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Coming from a long history of playing the game, starting in 1994, I have spent most of my time cubing with people that either started around the same time as I did or started as a young person and have developed into playing cube well after they put in their time learning the fundamentals. One…
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Exploring the Realms Between Mastery and Discovery My previous articles have talked a lot about my move from the United States to the UK and, now that I have lived here for almost three years, I’ve started thinking more about how my current draft crew came together. When I arrived, there was not a group…
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The best cube draft I’ve ever been afraid to play. Last month, my mate posted a new project in our cube Discord. It was a Planar Standard Cube built from the current Universes Within Standard sets. As people started scrolling through the list, the excitement was palpable. I haven’t seen so much activity in our…
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Old School Magic is many things: a love letter to 1993, a reason to dust off your dual lands, and — depending on who you ask — a competitive format embedded inside a casual one. The New England Old School (NEOS) community has been running serious organized events for years, generating match data every season.…
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Choosing experiences instead of cubes. For the last fifteen years, my professional life has taken me around the world, walking into rooms with between five and twelve people and helping them solve problems for five to eight hours at a time. Sometimes these rooms contain C-Level executives who want the thirty-thousand-foot view of their business…
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What happens when curators draft each other’s cubes. Seeing the Details Building things has always been part of my DNA. This has been one of the biggest influences on my cube journey and likely the aspect of the hobby that ignited my passion to create from the start. One of the defining characteristics of people…
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WHAT: YetiCon is a two-day community-driven Old School 93/94 Magic The Gathering event held annually by the Rocky Mountain Yetis Old School Group in Denver/Lakewood, Colorado. All proceeds from the event after expenses are paid will be donated to charity (more information below). This year, YetiCon 5 passes will be sold in two flavors: One…
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On struggle, progress, and learning to trust the process. My relationship with cube has changed significantly as I’ve gotten better at drafting. Not better to the point where I sit down and expect to win every pod, but better in a way that has fundamentally changed how much I enjoy the format and the game…
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Now seemed good to revisit how I built my Tempest cube A few weeks ago, friends got together to draft an Invasion cube. To get into it and prepare, I reread Mike Stein’s blog on how he built his cube and why, and I found it so enjoyable and valuable, even though I’d already read…
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Lessons from surfing, cube hosting, and the small acts of courage that build communities. Before I returned to turning cardboard sideways, I was learning a lot from other hobbies that would transfer perfectly to my future cube curation habit (obsession). When I moved to Los Angeles in 2010, the first thing I did was drive…
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