Tutors in Cube Design: Creating Variety by Reducing Variety
Andy and Anthony talk about “tutors” in Cube and how cards that give you access to any card in your library impact the game. Historically, both of our hosts have tended to avoid them in most of their Cube designs, but the serve a unique function that could make them worth considering. View all cards mentioned in the episode → Discussed in this episode: Intro 100 Ornithopters Neoclassical Cube Irregular Cube All Tutors on Scryfall The Cube Map Timestamps 0:00 - Introduction 2:12 - Andy’s Salty Bad Beats 8:20 - What is a tutor? 11:10 - What tutors have Anthony and Andy been playing since the beginning and why? 16:21 - Why have Anthony and Andy mostly avoided unconditional tutors in their Cube designs? 18:48 - Tutors in the Neoclassical Cube 37:24 - Tutors in 100 Ornithopters 43:47 - Our hosts current advice on designing with tutors Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: If you’d like to show your support for the show, please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211