Smells Like Synergy

Our Strixhaven set review episode is coming to you next week. We weren’t able to do the episode in a timely fashion due to life circumstances, but we’re going to make sure we bring the quality. Thanks for your patience!

On this week’s episode, Andy and Anthony talk about Cube and synergy. Synergy means many things to many different cube players and designers and is used to talk about both environments and decks. We tease out a few ways to define synergy, and how we use it to frame our goals as cube designers and how it’s part of our strategies as players. We discuss how ‘synergy’ overlaps with structured, low power, cubes with color pair driven archetypes and high power combo strategies. Anthony shares his enthusiasm for a new cube with its own set of ’rares’, and his excitement about small doses of radically draft warping cards.

Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Ryan’s Peasantish Cube. Thank’s Ryan!

Discussed in this episode:

• Nosedive, by Harold McGee (again)
• On Food and Cooking
• Hot Dogs
• Anthony’s Beta Cube with Rare Sauce
• I Think You Should Leave

Timestamps:

• 0:00 Intro
• 3:08 Pack 1, Pick 1
• 12:08 What is synergy?
• 49:01 Anthony’s Beta Cube with Rare Sauce
• 1:02:32 Outro

You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

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

If you have a question for the show, or want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube, email us at [email protected]. Please include how you’d like to be credited on air, your pronouns, and if you’re submitting a cube for the pack 1, pick 1, a link to said cube.

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.