Un-Cards for Cube

Andy and Anthony talk about all things un-. They discuss the history of silver-bordered and other non-tournament Magic cards, how they’re designed, and the categories they fall into so you can choose if and how to play them in your Cube.

Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Myagic’s Storytime Cube featuring fairytale themes and a sprinking of un-cards.

Discussed in this episode:

• Drive to Work: Unglued
• Drive to Work: Making Un-Cards
• Munchkin
• The Misery Cube
• Unstable Foil Tabletop Card Prices
• LRR plays the Roborosewater Cube

Timestamps:

• 1:59 — Listener submitted pack , pick 1
• 7:13 — Why un-cards are interesting
• 9:47 — The history of un-cards
• 12:50 — Un-adjacent cards
• 14:06 — Should you put un-cards in your cube?
• 17:38 — The different categories of un-cards
• 18:17 — Cards that care about some aspect of a card that black border can’t
• 26:39 — Physical challenge cards
• 28:31 — Cards that care about something outside the game
• 32:30 — Outside assistance cards
• 36:03 — Unclassified cards that just don’t work in black border
• 53:56 — Cards with weird flavor
• 58:05 — Cards with extreme variance
• 1:00:27 — Draft matters cards
• 1:07:18 — Conspiracies
• 1:09:26 — The most Uncube Unmaginable

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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, your pronouns, a link to your cube if relevant. You can also find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord.

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.