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  • December 21, 2024

    Additive Distraction and Idealized Thinking

    (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…

    Cube Drafting, Cube Theory, Uncategorized
  • December 18, 2024

    Usman+TrainmasterGT Foundations Cube Article

    (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,…

    Set Review, Uncategorized
  • May 20, 2024

    MKM for Cube – 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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  • June 10, 2023

    March of the Machine Cube

    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.…

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  • February 2, 2023

    All Will Be One

    If you’re here from my Hipsters article talking about Phyrexia: All Will Be One – here are the rest of the cards that I didn’t cover in that article. If you’re here from elsewhere… I’m not sure how you got here.  But welcome! As usual, I’ve sorted the cards by approximate interest, but it isn’t…

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  • August 30, 2022

    Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty for Cube

    Just in time for Dominaria United… I’m going to discuss Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty for cube! I’d like to say that this was done as an intentional lookback at the set, but lately I’ve just had a harder time writing these articles when I’ve not been cubing regularly.  I don’t meticulously update my cube on a…

    Set Review, Uncategorized
  • March 13, 2019

    wut a blog post

    Recently I went to GP Memphis and hung out with Anthony, Drew and Zakeel (of the Magic Box) and cubed a bunch.  It was pretty great.  I started my cube over a decade ago, drafting the list on a trip to Memphis and it was good to come back to the city that “started it…

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  • May 18, 2015

    Cube Expansion Pack

    (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…

    Cube Theory, Uncategorized
  • December 19, 2012

    A bug on MTGO’s cube before they collated packs for power.

    From Dzyl’s draft, from the first day of cubing. From a different draft. I’m wondering if an algorithm was made where the power cards were put into a separate section so they could be doled accordingly (no more than 2 per pack, when it comes up for example) and if it backfired.  Apparently it’s a…

    Cube Drafting, Uncategorized
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