Lucky Paper Radio20 Marras 2023

What Can and Cannot Be Learned From Studying Draft Pools

Following CubeCon 2023, all pool lists were released to let Cube owners learn about what was successful, or not, in their environments at the event. Andy and Anthony review and discuss the decks drafted from their cubes, how they feel about each environment, and how the outcomes may inform future changes.

If you drafted the Bun Magic Cube, Regular Cube, or Turbo Cube we’d love your feedback including how you built your deck and highs and lows of your games. Get in touch! and be sure to share your deck photos.

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Tune in this Wednesday, November 22 to Lucky Paper on Twitch for Andy’s commentary on a roto draft of his Cube with a group of top French players.

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Discussed in this episode:

Timestamps

0:00 - Introduction

4:49 - First impressions and why red is so strong

10:54 - The flaws of card-focused conclusions

15:18 - We were happy with the results for our own cubes from CubeCon?

20:06 - Unpacking Dom Harvey’s maybe dominant strategy in the Bun Magic Cube

24:36 - What kinds of patterns emerged in the CubeCon dekclists?

29:19 - The relationship between fixing and win rate in the Bun Magic Cube

32:26 - The challenge of winning with blue in the Bun Magic Cube

47:32 - The Turbo Cube decks of CubeCon

48:02 - A request for deck lists from the Bun Magic Cube at CubeCon

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