Category: Cube
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2023’s Most Popular Cube Cards by the Numbers
We don’t have any qualitative awards for new Magic cards. Even with the category becoming much less competitive, Quintorius Kand has no chance of winning the award for “Best New Planeswalker” since no such trophy exists. But we do have numbers at our disposal to help recap the year and quantitatively understand just how impactful…
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The No Good & The Forgotten: Notable Exclusions at CubeCon 2023
CubeCon is almost upon us! This year’s gala has been sold out for quite some time, but as the biggest physical event of the year dedicated to Magic: the Gathering’s greatest format, CubeCon makes for a fascinating punctuation mark on the year’s theory crafting and evolution. The 48 Cube lists included in the main event,…
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The Most Popular Guild Cards in Cube: Azorius
So with precious few slots, which cards do Cube curators pick the most for each color pair? With 291 blue-and-white cards (known as Azorius in Magic parlance) printed over the game’s 30-year history, how do you narrow that down to only a handful, representing everything you want out of a draft experience? Here’s what we…
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Cube’s Most Popular Card by Year
Cube is the greatest way to play Magic: the Gathering. To celebrate the game’s upcoming 30th anniversary and our favorite format, we analyzed cube data to understand what card first printed in each year of the game’s history most-utilized in the format that’s often viewed as a museum of Magic history.