this will be me at 5:01pm tn on my way to #mtgcube

Dan Sheehan@dansheehan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here he is running away

One weird trick to fit three (or more!) Cube matches into less than 3 hours. At any player count. luckypaper.co/articles/try...

Try Exhibition Matches. Thank me later. — Lucky Paper

What if I told you that the best draft format for 7 and 9 players was also the best way to finish a whole cube night in less than 3 hours? This is my new favorite way to play Magic.

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Cube will outlive Magic (haha, yay!) Cube will outlive me (hmmm) I had a blast at a Cube event back in April and it got me thinking about what Cube means, and why I’m such an enthusiastic convert. Consider subscribing + you still have a couple of hours to preorder the no-foolin’ print magazine!

CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION@cascadecascade.com · last mo.

Cubism by @trasgomorph.bsky.social is live! A little bonus before we get into Issue 2 proper. A cube can be anything. www.cascadecascade.com/cubism/

I’ll be in NYC this August with my first brand-new cube in years (!) And let me just say… I was cooking with this one.

C4AC - a cube charity event@cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com · last mo.

Ready Your Rituals #mtgcube pals, the next #c4acobscura designer reveal is the one and only @parker.luckypaper.co! Will you be a planeswalker or a pawn? ♟️ find out this August.

I have a new Cube article out! I'm doing my bit to rehabilitate one of the most underrated sets in Magic. Turns out Cube is so awesome that even Dragon's Maze looks pretty good through this lens: luckypaper.co/articles/dra...

Dragon's Maze: A Retro Design Review — Lucky Paper

The last set of Ravnica's second block: an all-time stinker, at least according to the pros and competitive players. For Cube, though, the Dragon's Maze hides a wealth of unique lessons and flexible r...

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Today for @hipstersofthecoast.com, I discuss the role of quotation in Magic’s flavor text—including quotation’s extreme prevalence, occasional lameness, and icky lack of author attribution in Magic-x-Marvel. Give it a read! www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2026/06/quot...

Quoting, Copying, and Familiar Flavor in Marvel Super Heroes

Ryan examines years of quotations landing on Magic card flavor texts. The data, mechanics, and feeling of the words in italics.

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This is a cool “product,” I guess, but as one of the writers, it was so unbelievably cool that our intrepid editors believed in us this much. Look, Ma, my writing is on a piece of paper you can hold! It’s real! It will survive the butlerian jihad!

CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION@cascadecascade.com · 2mo ago

CASCADE CASCADE - THE MAGAZINE (ISSUE 1) is real. Available for preorder for $14.99. >60 magazine sized pages with every article from ISSUE 1 plus a bonus print exclusive from editor Dan Sheehan. Read more: www.cascadecascade.com/cascade-casc...

CASCADE CASCADE - THE MAGAZINE (ISSUE 1) is real. Available for preorder for $14.99. >60 magazine sized pages with every article from ISSUE 1 plus a bonus print exclusive from editor Dan Sheehan. Read more: www.cascadecascade.com/cascade-casc...

Mando and Grogu was like watching five Wookieepedia articles come to life and engage in chummy low-stakes fisticuffs with a big droid voiced by the least famous Obama nephew

critically important for anybody who thinks magic is interesting, or anybody who gets annoyed by needless 404s

Gregor Stocks@gregorstocks.com · 3mo ago

Magic: The Gathering writing has a short half-life. Historically-important articles are taken offline every year. This sucks. That's why I'm launching Library of Leng, an index of 32 years of Magic writing. 150k+ articles, 20+ sites, fully searchable. library-of-leng.com

This article goes even deeper on why I sold (most of) my Legacy Cube and haven’t purchased a fancy Magic card since

CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION@cascadecascade.com · 3mo ago

Stepping Off Magic’s Status Ladder by @parker.luckypaper.co is live! Parker looks at the relationship between flex purchases and status as CASCADE CASCADE writers continue to contemplate Magic cards as objects & status signifiers & memories & more. www.cascadecascade.com/stepping-off...

Please go support writers and read an article I wrote. It’s an emotional and tumultuous exploration of competitiveness. One of the best things I think I’ve ever written for the Magic space.

CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION@cascadecascade.com · 3mo ago

Happy Thursday everyone! What's it mean to win or lose? @strixhavendropout.bsky.social ruminates upon this in their CASCADE CASCADE debut, live for subscribers now. www.cascadecascade.com/winning-flow...

Didn't anybody tell you? It's Rob Bock O'Clock

Forced Perspective

Rob Bockman takes a moment to consider the many different Magics we've had over the years.

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I wrote about my worst local Cube tournament as a player (but one of my favorites as a designer): luckypaper.co/articles/the...

The Best 0-3 0-6 Draft of my Life — Lucky Paper

An elegy for a game store: Or, what an improbably bad tournament weekend teaches Cube designers about compelling, mysterious, irresistible gameplay.

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Philly destroyed an innocent hitchbot like it was nothing. Can’t wait to see what we’ll do now that the uber bots are actively taking work away from humans.

Get Better At Limited For $0* by @jakebrowne.com Cascade Cascade's resident Limited Guru weighs in on how to stop wasting your gold and start winning games. www.cascadecascade.com/get-better-a... *it costs a Cascade Cascade subscription to read

Get Better At Limited For $0

Cascade Cascade's resident Limited Guru weighs in on how to stop wasting your gold and start winning games.

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REPORTING LIVE FROM THE ICE PROTESTS OF INNISTRAD by @parker.luckypaper.co is now LIVE! In the absence of public truth and solidarity, conspiracy blooms, fueling authoritarianism. www.cascadecascade.com/reporting-li...

Relatedly, I‘m guesting on @commandzoe.bsky.social’s stream on April 11th and we are drafting Girls Night, my spikey #mtgcube about the joys and terrors of living and dying as a woman. There’s rather a lot of feminist subtext to all the exploitation and corrective violence. Come check it out!

videosyncrasy@videosyncrasy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I drew this one back in 2023 and was a little taken aback by how many people it resonated with. Good to know, I guess!

I've been so excited to share this: for CASCADE CASCADE, I interviewed Miguel Lopez, the former WOTC writer and worldbuiler who helped create the Edge (of Eternities), Ixalan, & more. we discuss the proliferation of tiny, irrelevant, beautiful details in the worlds of Magic. give it a read!

CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION@cascadecascade.com · 5mo ago

Off the Table: The Gratuity of Magic’s Hidden Lore @mtgplowshare.bsky.social interviews format Magic Narrative Designer, Miguel Lopez, about the huge amounts of worldbuilding that never make it onto cards or webfiction. a free read (for now): www.cascadecascade.com/magics-hidde...

hmmm, I bet I can sweeten the deal. after your @cascadecascade.com Founder's Coin drink from Rob, I will answer any Cube question you have. (Like a cube sphinx. One that takes bribes from drunkards.)

Anodyne Joe@trasgomorph.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please note that purchase of a Founder’s Club membership means that, if you come up to me IRL and show me your Founder’s Coin, I will buy you a drink, Ashnod’s Coupon-style [pre-errata! I will pay any costs for the drink (within reason)].

Welcome to Issue 1 - it's go time. CASCADE CASCADE begins tomorrow - but here's a bit of an introduction to us, what we're about, our FIRST MONTH of articles, subscription options (YOU CAN SUB BY BUYING A T-SHIRT BTW), and other fun stuff. www.cascadecascade.com/welcomein/

CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION@cascadecascade.com · 5mo ago

INTRODUCING CASCADE CASCADE, a collective publishing weekly essays, deep dives, and other good-ass writing about the card game Magic: The Gathering. Built on the idea that those who love this game deserve more than an endless scroll of short form video. Community over content, every time.

“I cast Apex Devastator. Triggers. I’ll choose to cast Time of Ice, followed by Abolish targeting Ice.”

Cal is Stitching & Cascading@caljones.com · 5mo ago

Every piece I've read from the CASCADE squad so far has been nothing short of incredible but I had the honor of editing what I think is one of the better things I've read about Magic or otherwise in a while - look out for it on next Tuesday, 3/10.

You don’t need a perfect cube to begin organizing great cube nights: (also applies to premodern, edh, board games…) luckypaper.co/articles/din...

Dinner Party Cube Design — Lucky Paper

For all the cutting-edge theory and rational analysis of card power level, a weekly Cube night has more in common with a dinner party. Let's talk about how to build durable, local draft communities.

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math is dictating we have so many writers & so little time so we keep announcing. how exciting! you know 'em. or you don't and you should. @parker.luckypaper.co is bringing some strong Johnny energy to the table with thoughtful reflections on how Magic interacts with Real Life (& cube)

CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION@cascadecascade.com · 5mo ago

Next up - after traveling to the far reaches of the known Multiverse, we tracked down incredible Magic archivist & Known Vorthos Cary (@acry.bsky.social). They'll be writing on whatever they feel like whenever they feel like it, which is the right pace of work for CASCADE CASCADE.

big convert to bo2 cubing after this weekend. allowed me to fit in two more drafts than i’d usually have the energy for. also, bonus: the 0-3 record becomes a much rarer thing

Noah (IslandPonder)@islandponder.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Playing best of two cube with @improphilo.bsky.social, @worklifevalue.bsky.social, and others this weekend has me thinking it should be my default orientation for Thursday nights. Gets people home faster, orients it around fun over competition, and prevents “well I have to wait for the 2-0 match”.

INTRODUCING CASCADE CASCADE, a collective publishing weekly essays, deep dives, and other good-ass writing about the card game Magic: The Gathering. Built on the idea that those who love this game deserve more than an endless scroll of short form video. Community over content, every time.

would you download a horse

riding one of the last NJT trains out of new york like it’s Snowpiercer

we gotta find a way to make money off this thing! it is simply *too good* (and also the money goes to a great cause)

NYC_MTG (Chris) || 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️@nyc-mtg.com · 6mo ago

The hat and the cigar. You're driving with the Driving Cuber, baby. anyway live at 10 AM with the greatest cube event in history: @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com ft @scottmirts.upkeepnewyork.com and @andy.luckypaper.co www.twitch.tv/luckypapermtg

I’m gonna be in the booth this morning with Andy and @ollie.bostoncubeparty.com for 100 Ornithopters commentary. We fear no blizzards. We fear no maindeck Shatterstorms.

Andy Mangold@andy.luckypaper.co · 6mo ago

We’re going live now! www.twitch.tv/luckypapermtg We’re raising money for Make the Road New York, and yes, we are programming against the Olympic Games