Cube as a Personal History with Dom Harvey

Andy and Anthony are joined by competitive grinder, latent Cube content creator, and actually good Magic player Dom Harvey to talk about his relationship with the game. Together, they discuss Dom’s storied competitive career, the early days of Cube, how a Cube can serve as a document of your personal history with Magic, whether or not experience with constructed Magic can inform playing and designing Cubes, and how to think about combo as a strategy.

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This week’s pack 1, pick 1 is from Dom’s Cube — a Legacy style Cube with a few novel twists.

Timestamps:

3:51 — Pack 1, Pick 1 from Dom’s Cube
17:54 — Dom’s Background in Constructed Magic
20:51 — Dom’s Introduction to Cube
27:50 — Cube as a Personal History
39:10 — Dom’s Approach to Designing Cubes
41:00 — Can Competitive Constructed Magic Inform Cube
1:05:28 — Combo in Cube
1:16:18 — Three Time SCG Open Champion Dom Harvey DESTROYS a Casual Cube Designer

Discussed in this episode:

CubeCon
Dom’s Cube
DSB’s Ancient Times Cube
Riptide Lab Forums
Caleb Gannon’s Powered Synergy Cube
Degenerate Micro Cube
BoshNRoll
Premodern Format
Dominaria’s Judgment
Tiny Leaders
Ryan Saxe on Twitter
Dominaria’s Judgment on Patreon

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7 weeks to Cube Con!

You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:

Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

If want us to do a pack 1, pick 1 from your cube submit it on our website. Send in questions to the show at [email protected]. You can also find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord.

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.