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Four people tonight for a Housman draft of my Peasant Cube. #MTGCube The GB Graveyard deck had some pretty tricky loops between Turtle, Animate Dead, and Doombot.

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More #MTGCube Tuesday with the locals. RB Vehicle Bombardment with a lot of direct damage.

Avatar: Seven Havens ep 1-3 Pros: - Good premise for a story. - Nice environments + setting. - Music, if a bit detached from the screen at times. - Humanity hates Korra. Cons: - Dialogue. - Animation, especially for any emotion or personality. - Side characters are probably going to annoy me.

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Eps 4-6 This show has a real problem with characters talking past each other. It feels like they'll respond as if what they were asked was entirely different from what was actually said. Where a conversation starts and where it ends doesn't progress naturally, instead it just leaps between points.

The animation is also extremely rough, aside from an action sequence of two each episode. Characters are constantly off-model, continuity in costuming and positions is frequently wrong, and all conversations are conducted with dead eyes and cookie cutter expressions. It's all so distracting.

Then we had one leave and two more arrive, so we abandoned that draft and had 5 for spacetime. #MTGCube Started off with Oswald and just tried to maintain a pod chain. Miscounted and played the 42 card special. This was technically paper draft #100 for me of this year.

Tuesday #MTGCube with the locals started with a 4-man draft of my Peasant Cube. I soaked up the GR cards.

It's certainly enough for me to continue watching. I think I'm just going to have to try and mentally rewrite some of the dialogue in my head. Based on what we've seen it seems like they're going in a seven chakras direction, which seems like a reasonable way to avoid doing any more Vaatu/Raava.

More #MTGCube Tuesday at the local shop. I was BR pack one, but moved in when Green was open. There was a BWR Lurrus drafter at the table eating up everything that lane wanted.

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Catsuka

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The pilot episode of the Argentinian series "Electro Andes" is now online. An ethno cyberpunk project directed by Nacho Malter & Damian Fernandez Gomez at Bellolandia studio. Available with Spanish & English dubs. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNNU...

Sunday #MTGCube 6-man with the group across town, which meant 5 fresh eyes on Spacetime. I drafted RB Sacrifice and "cut" Rust Harvester from the cube mid Round 1. It's far too efficient and doesn't belong. The UWB guy miscounted during deck construction I think? The 44 card special.

The Karn deck went 0-2, but I'd like to support a base black shell like that. Seemed like they probably just needed to play the better card filtering in their sideboard and ensure they were mulliganing to have an untapped land on t2. Probably could have used some cmc 1 trinkets too...

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Pod of 5 this evening for Adventures in Space and Time. Still fiddling with the core balance of this cube, but it's taking shape thanks to 7 drafts of info. Green is meshing a bit better, but still concerned that it might be steering the cube towards being too much of an artifact cube. #MTGCube

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Capitol Cube Championship

1-1 in an Arena Cube with some rebalanced + alchemy cards at Silver Branch for the post Capitol #MTGCube Champs drafting. P1P1 Vivi and soaked up the blue cards.

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Post tournament cubing at Silver Branch!

Friday night Housman draft out of Ice Cold Spirits. 1-1 #MTGCube cubecobra.com/cube/list/Sp...

Main event draft 2. 2-1 Legacy of Bloodwake Atoll. Leaned into white equipment early, but died to Ian going super wide with Vehicle value. cubecobra.com/cube/about/d... #MTGCube

Main event draft 1 on Capitol Cube Champs. #MTGCube 3-0 The Desert Bird. Pretty punishing draft with some rough manabases all around. My deck felt well equipped to punish stumbles and the three combat tricks just ended games. cubecobra.com/cube/about/a...

Friday pre-event draft was also the Penrose. Went 2-1 in that. #MTGCube

Died in top 4 of Capitol Cube Champs 2026. Had a reasonable deck in the Penrose Cube, but couldn't put it together in a game three. GGs cubecobra.com/cube/about/6... #MTGCube

16 Sept

Had a pod of 9 (!) this evening. Could have been the full 10 if someone didn't have to cancel. Drafted Adventures in Space and Time. I went WR hyper aggro and had some slick Weftstalker + Halo Hopper + Thopter Engineer sequences. cubecobra.com/cube/about/s... #MTGCube

C4AC - a cube charity event

16 Sept

Green is moving in the right direction, but I still think the signals of what it wants to do and how to get into it during a draft might not be obvious enough. It plays second fiddle to a lot of other color pairs and might just be lacking a core identity for itself. Need to keep poking at that.

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Shoebox

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15 Sept

Calling all Cube-ists, card slingers, and (yes, even you) control players! ❤️ We hope you're as excited for Shoebox 2027 as we are! Only a limited amount of discounted badges will be available, so mark your calendars -- early bird badges go on sale September 19th!

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(S)Cary 🎃

@acry.bsky.social

11 Sept

Unfortunately for the designers of Future Sight, Tarmogoyf sticks out like a sore thumb in 2026. They somehow forgot to add a second paragraph of rules text dedicated to holding the player's hand by incrementally milling themself

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11 Sept

It’s time to formally announce how much #C4ACObscura raised for our friends @maketheroadny.bsky.social Drumroll please 🥁🥁🥁 From GFM to tickets to auctions (another resolving soon for $759 more) to our sponsor & legend @slickjagger.bsky.social we raised: $11,300 #MTGcube Thats community.

9 Sept

#MTGCube Tuesday with the locals. Had 7 people with a new face, so that was sweet. Went 3-0 with GR Beats, deck was +1 Mountain I think.

6 Sept

Got a pod of 4 on Friday to draft Adventures in Space and Time. #MTGCube I went RB splashing some White and Blue. Haunt the Network might be a bit too much. Cast it for 8 and 7 this draft. Deck did some sweet stuff with Furnace Celebration though.

6 Sept

This is only paper draft #5 of this cube in the <1 month it's been together, so it's still in a state of flux. Green still isn't quite doing anything interesting, but I think there's a bit more of a path shaping up for that now.

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Cute Monster Props

@cutemonster.bsky.social

4 Sept

We noticed ye from across the bar and are fond of yer lobster.

haganbmj.github.ioCubeCon BOO 2026

4 Sept

Card pool from the Build-Our-Own draft that happened at CubeCon 2026. Five contributors each contributed 45 peer-reviewed designs, stone soup style, with a smattering of cards from others to round out an even pod of 6. haganbmj.github.io/ccboo/2026/ cc: @ollie.bostoncubeparty.com #MTGCube

4 Sept

Akira on the local IMAX screen was great. Hadn't rewatched it in years. Ghost in the Shell is getting another run later this month for its 30th anniversary and I'll definitely be there for that too.

2 Sept

Post-CubeCon Tuesday #MTGCube with the locals. Had 5 for my space desert cube. I went 2-0 with WR, but should have lost to the Time Sieve deck - he missed that he had 24 damage off Time Sieve + Weapons Manufacturing over a three turn sequence involving Scour for Scrap and some Station-ing.

2 Sept

Wasn't expecting to draft this last night, otherwise I would have tried to proxy out some more changes I wanted to make. Cutting dramatically on dinosaurs. Pretty much anything that is typal-dinosaur can go, they're just too restrictive and ask too much during a draft.

2 Sept

That means overhauling Green and Red almost entirely and is so far looking like ~40 changes. Couple other unfun or underperforming cards to swap as well.

1 Sept

Then a quick 3-player Housman draft of Ice Cold Spirits to close out the airport wait. #MTGCube #CubeCon cubecobra.com/cube/list/Sp...

1 Sept

#MTGCube #CubeCon Monday Airport draft. Got a full pod of 8 for the Six-Color Calamity. 2-1 with BW Tokens/flyers. cubecobra.com/cube/about/S...

1 Sept

Sunday evening #CubeCon #MTGCube draft from a newer bar cube. Was able to Cosmic Rebirth a Psychatog EOT for lethal.

31 Aug

#MTGCube #CubeCon 2-1 Budget Vintage Cube. Swapped out one of the lands for an Island I think.. First picked an Eldrazi Mimic and wound up in a ramp shell using the spawns to power out some aggressive beaters or big threats. cubecobra.com/cube/about/d...

31 Aug

#MTGCube Sunday #CubeCon Drafted Omnipresent Imposters for a side event pod and went 1-2. Deck lacked a way to go over the top, but could tempo out some games here and there. cubecobra.com/cube/about/O...

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Sam Pratt

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31 Aug

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D2 - Kuleshov Cube by @griselbrand.com (no-red synergy cube) 3-0🏆 with Orzhov Enchs+Lifegain. Thought my deck was kind of medium but it again had good card quality+mana, and powerful outs to win games. Flying is great. Whip was def wrong, boarded it out every game.

30 Aug

Snuck into top 128 after that, but went 1-2 with a decent BW pile in Good Clean Magic, which was as described. #MTGCube #CubeCon cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

30 Aug

Followed that up with a 2-1 in Prismatic Wilds - with only forests in the basic box. Decks were doing cool stuff, but it kind of felt like all the supplementary product rares were absolute bombs. #MTGCube #CubeCon cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

30 Aug

#MTGCube #CubeCon Saturday drafts started with an 0-1-2 in Like Tears in Rain, an environment with only odyssey sac lands in the basic box. My deck was quite slow, but felt powerful. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

29 Aug

#MTGCube after hours #CubeCon draft of Adventures in Space and Time. 2-0 cubecobra.com/cube/about/s...

29 Aug

#MTGCube #CubeCon main event draft 2. 2-1 Alpha Reimagined cubecobra.com/cube/about/a...

28 Aug

Draft one of #MTGCube #CubeCon Friday. 1-1-1 in I Loot the Body. Glacially slow and I think I misjudged when to discard lands vs hold them at points. cubecobra.com/cube/about/I...