00:21:29

Introducing the Cube Map

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/03/24

The Cube Map: Exploring over 20,000 Magic: the Gathering Cube lists On this very special bonus episode, Andy and Anthony are joined by Jett to tell everyone about a project they have been working on for a long time: the Cube Map! Read more about how the map was made in Jett’s in depth article. A huge thanks to Cube Cobra for providing us with the data to make the map possible. If you have the means, please consider donating to their Patreon to show your support for community driven, open-source and

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01:15:40

A Flat Power Level

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/03/22

Anyone who has spent any time in Cube design circles has heard the supposed virtues of an environment with a “flat” power level, where the worst card is no less appealing or less playable than the best. On this week’s Lucky Paper Radio, Andy and Anthony are unpacking this truism and discussing the impacts of individual card power delta on a given cube more broadly. They two also touch on Magic as a spectator sport, PVDDR’s Youtube channel and subsequent article on Star City Games, Andy’s biggest

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01:28:44

Cubers Anonymous with Justin Parnell

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/03/15

Andy and Anthony welcome Justin Parnell on this week’s episode of Lucky Paper Radio. Justin was one of the first Magic writers to write about Cube and graciously shares stories from the format’s earlier days. From curating his own cube to designing environments for open, competitive play, we get a glimpse into how Justin thinks about Magic. Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Dan’s “Ancient Times” cube. Thanks, Dan! Discussed in this episode: SCGcon Players’ Cube SCGcon

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01:00:17

Spring Cleaning

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/03/08

Do you like your podcast episodes to be carefully planned and tightly edited, with the hosts staying laser focused on the topic at hand? If so, then this episode of Lucky Paper Radio is probably not for you! This week, Andy and Anthony are jumping around between a couple of topics, some only dubiously related to Magic, so let the timestamps be your guide if you think musings on world geography are a waste of your time. Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Pablo’s cube

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01:06:48

Restrictions & Inspiration

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/03/01

On this week’s Lucky Paper Radio, Andy and Anthony are answering a question from listener Nate about how to decide which cards to “ban” from his Peasant Cube. To date, Nate has used the Legacy banned list for his cube, but the recent addition of Arcum's Astrolabe has him wondering if he should drop this restriction. Then, they discuss the video “Should Cubes be Singleton?”, recounting their own experiences designing for both singleton and non-singleton environments. The confluence of these topics

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01:17:18

Spreadsheet: the Gathering

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/02/22

View the Rotisserie Draft Discussed in this Episode Use the Template in Your Own Rotisserie Drafts On this week’s Lucky Paper Radio, Andy and Anthony are returning to one of their favorite ways to play Cube in the time of covid: online, asynchronous rotisserie drafting. Our heroes are in the midst of the matches following a recent rotisserie draft of Anthony’s “Regular” Cube and they’re discussing everything Anthony has learned from the experience. In their chat they touch on what rotisserie draft

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01:17:10

Card Evaluation and the Playtesting Paradox

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/02/15

As a follow up to last week’s Kaldheim Set Review episode, Andy and Anthony are going back to first principles and asking, what is card evaluation? How do we look at a piece of paper with a bunch of text on it and make predictions about what that piece of paper will do to other pieces of paper, and ultimately our win percentage, in the future? Is card evaluation important for Cube design? Why or why not? Why did they reference Limited Resources so much in this episode? How many Relentless Rats is

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02:34:34

Kaldheim Cube Set Review

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/02/08

Our Kaldheim Prospective is out! Thank you to everyone who participated. Buckle your seatbelts and charge up your podcatchers, because this is our most in-depth set review ever and our longest episode to date. Andy and Anthony are joined by Jett, the author of Lucky Paper’s set prospective series, for a detailed discussion of the results of our Kaldheim Cube survey. Timestamps: White 20:18 Blue 50:12 Black 1:15:38 Red 1:40:56 Green 1:51:08 Lands 2:12:20 Colorless 2:22:07 Gold

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01:18:27

Personal Cube Level Ups

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/02/01

This is our last chance to complete our Kaldheim Cube Survey! Please take a few minutes to let us know what you’re testing in your cube from the new set. Every once in a while, something in your head clicks and the way you think about your cube changes forever. On this episode, Andy and Anthony take some time to reflect on each of their personal biggest Cube design level-up moments. Anthony’s level ups are: Including many more fixing lands The value of hybrid cards as a counterbalance to a deep

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01:00:14

Bread and Butter Breakdown

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/01/25

Our Kaldheim Cube Survey is open! Please take a few minutes to let us know what you’re testing in your cube from the new set. As Andy tinkers with two lower powered and novel cubes, he finds himself presented with a question he hasn’t actually confronted in depth before: what percentage of a cube should be removal? Or countermagic? Or cantrips and card draw? With higher-powered cubes you’re often constrained by the available card pool, and end up playing as much of these effects as you can without

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01:02:30

Kaldheim First Look

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/01/18

Given that we’re in the throes of spoiler season, Andy and Anthony are giving their first impressions on the mechanics of Kaldheim and how they relate to other mechanics in Magic or might be integrated into a cube environment. They also do a pack one, pick one from listener Arjan’s Legacy Cube. Thanks, Arjan! Discussed in this episode: Speks Magnet Balls Kinder Eggs Licking Nintendo Switch Cartridges Streisand Effect Kaldheim Mechanics Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 6:29 Listener submitted

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00:52:57

Vision Design vs. Play Design in Cube

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/01/11

Try as they might, our beloved hosts just can’t stay on track. On this episode, Andy’s attempt to tie up a few loose ends from last week’s episode ends up leading our heroes down another rabbit hole about the Cube design process and how it relates to the player psychographics. It was not a fruitless journey, though! On this episode, Andy and Anthony propose the application of the “Vision Design” and “Play Design” distinction that exists within Magic R&D to Cube design. Tune in to learn all about

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01:04:11

On Being a Cube Spike

Lucky Paper Radio ·

2021/01/04

It’s a new year and Lucky Paper Radio is back! They also never went anywhere, but they’re back nonetheless. On this episode, Andy and Anthony intend to talk about Anthony’s multiplayer cube that he couldn’t help but make after our little string of multiplayer-focused episodes a couple months back, but instead, our hosts get riled up and end up talking about what it means to be a “cube spike”, and whether or not such a thing even exists. Things really kick off about 1/3rd of the way through, so

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