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Marvel Super Heroes & Its Supplemental Products for Cube
This article talks about Marvel Super Heroes’ impact on cube. As this article is my 75th set review for cube, I’ve learned to refine my method over time, but I’ve found that seeding cards into my own cube (tl;dr it’s currently a “Legacy-lite cube”) and getting in several reps before the prerelease has worked well. …
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Intro Post.
Welcome. I’ve been writing and podcasting about Magic: The Gathering’s cube format since 2010. If you’re on mobile, there’s a ribbon on the top of the page. Click on it to access the various sections of the page. If you want to immediately receive emails on future set reviews, cube theory and whatever else I…
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Paving Desire Paths in Cube Design and Cube Drafting
(Originally posted on my Substack on 12/18/25.)As a techy nerd who got into cube design during its infancy, and whose writing helped to pave the ground to define modern cube design theory, I wanted to discuss this topic for my 60th article about cube design as I felt a strong connection when I saw the…
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Avatar: The Last Airbender for Cube
(Originally posted on my Substack on 11/10/25.) As I’ve done in my cube reviews, this cube review focuses more on ‘high power’ cubes than thematic ones. I’ve traditionally used a more high-powered, generalist perspective for cube card evaluation, allowing designers to adjust as needed for their specific environments. Although I test cards in my own…
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Going Through Cube Changes
(Originally posted on my Substack on 10/14/25.)Originally, this article was started in 2016 with the whirlwind of great sets in that year. It’s now 2025 and not only do we have more sets per year, but the sets are generally more powerful on a pound-for-pound basis. As someone who got into the world of cube…
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Micro and the Macro Aspects of Cube Design
(Originally posted on my Substack on 5/6/25.)Like with the idealized thinking/additive distraction article, the purpose of this is more to define a concept in more depth than a blurb of words would do, so that I can just link to it. Like with many things I’ve written about, it may be something you’re already doing,…
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The Cube Is Bigger Than You
(Originally written on my Substack on 4/23/25.)Since the early days of my cube writing, I’ve been wanting to do an article about defensiveness in cube design. I’d created several drafts of it, but it never got much further than “hey, don’t get defensive about cards in your cube.” I’d certainly seen my fair share of…
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Usman & TrainmasterGT Tarkir:Dragonstorm Cube Review
(Originally posted on my Substack on 4/7/25.) 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 latter scale looked to encompass the non-power ratings that people use for rating cards. I’ve decided to name it…
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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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Stoneforge Mystic, Metallica’s Load/Reload and Changing Contexts over Time
(Originally posted on my Substack on 3/9/25.)In our pilot episode of The Third Power, I had some hesitation about including Stoneforge Mystic in my cube. When we started our podcast in 2011, the newly shown Sword of Body and Mind looked to supplement the package of heavy hitters like Skullclamp, Loxodon Warhammer, Basilisk Collar, Umezawa’s…