Andy Mangold

Something I have been thinking a lot about is how “AI” is potentially, just by existing, poisoning every artifact of culture moving forward. I wonder if we will look back on this inflection point and hold art made before this moment in higher esteem because it is necessarily human.

I feel like we’re going to see a surge self-referential, behind-the-scenes, fourth wall breaking, and process oriented art. Art that definitionally could not have been made by AI, and where that fact is a huge part of its appeal. But all art prior to now will have this property intrinsically.

Something I have been thinking a lot about is how “AI” is potentially, just by existing, poisoning every artifact of culture moving forward. I wonder if we will look back on this inflection point and hold art made before this moment in higher esteem because it is necessarily human.

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Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

Game 3 is all about Triskelion. I get an absolute blowout on turn 7 attacking into three creatures with Triskelion and Jilt in hand, which results in all 3 of my opponent’s blockers dead and my Triskelion back in hand. I replay it with Aether Spellbomb protecting it and eventually grind out the win

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

Round two is against the cube owner, on a bant midrange/token deck. Glorious Anthem is a bit of a headache, but I manage to bounce my own Triskelion multiple times to clean up Migratory Route tokens and eventually grind my way to a win game 1. Unanswered Grim Lavamancer absolutely carries game 2.

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

But my hand is a couple lands, Barbed Lightning, Essence Drain, and Grab the Reins… and I think maybe, just maybe there’s a chance. Sure enough I’m able to control the board to buy time and then use my removal as face burn to flip the Vortex back on my opponent. Entwined Grab the Reins closes it out

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

Game 2 they side into a second color: green. I control the early game and feel like I’ve stabilized, but I made the mistake of tapping out for a Triskelion at 17 life and then ate a Sylvos, Rogue Elemental w/ haste from Dragon’s Breath and two pumps to the face for 10 and eventually get burned out.

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

I take Future Sight pack 1, pick 1 and end up drafting this almost completely creature-free, scraping for playables control deck. I am somewhat skeptical that a deck like this can be successful, but it’s the last draft of the day and I’m just happy to be playing a style of deck that I love.

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

I open the first pack and it’s a beautiful and weird mix of rare, old foils and signed cards, really top shelf stuff… and then a bunch of printer proxies of absolute bulk like Jilt and Innocent Blood? There are multiple OG foils of Proteus Machine going around the table? I am intrigued.

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

Ok, so it’s the last round of the day, I’ve corralled a pod of 100 Ornithopters, a few bonus pods are firing through Hedron, and there’s another group trying to fire a side draft. As the dust settles it’s clear this group is going to be 5 people, so I offer to sit down and fill up a team draft.

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

Smoked in like 5 minutes for the full match against my friend Allison, who thanked me for pulling her out of her slump, lol. As expected, deck is not focused and the strong decks in this cube are hyper synergistic. Decent cards is, in fact, not gonna get there.

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

Draft 2 is the Trinket Cube. Didn’t look at the list and my draft felt pretty bad. Seems like there are some combos floating around and I’m not sure aimless Jeskai decent cards is a deck. We will see, I suppose!

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

Ironically this is the first game in which I drew Fire Covenant, but it didn’t do anything explosive because of said Nantuko Husk. Used it to pick off creatures on my turn, but couldn’t take out the husk itself, obviously.

Capitol Cube Champs thread! Full random, as per, and ended up in “Desert Bird”, a low power old school desert cube. p1p1 was FTK over Sulfuric Vortex, knowing I was almost certainly putting the player to my left in red. Pick 3 Fire Covenant felt cracked

Lost a game on a mulligan but got there round 1 against base blue black control. Haven’t drawn Fire Covenant yet but Avalanche Riders is nutty here.