Lucky Paper Radio

Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox
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Lucky Paper Radio is a podcast about Magic: the Gathering hosted by lifelong friends Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox. Focused primarily on sandbox formats like Cube, which are free of banlists, rotation, and net decking, the show is about the best parts of Magic and how to get the most out of the game.

  1. 4D AGO

    Theory Drafting the Best Decks in Regular Cube

    View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony and joined by Adam, a local player who suggested a novel way to cube. All players involved built what they thought would be the best deck that could ever be drafted from Anthony’s Regular Cube. They talked about the decks they built, their processes for building, and what it revealed about an environment which is typically intended to be drafted. Discussed in this episode: Regular CubeSuper Magic Fun TimeDegenerate MicrocubeIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony’s “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:27 - Main Topic: Theory Draft with Adam7:48 - RW Heroic18:04 - Metagaming23:50 - Anthony’s Zombie Deck26:58 - Comparing Draft, Constructed, and Rotisserie29:25 - Premium Removal31:03 - Mana34:31 - More Theorydrafting40:17 - Meta Shifts42:51 - Andy’s Ninjas Deck46:04 - Splashes51:05 - Anthony’s WG Landfall Deck53:51 - Adam’s Mono B Zombies54:32 - Sideboards1:03:23 - Reevaluations1:05:41 - The Control Deck1:08:31 - Final Thoughts

    1h 14m

  2. APR 27

    Playing Proactive Green Decks

    View all cards mentioned in this episode Following their previous episode about playing with Young Pyromancer Andy and Anthony talk about how to win with proactive green decks. They look back at some of Anthony’s successful decks and try to get some insight into what makes them tick, exploring card types and distribution and gameplay heuristics. Discussed in this episode: Deck PhotosEpisode 299: How to Win with Young PyromancerEpisode 260: The ABC’s of MidrangeRed TerrorIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony’s “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro4:33 - Main Topic: How to Play Green6:39 - Andy’s Midrange Woes12:05 - Mana Curve & Mulligans14:28 - Being the Beatdown20:58 - Combat & Blocking29:37 - Card Evaluation34:44 - Synergy39:23 - More Mana Curve40:42 - Cantrips43:54 - Grindy Cards & Flexibility46:07 - Manlands48:44 - Summary52:53 - Mailbag

    55 min

  3. APR 20

    Tricentennial Q & A

    View all cards mentioned in this episode Celebrating 300 episodes, Andy and Anthony answer listener submitted questions. They address their favorite gummy candies, opinions on the free will of jellyfish, the most technologically advanced things they could build from scratch on a desert island, and so much more. Discussed in this episode: Arena CubeShoeboxShrimp Welfare ProjectErich’s Packing CenterSockerbitGo BidetBooks: A Pattern Language,by Christopher AlexanderA People’s History of the United States) by Howard ZinnFrostbite by Nicola TwilleyCod by Mark KurlanskyThe Design of Everythings by Donald NormanThomas Thwaites, who attempted to make a toaster from scratchArtists: Yayoi KusamaJulie MehretuRobert HodginImpressionismwayne thiebaudIsaac LevitonGustave DoréVirgil FinlayTheo JansenDan FlavinRichard SerraJames TurrellOther Media: NTS RadioOff Menu, Podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James AcasterAlone, TV ShowIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony’s “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro4:18 - Episode 300 Q&A!5:03 - Origins of Lucky Paper and the Podcast8:45 - Shoebox10:24 - Do Jellyfish Have Free Will?12:26 - Being Opinionated13:31 - Processed Cheese21:00 - Pinatas23:35 - What do you admire most about each other?24:44 - Life Improvements29:49 - Influential Books34:21 - Who Could Build a More Technologically Advanced Thing?40:21 - FMK41:28 - Cube Soundtracks46:04 - Non Magic LPR Listeners49:15 - Higher Education53:09 - Survival Reality Television57:45 - Our Ideal High Speed Transit59:13 - Visual Art1:03:03 - Our Hosts First Impressions of Each Other1:10:53 - The Future of Cube1:17:52 - Hopes for Baltimore Cubing1:22:33 - Mailbag1:24:19 - Favorite Drinks

    1h 29m

  4. APR 13

    How to Win with Young Pyromancer

    View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about one of Andy’s all time favorite cards Young Pyromancer. After a recent draft of a peasant cube at their weekly cube night, Anthony realized that despite it’s iconic status, it’s not a card he feels like he know’s how to optimize. Andy shares his experience with the card, what he thinks it takes to support it, and a handful of his cube draft decks it headlined. View the full decklists of Andy’s referenced drafts on the  cards page. Discussed in this episode: Library of Babel, Local Peasant CubeDeck Pics!Alternate Timeline cube by Joe DonkeyIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony’s “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:03 - Sorting Cards9:07 - Helping Anthony with Young Pyromancer18:40 - Card Quality24:06 - How to Draft the Young Pyromancer Deck29:33 - Why Blue-Red Pyromancer34:51 - Modal Double Faced Cards36:20 - How Many Counterspells37:34 - Mulligans44:30 - Off-Strategy Splashes49:42 - Wrap Up55:17 - Andy is Bad at Big Games

    1h 3m

  5. APR 6

    On Colorless Cards

    View all cards mentioned in this episode Most of the time when listeners suggest topics we’ve already recorded a whole episode dedicated to that subject. Sometimes we’ve even recorded three. It turns out almost six years is a long time to have a weekly podcast about a niche interest like Cube design. So when someone recently suggested we record an episode about ‘colorless cards’ I was surprised to discover that we have never actually dedicated an entire episode to the subject, and it turns out we have a lot to say! If you have questions for our 300th episodes please send them to mail@luckypaper.co with the subject line ‘Episode 300 Question’. Discussed in this episode: Hedron NetworkRegular CubeTurbo Cube100 OrnithoptersBun MagicSacred GeometryNeoclassical CubeDevoid CubeIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony’s “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:22 - Hedron Network Data3:47 - Episode 3006:39 - Colorless Cards11:20 - Thinking About the Color Pie13:05 - Sacred Geometry Diversion16:37 - Balancing Colorless Cards20:30 - Hole Filling22:19 - Supporting Monocolor28:29 - The Colorless Deck35:02 - Colorless Cards and Mana Fixing37:33 - Colorless v Colored Arifacts38:42 - Mana Rocks42:05 - Noosegraf Mob Sidebar43:37 - Pseudo Colorless Cards45:48 - Stax52:00 - Eldrazi54:46 - Colorless Cubes

    1 hr

  6. MAR 30

    Book Club: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

    View all cards mentioned in this episode In the third book club Episode, Anthony and Parker talk about Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. Originally published in 1988, the book was an influential criticism of the built world and interfaces establishing many concepts fundamental to user interface and industrial design today. It also introduces a metric ton of jargon per page. Our book club members talk about how these concepts apply to game and Cube design and their thinking about things more broadly. Discussed in this episode: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald NormanEnshittification concept and book by Cory DoctorowStatus and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David MarxBlank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David MarxBlood In the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian MerchantOther Book Club EpisodesIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony’s “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro2:42 - The Design of Everyday Things7:43 - Mental Models12:04 - Trouble With Mapping16:58 - Cube REL/Humility19:40 - Don Please Turn off the Podcast21:03 - Types of Errors26:30 - Games are Intentionally Bad Design32:04 - Constraints34:55 - Knowledge in the World42:28 - Learned Helplessness48:20 - Neologisms50:59 - Choosing the Next Book

    54 min

  7. MAR 23

    Shoebox Recap with Patrick

    View all cards mentioned in this episode In this explicit episode of Lucky Paper Radio, Andy, Anthony, and Patrick recap their experience at Shoebox in St Paul, Minnesota. Shoebox celebrated a range of casual formats including team limited, pauper, and, of course, Cube! They talk about highlights from the weekend and the decks they drafted. Discussed in this episode: The Monster FuckDee Dee Mega Doo DooArties CubeShoeboxEiganjo DriftAquaone PoweredPenrose CubeHeatherCubeBoudican Destruction Horizon100 LotusesIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony’s “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro7:23 - Fistfights12:04 - Pottery Studio16:28 - Weather and Planes18:58 - Microfame20:32 - Andy’s Draft of Artemis’ Cube24:19 - What is Shoebox29:41 - Anthony’s Draft of Eiganjo Drift32:09 - Patrick’s Draft of aquaone Powered36:51 - Andy’s Draft of Penrose Cube41:33 - Anthony’s Draft of HeatherCube45:31 - Andy’s Stone Soup53:30 - Anthony’s Stone Soup55:19 - Patrick’s New Friends57:22 - Pizza Time63:03 - Andy’s Draft of Boudica68:33 - Patrick’s Draft of Boudica72:10 - James’ Microcube72:56 - 100 Lotuses78:17 - Closing Thoughts79:36 - Anthony’s Draft of Companion Cube

    1h 25m

  8. MAR 16

    How Do We Know What We Know About Magic: The Gathering

    View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony finally just talk about epistemology and sort of address Magic: the Gathering. They talk about the way we all generally learn things and incorporate them into our understanding of the world around us, and how that manifests in the smaller world of the game. Discussed in this episode: ContraPoints on YouTubeThe Beginning of Infinity by David DeutschEvery Living Thing by Jason Roberts100 OrnithoptersRegular CubeCascade CascadeCube MapIf you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony’s “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro4:55 - Epistemology11:43 - The Enlightenment14:43 - Authority20:29 - Empiricism26:49 - Explanations29:58 - Science as a Creative Process33:18 - Knowledge in Magic37:04 - Emergent Properties41:54 - Aggro-Midrange-Control45:53 - Cube Experiments51:10 - Mailbag!

    1h 1m
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Lucky Paper Radio is a podcast about Magic: the Gathering hosted by lifelong friends Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox. Focused primarily on sandbox formats like Cube, which are free of banlists, rotation, and net decking, the show is about the best parts of Magic and how to get the most out of the game.

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  • Creator
    Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    313
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox
  • Show Website
    Lucky Paper Radio

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