i have a million thoughts about shoebox but the one that keeps sticking with me is what an honor and a pleasure it has been to be working with every single person on the team. admin, judges, coverage, artists, vendors, even venue staff and the local shops who printed our t-shirts and playmats etc

We are very excited to announce our first wave of Main Event featured cubes, as chosen by our expert selection panel! As it's our first year, cubes will selected in batches to ensure we have the right number of cubes for the attendees. More selections will be released regularly!

Speaking of our incredibly talented artist community~ Let's welcome our next Shoebox community artist guest... Goldsabertooth! ✨ @goldsabertooth.bsky.social If you've snagged any of his iconic tokens, playmats, or art we'd love to see them! 👀

Happy Magic Monday! We're kicking off another exciting week of back-to-back announcements with our next special guest... self-proclaimed "draft fanatic" and Lord of all things Limited™ -- Ethan Saks! ✨ @lordsoflimited.bsky.social

Your regular reminder.

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

the world needs more cubes where this card is good

And when the designers come and say, hey, you aren't using the pieces we made correctly, is that a genuinely valid concern? People are having a blast working within the rules they made with your toys. They are still buying Legos, just not building the picture on the box

What DOES the back of Jace's coat look like again? 🤔 Compete to see who can draw Magic characters from memory ""better"" (no artistic experience required)! Please welcome @myhandsareblank.bsky.social, @byjacobparis.bsky.social, and @legdotegg.bsky.social presenting their iconic D00D-L Off event! 🎨🖌️

Let's start our guest announcements with a very special event host! Wait, uh... who was it again? 🐟 💭❓ Please welcome Nick Floyd @magicstorytime.bsky.social, the original creator of Forgetful Fish / DanDan! Catch him in the Carnival playing DanDan variants and hosting competitive DanDan side events!

the most ambitious crossover event in history

mr sandman bring me a fleem

it's the cube number

A quick Companion Cube update this afternoon. I'm glad to have created a place where KCI was truly good in limited, but I think it's time to try some stuff that isn't quite as narrow (or as miserable to play against) List: cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

Quick reminder, today is the ✨LAST DAYYYY✨ to submit your creator application if you'd like to be a part of Shoebox! ✌️ We'll be sending out approvals between now and October 11th, so keep an eye on those inboxes! ✉️

Quick @capitolcube.org event report thread! Shout out to @dvdsn.bsky.social for running another great event and raising money for a great cause! Here's what I got to draft in DC:

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!

It's been a super exciting week of incredible artist announcements, but we've got one more surprise left up our sleeves. Today we'll be announcing a legendary Magic artist who: - Has NEVER attended another event - Has NEVER sold artist proofs OR signatures - Has 130+ works! ...Who can guess it? 👀

Had a great time talking about Cube on Untapped Libraries. I feel like I can get in the weeds with fellow cube heads sometimes and it was refreshing to step back and talk about my favorite way to play Magic in a broader way. untappedlibraries.com/episode-009-... @untappedlibraries.bsky.social

Let's keep the Shoebox hype train rolling~ Here's a quick message from one of our founders, Greg! (@dinrovahorror.mtgcu.be) So, what are YOU most excited to see at Shoebox? 👀 #MTGCube

Today's the day! As you know, we're hosting the Coolest™ Magic event of 2026, and you can lock in your badges RIGHT NOW 🎉 Weekend badges (with limited early bird pricing!) are now on sale over at shoebox.gg/badges! Who are we seeing there? 👇 #MTGCube

This week, we're drafting The Pillar, @gamesfinkel.com 's all-gold cube where each player starts with a Pillar of the Paruns on the battlefield. My draft picks in order:

Let's keep the highlights rolling with one of our resident Cube Specialists™! Cube... Advisors? CUBE-ists? Greg, or @dinrovahorror.mtgcu.be! #MTGCube

Draft two (of two) is Bones's Ancient Desert. I was hoping to draft something a bit different, but opened Baleful Strix p1p1 and the rest is history. I'm nothing if not on brand 😂

I'm in Tulsa this weekend visiting @goblingathering.bsky.social and @domrikade.bsky.social for Bones's mini cube event! Draft 1 is the very first draft ever of Kade's new desert cube, Jazz Waltz:

This week we're drafting an as-of-yet-unnamed fork of Matt Grenier's Roast. I'm on Lurrus... Doomsday... Control?

I'm beyond excited to be working on this project :D Veterans of cube draft and those just dipping their toes into the format alike are not going to want to miss it!!

10 for our weekly cube tonight, so we broke out one of the few 540s, Limited All-Stars!

There's this AI-powered daily Tarot reading bot in Portuguese that seems to have latched onto the words "Magic" and "cards" and likes all of my posts and replies and honestly if nobody got me I know Tarô Mágico got me

Hi #mtgcube friends! Our next exciting announcement relates to prizing! This time, in addition to a 1 of 1 playmat, first place will also receive a FREE entry to @capitolcube.org !! Thank you @dvdsn.bsky.social and team!! Tickets are available here: www.upkeepnewyork.com/c4ac-ss25-ti...

Drafting a cube based around creatures types as colors. Unclaimed Territories and Secluded Courtyards in the basics box, but once you choose a type for your first Territory/Courtyard, it's "locked in" for other copies of that card for the rest of the game.

Meanwhile, drafting in paper: @alostkobold.bsky.social 's Limited All-Stars

We started a rotisserie draft of Companion Cube today, and I'm seat 6 of 6 so I get the double pick at the end of the snake. What do we think of my first two picks? #mtgcube

Thank you to everyone who came to @vertex.mtgcu.be this weekend, especially those who traveled from as far as Indiana, North Carolina, and Seattle (!) just to come to my cube event 😭 Cube community remains undefeated forever

Looking for a social media zoomer for a cool MTG project (does not have to be a zoomer). DM me! Boosts & recommendations appreciated x

If you’re coming to #MCVegas and looking to cube, definitely hit me or @dinrovahorror.mtgcu.be up. I’m sure we will be cubing every day. 🫡

what i've learned about #mtgcube design

Today I'm playing Magic: the Gathering Cube Draft

Where my cube aficionados at? 🧊 @vertex.mtgcu.be is bringing a 2-day cube event to Pittsburgh at the end of June! Tickets are $50 and are on sale now. Available cubes and event info are on the website! vertex.mtgcu.be So who's gonna visit Brad and I in the Steel City in a few weeks? 🙋‍♀️

As we get closer to the event, let's see what we're drafting! First, it's become a bit of a tradition to give a cube to the winner of the event, and this time we'll be cloning a fan favorite: @dvdsn.bsky.social 's Penrose Cube! No counters, no tokens; All good, clean Magic inspired by Odyssey block!

An underrated 5/6: One of those cards that really just begs you to figure out what to do with it

One thing I hear a lot after cube events is "I wish I had known about this!" or "Where do I find out about these?" So, here are the next six cube events happening in the US; Let's spread the word and get more players cubing! #mtgcube

I started playing Magic in 2006. My friend @deinonychus9.bsky.social started in 2020. We thought it might be fun to explore the differences in starting the same game 14 years apart: one year at a time! Here's 2006. youtu.be/srqP1B7Kf_M

We're excited to announce that Capitol Cube Championship will be returning on September 20th! For more details or to purchase your ticket, check out capitolcube.org

At Boston Cube Party I finally got started on my Powermax Vintage Cube! Shout out to all the friends and opponents that signed a Chancellor, I'm so excited to binder these (and the others I got at BCP) up into a dual-purpose autograph book/cube :)

Had a fantastic weekend at @bostoncubeparty.com, thank you so much to @ollie.bostoncubeparty.com, @gdekker.io, @goblingathering.bsky.social, and everyone else who helped make it happen! The vibes were incredible and the cube selection was just top-notch. Event report below!

Tickets to Vertex: Steel City 2025 are now available on our shiny new website! Join us June 28-29 at Guy on the Couch Cards & Gaming for another great weekend of cubing! vertex.mtgcu.be