Rory Straubel

appreciate this! It’s a fun feed

I’m taking Mana Crypt over Sol Ring and drafting an assertive deck. There are too many 3-drops that can single handedly win the game now-a-days. Casting them on T1 is worth the few games where you die to your crypt before you end the game yourself.

Thank you for the share Joe!

Congrats!!

My top 64 draft of #cubecon2025! Eliminated last year’s champion in the first round of A Study in Harmony but lost the next one. Drafted a pretty mid bant enchantress deck that had 4-5 cards off theme due to lack of playables. Top 32 is still great, what a fun week! #mtgcube

Slightly late CubeCon main event day 2 post. 2-1 in TLDR and 3-0 in El Classico. Finished off the day 3-0 in my top 128 draft of Six Drops where I picked depletion lands over any other card in the draft. #mtgcube #CubeCon2025

Day 2 of CubeCon, and the first two main event drafts. 2-1 in both my own cube and Lavender Desert (amazingly designed). Then 3-0d the Late for Dinner side event in Cascade Cube with affinity. Fun day overall! #mtgcube #CubeCon2025

First couple of CubeCon drafts in the books! Lost both finals which stings but still a solid day overall. Played Omnipresent Imposters and The Ball Pit. Interestingly only maindecked one imposter. Had a super tough matchup vs control in draft one, and died to onboard effects in the second. #mtgcube

540 Magic cards are laid out on a table

She’s all checked in! For those at CubeCon, give Enchanted Evening a try. In my (very biased) opinion, exploring synergies of an often forgotten card type is a hoot. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...
#mtgcube #CubeCon2025

Wayward Games in Vancouver runs cube at 6pm on Mondays. I don’t think we currently have any groups on Sundays… if you’re in the area consider joining the PNW cube discord: discord.gg/ehkevnFK

Cube is the way.

I’m no expert… but if you want to pull off some typal synergies seems like you’d want like 8 creatures of the same type or more. Truly I don’t know though lol

I think in general typal cubes can be fun! These specific cards (and ones like them) sometimes seem like the juice is not worth the squeeze.
I could just spend 5 mana casting a creature instead of the first artifact. And the second is 4 mana invested for +1 mv payoff.

I lean heavily on my tight play to win games of cube, so I tend to draft too “safe.” I end up with solid decks but I don’t take enough risks during the draft for my decks to be truly great. Too afraid to train wreck, essentially.

“Looks good to me”

Just like a real dev!

My cube, Enchanted Evening, is up for CubeCon voting against a bunch of (admittedly cool looking) artifact cubes. But would love a chance to show the world that enchantments are sweet too! #mtgcube #cube #CubeCon2025

cubecon.org/vote

cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

I really liked Classic Magic, it was nice to play some fundamental Magic between the more wacky cubes (which I also enjoyed).

Top 8 photo cred: @joe-cube-anderson.bsky.social

11-1 and 2nd seed going into top 8 is more than I could have wished for! The Top 8 competitors were all super nice. Won the quarters vs mono white by going over the top, and the semis thanks to fumigate out of the sideboard against a bigger UG deck. Finals loss to mardu control. Grats to the winner!

Fourth draft, decided to audible at the last second and choose Data Generated Vintage since I was confident in my ability to at least 2-1. Went 3-0 with a middling Naya deck thanks to Gut cheesing some wins.

Third draft, 2-1 in the bolt cube where you start at 3 life and have a 25 card deck. Lost to reanimator. Fatal Push and Cut Down don’t help much against Eagles of the North. Helion Crucible was great.

Second draft, 3-0 in Classic Magic. Felt at home playing an aggressive and disruptive deck.

Just got 2nd at Washington Cube Champs so figured I’d do a thread despite having never posted on here. First draft, 3-0 in Brawl Partners Cube. Swapped around my commanders as needed but Tamiyo + Phlage let me grind out the finals. #mtgcube #WCC

Love that cube will always be available! Sad to see that it is only single elimination though. It's fun to play all your matches and try to eke out the 2-1 to get your tix back. Unless you're the best of the best it'll become pretty unaffordable to jam lots of drafts.

Ya'll over at Daybreak are killing it with MTGO I gotta say, thanks so much :)

When does it go live?