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Little Christmas Eve Eve #MTGCube night.
Did two 3-person Housman drafts.

First was a mid-power value cube. Went mono white splashing everything.

Second was the Kuleshov. I waffled a bit despite having Sovereigns + Conscription in the first 5 cards.
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Stop motion x body horror = "Playing God".
An Italian/French short film by Matteo Burani.
Now online >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HMq...
December 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This year, give the gift of cubing.

To yourself.

Next year.

Tickets for CSCE go live today at 2:00 P.M. Central.
December 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
More #MTGCube drafts. Had 4 people nibbling at the Ham Sandwich tonight.

I drafted GR and got to Rancor/Berserk/Reckless Charge on some fools.

UBg Reanimator got the 2-0.
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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"Kindred Spirits", the new animated feature film project by Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers).
To be pitched at Cartoon Movie 2026 festival.
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Background paintings by Sue Mondt for Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
More Peasant+ #MTGCube decks from last night.

The URg deck I think could've been improved by cutting green entirely.

The UWR deck boarded in Kirtar's repeatedly, so maybe it could have been reconfigured with that main.
December 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Two more #MTGCube drafts last night.

First from The Ham Sandwich (peasant+) and the second from an Unpowered Midrange-y list.

Went GB with Porcelain Legionnaire in both drafts.
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
1-1 in another Neoclassical #MTGCube draft.
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
8-man #MTGCube draft of (a clone of) the Neoclassical Cube. 2-0, might play the third round tomorrow.

Humility ain't great with no way to capitalize, so moved the Reanimate main - prob could just be playing the Rager.
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
4-0'd the #MTG Avatar Prerelease last night with 4c Value after some folks bailed on me for cube.

I had like 3 more playable removal spells in the sideboard, there's just an absurd amount of it in this set. Trap was worse than I was hoping though; so many of the "good" 3-5 drops have 4 toughness.
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Production of "Wildfire Sleepwalking" Chinese animated short film (30 minutes) by Zhang Kang is now complete.
Here are some 4K screenshots.
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
More #MTGCube drafts yesterday evening.

First is from an Unpowered Midrange-y list.

Second is from The Ham Sandwich (my Peasant list with a half dozen tame rares added).
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If you see this, post an anime you love.
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I wrote some thoughts about the difficulty of visualizing #mtgcube complexity, and also made a rough visualization of #mtgcube complexity

zoydraft.tumblr.com/post/7990379...
zoydraft.tumblr.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Save the date, save some cash, and submit some... cubes! 🧊
Early bird pricing for weekend badges AND cube submissions both close at 11:59PM CST this Friday, October 31st! 🎃 #MTGCube
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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You've cubed in Madison.
You've cubed in New York.
You've cubed in DC.

Now it's time to cube slightly outside of Chicago.
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Post #CubeCon trip to Milwaukee has been great. Always like to extend a trip a few days and just spend a few days somewhere new.

Herbie Hancock concert at the Pabst Theater was excellent. Really glad that lined up.

Big props to the Grohmann Museum being open on a Tuesday too.

#MTGCube
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Amazing time at #CubeCon this year! Got to meet & hang out with some awesome people, both my Omnipresent Impostors and Creative Cubes each fired 5 times this weekend, and played some of the tightest Magic today I ever had. Just BARELY missed Top 8, losing in extra turns of game 3 of the last round--
October 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Made my pilgrimage to the Arby's Gorilla before closing the book on this #MTGCube #CubeCon.

Live mas.
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
October 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Lunch countertop 4-person draft of Zac Hill's Standard cube was sweet.

Definitely would have played this cube in the main event if I didn't interpret it as a "current" standard cube. "This is how I design sets" is much more cooler.

#MTGCube #CubeCon

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October 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Post top 64 draft of the Monored Cube.
Got a 14th pick Sneak Attack and went all in.
#CubeCon #MTGCube

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October 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Died in top 64 of #MTGCube #CubeCon in the Vistas Uncharted cube. Deck felt good, it was engine-ing pretty well.
Good way to finish the main event.

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October 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM