Live Cube Update: Making Removal Better in the Bun Magic Cube

On the heels of last week’s episode, wherein Andy realized that his 3 drop slot is perhaps inappropriately high-value in the face of removal, and in response to some grumbling from his local playgroup about reactive strategies not being viable because of there being too many recursive threats, the boys are talking through 18 different three drop creatures Andy is considering adding. All of these creatures are more ”Baneslayer” than ”Mulldrifter” with the goal of making removal a bit better in the environment.

To inform his decisions Andy polled his local playgroup, the MTG Cube Talk Discord, and Twitter about which cards they perceived to be the most powerful, least powerful, most fun, and least fun. Some of the results were surprising and throughout this episode Andy and Anthony go into detail about how to parse them.

Our show notes were too long this week for the timestamps to fit, so make sure to check them out on our website.

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Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Pino’s The CoMa Cube.

Discussed in this episode:

• Anthony’s Visualization of Magic’s New Card Text Each Year
• Andy’s New Card Poll on Twitter
• Ryan Saxe’s Card Polling Tweets
• Caleb Gannon’s Synergy Cube
• Lucky Paper’s Jumpstart 2022 Cube Survey

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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.