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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · 1d

Fun game @phantooom.bsky.social just invented: for each evergreen keyword ability, what is the card that uses it best? For example: Celestial Colonnade is the best use of vigilance, Ball Lightning is the best use of Trample, etc.

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · 1d

Oh as a game piece I couldn’t agree more. I’m a staunch lifegain hater and love adding elements that speed games up through brazen lifeloss.

Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · 1d

He’s only runner up for me in how frequently his Lifelink is borderline flavortext. But daaaaamn if it isn’t some flavorful text, even then.

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · 1d

And to combine the two, the best use of both Flying and Lifelink is, for me, Gift of Orzhova

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · 1d

Flying: Gilded Drake, with THREE runners up

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · 1d

Lifelink: Evra, with a runner up of Griselbrand

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · 18d

I’d plug INW round two if I had a date yet, so instead uhhhhhh make sure to vote in your next local election!

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Ball Pit Cometh: A Video Primer

#MTGCube

youtube.com/shorts/DrN-t...

The Ball Pit: CubeCon 2025

YouTube video by Jane McKinney

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 29

Damn, what an effective poster design.

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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · Aug 22

Getting real excited for this weekend’s stream! @nickzlmhc.bsky.social helping us test out @nyc-mtg.bsky.social’s sick setup. Got a great line up of cubes coming your wall all Saturday and Sunday. m.twitch.tv/luckypapermt...

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 14

#mtgcube needs to be a fully proxy-embracing community.

Usman The Rad @usmantherad.bsky.social · Aug 14

usmantherad.substack.com/p/pack-one-s...

In this episode, we talk about proxies since they're awesome. :)

Pack One Slick Ones - Episode #16 - The Proxy Episode!

In this episode of Pack One Slick Ones, Usman, Jane, jesseb34r and TrainmasterGT talk about proxies in cube and how they can be integrated into a cube to open up doors and level the playing field.

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Girl with a Pearl Witness—continuing my hobby of complimentarily de-TERFing cards for cubers everywhere (internationally, this time!)

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 11

get it? cuz it’s an astro-naut? in the space set? space shrimp??? I need to get some work done today

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thinking about Phyrexian Osteonought

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 8

In reference to this post: bsky.app/profile/jane...

Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Jul 7

Yakima is now safe with her owner.

Friends and I got back to our BNB today to find a large dog hiding under our deck, with a *very* bad leg wound that looked a few days old. Collar, no tag. The island’s vet is closed. Police located a woman with a lost dog who picked her up crying. I need a nap.

Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 8

Amazing Yakima update: the owner of the AirBnb in whose yard we found Yakima sent me this message today 😭😭😭 She’s happy and healthy and it all worked out!!

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 5

Encountered a bumper sticker today that I now really want to slap on all of my new cube creations

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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · Aug 4

A few weeks ago @anthony.luckypaper.co and I flew all the way across the country to attend Inland Northwest Cube Fest. @janemckinney.bsky.social put together probably my favorite menu of cubes for an event like this. We talk about our experience on this week's episode: luckypaper.co/podcast/263-...

Episode 263: Inland Northwest Cube Fest Tournament Report — Lucky Paper Radio

Andy and Anthony recap their drafts from the Inland Northwest Cube Fest, a local Cube event in Spokane Washington.

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Aug 1

Snuff, Citadel, Ulamog, Raptor

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M. Jane Bennet @darthpinkhippo.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'm sleeping at my parents, post breakup. I get out to my car to grab what I left in there last night, and both passenger tires are completely flat. I can't do this. 😭

I gotta find a place to live, and now replace my tires. I've never done this, and feel sick about it, but can y'all help me out?

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Jul 30

Holy shit it’s the grink

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Jul 28

Banished to the void

Suffocated by the airlock malfunction that is my cat’s floof in my mouth

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Jul 28

(But seriously there are like 10 cards from EoE and its commander decks that I want to add to the Ball Pit, which, me being an avowed old-woman-who-yells-at-clouds, is a TON of considerations for a new set)

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Jane McKinney @janemckinney.bsky.social · Jul 28

Cube updating doesn’t always go as planned.

Sometimes your editorial assistant decides that it’s time for a nap break before you’ve managed to actually make any changes.

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