Emergent Cube Design by Example

Andy and Anthony talk through emergent cube design by example. Starting with a listener submitted card — Trade Routes — they explore ways to create a context where the card is a role player. Moving beyond direct synergies, they demonstrate how they’d use on card as a seed crystal to generate ideas for a mechanically coherent Cube. ⁠View all cards mentioned in the episode →⁠ Discussed in this episode: Scryfall search "fo:/whenever.*you.*discard/" Our article about using Scryfall Our article about regular expressions BoshNRoll YouTube Channel Sharkstill Decks Tolarian Community College Cube Video Ship of Theseus Timestamps 0:00 - Introduction 1:18 - Episode Overview 6:29 - Step 0: Look for redundancy 8:35 - Step 1: Identify Cards with First Order Synergy 24:47 - Step 2: Identify Cards with Second Order Synergy and Emergent Themes 36:01 - Step 3: Look for natural answers to your emergent themes 40:33 - Step 4: Look at the bigger picture: What does aggro look like? What does interaction look like? What does fixing look like? 47:15 - Conclusion Cubes Mentioned The Turbo Cube Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. 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. If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Musical production by DJ James Nasty.