Sure! Same reasoning explains the very good reasons why cubes would want any colorless cards, or fixing cards. (There's a reason people went hard on Icehide Golem in 2019, haha.) I like colorless cards! But they are not drawback-less.

Haha sorry! But maybe you can save your time – I think the benefits of hybrid tend to get covered by Maro and the cube status quo! (And those are real benefits I mention in the piece!)

this was a middle domino on my journey to realizing that magic is not, in fact, the greatest game ever made. not even close. (the best game is probably imaginary friends, or watching raindrops race across a car's windows.)

but out of scope for the ATLA piece, i thought.

rosewater and I agree that the color pie is made up of precedents and concessions. But I go further – Magic is nothing except mechanics, and a pseudo-psych fiction to make them feel universal.

So, like, sure, RG birds. But switching in 2025 is kinda an admission the emperor was always naked...

On the Hybrid piece I feel obligated to tag @irreleverent.bsky.social, with thanks for the Discord convo that inspired me :)

This week's next piece is, dare I say, the most complete exploration of hybrid mana in cube design ever written.

Researching this piece surprised me... I would have never guessed Red's first all-upside 2/2 at 2MV, and I bet you won't either.

luckypaper.co/articles/the...

Sam's original piece and several more resources are linked at the bottom of this article. If the idea resonates with you, there are a lot of tools to help!

3/x OH YEAH and in the first half of mouse's set, behind the wailing sax and two keyboardists playing the nastiest polyrhythms you've ever heard, a B&W projector was cycling thru cell mitosis, super-close-up video of ants carrying a bee corpse, and abandoned freight cranes. sublime and numinous

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anyways, i never thought i'd be in the same country as mouse, so it was such a dream to just... take the train to see them, kinda on a whim, transit and hotel and vinyl all less than the price of a nosebleed ticket in the US.

forget magic the gathering, try the magic of music.

Thanks for filling in the blank! It's an awesome story. I'll push an update to credit Tim.

aaaand now all of the typos are fixed (i hope)

("show the cards who shuffles whom" comes from a P Sully anecdote on SCG's Resleevables. if anybody has a better source than that pod's now-inaccessible audio, I'll happily update that paragraph)

We time our rounds on a similar 3.5h cube night. We just announce it clearly as the draft wraps up, and it's no big deal. Another possibility is to do ad-hoc pairings instead of Swiss.

I'll double-check our end (I may have forgotten to run a script) and update the site next week! Thanks for letting me know.

Yes! You can make it easier to collate by using sparkly inner sleeves or inner-sleeve stickers on the cards you want to separate.

*We can only help with Amonkhet experts. (Only you have the power to trainwreck your drafts.)

Emma's not on bsky, but you can learn more about Egypt on her YT: www.youtube.com/@learnegypto...

If you ever feel inclined to write about cube (or cube-adjacent things) for Lucky Paper... let me know!

You might be surprised -- if you frame it right, it can be a YOLO moment that frees people from the analysis paralysis of cutting from 45 spells to 23 (because you KNOW them casual EDH drafters ain't picking lands)