Cubing in Unsanctioned Spaces and The Ten-Year-Old Child Test

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After five full years of Lucky Paper Radio, Andy and Anthony reflect on how their local playgroup, the podcast, and the broader cube community have evolved. They talk about their recent experience of keeping a weekly Cube night going without a local game store and how you can make it work. They also talk about the supportive, casual vibe of their local community and how a young player having a great time cubing is something of a litmus test for a strong community.

Our hosts also introduce a new Patreon to support the show, the goal of which is to keep the show sustainable, covering the cost of an editor and other expenses. After years of hard work on Andy’s part, the show’s production needs to evolve to stay tenable. If they exceed that goal they have bigger ambitions of ways to support the Cube community.

Andy and Anthony are excited to use this as an opportunity to record a bonus podcast for supporters: Magic Doesn’t Exist. All the Cube discussion will stay in the main feed available to everyone. The bonus feed will be an opportunity for our two hosts to talk about whatever else catches their interest. Anything at all, except Magic: hobbies, interests, books their reading, koji, mechanical watches, more koji probably until Anthony falls into a different rabbit hole, how they feel about Pokemon…

If you want to support the show and hear more from our hosts, consider joining!

Discussed in this episode:

• Our Patreon Page
• Lucky Paper Expenses Page
• Fadensonnen
• Peabody Heights Brewery

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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 mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:31 - Our Fifth Anniversary and Starting Our Patreon
• 8:26 - Our Reservations on Monetizing Our Labor of Love
• 15:37 - Patreon Stretch Goals
• 22:34 - Our Bonus Podcast: Magic Doesn’t Exist
• 25:32 - Our Commitment to Transparency
• 30:17 - The Lucky Paper Discord
• 32:16 - Building a Cube Playgroup without a Local Game Store
• 40:13 - The Logistics of Playing in Non-Magic Sanctioned Spaces
• 48:51 - The Ten-Year-Old Child Test for Your Playgroup