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Andy and Anthony talk about one of Andy’s all time favorite cards Young Pyromancer. After a recent draft of a peasant cube at their weekly cube night, Anthony realized that despite it’s iconic status, it’s not a card he feels like he know’s how to optimize. Andy shares his experience with the card, what he thinks it takes to support it, and a handful of his cube draft decks it headlined.
View the full decklists of Andy’s referenced drafts on the  cards page.
Discussed in this episode:
Library of Babel, Local Peasant Cube
Deck Pics!
Alternate Timeline cube by Joe Donkey
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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Sorting Cards
9:07 - Helping Anthony with Young Pyromancer
18:40 - Card Quality
24:06 - How to Draft the Young Pyromancer Deck
29:33 - Why Blue-Red Pyromancer
34:51 - Modal Double Faced Cards
36:20 - How Many Counterspells
37:34 - Mulligans
44:30 - Off-Strategy Splashes
49:42 - Wrap Up
55:17 - Andy is Bad at Big Games

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Most of the time when listeners suggest topics we’ve already recorded a whole episode dedicated to that subject. Sometimes we’ve even recorded three. It turns out almost six years is a long time to have a weekly podcast about a niche interest like Cube design. So when someone recently suggested we record an episode about ‘colorless cards’ I was surprised to discover that we have never actually dedicated an entire episode to the subject, and it turns out we have a lot to say!
If you have questions for our 300th episodes please send them to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Episode 300 Question’.
Discussed in this episode:
Hedron Network
Regular Cube
Turbo Cube
100 Ornithopters
Bun Magic
Sacred Geometry
Neoclassical Cube
Devoid Cube
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:22 - Hedron Network Data
3:47 - Episode 300
6:39 - Colorless Cards
11:20 - Thinking About the Color Pie
13:05 - Sacred Geometry Diversion
16:37 - Balancing Colorless Cards
20:30 - Hole Filling
22:19 - Supporting Monocolor
28:29 - The Colorless Deck
35:02 - Colorless Cards and Mana Fixing
37:33 - Colorless v Colored Arifacts
38:42 - Mana Rocks
42:05 - Noosegraf Mob Sidebar
43:37 - Pseudo Colorless Cards
45:48 - Stax
52:00 - Eldrazi
54:46 - Colorless Cubes

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In the third book club Episode, Anthony and Parker talk about Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. Originally published in 1988, the book was an influential criticism of the built world and interfaces establishing many concepts fundamental to user interface and industrial design today. It also introduces a metric ton of jargon per page.
Our book club members talk about how these concepts apply to game and Cube design and their thinking about things more broadly.
Discussed in this episode:
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Enshittification concept and book by Cory Doctorow
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx
Blood In the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
Other Book Club Episodes
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:42 - The Design of Everyday Things
7:43 - Mental Models
12:04 - Trouble With Mapping
16:58 - Cube REL/Humility
19:40 - Don Please Turn off the Podcast
21:03 - Types of Errors
26:30 - Games are Intentionally Bad Design
32:04 - Constraints
34:55 - Knowledge in the World
42:28 - Learned Helplessness
48:20 - Neologisms
50:59 - Choosing the Next Book

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In this explicit episode of Lucky Paper Radio, Andy, Anthony, and Patrick recap their experience at Shoebox in St Paul, Minnesota. Shoebox celebrated a range of casual formats including team limited, pauper, and, of course, Cube! They talk about highlights from the weekend and the decks they drafted.
Discussed in this episode:
The Monster Fuck
Dee Dee Mega Doo Doo
Arties Cube
Shoebox
Eiganjo Drift
Aquaone Powered
Penrose Cube
HeatherCube
Boudican Destruction Horizon
100 Lotuses
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
7:23 - Fistfights
12:04 - Pottery Studio
16:28 - Weather and Planes
18:58 - Microfame
20:32 - Andy’s Draft of Artemis’ Cube
24:19 - What is Shoebox
29:41 - Anthony’s Draft of Eiganjo Drift
32:09 - Patrick’s Draft of aquaone Powered
36:51 - Andy’s Draft of Penrose Cube
41:33 - Anthony’s Draft of HeatherCube
45:31 - Andy’s Stone Soup
53:30 - Anthony’s Stone Soup
55:19 - Patrick’s New Friends
57:22 - Pizza Time
63:03 - Andy’s Draft of Boudica
68:33 - Patrick’s Draft of Boudica
72:10 - James’ Microcube
72:56 - 100 Lotuses
78:17 - Closing Thoughts
79:36 - Anthony’s Draft of Companion Cube

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Andy and Anthony finally just talk about epistemology and sort of address Magic: the Gathering. They talk about the way we all generally learn things and incorporate them into our understanding of the world around us, and how that manifests in the smaller world of the game.
Discussed in this episode:
ContraPoints on YouTube
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
100 Ornithopters
Regular Cube
Cascade Cascade
Cube Map
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
4:55 - Epistemology
11:43 - The Enlightenment
14:43 - Authority
20:29 - Empiricism
26:49 - Explanations
29:58 - Science as a Creative Process
33:18 - Knowledge in Magic
37:04 - Emergent Properties
41:54 - Aggro-Midrange-Control
45:53 - Cube Experiments
51:10 - Mailbag!