Vintage Cube Sucks

View all cards mentioned in this episode

Andy and Anthony talk about why they think Vintage Cube sucks. Riddled with unintelligibly complicated cards, self-solving puzzles, and value generating haymakers that take no investment or strategy to maximize, it’s not our hosts’ favorite kind of Cube.

Discussed in this episode:

• Aetherdrift and Aetherdrift Commander Cube surveys
• Really Bad Chess
• Rusty Box o’ Goblins
• Quadrant Theory
• MTGO Vintage Cube on Cube Cobra
• No Holds Barred Cube on MTGO
• Parker’s Article on Trivia Checks
• Stavvy’s World
• Midnight Diner
• May’s Fae 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

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

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.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 3:09 - Vintage Cube Sucks
• 5:19 - Disclaimers and Caveats
• 14:45 - What do we mean when we say ‘Vintage Cube’?
• 18:02 - Issue one: rampant card complexity, especially the Initiative
• 30:25 - Issue two: cards with no downsides encourage unfocused decks
• 36:13 - Issue three: modern power outliers are mostly unknown supplemental set cards, not iconic pillars of the game
• 42:30 - Miscellaneous ‘Vintage Cube’ cards that offend Andy and Anthony
• 45:06 - What to do with the knowledge that Vintage Cube sucks?