Back in 2011, I wrote an article for SCG about the inclusion of signets and bouncelands/karoos (like Azorius Chancery) in cube. At the time, WoTC staff member Tom LaPille (who had cut his design chops/got his WoTC gig through being an early proponent of cube) had written a post on Twitter about him taking bouncelands…

(Originally posted on my Substack on 12/21/24.) If you’ve been a long-time reader of my content, you may recall me talking about Additive Distraction in cube a few times (tl;dr: it’s when you don’t see the forest for the trees on cards.) For years, I’d intended on making an article about it, since referencing a…

(Originally written for Coolstuffinc on 5/18/15. Porting it over here, since they don’t really deserve my views anymore.) When I started doing weekly cubing at my local game store, I started encountering a real first-world Cube problem: More people were showing up to Cube Drafts than my four-hundred-fifty-card Cube could handle. To fix this, I…

Grizzly Fate was a card that was in my cube for some time, but it eventually got the axe.  Nowadays, when I think of cards to use in my cube, I don’t consider it for inclusion… and it’s not because I consider the card to be garbage.  My experiences with the card in my cube…

(Originally written for Mananation.com, now Coolstuffinc on 11/10/10. Porting it over here, since they don’t really deserve my views anymore.) When considering cards for a cube, many people look first to those that perform successfully in other formats. Cards that are good in cubes have typically had success in other formats. Spectral Procession has enabled…