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In the third book club Episode, Anthony and Parker talk about Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. Originally published in 1988, the book was an influential criticism of the built world and interfaces establishing many concepts fundamental to user interface and industrial design today. It also introduces a metric ton of jargon per page.
Our book club members talk about how these concepts apply to game and Cube design and their thinking about things more broadly.
Discussed in this episode:
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Enshittification concept and book by Cory Doctorow
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx
Blood In the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
Other Book Club Episodes
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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:42 - The Design of Everyday Things
7:43 - Mental Models
12:04 - Trouble With Mapping
16:58 - Cube REL/Humility
19:40 - Don Please Turn off the Podcast
21:03 - Types of Errors
26:30 - Games are Intentionally Bad Design
32:04 - Constraints
34:55 - Knowledge in the World
42:28 - Learned Helplessness
48:20 - Neologisms
50:59 - Choosing the Next Book

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In this explicit episode of Lucky Paper Radio, Andy, Anthony, and Patrick recap their experience at Shoebox in St Paul, Minnesota. Shoebox celebrated a range of casual formats including team limited, pauper, and, of course, Cube! They talk about highlights from the weekend and the decks they drafted.
Discussed in this episode:
The Monster Fuck
Dee Dee Mega Doo Doo
Arties Cube
Shoebox
Eiganjo Drift
Aquaone Powered
Penrose Cube
HeatherCube
Boudican Destruction Horizon
100 Lotuses
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
7:23 - Fistfights
12:04 - Pottery Studio
16:28 - Weather and Planes
18:58 - Microfame
20:32 - Andy’s Draft of Artemis’ Cube
24:19 - What is Shoebox
29:41 - Anthony’s Draft of Eiganjo Drift
32:09 - Patrick’s Draft of aquaone Powered
36:51 - Andy’s Draft of Penrose Cube
41:33 - Anthony’s Draft of HeatherCube
45:31 - Andy’s Stone Soup
53:30 - Anthony’s Stone Soup
55:19 - Patrick’s New Friends
57:22 - Pizza Time
63:03 - Andy’s Draft of Boudica
68:33 - Patrick’s Draft of Boudica
72:10 - James’ Microcube
72:56 - 100 Lotuses
78:17 - Closing Thoughts
79:36 - Anthony’s Draft of Companion Cube

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Andy and Anthony finally just talk about epistemology and sort of address Magic: the Gathering. They talk about the way we all generally learn things and incorporate them into our understanding of the world around us, and how that manifests in the smaller world of the game.
Discussed in this episode:
ContraPoints on YouTube
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
100 Ornithopters
Regular Cube
Cascade Cascade
Cube Map
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
4:55 - Epistemology
11:43 - The Enlightenment
14:43 - Authority
20:29 - Empiricism
26:49 - Explanations
29:58 - Science as a Creative Process
33:18 - Knowledge in Magic
37:04 - Emergent Properties
41:54 - Aggro-Midrange-Control
45:53 - Cube Experiments
51:10 - Mailbag!

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Andy and Anthony talk with Greg about his Companion Cube. In this Cube, each player chooses a card from their deck before each game to be their ‘companion’, which their guaranteed access to. They talk about the history of the cube and the difference between the early days of frequent edits and the longer stable phase with less frequent changes.
Greg is also one of the organizers of Shoebox an event happening next week in St Paul, Minnesota. Shoebox will prominently feature Cube as well as other formats that don’t usually get center stage and much more.
Discussed in this episode:
”Still Alive” from Portal
Companion Cube
C4AC Stream
Shoebox
Museum of Modern
Take 5
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:27 - Greg AKA Dinrovahorror
4:16 - Shoebox
10:35 - Companion Cube
15:57 - Cube as Nostalgia
18:48 - Power Level
27:49 - Responding to Feedback
32:22 - New Player Pitfalls
35:42 - Comparing Companions
40:49 - Control Decks
42:37 - Clones
46:13 - The Future

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Andy and Anthony talk about cutting a long-standing, controversial card from 100 Ornithopters: Echoing Boon. They talk about gameplay experiences with the card and why Andy decided to include a conspiracy in the cube in the first place. The ‘always on’ nature of conspiracies put certain constraints on the cube’s design. Andy talks about some of those limitations and changes he’s planning to make after they’re gone.
Discussed in this episode:
100 Ornithopters
Cube For a Cause
Rhystic Studies Video on 100 Ornithopters
Shoebox, St Paul, Minnesota, Mar 13-15, 2026
If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.
Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.
You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
Anthony’s “Regular” Cube
You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at [email protected] or our p.o. box:
Lucky Paper
PO Box 4855
Baltimore, MD 21211
Musical production by DJ James Nasty.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
4:46 - Echoing Boon
13:20 - Why Cut Echoing Boon
22:30 - Regrets
25:23 - Leyline of Resonance
30:55 - Blazing Shoal
33:39 - Reverse Dunning-Kruger
35:46 - “Must Cuts”
38:20 - More Additions
47:29 - City on Fire
50:06 - Lunar Frenzy
51:25 - Slip Through Space
53:12 - Actual Cuts
54:35 - Time Sieve
57:51 - Mailbag