Production is solid per usual. I like these podcast-style tid bits/edibles/monologues that encourage a discourse. The color pie is for certain a foundation of the game that makes the game engaging: every color has it's core principles (or psychology) that WOTC develops into the game play that makes sense thematically. It also helps foster this ecosystem where there is balance amongst all the colors; not every color has the same tools to deal with the same threat or gain card advantage and so on. I had to listen to listen to this a few times to connect the dots a bit. I have some constructive criticism but I didn't want to deliver without your permission. I do look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on cube design and what makes enjoyable gameplay through environment curation 🙂
Stephen, such a kind and well written comment - per usual. Your constructive criticism is always welcome and I look forward to incorporating into a future video. Glad these short essay vids are scratching an itch and glad to foster discussion here on Cube in general.
@@ChillMTGtv Word! I think I would have appreciated just a bit more depth in explanation of the color philosophy. It wasn't rushed (which is great! We want this to be chill 😎) but I got lost between your overview of red's color philosophy and the card specific selections in Caleb's synergy cube. As I'm listening and watching the red cards named re: Caleb's diverse red tools, I understand intuitively where you're going with this; but I've also been playing mtg since 1994. If I'm a new player and listening in regards to the red spells named, I'm asking myself a few questions: what about the madness mechanic and Anger speak to red's philosophy? What makes the storm mechanic and bonus round significant in a red deck instead of another color? The evaluation (in my opinion) just needed a touch more to bridge that connection. Highlighting a card like Fireblast would be sweet in examining red's philosophy. Not only is it from Visions (working on another twitter thread, btw), but it does a great job in demonstrating what red will do to win the game. It burns (as red does) but why would ANYONE sacrifice two lands, the most important resource in any deck, to cast this? Well that's what red does, right? It's willing to sacrifice something crucial if it knows it can lock the game down for a win. It's visceral, it's emotional, it goes against what convention tells us as players/magicians/planeswalkers, but more importantly it wins games 🙂 Also it would be a cool opportunity to show off that alter you've got in your vintage cube. Maybe highlighting another color's philosophy and connecting it to specific cards in that color as a point of compare and contrast to red could hammer in the point of how important the color pie is. That all said, this suggestion runs the risk of being timely. Keeping these treats short is nice, but I don't think it would be detrimental to take a 10 or 12 minute coffee break. I personally can finish a coffee in 5 or 6 minutes when I'm at work, but this is *chill*. I want to relax and enjoy my French roast or my venti white mocha no whip. This is pretty sweet to think about. I've been sporadically putting cards aside that "feel" basic, like a core set, that don't bend or break the color pie and try to create a new core set cube that answers the questions "What about this spell speaks [insert color here]?" and "Does this feel like magic?" Sorry if that was a lot. I'm really enjoying this production 🙂 looking forward to this week's vintage cube vid (that miss-click was pretty catastrophic but I love how you highlighted it).
Stephen. Thank you. I think your points about a few more key examples (the ones you list are perfect) would have done a lot to solidify the connection between color pie and potential archetypes cube curators could pull from to add "on-color" depth to their environments. I love the thought of showing off my altered Fireblast! A+ feedback. It is obvious you are well versed in Magic and Cube and if you have other ideas for "Cube and Coffee" I'd love to hear them. Looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts in this Sunday's cube&coffee, "The Importance of Vision Design".
I think you may be projecting a bit on the personality of cube makers. I design cube with zero desire to innovate or impress the cube community, but just to have fun with effects I like :D
Hey, thanks for watching. Sometimes a good Scryfall search can help find fun and unique cards that can take archetypes in a different direction than expected.
Whoever wrote that Dimir represents the growth mindset is clearly stroking their own ego with the two colors that get the most spoiled design from WotC. Not surprising concidered they were invented to be “the colors that outsmart the other colors”. 😒
Hey! Good eye on that graphic. Maybe for Dimir, instead of "Growth Mindset" it should read "Gain". Growth has a more positive connotation, whereas Gain could be accomplished through both positive or more negative actions. Blue and Black BOTH provide gain to a player. Blue is more intellectual through reasoning .. think of a card like Divination, whereas Black is more zealous in pursuit of growth regardless of the costs ... think of a card like Necropotence.
These two last videos have been great!
Thank you for saying so. I’ve enjoyed making and sharing them and hope to improve the production quality a bit more in the future.
Interesting points! Loving Cube and Coffee ☕️
Cool vid!
What other tips would you give to someone that is about to build his first cube?
Thanks for watching! I would check out my video with 5 tips for new cube designers!
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Ha! Thanks! I'll have more videos out in the future! Life just got crazy in the meantime!
Production is solid per usual. I like these podcast-style tid bits/edibles/monologues that encourage a discourse. The color pie is for certain a foundation of the game that makes the game engaging: every color has it's core principles (or psychology) that WOTC develops into the game play that makes sense thematically. It also helps foster this ecosystem where there is balance amongst all the colors; not every color has the same tools to deal with the same threat or gain card advantage and so on.
I had to listen to listen to this a few times to connect the dots a bit. I have some constructive criticism but I didn't want to deliver without your permission. I do look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on cube design and what makes enjoyable gameplay through environment curation 🙂
Stephen, such a kind and well written comment - per usual. Your constructive criticism is always welcome and I look forward to incorporating into a future video.
Glad these short essay vids are scratching an itch and glad to foster discussion here on Cube in general.
@@ChillMTGtv Word!
I think I would have appreciated just a bit more depth in explanation of the color philosophy. It wasn't rushed (which is great! We want this to be chill 😎) but I got lost between your overview of red's color philosophy and the card specific selections in Caleb's synergy cube. As I'm listening and watching the red cards named re: Caleb's diverse red tools, I understand intuitively where you're going with this; but I've also been playing mtg since 1994. If I'm a new player and listening in regards to the red spells named, I'm asking myself a few questions: what about the madness mechanic and Anger speak to red's philosophy? What makes the storm mechanic and bonus round significant in a red deck instead of another color? The evaluation (in my opinion) just needed a touch more to bridge that connection.
Highlighting a card like Fireblast would be sweet in examining red's philosophy. Not only is it from Visions (working on another twitter thread, btw), but it does a great job in demonstrating what red will do to win the game. It burns (as red does) but why would ANYONE sacrifice two lands, the most important resource in any deck, to cast this? Well that's what red does, right? It's willing to sacrifice something crucial if it knows it can lock the game down for a win. It's visceral, it's emotional, it goes against what convention tells us as players/magicians/planeswalkers, but more importantly it wins games 🙂
Also it would be a cool opportunity to show off that alter you've got in your vintage cube.
Maybe highlighting another color's philosophy and connecting it to specific cards in that color as a point of compare and contrast to red could hammer in the point of how important the color pie is.
That all said, this suggestion runs the risk of being timely. Keeping these treats short is nice, but I don't think it would be detrimental to take a 10 or 12 minute coffee break.
I personally can finish a coffee in 5 or 6 minutes when I'm at work, but this is *chill*. I want to relax and enjoy my French roast or my venti white mocha no whip.
This is pretty sweet to think about. I've been sporadically putting cards aside that "feel" basic, like a core set, that don't bend or break the color pie and try to create a new core set cube that answers the questions "What about this spell speaks [insert color here]?" and "Does this feel like magic?"
Sorry if that was a lot. I'm really enjoying this production 🙂 looking forward to this week's vintage cube vid (that miss-click was pretty catastrophic but I love how you highlighted it).
Stephen. Thank you. I think your points about a few more key examples (the ones you list are perfect) would have done a lot to solidify the connection between color pie and potential archetypes cube curators could pull from to add "on-color" depth to their environments. I love the thought of showing off my altered Fireblast! A+ feedback.
It is obvious you are well versed in Magic and Cube and if you have other ideas for "Cube and Coffee" I'd love to hear them.
Looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts in this Sunday's cube&coffee, "The Importance of Vision Design".
I think you may be projecting a bit on the personality of cube makers. I design cube with zero desire to innovate or impress the cube community, but just to have fun with effects I like :D
@@kiskas618 fair point. Hopefully there was a useful nugget in the vid as well.
@@ChillMTGtv Almost nothing but useful nuggets, it's a very nice video!
I like the dèep thought. It's been hard for me to describe how to break this information down, myself.
Hey, thanks for watching. Sometimes a good Scryfall search can help find fun and unique cards that can take archetypes in a different direction than expected.
Did you go to CubeCon?
Yes! I was there in 2022 and this year! Were you there? Did we meet?
@ChillMTGtv , no but plan to go in 2024.
Heck yeah! See you there!@@stormblest
Whoever wrote that Dimir represents the growth mindset is clearly stroking their own ego with the two colors that get the most spoiled design from WotC. Not surprising concidered they were invented to be “the colors that outsmart the other colors”. 😒
Hey! Good eye on that graphic. Maybe for Dimir, instead of "Growth Mindset" it should read "Gain". Growth has a more positive connotation, whereas Gain could be accomplished through both positive or more negative actions.
Blue and Black BOTH provide gain to a player. Blue is more intellectual through reasoning .. think of a card like Divination, whereas Black is more zealous in pursuit of growth regardless of the costs ... think of a card like Necropotence.