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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · 1d

CubeCon 2025 was spectacular! We had 6 Milwaukee cubers make top 64, including Shariq who was crowned the CubeCon Champion! 🏆👑🔥

I met some awesome people and played some amazing cubes! Thank you to the organizers, staff, judges, designers and players that made it all possible! See you next year!

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · 17d

Im forcing Loot believe it or not! The fixing seems good enough to support the splash

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Sep 19

Jace is helping me make last minute edits to Epic Experiment Cube! 🧪🔬

He thinks aggro/burn was too good and wants to see a more diverse ramp package. 🚫🔥❤️🌳

Who am I to disagree with the Mind Sculptor himself? 🧠💧

Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yes! This cube was my introduction to peasant. Personally, wouldn’t want to play it any other way!

I only had rootbound crag and foothills, but another player had 10 nonbasics in the main deck!

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Sep 18

Got my first 3-0 of @airbornemoxen.bsky.social’s Peasant Plus at our weekly Wednesday cube night yesterday! ☺️

General Kreat is insane if unanswered! I was also really impressed with Spider Manifestation, Bloodbraid Elf is still a banger!

Face is the place!

#mtgcube

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Sep 10

My mom framed this poster from the 1999 MTG Starter Decks for me!

She has been a framing artist for 30 years, and still does it in her free time at home.

I love giving her random art inserts to turn into something even more beautiful!

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Love having these cards in my spell slinger cube, thanks for designing them!

Id love to see more splice onto instant or sorcery in the future, it seems like a perfect solution to the parasitic nature of splice onto arcane cards.

I tried to make those work before but some of them are really slow.

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Aug 24

You use dragon shields? Im curious to see how beat up they get after running through the main event

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Aug 24

Cool! The original Dragon Shields aren’t ripping or anything, but half of them got little dirty crud flakes on them 😖

Gonna throw out the dirty ones and reuse the clean ones for smaller cube/battle box projects

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Aug 23

Watching the last Packers preseason game while resleeving my cube in preparation for CubeCon!

Go Pack Go! 🧀🍷

How often do yall need to resleeve your cubes? I think I got almost 2 years out of these.

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Aug 8

I haven’t played this cube before, but pactdoll is just nuts right? Thats my pick

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Aug 8

The pixie etb stuff looks appealing, but without knowing the density of its support pieces, I would play it safe and take my beloved DCB 🦇

If I P1 pixie, I feel like im unlikely to wheel the blade or the inspector cause people know how good they are.

I would love to play this cube!

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Aug 8

Looks like a fun and interesting pool of cards!

Before I answer, is the list singleton?

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jul 30

I have found a lot of value in doing 1v1 Grid and or Winston drafts

I do my fair share of bot drafts and list pondering, but sometimes I just need to sit at the table and touch cardboard to get a full understanding of the cube

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 17

This gameplan looks reasonable to me! I know fixing was heavily contested at that table with 2-3 domain decks.

Im doing some playtesting this weekend and experimenting with having an EE in the command zone instead. Also adding a bit more lifegain to combat the burn and aggro decks. Any thoughts?

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 17

Id love to play it sometime, do you just announce you need players on stream? Alternatively, I could always try and get them to host it on the cubecon discord digital drafts

Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thanks! Im glad you found it interesting. Do you remember what kind of deck you drafted or have a deck pic?

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 17

Looks really fun! I like the direction you are taking with reanimator. Using premium effects to bring back fair creatures like rune scar demon sounds like good clean magic to me!

If youre worried about it being too good you can just add more spot removal like fell or even murder feels good here

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thanks! Im happy you were able to make it out for the event! Ill DM you an invite to our local cube discord so we can keep in touch!

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 16

Im glad you enjoyed it! Let me know if you think of any fun spells you would like to see added to the list!

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 16

Always a pleasure to jam games with ya homie! Cream City Cubers for life 🤘😂

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 15

Also, my cube was featured, which was sweet!

Got some good data to make tweaks in preparation for its CubeCon25 debut!

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback! ❤️🔥

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 15

Finished strong with my first 3-0 of The Old Border Foil Cube!

My first 3 picks were fetchlands so I just took the most efficient cards while settling into the green seat.

I never have luck with the archetypal decks in this cube so I just played good stuff and got lucky with getting my colors.

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 15

Went (4-2) at Bar-B-Cube 2! Brings me to 16-8 overall at Mana Vault cube events. Still no top 8, YET!

Started out 1-2 in my friend Zach’s Heavy Metal Cube. Deck was sick but I made some dumb misplays.

There is a ton of overlapping synergy in this cube, and it goes up for CubeCon25 voting on 6/17!

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Harrison Dudek @izzetskill.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thanks! 🙏 I stand on the shoulders of giants with the amazing community support I’ve received!

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