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01:21:02

Capitol Cube Championship 2026 Tournament Report

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2026/10/05

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony recap their experience at Capitol Cube Championship in Washington D.C. They talk about the five different cube drafts they did between them and their overall experience at the event.Discussed in this episode:Team Fundraiser for Birds of Paradise100 Ornithopters Champion’s Draft Digital QualifierCapitol Cube ChampsThe Score by C. Thi NguyenThe Desert BirdUpkeep ZineTrinket CubeSynesthesia100 OrnithoptersInvasion to Kamigawa CubeIf you’d like to

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00:57:00

Bonus Episode — Obscura: Dangerous

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2026/10/01

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk with Ollie about their Obscura Cube with the prompt “Dangerous.” Ollie’s interpretation of the prompt led them to build a desert cube where all lands cost life to generate colored mana. Limiting each player to 20 colored pips of mana over the course of a game reshapes the way player’s engage with their life total as a resource and creates a truly dangerous feeling sensation.Discussed in this episode:Ollie’s Dangerous CubeC4AC

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00:59:55

Leveraging Scarcity in Cube Design and Play

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2026/09/28

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy, Anthony, and Parker talk about how to draft cubes better by framing their thinking in terms of the scarcest resource in any give context. Flipping the perspective, they talk about how to leverage a diversity of themes as a cube designer.Discussed in this episode:Birds of Paradise FundraiserLevel Up Your Cube Drafting With Scarcity article by ParkerThe Self-Defeating Irony of Cube Conceits article by ParkerParker’s Articles on Cascade CascadeTurbo

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00:46:56

Bonus Episode — Obscura: Collapse

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2026/09/26

View all cards mentioned in this episodeGabe joins Andy and Anthony talk about his Obscura cube, starting with the prompt “collapse”. Gabe chose to build on the theme in both aesthetic and mechanical ways. Pulling heavily from zendikar sets he set a tone of a world after the collapse of civilization. Mechanically he hoped to create gameplay that put players in committed positions that could easily crumble. In the first half, before the event, they talk about the design process and fears and

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01:13:25

Drafting and Designing Weird Cubes with Ryan Overturf

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2026/09/21

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony are joined by Cube icon Ryan Overturf to talk about drafting and designing weird cubes. They talk about his experience at CubeConbroadening his experience into novel designs. They go more in depth into Ryan’s cube Stadium Stampede where all players start with a copy of Strixhaven Stadium in play.Discussed in this episode:Ryan’s Cubes on Cube CobraThe OnebertRyan’s Youtube180 MTG Podcast1UP CubeAquaone Powered CubeEpisode 238: Vintage Cube

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00:56:10

Bonus Episode — Obscura: Cavalier

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2026/09/17

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk with Dan, best known for creating the Devoid Cube, about his cube for Cube for a Cause: Obscura. Starting with the prompt “cavalier” Dan dove into the world of knights and found himself with a cube pulling heavily from the plane of Eldraine.Discussed in this episode:Dan’s Cavalier CubeDan’s Cubes on Cube CobraDuel Decks: Knights vs. DragonsKing CharlesIkoria at HomeArena Planar CubeMidwinterDragons of Winters NightIf you’d like to show

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00:54:15

Expensive Spells We Actually Like

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2026/09/14

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about expensive cards in Cube — how high mana value cards fit into their cube designs. They talk about specific expensive cards they love, break down some specific roles they see the cards playing, and how variety makes cubes more fun.Discussed in this episode:Status and Culture by W. David MarxThe Score by C. Thi NguyenIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review

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00:46:03

Bonus Episode — Obscura: Anti-War

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2026/09/10

View all cards mentioned in this episodeIn the first installment of Obscura cube design discussions, Andy and Anthony are joined by Ollie to talk about Anthony’s cube designed around the prompt “anti-war”. Moving past the literal interpretation of a cube without war, Anthony chose to make his cube all about presenting the profound horrors of war. The cube features cards that aesthetically or mechanically express brutality, hopelessness, greed, and resource extraction.In the first half, recorded

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00:58:34

Summer 2026 Cube Zeitgeist

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2026/09/07

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about recent trends in Cube design. After looking through the revealed Cube lists for the recent Cube for a Cause: Obscura our hosts noticed a few design features popping up again and again. They talk about them in the broader, evolving context of the Cube design community discussing if they reflect bigger trends. In particular, reflect on “art cards” — cards included for purely aesthetic reasons, desert cubes, cubes with no or minimal

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00:56:02

What Makes a Card “Sacred?”

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2026/08/31

View all cards mentioned in this episodeSometimes a card design just sings — all of the individual elements come together to make an elegant, resonant game piece. In this episode Andy and Anthony talk about this concept through the lens of Andy’s cube Sacred Geometry as he considers committing even harder to the bit.Discussed in this episode:Feudal Cube Auction on EbaySacred GeometryHellraiserRegular CubeVirtually French CubeIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing

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00:59:46

Open Drafting Take Five

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2026/08/24

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony collaboratively draft Andy’s Take Five cube, discussing their strategy through a whole draft and how they might approach this unique environment. To follow along, or try the draft yourself before listening, you can download the seeded pack list and upload it to Draftmancer.Also check out the cards mentioned page for the pack by pack view and final deck.Discussed in this episode:Download Pack List to upload to DraftmancerTake FiveIf you’d like

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01:00:37

Exploring Cube Cobra’s New Winrate Analysis Features

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2026/08/17

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony explore Cube Cobra’s new analytic tools for card and deck winrates. The new features allow you to upload decks and their matchup records, or import matchup data if a Cube has been played at an event using Hedron Network to track matches.After Andy diligently imported hundreds of decks for 100 Ornithopters, they talk through all the different visualizations and how they might use them as Cube designers.Discussed in this episode:Intro SourceCube

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00:52:52

Summertime Mailbag

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2026/08/10

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony first talk about their upcoming series of interviews related to Cube For a Cause: Obscura. The event will feature 17 secret Cubes from 17 well known designers created just for the event. Until the first packs are cracked, the contents of each have been kept completely unknown. Each episode in the series will feature a designer talking about their plans going in before the event and a post-mortem discussion of how their cube played.With

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00:57:37

Cross Pod Cube Throw Down: Regular Cube vs Sacred...

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2026/08/03

View all cards mentioned in this episodeIn a strange experiment, Andy and Anthony organize drafts of their cubes Sacred Geometry and Regular Cube and then pair players against the opposite cube. The two cubes have some major similarities, and clear differences. They wanted to see how drastically skewed win records would be towards one cube, and see what else they can learn. The experiment highlighted some unexpected differences and individual cards that skewed up or down when played against a

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01:00:54

Narrow Tutors in Cube

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2026/07/27

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about narrow tutors in Cubes. In contrast to the most open ended ways for players to search up a card from their library, narrow tutor effects give cube designers an opportunity to make specific sets of cards more accessible. Our hosts talk about specific “tutor” cards they include in their cubes. They talk about the ways they can create interesting draft challenges, provide targeted redundancy, or let players construct a toolbox of cards

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01:06:56

CubeCon DMV Tournament Report

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2026/07/20

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony report on their experience at CubeCon DMV — from the organizers of the original CubeCon — a cube event right in their back yard. They talk about their drafts in the event, highlights from games, and lunchtime highs and lows.Discussed in this episode:Cube Events PageThe Metabolic MachineTake FiveAndy’s Take Five VideosJarvis YubeWorld Championship Museum (96-04)Sacred Geometry100 OrnithoptersGenesis - The first Omen Machine, a.k.a. Chris’s

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01:01:59

Cards that are Cool — Part 2

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2026/07/13

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about cards they think are cool. In the long anticipated follow up to episode 108, they just talk about things they think are neat. Anthony shares some cards he’s seen pop up regularly in recent cube drafts that spark some intrigue. Andy shares cards that he thinks over-deliver, in a design and gameplay sense, in his own cubes.Discussed in this episode:Episode 108: Cards That Are CoolTake 5Sacred Geometry100 OrnithoptersBun Magic

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01:01:28

Board Stalls and Cube Design

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2026/07/06

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about board stalls and Cube. They talk about what they don’t like about this particular genera of board state. They theorize about some aspects of a cube’s design would lead to more stalls, and ways they might, as a designer, try to minimize them.This weeks topic was suggested by listener MZ. Thanks, MZ!Discussed in this episode:Lucky Paper Cube Events PageSam Black’s article describing “big” and “small” gamesBun Magic CubeSacred

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01:02:14

Token Episode

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2026/06/29

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony talk about the logistics of tokens for Cube. They talk about different ways they’ve managed them over the years and for different Cubes. They make recommendations for the best way to approach the problem, and even how their Cube design is influenced by token makers.Discussed in this episode:InfiniTokensMPC AutofillExample Token Page on Cube CobraCubes Discussed:Sacred GeometryRegular CubeNeoclassical CubePenrose CubeTake 5100 OrnithoptersIf

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01:07:09

Powering Down Eternal Cubes with Jake and Parker

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2026/06/22

View all cards mentioned in this episodeAndy and Anthony are joined by Jake and Parker to talk about their shifts in approach to each of their eternal cubes. While Jake, Parker, and Andy have long maintained generally “power motivated” eternal cubes, they’ve each grappled with concerns about aesthetics, complexity, or gameplay in the last few years of Magic releases. They talk about how they’ve changed their design philosophies in light of those changes and how they’ve reframed the way they make

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