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Andy and Anthony each draft the same seat in a virtual pod of Andy’s Sacred Geometry Cube. They talk through each of their picks and their overall draft strategy and the final decks they end up with.

If you want to draft this same seat as well, either before or after listening to the episode, follow these steps:

• Download the predetermined booster packs
• On Draftmancer:

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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 7:28 - Pack 1
• 41:48 - Pack 2
• 53:03 - Pack 3
• 01:03:59 - Draft Results

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Andy and Anthony discuss feedback received by a fellow cube designer: that particular decks are sometimes too dominant when they go uncontested, or as they put it “The Open Lane Problem”. They talk about whether or not this is a real problem in different contexts and ways you might be able to mitigate it.

Discussed in this episode:

• 100 Ornithopters
• Bun Magic Cube
• Regular Cube
• Neoclassical Cube
• Turbo Cube
• Support The Podcast on Patreon

If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.

Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.

You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 2:43 - Mailbag!
• 7:35 - The Open Lane Problem
• 14:19 - The Effect of Narrow Cards
• 26:44 - Powering Up Archetypes
• 35:36 - Player Preferences
• 42:09 - Solving the Open Lane Problem
• 45:34 - Changing Cube Size

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By popular demand, Andy and Anthony rush back into their series exploring modal mechanics through Magic’s history. Continuing where they left off, they talk about mechanics from Return to Ravnica to Fate Reforged. They argue over some mechanics fit a useful definition of “modal” and what the mechanics, and individual modal cards, offer to Cube designers.

Discussed in this episode:

• Song-Poem Documentary
• Modal Mechanics 001 — Some Nonzero Number of Mechanics Are Kicker
• Modal Mechanics 002 — Some Modal Mechanics Evoke a Strong Response
• Reading Rainbow Cube
• 100 Ornithopters
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Lucky Paper Patreon

If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.

Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.

You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 3:03 - Modal Mechanics: Part 003
• 4:44 - Scavenge
• 9:03 - Bloodrush
• 17:17 - Fuse
• 27:30 - Bestow
• 36:03 - Monstrosity
• 37:59 - Will of the Council
• 42:27 - Sieges
• 48:41 - Planeswalker Addendum