How Many Lands Should You Include in Your Cube?

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Read Andy's article informing this episode! Andy and Anthony talk about how many lands to run in a Cube. While Cube design is subjective and largely a matter of taste, our hosts discuss things we can objectively measure about the proportion of lands included in a Cube, and precedent from other Magic formats. Andy breaks down data from Cube Cobra from his new article on the same subject about how Cubes are generally constructed.

Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from The Strictly Worse Cube

Timestamps:

• 7:03 — Pack 1, Pick 1
• 14:45 — Where does the current average number of lands in Cubes come from?
• 18:30 — Precedent set by retail limited
• 24:00 — Precedent set by constructed
• 34:10 — Precedent set by Frank Karsten
• 37:48 — How many lands is too many lands?
• 43:19 — Design considerations on land density.
• 47:25 — What about five color good stuff?
• 55:21 — Concluding thoughts

Discussed in this episode:

• The Nega Cube
• Change Aversion
• ASFAN
• CubeCon Ticket Sales

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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

11 weeks to Cube Con!

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.