Irregular Cube: Rarity in Custom Draft Formats

Andy and Anthony discuss Anthony’s newest cube project, Irregular Cube. Like his primary cube it’s a lower power environment with a variety of overlapping archetypes, but it also has a novel structure: a main set and a second list of ‘rare’ cards, largely composed of higher powered cards with a healthy helping of build-arounds. They talk about the many opportunities rarity offers, challenges it imposes, and what they’ve learned from initial playtesting.

To kick off the conversation, our pack 1, pick 1 comes from the cube in question.

Discussed in this episode:

• Irregular Cube + Rare List
• Regular Cube
• The Legend Cube by Listener Josh
• Limited Resources: Time Spiral Remastered
• LPR on Designing for the Draft Experience
• Andy’s Combat Trick Mini Cube
• LPR on Sealed in Cube Environments
• (A different) Josh’s Powered Un-Cube and the Robo Rosewater Cube
• Conspiracies

Timestamps:

• 4:03 Pack 1, Pick 1
• 8:49 Capturing the Thrill and Novelty of Rarity
• 16:57 Playtesting First Impressions
• 47:30 The Impact of Conspiracies
• 1:06:08 Outro

You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

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

If you have a question for the show, or want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube, email us at [email protected]. Please include how you’d like to be credited on air, your pronouns, and if you’re submitting a cube for the pack 1, pick 1, a link to said cube.

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.