Wishes, Lesson/Learn, and Companions: The Dynamics of Outside the Game Mechanics

Andy and Anthony talk about Wishes! Wishes are a special class of cards that let you access cards from outside your game. In competitive play and drafts, this means any card from your sideboard. In casual play anything at all from your collection. Andy talks about why it’s interesting to him and the challenges he’s faced trying to design a Cube focused around the wish cards.

Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Deinonychus’s The Bodleian Cube. Thanks, Deinonychus!

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Discussed in this episode:

• Cube Con
• All Wishes on Scryfall
• Andy’s Three Wishes “Cube”
• Andy’s Lesson Learn “Cube”
• Foraminifera Fossils
• Diatoms
• The Dolomite Cliffs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

3:15 - Draft Weekend Recap

7:37 - Andy’s Exploration with Outside-the-Game Mechanics

19:53 - Andy’s Goals for and Challenges with his Wish Package Cube

40:53 - Lessons Learned from the Lesson and Learn Cube

47:45 - Listener Submitted Pack 1, Pick 1

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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.