RiptideLab Podcast Jason Waddell

It's Anthony 'Whiteman Lion' Mattox!  

00:00 Intro and the Origins of Lucky Paper
07:40 Theoretical Resources for First Time Cube Builders
15:20 Al Gore Eating a Sandwich and Fractured Experiences
17:19 Your Brain on Retail vs Your Brain on WOTC Cube
22:20 The WOTC Cubes are Smash with Items On
26:50 Getting Anthony in Trouble With Andy
30:04 Hoping Your Opponent Gets Mana Screwed Forever
34:42 Anthony's Primers and the Turbo Cube
41:02 Jason says Offensive Stuff He Shouldn't About Commander
47:22 Cube is Not Very Popular (and the Future of Cubing)
57:20 LuckyPaperCon, RipCon and CubeCon
1:02:06 Getting Anthony in Trouble With Andy (Reprise)

Time for Part 2 of our Modern Horizons 2 Cube Review! Here are your timestamps!

00:00 Intro and Dom's Groupies
03:05 Stealing Conversations from Cookie Cutters: The (Limited) Power of One-Drops
11:45 A Soft Transition to Hard Evidence and the new Tombstalker
19:33 Is Jason's Wife Instagram Stalking a Former Lover?
21:55 The Name's Garth. (And other Prismatic Endings)
29:18 3-Mana Planeswalkers
37:35 Kaleidoscorch and the Obsoletion of Flametongue Kavu
44:34 Hymn to Tourach, Dread Cantor
52:47 100,000 Posts on RiptideLab and Dom is Still Undefeated
54:35 Expanded Zombie Dragon Anatomy
57:30 Ignoble Hierarch, A Card We Already Know Everything About
1:00:17 Ravenous Squirrel and the Madness Archetype (Unrelated)
1:07:30 Does Mark Rosewater care about Pauper?
1:10:24 The Perfect Card Review
1:16:42 Why does Dom love Calibrated Blast? (still not sure...)
1:19:19 Disappointing Delirium
1:22:51 Dom's Pre-Show Post-Show Modern Rant

Modern Horizons 2 has a truckload of interesting and powerful cards. Today Dom Harvey and Jason Waddell take a look at as many as they can, with a few signature tangents mixed in for good measure.   

00:00 Intro and the Infinite Spoiler Season
07:57 When Stoneforge was Banned but also Not Banned
12:28 MH2 Failure Case and Sets Serving Many Masters
14:30 General Ferrous Rokiric
18:00 Sam Black's Companions and Academy Fabricator
22:00 The (un)importance of Card Evaluation  
32:35 Domain, Territorial Kavu and Scion of Draco
45:45 Red One Drops: Ragavan and Dragon's Rage Channeler
55:57 Artifact Archetypes and New MH2 Artifact Cards
59:00 Tireless Provisioner and Oko, for some reason
1:08:05 Lonis, Cryptozoologist
1:12:34 Damn
1:16:02 Madness, some Bait, and Dom Showing Off
1:24:50 Master of Death and Squee
1:28:40 "Lazotep Commander" and Amass
1:30:30 The MH2 Evoke Cycle
1:36:34 Blue Breaking the Color Pie and Novel Constructed Formats
1:45:00 The Riptide Podcast is now on Spotify (and other places too)!

Today we sit down with Parker LaMascus (landofMordor) to discuss how we talk about cubes, where restrictions fit into the design process, and the future of cubing.  

Watch with video at: https://youtu.be/NzKG2li6p50

Parker's Cubes on CubeCobra: https://cubecobra.com/user/view/5d35b48796dd684d71e9fc2d

00:00 Intro - Strix Scale
05:00 Restrictions
12:00 Parker's Cubes and the Need to Design
17:45 Playtesting Paucity and Eldrazi Domain
23:25 Power Level As a Design Space Reducer
26:35 Parker's Midrange Unpowered Cubes
30:40 Allocating Brain Space to Cards
38:00 Goals and 'Best in Slot' Discourse
42:20 First Four Cube Questions  
48:00 Restrictions Clashing with Goals
51:40 The Cube Map
58:25 Specific Singleton Breaks
1:04:20 The Future of Cubing and Challenging Assumptions
1:11:30 Coming of Age and Digital Identities
1:14:40 Designing for Rotisserie / Sealed

Today we have a chat with custom card guru Chris Taylor to pick his brain. Your host (hello, it's me, Jason Waddell) was sick while filming, so if my ability to mentally compute calendar years seems off, that's why.

Watch with video here: https://youtu.be/qx1oGpirkqA

Today we sit down with aspiring cult leader SirFunchalot to figure out why one of his cubes has 47 copies of Counterspell.

Video available at: https://youtu.be/GpaLEMPonXw