06. Better Design with Cube Cobra feat. Gwen Dekker

Gwen Dekker teaches us all about advanced features of Cube Cobra and the behind-the-scenes effort that makes the cube management platform tick. We share stories about the sometimes surprising uses that we have found for Cobra tools. Here we do a p1p1 of the Dekkaru cube, talk about how the two of us met, discuss the ELO system of card ranking for draft AI, Ryan Saxe’s recommender model, hypergeometric analysis, multiplayer drafting (in the future!), Zach Halpern’s dr4ft.info, and as-fan analysis. I give a shout-out to content creators who deserve to be heard and to be better represented in our community. Please find links to them below -- go give them some love!

Special thanks to super patrons Dylan Quern and Andrew Quist!

Guest Resources:

Gwen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/GwenDekker

Cube Cobra Website: https://cubecobra.com/

Cube Cobra Twitter: https://twitter.com/CubeCobra1

Cube Cobra Discord: https://discord.gg/Hn39bCU

Cube Cobra Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cubecobra

Content Creators Mentioned:

Color of Magic Podcast, ep. 35: https://www.colorofmtg.com/podcast-1/episode/4f7f9838/episode-35-shut-up-and-shuffle

Spike Feeder Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/sfpmtg

Usman Jamil articles: coolstuffinc.com/a/?tagged[]=usman%20jamil

Resources Cited:

Ryan Saxe: https://twitter.com/rcsaxe

Zach Halpern’s Dr4ft: https://dr4ft.info/

Mark Rosewater defines “as-fan”: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/few-more-words-rd-2016-11-07

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