Sam's original piece and several more resources are linked at the bottom of this article. If the idea resonates with you, there are a lot of tools to help!

3/x OH YEAH and in the first half of mouse's set, behind the wailing sax and two keyboardists playing the nastiest polyrhythms you've ever heard, a B&W projector was cycling thru cell mitosis, super-close-up video of ants carrying a bee corpse, and abandoned freight cranes. sublime and numinous

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anyways, i never thought i'd be in the same country as mouse, so it was such a dream to just... take the train to see them, kinda on a whim, transit and hotel and vinyl all less than the price of a nosebleed ticket in the US.

forget magic the gathering, try the magic of music.

Thanks for filling in the blank! It's an awesome story. I'll push an update to credit Tim.

aaaand now all of the typos are fixed (i hope)

("show the cards who shuffles whom" comes from a P Sully anecdote on SCG's Resleevables. if anybody has a better source than that pod's now-inaccessible audio, I'll happily update that paragraph)

We time our rounds on a similar 3.5h cube night. We just announce it clearly as the draft wraps up, and it's no big deal. Another possibility is to do ad-hoc pairings instead of Swiss.

I'll double-check our end (I may have forgotten to run a script) and update the site next week! Thanks for letting me know.

Yes! You can make it easier to collate by using sparkly inner sleeves or inner-sleeve stickers on the cards you want to separate.

*We can only help with Amonkhet experts. (Only you have the power to trainwreck your drafts.)

Emma's not on bsky, but you can learn more about Egypt on her YT: www.youtube.com/@learnegypto...

If you ever feel inclined to write about cube (or cube-adjacent things) for Lucky Paper... let me know!

You might be surprised -- if you frame it right, it can be a YOLO moment that frees people from the analysis paralysis of cutting from 45 spells to 23 (because you KNOW them casual EDH drafters ain't picking lands)

this cube has NO DECKBUILD. you just jam the 40 you draft. Better find a discard outlet to make use of any off-color spells.

for inspo, here's one of the best to ever do it: cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Gatecrash's mechanics? Meh, they're 40% fine.

But the flavor? Wow. Wasn't expecting to end up where I did. I want more Gateless in Magic!

I was surprised to see success correlate with age: DMU had more long-term success than BRO, which in turn outshone ONE, and so on in release order (with one LTR-sized blip).

Looking forward to 2026, I wonder if these fast-paced high-power releases will continue to chill Cube enthusiasm.