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Cube Review: Marvel’s Spider Man
(Originally posted to my Substack on 9/10/25.) (You can also read my year-end thoughts and adjustments for cards from Spider-Man in my 2025 wrap-up article.) It’s time for another cube review and I’m pretty jazzed about adding cards from the Spider Man set to my cube. Although there will be Omenpath reskins of these cards…
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Cube Review: Edge of Eternities with TrainmasterGT
(Originally posted to my Substack on 7/20/25.) (You can also read my year-end thoughts and adjustments for cards from EOE in my 2025 wrap-up article.) It’s time for another cube review, this time… IN SPACE! Since the Aetherdrift review, two scales were used for rating cards: power and vibes. The latter scale looked to encompass…
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Cube Review: Magic: The Gathering – Final Fantasy & FF:Commander
(Originally posted on my Substack on 6/1/25.) (You can also read my year-end thoughts and adjustments for cards from Final Fantasy in my 2025 wrap-up article.) It’s time for another cube review, this time about Final Fantasy! In our Aetherdrift review and my Duskmourn post-mortem, two scales were used for rating cards: power and fun.…
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Cube Review: Tarkir:Dragonstorm with TrainmasterGT
(Originally posted on my Substack on 4/7/25.) (You can also read my year-end thoughts and adjustments for cards from Tarkir: Dragonstorm in my 2025 wrap-up article.) It’s time for another cube review, this time about Tarkir:Dragonstorm! In our Aetherdrift review and my Duskmourn post-mortem, two scales were used for rating cards: power and fun. The…
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Cube Review: Thoughts about Cube Set Reviews and a Duskmourn Post-Mortem
(Originally posted on my Substack on 3/18/25.) It’s been a while since I did a post-mortem article on a set, talking about Murders of Karlov Manor (MKM) which was originally on my old blog, but ported over here. As someone who’s been doing Cube set reviews since New Phyrexia, I’ve seen the landscape of these…
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Cube Review: Aetherdrift with TrainmasterGT
(You can read my year-end thoughts and adjustments for cards from Aetherdrift in my 2025 wrap-up article.) We’re racing into Aetherdrift to talk about cube! The cards are sorted by color and how much we like the cards, on a scale of general “power” and fun on a scale of a red light (1, low),…
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Cube Review: Some Underrated Cards from 2024!
Like many things lately, I had this idea of “cards that flew under the radar for cube” in my mind in a rather sudden time frame, like with the podcast. I didn’t really want to do a “year in review” like I would have years ago, since it’d essentially be linking to my old content…
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Cube Review: Foundations with TrainmasterGT
(Originally written on my Substack on 12/18/24.) Welcome to the first Usman Jamil and TrainmasterGT Cube Set Review! In this article, we team up to cover the cards we’re most excited for in the new Magic: the Gathering: Foundations set. Usman: While I don’t think this set is going to shake any foundations for cube,…
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Cube Review: Murders at Karlov Manor – Adjustments/Follow-Up
When I started doing cube content, including articles reviewing sets, a lot of cube content was focused on the short-term, following how evaluations had been traditionally been done in Constructed/Limited. Non-cube content providers who do initial takes for sets usually end up course-correcting in follow-up content that notes how the metagame changed, typically integrating it…
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Cube Review: March of the Machine
As a supplement to my cube articles about March of the Machine and Aftermath on Hipsters, here’s a blog post to talk about the cards that I didn’t talk about in those articles. It doesn’t mean that these are “bad”, per se, but there’s only so much room to talk about things in the articles.…