A Loom Made of Yarn: the Tools of Cube Design

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Andy and Anthony talk about the essential digital tools and workflows for Cube designers. Starting with finding and gathering cards on Scryfall, to sculpting and sharing lists on Cube Cobra and tools for analyzing and comparing lists, they talk about how to leverage resources to make designing and playing Cube easier. Our hosts also share about some of the tools they’ve built to address their own needs that come up regularly in Cube design.

Discussed in this episode:

• Scryfall
• Cube Cobra
• Lucky Paper Rotisserie Draft Sheet
• Anthony’s articles about Scryfall’s search syntax and regular expressions
• Building a Cube from Your Collection Article and Podcast
• Moxfield
• Lucky Paper Cube Map
• Sacred Geometry
• 100 Ornithopters
• Anthony’s CubeCobra API toolkit
• Anthony’s Google Sheets Integration
• MTGTop8
• Degenerate Micro Cube
• EDHRec
• Lucky Paper List Formatter
• Lucky Paper List Differ
• Commander Spellbook
• Neoclassical Cube
• Andy’s Small Combo Cube “Eggs for Four”
• sealeddeck.tech
• deckstats.net
• Surveil Lands
• Playing Oppression
• The Dandy Cube

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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

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

You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper

PO Box 4855

Baltimore, MD 21211

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 7:51 - Introduction to topic
• 9:09 - Scryfall
• 14:00 - Cube Cobra
• 28:14 - Spreadsheets
• 29:35 - MTGTop8
• 32:36 - Lucky Paper Cube Design Tools
• 38:15 - Commander Spellbook
• 41:34 - Honorable mention: sealeddeck.tech
• 44:10 - Collection management
• 46:38 - Listener Submitted Pack 1, Pick 1