Lucky Paper Radio15 Jul 2024

It Feels Good to Riffle Shuffle Duals: Preparing the Neoclassical Cube for Steel City

Andy and Anthony talk about Andy’s Neoclassical Cube. They talk about some of the changes Andy’s been making leading up to it being played by a wider audience at Steel City Cube. They talk about how the design philosophy has evolved and their recent experience playing the Cube.

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Timestamps

0:00 - Introduction and Airplane Corner

6:04 - Overview of the Neoclassical Cube and why old school Magic might appeal to players due to its simplicity

10:44 - The Beauty of Games Book Club Check In

12:15 - Lucky Paper Mail Bag: bird p1p1 and custom cards in cube

20:07 - Deep-dive on the design of the Neoclassical Cube: what defines ‘old school’ Magic?

27:16 - Dialing in the right quantity and quality of powerful enablers

32:41 - Storm in the Neoclassical Cube

38:37 - Resource denial, creatureless decks, and other aesthetic departures from modern Magic

47:46 - The Kiki Jiki Question

52:41 - The state of Reanimator

55:07 - The death of the cycling deck

57:37 - The state of the Burn deck

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