Rock, Paper, Scissors, Recap

Andy and Anthony revisit the topic of the rock, paper, scissors metagame on the axis of tempo and respond to listener feedback from last week’s episode. In addition, they share some highlights and bad-beats from a long weekend playing a range of Cubes.

Our listener submitted pack 1, pick 1 this week comes from Gasedup’s Micro Grixis Cube.

Timestamps:

• 1:56 — Brags and Bad Beats: A Cube Weekend Recap
• 8:43 — Cube Con: The long anticipated, premier Cube event
• 14:28 — Pack 1, Pick one from Gasedup's Micro Grixis Cube
• 17:32 — Follow up from last week’s listener submitted pack 1, pick 1
• 21:16 — Follow up from last week’s main topic: the RPS meta game
• 32:12 — Reacting to LSV’s “The Meaning of Midrange” article from 2009
• 39:05 — Reacting to the “PV’s Playhouse — Midrange” article from 2013

Discussed in this episode:

• Daniel’s Gold Cube
• The 555-Jank Cube
• Last week’s episode on the Aggro-Midrange-Control RPS Meta
• CubeCon
• Degenerate Micro Cube
• Jeskai Control Battlebox
• The Turbo Cube
• Referenced Legacy Decklists
• RPS polls thread on Twitter
• LSV’s Initial Technology – The Meaning of Midrange (and Why It’s Terrible)
• Paulo Vitor Damo Da Rosa on Midrange
• Sam Black’s poll on the Wandering Emperor

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 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, your pronouns, a link to your cube if relevant. You can also find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord.

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.