How to Play Your Own, Custom Cube on Arena

Andy and Anthony are joined by Chris and Tim from the Jank Diver Gaming Community to talk about how to play your own, custom-designed cube on Arena. In an exciting, two-part episode, the boys first walk through the process of playing Cube through Arena, then participate in one of Jank Diver Gaming’s weekly drafts and discuss their experience. Will Andy, who has effectively never played Arena before, punt away all his games by not knowing how to use the interface? Will Anthony hate-draft from our guests, leaving a path of burned bridges behind him? Is Theo still too powerful to defeat? Does anyone actually know the full rules text of Questing Beast? Tune in to find out.

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Discussed in this episode:

• Jank Diver Gaming Discord
• Cube Cobra
• mtgadraft.tk
• Matcherino
• Arena card pool on Scryfall
• Lucky Paper Rotisserie Draft Template
• Theo’s Arena Cube
• The Use and Abuse of Archetype Driven Design
• Get Some Game LGS in North Charlotte
• Jank Diver Gaming on Twitter and YouTube

Timestamps:

• 1:28 — How to Draft Your Own Cube on Arena
• 19:33 — Reflections on Andy and Anthony’s First Arena Cube Draft
• 22:52 — How does the Jank Diver Unrestricted Cube feel to an outsider?
• 25:21 — How was the Jank Diver Unrestricted Cube designed?
• 39:56 — Rotisserie Drafting the Jank Diver Unrestricted Cube
• 40:59 — The differences in perceived tempo when playing digitally
• 47:23 — Details of the Jank Diver Gaming community
• 49:01 — Chris and Tim’s top 5 Most Wanted Arena Reprints

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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

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

If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. Send in questions to the show at [email protected]. You can also find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord.

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.