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Jyscal and High-Society Hunter were two of my 7 rare inclusions and found their way into a BWR sac pile. Hunter seemed a little more dominant than desired, but I'm not convinced that the cube can't handle it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 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
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
- One of my biggest sources of confusion is when cards reference multiple steps/phases/zones or have weird clauses and conditionals. I don't know the best way to evaluate that.

I saw this card for the first time recently and my gut reaction was that I was bound to mis-resolve it repeatedly.
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I just hid it as a default column when I added the word count stuff. Still haven't gotten around to going back and persisting any selected columns a user makes. /shrug
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 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
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
Made Top 128 #CubeCon and played Alpha Reimagined again for the final draft of today.

Went 2-0, then lost a BO1 against the creator in the finals because we wanted to leave and it didn't matter for cut to top 64.
Awesome cube, glad to have drafted it twice. #MTGCube

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October 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
2-1 in the Old Border Foil Cube.
Never drew Rector or Sigil, really wanted to become a dragon. :(

Pack 1 I thought I was going to be big GW, but a 10th pick Sram encouraged pivoting a bit.
Pick order is top down, left to right.

#MTGCube #CubeCon
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Lost finals of the CORESIR Cube in a RB mirror. They had Falkenrath Aristocrat and I didn't.

"Abandoned" blue early in pack 2 when I took a Boros Recoker pick 3 over a Ral Zarek.

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#MTGCube #CubeCon
October 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
2-1 in The Museum for the second draft of Friday at #MTGCube #CubeCon.

My deck felt like a hodgepodge. I had a couple powerful cards, whiffed a bit on Slide, and could have used more critters. Died to goblins, which felt significantly better than the rest of the pod.

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October 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Lost in finals of Alpha Reimagined for the first formal main event of #CubeCon. Deck felt sweet, but couldn't beat the value of Toxic Deluge into Control Magic.

#MTGCube
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Also drafted the ball pit for the side event after the prequel draft because I didn't realize that was possible (oops). Worse deck for sure this time, but managed a 2-1 (technically 2-0-1?).

I tried to pick up some big mana stuff, but I think you need to get lucky and table most of that. #MTGCube
October 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Got the 3-0 in today's #CubeCon prequel draft out of the Ball Pit. Strange draft, neat experience. My deck felt like it just had solid mana and answers when most people didn't. #MTGCube

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October 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Third draft of #MTGCube #CubeCon is a 3-player Housman draft out of my Peasant Cube. I probably could have commit more to WG and had a better pile and had something a bit more powerful?

This UR deck took the 2-0.
October 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
First two drafts of #CubeCon are Kerby's Enchanted Teachings cube and a powered cube. #MTGCube
October 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I might not have asked _here_, but I did ask some friends a few days ago while slapping this together so that's perfect.

For referenced Zones and some of the mechanics (shuffle, counter, choose) did you have a clean data source for those or is that just trying to do text/keyword matches?
October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
While trying to figure out what cubes I want to draft this year at CubeCon I wound up hacking together a basic cube comparison page over the weekend to help identify some candidates. #MTGCube

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October 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's probably Swiftspear, but I always liked these two because they further reinforced specific types of spell patterns. They're probably not the "most" prowess-y though as a result.
October 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM