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Most of the time when listeners suggest topics we’ve already recorded a whole episode dedicated to that subject. Sometimes we’ve even recorded three. It turns out almost six years is a long time to have a weekly podcast about a niche interest like Cube design. So when someone recently suggested we record an episode about ‘colorless cards’ I was surprised to discover that we have never actually dedicated an entire episode to the subject, and it turns out we have a lot to say!

If you have questions for our 300th episodes please send them to mail@luckypaper.co with the subject line ‘Episode 300 Question’.

Discussed in this episode:

• Hedron Network
• Regular Cube
• Turbo Cube
• 100 Ornithopters
• Bun Magic
• Sacred Geometry
• Neoclassical Cube
• Devoid Cube

If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.

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

You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:22 - Hedron Network Data
• 3:47 - Episode 300
• 6:39 - Colorless Cards
• 11:20 - Thinking About the Color Pie
• 13:05 - Sacred Geometry Diversion
• 16:37 - Balancing Colorless Cards
• 20:30 - Hole Filling
• 22:19 - Supporting Monocolor
• 28:29 - The Colorless Deck
• 35:02 - Colorless Cards and Mana Fixing
• 37:33 - Colorless v Colored Arifacts
• 38:42 - Mana Rocks
• 42:05 - Noosegraf Mob Sidebar
• 43:37 - Pseudo Colorless Cards
• 45:48 - Stax
• 52:00 - Eldrazi
• 54:46 - Colorless Cubes

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In the third book club Episode, Anthony and Parker talk about Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. Originally published in 1988, the book was an influential criticism of the built world and interfaces establishing many concepts fundamental to user interface and industrial design today. It also introduces a metric ton of jargon per page.

Our book club members talk about how these concepts apply to game and Cube design and their thinking about things more broadly.

Discussed in this episode:

• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
• Enshittification concept and book by Cory Doctorow
• Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx
• Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx
• Blood In the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
• Other Book Club Episodes

If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.

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

You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 2:42 - The Design of Everyday Things
• 7:43 - Mental Models
• 12:04 - Trouble With Mapping
• 16:58 - Cube REL/Humility
• 19:40 - Don Please Turn off the Podcast
• 21:03 - Types of Errors
• 26:30 - Games are Intentionally Bad Design
• 32:04 - Constraints
• 34:55 - Knowledge in the World
• 42:28 - Learned Helplessness
• 48:20 - Neologisms
• 50:59 - Choosing the Next Book

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In this explicit episode of Lucky Paper Radio, Andy, Anthony, and Patrick recap their experience at Shoebox in St Paul, Minnesota. Shoebox celebrated a range of casual formats including team limited, pauper, and, of course, Cube! They talk about highlights from the weekend and the decks they drafted.

Discussed in this episode:

• The Monster Fuck
• Dee Dee Mega Doo Doo
• Arties Cube
• Shoebox
• Eiganjo Drift
• Aquaone Powered
• Penrose Cube
• HeatherCube
• Boudican Destruction Horizon
• 100 Lotuses

If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.

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

You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:

Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211

Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 7:23 - Fistfights
• 12:04 - Pottery Studio
• 16:28 - Weather and Planes
• 18:58 - Microfame
• 20:32 - Andy’s Draft of Artemis’ Cube
• 24:19 - What is Shoebox
• 29:41 - Anthony’s Draft of Eiganjo Drift
• 32:09 - Patrick’s Draft of aquaone Powered
• 36:51 - Andy’s Draft of Penrose Cube
• 41:33 - Anthony’s Draft of HeatherCube
• 45:31 - Andy’s Stone Soup
• 53:30 - Anthony’s Stone Soup
• 55:19 - Patrick’s New Friends
• 57:22 - Pizza Time
• 63:03 - Andy’s Draft of Boudica
• 68:33 - Patrick’s Draft of Boudica
• 72:10 - James’ Microcube
• 72:56 - 100 Lotuses
• 78:17 - Closing Thoughts
• 79:36 - Anthony’s Draft of Companion Cube