Vintage Cube Sucks
from Lucky Paper Radio Hosted by Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox
View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about why they think Vintage Cube sucks. Riddled with unintelligibly complicated cards, self-solving puzzles, and value generating haymakers that take no investment or strategy to maximize, it’s not our hosts’ favorite kind of Cube. Discussed in this episode: Aetherdrift and Aetherdrift Commander Cube surveys Really Bad Chess Rusty Box o’ Goblins Quadrant Theory MTGO Vintage Cube on Cube Cobra No Holds Barred Cube on MTGO Parker’s Article on Trivia Checks Stavvy’s World Midnight Diner May’s Fae Cube Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:09 - Vintage Cube Sucks 5:19 - Disclaimers and Caveats 14:45 - What do we mean when we say ‘Vintage Cube’? 18:02 - Issue one: rampant card complexity, especially the Initiative 30:25 - Issue two: cards with no downsides encourage unfocused decks 36:13 - Issue three: modern power outliers are mostly unknown supplemental set cards, not iconic pillars of the game 42:30 - Miscellaneous ‘Vintage Cube’ cards that offend Andy and Anthony 45:06 - What to do with the knowledge that Vintage Cube sucks?
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