Washington Cube Champs is a two day event packed with cube draft! Not just a niche format anymore, cube has its own events and tournaments, including WCC pulling in over a hundred players! This week we’ve got a pair of interviews with players at the event, including a full breakdown of the cubes each of them played.
Tons of links for this ep!
Cards mentioned in the Daisy half of the ep
Cards mentioned in the Eric half
WCC Cubes Mentioned:
Daisy’s CubeCobra: https://cubecobra.com/user/view/7360e0e5-2e48-4f7d-a247-dea7eb539717
Eric’s Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/33cbdee8-e022-4620-affb-035b379b9a7a
Topics covered:
- nostalgia cube vs silver age cube
- multinickname
- postmodern vintage cube (high power post-2019 cards)
- daily high school magic
- cube as easier on ramp to magic obsession?
- tim’s brother mentioned
- canadian highlander
- educational magic
- poor forgotten spreading seas
- second episode with a see beyond message
- zulu games in Bothell, WA
- orderly and respectful gaming
- delirium cube
- are bombs good for draft?
- describing symptoms not solutions in playtesting
- foil gaming
- playing your own cube competitively
- data generated vintage cube
- unfair fair cards
- scooping before seeing the combo
- classic magic cube
- ranking your cube choices
- eiganjo cube
- starting with a land in play!
- long drive to spokane
- legacy plus
- having the same days free
- the “first play” of a cube
- live the dream cube
- “you do big fun stuff” is a hard target to hit
- gyruda clones combo
- if you get to do something cool, you don’t care as much about winning
- challenges of commander limited
- how much interaction in a “dreamy” cube is appropriate?
- brawl partners cube
- repetitive gameplay when commanders are cheap (especially 1v1)
- more data generated vintage cube
- stranded with no fast mana
- amulet of qoz on the pod again!
- boros rising in vintage cube
- selesnya… not so much
- urza’s saga cube
- artifact cube where everyone gets an urza’s saga in the pool
- saga is more of a mascot than the mechanical center
- urza’s saga / blood moon tangent
- live the dream was eric’s favorite
- aggro mirrors
- dan dan format
- great event administration
- tim’s next level of cube hosting
- eric’s even higher level
- caleb gannon synergy cube
- board stall cube
- the return of banding
- inclusive community events
- obzedat rules detour
- bluey and thrall, leader of the horde