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🥳 Magic the Gathering Cube 😎 Home of the Dutch Annual CubeVitational 🔄 now 15 years running! Amterdam - The Netherlands https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/power-combo

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · Jun 8

The Dutch Annual #MtGCube #CubeVitational is 32player invite only 1day tournament. This year played on Nov 1st in Amsterdam.

Invited are last year’s Top 4, the winners of 24 Qualifier draft and four wildcards. The winner gets a token made in their likeness and a playmat, Top 4 signs a basic land.

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 5h

Had already posted and didn’t feel like running it back, that said / thanks for doing the fieldwork :)

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 1d

Yass! The Vintage bimonthly is again today :) Squeezed a 2-3 playing Bazaar Aggro. Lost to the mirror, Dredge and Lurrus, beat Oath.

GGs, is it January yet?

metagame
7x Lurrus PO
3x Oath
2x HollowVine
1x Dredge

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 5d

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 6d

Nope! He lives in the US and is starting a new job. It was all just too complicated, however unfortunate.

We’re keen to hand out the tokens to all attendees and send him a nice batch. Once we have the printed tokens I plan to post about it of course :)

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 6d

And with that we have our 32 competitors for #MtGCube #CubeVitational 2025!

Sadly, for the first time in 15yrs previous year’s Champion is unable to defend his title, but we’ll most likely extend a wildcard next year.

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 6d

The LCQ for #CubeVitational 2025 is in the books. Local cEDH favorite Bart Korteweg drafted some Vintage #MtGCube nonsense and doesn’t drop a single game :) GGs. Congrats!

🥇Bart Korteweg / Time Breach
🥈Ido Levy / Otter Initiative
🥉Friso Schous / Comet & Boo
🏅Marco Hoonderd / Thassa Painter

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!

Do you have a qualification structure for these 16 players? or do you invite 16 based on some (other) metrics?

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 7d

That’s a lot of Cube!
Hope you get the trophy :)

We ran 16 players the first 10 years. Last 5 years we ran 32 players, cutting to 16, to Top8, with 3 Cubes. Our 2025 event is on November 1st.

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 7d

Thrilled to find a #MtGCube event just as young as ours! Are the TOs on Bluesky?

Dave Nolan @dnolan08.bsky.social · 7d

2025 Cube Invitational is happening! #mtgcube

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 8d

I love these decks :)

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 12d

I was blinded by the words “P9” and tried it in my tight Vintage list. Expectation was low, but it did literally nothing. So little in fact, that I going to try it in Legacy just for a laugh :)

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 12d

I think you may be right, I’ll report back :)

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 12d

Exactly, that’s why I may do enough in a midrangy Legacy Cube?

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 12d

fact - Oracle of The Alpha reads like a fun Magic card I’d like to Cube with

fact - it does diddly squat in my Vintage Cube environment

question - can we run it in a 720 card Legacy Cube?

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 13d

That’s a wrap!
Thanks for another great getaway :)

Sad I wasn’t able to 6-0 the Vintage portion, while going 2-8 on the other Cubes.

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 14d

Draft 6 (day 3)
Thomas’ Vintage #MtGCube
2-1 Boros Big Game

Couldn’t clinch the 🏆 in an extremely fun and close game 3 against Esper Painter Control.

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 14d

Draft 5
Arjan’s Legacy #MtGCube
1-2 monoWhite

Missequenced in the final bubble match and couldn’t stop my opponent’s Redcap Persist Combo.

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 14d

Draft 4
Thomas’ One Drop #MtGCube
0-3
Rakdos Harvest

Drafted poorly, played even worse.
It’s been a while since we ran 1MV, aptly described tonight a Cube of microtransactions.

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 14d

Draft 3 (day 2)
Thomas’ Legacy #MtGCube
0-3
Izzet Spells

Some close games, could’ve navigated them better…

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 15d

Floris de Haan scoops up the 23rd Qualifier, playing Orzhov Bears in Arjan’s Legacy #MtGCube. GGs. Congrats!

Only the LCQ for #CubeVitational 2025 left to play ánd the 4 remaining WildCards to announced. Main event in just four weeks :)

Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 15d

Draft 2
Thomas’ Vintage #MtGCube 3-0
monoGreen Oko

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 15d

Draft 1
Arjan’s Legacy #MtGCube 1-2
Muddy Blue

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 15d

Eight Wizards enter Jurassic Park!
48hrs of #MtGCube. Tonight Qualifier #23 for #CubeVitational 2025 :)

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Thomas Krone @cubevitational.bsky.social · 16d

yesssss, we too love Bloodforged Axe tokens!