Fun game @phantooom.bsky.social just invented: for each evergreen keyword ability, what is the card that uses it best? For example: Celestial Colonnade is the best use of vigilance, Ball Lightning is the best use of Trample, etc.

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

Getting real excited for this weekend’s stream! @nickzlmhc.bsky.social helping us test out @nyc-mtg.bsky.social’s sick setup. Got a great line up of cubes coming your wall all Saturday and Sunday. m.twitch.tv/luckypapermt...

#mtgcube needs to be a fully proxy-embracing community.

The Girl with a Pearl Witness—continuing my hobby of complimentarily de-TERFing cards for cubers everywhere (internationally, this time!)

Thinking about Phyrexian Osteonought

Amazing Yakima update: the owner of the AirBnb in whose yard we found Yakima sent me this message today 😭😭😭 She’s happy and healthy and it all worked out!!

Encountered a bumper sticker today that I now really want to slap on all of my new cube creations

A few weeks ago @anthony.luckypaper.co and I flew all the way across the country to attend Inland Northwest Cube Fest. @janemckinney.bsky.social put together probably my favorite menu of cubes for an event like this. We talk about our experience on this week's episode: luckypaper.co/podcast/263-...

I'm sleeping at my parents, post breakup. I get out to my car to grab what I left in there last night, and both passenger tires are completely flat. I can't do this. 😭 I gotta find a place to live, and now replace my tires. I've never done this, and feel sick about it, but can y'all help me out?

Cube updating doesn’t always go as planned. Sometimes your editorial assistant decides that it’s time for a nap break before you’ve managed to actually make any changes.

[Tim Curry voice]: In protest to capitalism, the Ball Pit is escaping to SPACE! (there will be more adds but these are some of the spiciest)

A locus deck from The Ball Pit went 2-1 this weekend with Door to Nothingness as its wincon. Pure joy (though I’ve since cut down on the number of Loci available).

INW CubeFest 2025 this past weekend was a blazing success. ~50 folks, infinite fun, one 7-pod of 100 Ornithopters whose drafters asked me to hop in as head judge to round out the pod, and which I 3-0’d with some chagrin… can’t wait to do it again next year.

I swear I love hosting these things #mtgcube

Seven stones for seven years. Most marriages only come with one proposal, but our little life together has certainly not been “normal.” We’re functionally different humans from 2018. On the seventh anniversary of our wedding, the new Emily proposed to the new Jane. The answer was obvious.

Yakima is now safe with her owner. Friends and I got back to our BNB today to find a large dog hiding under our deck, with a *very* bad leg wound that looked a few days old. Collar, no tag. The island’s vet is closed. Police located a woman with a lost dog who picked her up crying. I need a nap.

Future Home of Dragon Land (Scary but FUN!!)

INW CubeFest will be the first cube event I’m aware of to have live music during free play on the night of July 19th. What’s more “small, local event” vibes than a small, local jazz combo? #mtgcube

We’re one month out from INW CubeFest in Spokane, WA! Come draft the 100 Ornithopters Cube, the Ballpit, the aquaone cube, Cabbages and Kings, and many more! Tickets still available at www.tixtree.com/e/inw-cubefe... #mtgcube

I AM OFFICIALLY ONE WEEK AWAY FROM SURGERY!!! I’m going to be out of work for 3 months so any help and donations I can get would be extremely extremely helpful. Thank you to everyone who has donated and shared already I love yall www.gofundme.com/f/support-li...

Altered for a friend. Prompt: “get a little psychedelic with that bad boy.” #mtgcube

The De-TERFings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Got a cube in CubeCon that needs de-terfing? Shoot me a message (and some cards)

Our next nomination comes from Kade Goforth, the host of podcast Recross the Paths. He's chosen The Ball Pit, by Jane (@janemckinney.bsky.social), a truly zany desert cube where you're allowed to cast any card face down as a Chromatic Sphere! Can you keep your eye on the ball? #mtgcube #CubeCon2025

This week's episode is one of my favorites in memory — we've got @janemckinney.bsky.social and Arlo to talk about what it means to develop taste in a game like Magic. luckypaper.co/podcast/253-...

Summer heat 👎 Finding bracelets in the rocks 👍

De-TERFing cards for friends to fight the growing dread of an increasingly bloody and rusty political machine

Wide-ranging changes to the Ball Pit: cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl...

Tarmacgoyf gets +1/+1 for every deep scratch it has from playing it unsleeved on the ground like the filthy animal you were born to be.

Token drawn at NEO draft last night

INW CubeFest hype

Not your average cube update

O squirrel of the front yard, lend me thine creative energies

We’re a few months into 2025 and you know what that means… P L A G U E S P I T T E R a.) turns 25 this October, and b.) is *definitely* going in the Tabletop Cube

INW CubeFest is now open for ticketing! Join us July 19-20th in Spokane, WA for the region’s first cube event. www.tixtree.com/e/inw-cubefe... #MTGCube

Got something neat in the works…

Alright sickos, The Ballpit postmortem is live, and very on-theme for today’s LPR episode! I recommend reading on a computer for hover-over images, but I’m not a cop. Go nuts, give me feedback without having ever drafted it yourself, etc. Enjoy: cubecobra.com/content/arti...

Community keeps coming in clutch. 3% closer to Ballpit completion (plus a gifted sticker)

Desert cube. No cuts—your draft is your deck. Every single card can be cast MDFC-style as Chromatic Sphere. If that intrigues you, then jump on into… cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

An hour-long digital practice “paint” on John Singer Sargent’s Fumée d'Ambre Gris

I'm giving away EVERY Masters set EVER! It's Masters Masters! I'm giving TEN PEOPLE each one box of Masters from the entire history of Masters sets as a thank you! Just donate in multiples of $4.00 to @translifeline.bsky.social until Feb 15 at 11am PST! Donate---> give.translifeline.org/tolarian

The Dragon’s Bite: a short, 5-minute read, written this morning for a reflective writing group I’m a part of. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sharpie alter for a dear friend.

Some online friends were trying to define “Cube” today in increasingly deranged terms. This was my wholly unneccesary contribution.

Glamour shots of the lil’ guy

Drawing tokens for players at cube night: “Don’t talk to me or my daughter ever again”