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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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Trying My Cube Without Triomes
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…
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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…
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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.…
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Cube Review: 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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Cube Review: Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
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…
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GP Memphis 2019
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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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…