4-0'd the #MTG Avatar Prerelease last night with 4c Value after some folks bailed on me for cube. I had like 3 more playable removal spells in the sideboard, there's just an absurd amount of it in this set. Trap was worse than I was hoping though; so many of the "good" 3-5 drops have 4 toughness.

Production of "Wildfire Sleepwalking" Chinese animated short film (30 minutes) by Zhang Kang is now complete. Here are some 4K screenshots.

More #MTGCube drafts yesterday evening. First is from an Unpowered Midrange-y list. Second is from The Ham Sandwich (my Peasant list with a half dozen tame rares added).

If you see this, post an anime you love.

I wrote some thoughts about the difficulty of visualizing #mtgcube complexity, and also made a rough visualization of #mtgcube complexity zoydraft.tumblr.com/post/7990379...

Save the date, save some cash, and submit some... cubes! 🧊 Early bird pricing for weekend badges AND cube submissions both close at 11:59PM CST this Friday, October 31st! 🎃 #MTGCube

You've cubed in Madison. You've cubed in New York. You've cubed in DC. Now it's time to cube slightly outside of Chicago.

Post #CubeCon trip to Milwaukee has been great. Always like to extend a trip a few days and just spend a few days somewhere new. Herbie Hancock concert at the Pabst Theater was excellent. Really glad that lined up. Big props to the Grohmann Museum being open on a Tuesday too. #MTGCube

Amazing time at #CubeCon this year! Got to meet & hang out with some awesome people, both my Omnipresent Impostors and Creative Cubes each fired 5 times this weekend, and played some of the tightest Magic today I ever had. Just BARELY missed Top 8, losing in extra turns of game 3 of the last round--

Made my pilgrimage to the Arby's Gorilla before closing the book on this #MTGCube #CubeCon. Live mas.

Post-dinner draft of @kmodz.bsky.social 's Creative Cube. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie... #MTGCube #CubeCon

Lunch countertop 4-person draft of Zac Hill's Standard cube was sweet. Definitely would have played this cube in the main event if I didn't interpret it as a "current" standard cube. "This is how I design sets" is much more cooler. #MTGCube #CubeCon cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Post top 64 draft of the Monored Cube. Got a 14th pick Sneak Attack and went all in. #CubeCon #MTGCube cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Died in top 64 of #MTGCube #CubeCon in the Vistas Uncharted cube. Deck felt good, it was engine-ing pretty well. Good way to finish the main event. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Made Top 128 #CubeCon and played Alpha Reimagined again for the final draft of today. Went 2-0, then lost a BO1 against the creator in the finals because we wanted to leave and it didn't matter for cut to top 64. Awesome cube, glad to have drafted it twice. #MTGCube cubecobra.com/c/b6ce3845-d...

2-1 in the Old Border Foil Cube. Never drew Rector or Sigil, really wanted to become a dragon. :( Pack 1 I thought I was going to be big GW, but a 10th pick Sram encouraged pivoting a bit. Pick order is top down, left to right. #MTGCube #CubeCon

Lost finals of the CORESIR Cube in a RB mirror. They had Falkenrath Aristocrat and I didn't. "Abandoned" blue early in pack 2 when I took a Boros Recoker pick 3 over a Ral Zarek. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie... #MTGCube #CubeCon

2-1 in The Museum for the second draft of Friday at #MTGCube #CubeCon. My deck felt like a hodgepodge. I had a couple powerful cards, whiffed a bit on Slide, and could have used more critters. Died to goblins, which felt significantly better than the rest of the pod. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Lost in finals of Alpha Reimagined for the first formal main event of #CubeCon. Deck felt sweet, but couldn't beat the value of Toxic Deluge into Control Magic. #MTGCube

Also drafted the ball pit for the side event after the prequel draft because I didn't realize that was possible (oops). Worse deck for sure this time, but managed a 2-1 (technically 2-0-1?). I tried to pick up some big mana stuff, but I think you need to get lucky and table most of that. #MTGCube

Got the 3-0 in today's #CubeCon prequel draft out of the Ball Pit. Strange draft, neat experience. My deck felt like it just had solid mana and answers when most people didn't. #MTGCube cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Third draft of #MTGCube #CubeCon is a 3-player Housman draft out of my Peasant Cube. I probably could have commit more to WG and had a better pile and had something a bit more powerful? This UR deck took the 2-0.

First two drafts of #CubeCon are Kerby's Enchanted Teachings cube and a powered cube. #MTGCube

We're so excited for those of you at home to tune in live for four days of world class Cube coverage! Catch all the action here: www.twitch.tv/cubeco...

Mamoru Oshii planned it. A young Satoshi Kon took the lead on its layouts. The result: a stunning moment from Patlabor 2. We're looking inside the film's martial law sequence, including storyboards and production art: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/life-under...

While trying to figure out what cubes I want to draft this year at CubeCon I wound up hacking together a basic cube comparison page over the weekend to help identify some candidates. #MTGCube cube.griselbrand.com

Tossing out a question about @scryfall.com 's Keyword classification in case anyone happens to know. Why are "Become the monarch" and "Take the initiative" not categorized as keywords, but "Venture into the dungeon" is? Is that a single owner vs designation thing? scryfall.com/docs/api/cat...

𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗲 chose Whitman-Walker as their charity for the #Cubing #championship on Sept 20! We were 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 $𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 from the participants!!! BIG THANKS to @capitolcube.org Lincoln Davidson! The pic w/the DC flag show the folks who placed top 8 in the tournament! #whitmanwalker

From: Patlabor 2 (1993), dir. Mamoru Oshii, Production I.G

Nah man a big part of why the UB stuff makes me sad is cause I know it's extremely popular so they're going to keep doing it despite it making the parts of the game I deeply care about worse. Like I know a bunch of people are going to buy the 6th marvel set but that doesn't make my FNM fire.

Day 1 of CubeOpen Hamburg is done and it was a blast. 55 players. Six rounds, a 19person stone soup draft (still going on) and a money Team draft afterwards. Tomorrow we will continue and see who has the least fried brain. #mtgcube

Mtg secret lair announcements need air raid signals man this shit is UPSETTING

Decks from 100 Ornithopters and the Kuleshov Cube at Capitol Cube Championship! Cube events rock, you just get to draft and chat with cool creative people all day

Very dead for Top 8, I signed up for the Open Play round and was paired into @griselbrand.com's The Kuleshov Cube, which focuses on graveyard and enchantment themes while also being devoid of red cards. Managed to snag the trophy with this one!

Hi everyone! We're excited to announce the next Vertex event at Redcap's Corner in Philadelphia on January 3rd-4th, 2026! Tickets are available now at vertex.mtgcu.be, and, as last year's attendees know, we will not have the space to raise the cap past 80 players, so grab one before they're gone!

Fired a Peasant pod of 5 for more Post Capitol Cube Champs drafts. #MTGCube I had a mostly blue start, but pivoted to straight GW later as was probably a bit short on proper playables for it. cubecobra.com/c/haganbmj

2-1 in @senilechild.bsky.social 's Soy Cube at the post Capitol Cube Champs.l #MTGCube drafts. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Drafted Kerby's Housman on the Friday we arrived at Capitol Cube Champs. Wound up moving more 2 drops main. #MTGCube cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Math is for blockers in the Omnipresent Cube

Lost a very tense finals in the Compost Cube!

Draft three of Capitol Cube Champs is The Kuleshov Cube. #MTGCube cubecobra.com/c/meaning

1-1-1 The Depleted Lands at Capitol Cube Champs. #MTGCube @capitolcube.org Draft is very punishing. Pretty neat to try at least. I would've liked to be more of a UWB Control deck after p1, but it just wasn't coming around. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

3-0'd Omnipresent Imposters at Capitol Cube Champs for the first draft of the day. #MTGCube @capitolcube.org Drafted RW Party/Warriors/Prowess? cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Excited to announce Pack One Pick One LA, a two-day Magic: The Gathering cube event happening Jan 17-18, 2026! Lots of Cube, free snacks, prize pins, good times! For more info check out our website: www.packonepickone.com

The Ball Pit Cometh: A Video Primer #MTGCube youtube.com/shorts/DrN-t...

It's wild to me that not only do we have multiple upcoming sets being spoiled at the same time, but we're also getting near-identical new cards spoiled in both of those sets.

Another dose of sakuga from "The Legend of Hei 2".

tuned into standard this morning and watched 20 mins of commander