Lucky Paper Radio25 Jan 2021

Bread and Butter Breakdown

Our Kaldheim Cube Survey is open! Please take a few minutes to let us know what you’re testing in your cube from the new set.

As Andy tinkers with two lower powered and novel cubes, he finds himself presented with a question he hasn’t actually confronted in depth before: what percentage of a cube should be removal? Or countermagic? Or cantrips and card draw? With higher-powered cubes you’re often constrained by the available card pool, and end up playing as much of these effects as you can without sacrificing individual card quality, but at lower power levels, the density is entirely up to you. In preparation for the discussion, Andy tallies up all of these different “bread and butter” effects in his and Anthony’s main cubes, as well as the Degenerate Micro Cube, and our hosts discuss the results and what it says about their respective environments — or whether it really says anything at all.

View the table with all the values discussed in this episode on our website.

Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week is Max’s Junk Cube, submitted by listener Quinn. Thanks, Quinn!

Discussed in this episode:

Anthony’s Turbo Cube
Degenerate Micro Cube
Lucky Paper Radio Episode 8 — Matchup Matrix
Andy and Anthony on Cube Outside the Box — Part 1 and Part 2

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
4:15 Listener submitted p1p1
12:30 Main Topic
58:30 Outro

You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

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