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Shariq 🦈
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Milwaukee Cuber. Egg Cube Designer. CubeCon 2025 winner. Anime and Board Game Enthusiast. Mardu enjoyer 🔴⚪️⚫️
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I won CubeCon 2025!

Top 8 RW Aggro deck
Top 64 BR Artifact-y sac
Having possibly my worst week of the year this year. Came in right under the wire, crazy.
December 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We had 9 for Wednesday cube this week so I volunteered to sit out this week. Helped a newer drafter draft a sick RW aggro deck in a lower-power Old-Border cube. It was fun explaining that Exalted Angel and FTK are some of the best cards in the cube since we’re grading creatures on a curve here.
December 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I was a little down on Glass Onion after watching Wake Up, Dead Man. But I rewatched it tonight and after three years it still holds up. Maybe I’ve changed more than the movie has.
December 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Drafted twice on Saturday for @stav.gold’s birthday. First cube was the Gizmo cube, one of my favorites. Drafted this bad-ish Abzan control pile with Thopter Sword as the win con. The biggest mistake I made was prolly picking Foundry over Damnation. I think I needed to wheel it. 2-1 Lost in Finals.
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig could just keep making these for the next 20 years, that’d be great.
December 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Drafted a 10-person vintage cube. Drafted a Jund breach shallow grave pile. The last pick survival was pretty clutch. Combo decks are not my forte, so decks that need specific card pairs feel absolutely horrendous to me. Mind twist was playable with vault, tomb and lotus cobra. 3-0
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Drafted the Clean Evergreen cube on Wednesday. No tokens and only evergreen keywords. Felt like I drafted my seat pretty well, but had some issues dealing with stuff like future sight. I liked the cube a lot, the power level of the cube is quite low, and the power outliers make it great fun. 2-1
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It occurs to me that in Frieren, Heiter gave up alcohol to raise Fern for as long as he could.
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Drafted my mardu desert cube again last night. 4-mana Gideon is incredibly strong, I was not planning on cutting it, but I’m likely going to add some more planeswalker removal. I think I need to fix up the Greasefang archetype a little, there might not be enough ways to bin the vehicles in BW. 2-1
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Drafted the 1-UP cube on Wednesday, where you start at 1 life. My deck was kind of a pile, it didn’t really do anything. The 4 mana 6/5 that winter orbs you was mostly a trap. 2-1
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Been a pretty good month lol
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Just moved the cat from my place to the new marital home. She’s not having a great time, but better than I feared.
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Finally not 6th pick in a Roto draft. I get to be 4th this time. Better? Marginally better?
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Drafted a lovely artifact cube this evening, 4 color non-green. Aggro deck with some minor reanimation.

Deck felt very strong. Figured BW was open after Caves of Kolios and fracture wheeled pack 1. 3-0
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Workin’ on another out-there cube idea. Trying to build a cube around a card without involving any special rules. First attempt at solving this issue is 16 copies in the cube.
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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CubeCon 2025 thread 🧵
Pool photos are in order starting top left and going down.
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I won CubeCon 2025!

Top 8 RW Aggro deck
Top 64 BR Artifact-y sac
October 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Looks like the town was big enough.
Banned and Restricted Announcement for June 30, 2025 #mtg

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June 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It’s crazy that just being around JD Vance killed the Pope.
April 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
6th pick in the Roto draft again 😭
March 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Took my engagement photos today in the 8 degree weather. At least no one was around to be in the shot.
January 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Not really a New Years Resolution guy, but this year I’m going to read more. Didn’t read hardly anything last year and I want to recapture the passion I had for reading.
January 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I very much enjoy working in the email mines.
December 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM