James

Like seriously:
Hire @dinrovahorror.mtgcu.be and pay him real dollars for his expertise/time, give him 24-40 seats and a way for people to sign up in advance, advertise it, and watch cube absolutely explode at MagicCon.

Let's keep the Shoebox hype train rolling~ Here's a quick message from one of our founders, Greg! (@dinrovahorror.mtgcu.be)
So, what are YOU most excited to see at Shoebox? 👀 #MTGCube

This week, we're drafting The Pillar, @gamesfinkel.com 's all-gold cube where each player starts with a Pillar of the Paruns on the battlefield. My draft picks in order:

A poster graphic with the text: Introducing SHOEBOX, March 13-15, 2026. St. Paul, Minnesota. A brand-new event celebrating what YOU love most about Magic: 
creative expression, social play, and friendly competition. Cube, Alt Formats, Team Events, Commander. Get ready to dig through those bulk bins, 
badge sales and applications are opening SOON at shoebox.gg

Attention Cube-ists! 🧊 Two-Headed Giant Juggernauts! ✌️ And Pauper... Peeps? ❤️
We are SHOEBOX, a BRAND NEW Magic event coming to St. Paul Minnesota in 2026 and we want to see YOU there!

Will you be ascending the Judge's Tower? Or just drafting some crazy creative Cubes? Let us know below! 👇

Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 30, 2025 Cube All the cards you like are unbanned. All the cards you don't like are banned.

Vertex: Steel City 2025 Event Report!

Shout out to @dinrovahorror.mtgcu.be for organizing and running the event, and to Guy on the Couch Cards and Gaming for hosting.

Format: 3 Cube Drafts via hedron.network.

Overall record: 5-3-1

Thank you to everyone who came to @vertex.mtgcu.be this weekend, especially those who traveled from as far as Indiana, North Carolina, and Seattle (!) just to come to my cube event 😭 Cube community remains undefeated forever

The tournament part is over. I finished 11th overall. Going to go grocery shopping and be a real person instead of fun cubing into the night.

Thanks @vertex.mtgcu.be for a great event!

PSA FOR MAGIC CON LAS VEGAS: It is VERY hot outside. Please don’t be out there longer than you have to and hydrate like crazy - I already tried to walk somewhere and got beat up by the sun 🥲

Lavender Totoro goes hard

If you’re coming to #MCVegas and looking to cube, definitely hit me or @dinrovahorror.mtgcu.be up. I’m sure we will be cubing every day. 🫡

Where my cube aficionados at? 🧊

@vertex.mtgcu.be is bringing a 2-day cube event to Pittsburgh at the end of June! Tickets are $50 and are on sale now. Available cubes and event info are on the website! vertex.mtgcu.be

So who's gonna visit Brad and I in the Steel City in a few weeks? 🙋‍♀️

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As we get closer to the event, let's see what we're drafting! First, it's become a bit of a tradition to give a cube to the winner of the event, and this time we'll be cloning a fan favorite: @dvdsn.bsky.social 's Penrose Cube! No counters, no tokens; All good, clean Magic inspired by Odyssey block!

A surprise 5/6 Time Walk? Yeah that’ll do.

One example of what’s going to happen with board game prices in the U.S…with those prices then spilling elsewhere in the world, too. —WEM

"Lands are the enemy."
- @gamesfinkel.com

More cats. Thank you artists!!

Lastly I wanted to shoutout all my opponents for this event who were super fun to play against (everybody was actually so nice) and for assisting with a special request. @ravesinthesky.bsky.social was unable to go so I had everyone make cat tokens for them! Here are just some of the ones I got.

Once again want to shout out @dinrovahorror.mtgcu.be @vertexmtg.bsky.social for running the event and all those who helped somewhere along the way.
Special shout out to Griff and @einstein9998.bsky.social for both making top 8 with Brady being 12-0 going in (crazy to be undefeated across 4 cubes).

No top 8 this time, but I had so much fun with friends and getting to meet people that I'm looking forward to the next one. If Greg keeps running events, I'll keep coming to them and if you're seeing this but haven't been to one yet, definitely recommend it.

I did end up getting the 3-0 with UBR Breachmaster. I had some spicy games and Bowmaster looked phenomenal. Also shout out Waste Not because it played way better than I could've hoped.
I did get (functionally) T1'd in the single game I lost by my opponent with an Urza+Gleaner to put me in check.

Cube Cobra Overview: Turbo Cube # Turbo Cube Players begin the game with an emblem: > All spells and activated abilities cost {2} less.  If you have more fun casting [[Arcum's A...

I decided to try to draft some of the more unique cubes and I ended up in @anthony.luckypaper.co 's Turbo Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...) which I had never played in person before.

Turbo cube is definitely my kind of magic, so I was just hoping I could get a 3-0 pin.

It was pretty late after the final round for the day, so I drove around for a bit to find food, ended up at a Tandoori Pizza. Tasty but my brain was cooked so I should've just had water and gone to bed.

I needed to drive back to Pittsburgh on Sunday so I'd probably only draft once and watch Top 8.

I unfortunately ended 1-2 again, meaning top 8 was definitely cooked.
I don't have my deck build picture, but I felt like I had the vehicles but just not enough ways to crew and interact profitably. I lost a match to my good friend Griff, who would go on to make top 8.

Cube Cobra Overview: Vehicle Cube: Eiganjo Drift THIS CUBE IS ABOUT VEHICLES! PLAYERS BEGIN EACH GAME WITH A [[MECH HANGAR]] ON THE BATTLEFIELD TAPPED. THIS MEANS ANY VEHICLE (OR PILOT) WITH A SINGLE COLORED MANA COST CAN BE PLAYED IN ANY DECK! TH...

Last cube of the day was going to be Bones's Eiganjo Drift (cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...)
I'd probably need to win out at this point to make top 8 so my spot didn't look amazing.
I ended up in the Classic Cars deck with a bunch of WU Historic spells and some cards that were new to me.

I drafted a sweet WRG Winota deck that ended up 2-1. Some of my wins weren't very close, where I was just too fast for some decks, but my loss felt winnable with better play. Would definitely draft this again.

Cube Cobra Overview: Bodleian Cube ## Design Philosophy: The Bodleian(Bod-Lee-Inn) Cube showcases iconic and powerful cards with an emphasis on strategies that combine cards to be more than the sum of their parts. The power level is ...

Next cube was @deinonychus9.bsky.social 's Bodleian Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...)
which is like an AU Atomic Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...) for me since I get to play that cube so often.

It's always interesting seeing similar cubes taken in different directions by their curators.

I went 1-2 in Jund and I think I should've more highly prioritized fixing because by the end of the draft, I wish I could've been a consistent 3c deck over trying to focus 2 colors.

After Jund, I got to eat some of the catered food and it was phenomenal. Juan sure knows good Philly food.

Cube Cobra Overview: The Jund Cube: The JUNDERDOME >>> --- <<[[!Thoughtseize|310a1c46-8331-4a09-9fcb-d942f8102364]][[!Lightning Bolt|e768c957-3a1f-42f5-853a-96942f645df5]][[!Tarmogoyf|b6876d9e-0908-43ac-8542-09c7aa02b5ba]][[!Bloodbraid Elf|7ef6748...

Saturday was going to be 3 cubes, followed by 1 on Sunday (before Top 8).
My first cube was @tpug.bsky.social 's The JUNDERDOME (cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...)
I had some sweet BG cards and was splashing for powerful red cards like Mawloc after trying to stick two color for this first couple packs.