Zach Barash

Drum is a solid pickup. Mangara I like, but I think ought to go later just because it actually requires 4 mana (or a deck with a lot of pitch spells).

Nope, mine is also Force of Virtue. Card is completely busted, especially when you're on the draw and get to attack on T1 with a 2-3mv creature.

I think Force is 100% the best pick. Swords is decent, but it's one of the rare cheap Cascade whammies that might just miss at the beginning of the game.

I think Academy is super viable, it just runs afoul of lands not interacting with the emblem at all. I could see adding a Map or two to find it, though I try to keep a tight limit on ways to spend mana that don't cascade.

A gold star for Cube Person of the Year, 2024, Ollie!

Force of Virtue is a top 15 card in the cube, and may well be #2 for "when this card hits play, the game is decided, " only behind Delayed Blast Fireball.

An image of 15 cards from the Cascade Cube: Eidolon of the Great Revel The Restoration of Eiganjo Argentum Masticore Marionette Apprentice Elder Gargaroth Defiler of Vigor Springleaf Drum Force of Virtue Badlands Tolarian Academy Mangara, the Diplomat Aethersnipe Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful Swords to Plowshares Curse of Shaken Faith

Image of the card, Maelstrom Nexus from Alara Reborn.

CubeCobra has a daily P1P1 is from the #CascadeCube! You can vote and see if you picked what I did.

As a reminder, each player starts the game with a Maelstrom Nexus emblem.

(Spoilers: I was the only person to pick this card, and I think it's unambiguously one of the strongest cards in the cube.)

Thank you sharing this, Alexander. It reminded me just how much I love your mind and how I enjoyed your perspective, be it experienced through prose or project.

Here's hoping to a brighter future, a happier decade, and to get to have another conversation this year (now as fellow fathers).

Magic Online Holiday Cube draft image from January 2nd, 2013. The game is over on turn 4, with one player having only two tapped mountains in play. The author has a Frost Titan, Tamiyo, Mox Sapphire, and lands in play with Time Walk, Ancestral Recall, and Black Lotus in the graveyard.

Thirteen years ago today, I had one of the best starts I've ever had in a Powered Cube. And it was on stream. Crazy how time flies (and in that draft, getting passed a piece of power).

An activity never to be pooh-poohed, but always poo-tee-kah-teed.

Remember, it's two candles tonight, or 386 candles if you're still on last year's Hanukkah.

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Hello, world!

At 4:00pm EST (so, in ~40 minutes from the time of this post), I'm going live at twitch.tv/magic streaming Powered Cube to support Seattle Children's Hospital through #ExtraLife. We're under $50 away from my bonus stream stretch goal!

Come hang out and donate to a good cause.

Incredibly cool to see @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com shouted out on @tolariancommunitycollege.com in their latest video! I think this speaks to the joy coming from the proliferation of local cube events, literally across the world.

Just from this pack, lots of cards seem clustered at relatively similar power levels. Plenty of strong cards, but I'm not ready to commit to a direction or a multicolored card.

So, while the heart wants FoF, I'm almost certainly taking Prismatic Vista. And yes, I see there are 15 copies.

This is the first foray of Arena Powered Cube, so I can't make any pronouncements, but we have run all of our cubes multiple times and have always changed them up.

People can and do copy these lists onto other sites. I have it alongside other cubes I've worked on.

Arena Powered Cube Design and Card List Introducing Powered Cube, a Cube event with the Power Nine, Tolarian Academy, and even Booster Tutor.

Very, very excited to share the Arena Powered Cube list (and some design backstory).

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#wotcstaff

Oh! Didn't know that your small town is likely also my small town. Strange how we've never crossed paths despite the tiny population.

Announcing the Arena Powered Cube! Harness some of the strongest cards in Magic's history with Powered Cube. Now, the power is in your hands.

Get ready to play with some VERY powerful Magic cards (say hi to Power Nine) in our new limited-time event, Arena Powered Cube! The drafting fun begins 10/28.

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Congratulations to Shariq Moore claiming the crown this year!

Check out Shariq’s final match against Abe Corrigan on the twitch stream vod below:

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Thursday, Oct 16 Draft 0 – Prequel Draft: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Mani Davoudi / Gabriel Nassif Special Draft: 4:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Tannon Grace / Ross Merriam Friday, Oct 17 Draft 1: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Ross Merriam / Mason Clark Draft 2: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Luis Scott-Vargas / Marshall Sutcliffe Saturday, Oct 18 Draft 3: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Arya Karamchandani / Ross Merriam Draft 4: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Gabriel Nassif / Brad Nelson Draft 5 – Top 128 Final Fortune: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Mani Davoudi / Arya Karamchandani Sunday, Oct 19 Draft 6 – Top 64: 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Arya Karamchandani / Brad Nelson Draft 7 – Top 8: 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Mani Davoudi / Arya Karamchandani

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Hence my vote to fork and playtest. You've got multiple good directions, it's worth seeing how much passion you've got for what's down the other path.

I love the cube, I love how MH3 has replenished the supply of Devoid cards, and I frankly love how it is and *feels* like a high-powered cube despite the enormous restriction. So much of me would be happy to see it barely change. And I'm low on many of the cut OGW Devoid cards.

I'd be interested in playtesting a forked version of Devoid Cube that tests the waters of a radically lower power level. I agree that the cube has drifted over time and have perhaps been one of the loudest anti-Tower of the Magistrate voices.

AND JUST SO Y’ALL KNOW HOW SERIOUS WE ARE ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR AW26!!!

WE ARE GONNA BE BACK AS USUAL

2/21/26 - 2/22/26

Our top 8 is truly so fire y’all

We could also just sing Too Many Cooks for an hour.

We could prep some Magic trivia, chat with some of the cube designers for the event, do a segment where one cube designer sings the praises of another (or as seems to be the case with @worklifevalue.bsky.social, roasts him).

Moment of vulnerability- when I sat down with @jenn-the-judge.bsky.social earlier this year for coffee and said I wanted to double #C4AC I thought it was a super ambitious & unrealistic goal. As of today we’ve sold 104 tickets and expanded what we do & offer and I’m so happy.
See y’all Saturday 😭