Gwen Dekker
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I do Cube Cobra, Hedron Network, Boston Cube Party gdekker.io He/him
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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!
A colorful graphic with a photo in the center depicting Nick Floyd -- a man with glasses and a grey polo shirt. The text reads: "Event Host Announcement: Nick Floyd. @magicstorytime.bsky.social." 

The Shoebox event logo is featured in the bottom corner, and the bottom bar reads: "Shoebox, St Paul Minnesota. March 13-15th. Shoebox.gg"
We're limited to the data Scryfall makes available, and in this case we only have the full name as a string, which we sort alphabetically. This is also consistent with how Scryfall works when you sort by artist.
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i don't feel like magic set surveys usually have this question and i don't appreciate the implication that content creators, who do so so much for the game, are possibly to blame for a bad set's poor performance. 👎
"to what degree did negative influence commentary impact your perceptions of the spiderman set"
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This year, CubeCon is raising money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in honor of our dear friend Jonathan Brostoff, who we tragically lost 1 year ago. Please consider tuning in and donating to this important cause.
Tiltify - Made for Fundraisers
We give you the tools to engage with your donors and raise more for your charity
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Just learned about a new stupid thing AI does
A series of Instagram comments: 

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atbashhang 2w
i recently applied to a wendys and the ai chatbot immediately gave me an interview date and time. when i got there they told me "oh we're actually not hiring it just automatically does that"
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atbashhang 2w
in other news i'm now learning how to jailbreak Ilms for no particular reason
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k.aylaeverso.n 2w
@atbashhang that happened to me at olive garden. went in for my interview and they said they would keep my resume on file in case the position opened. fortunately i had another interview right after and wound up working there instead
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bugluvr2003 2w
@atbashhang me with 7-11 except they cancelled it an hour before
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pockifox.png 2w
@atbashhang Bro I used to work at Auntie Anne's and the amount of people I had to turn away because the Al chatbot did the same thing and gave them an interview time when we weren't supposed to take any made me feel bad every time
I really resonated with this take from Iatee, one of the regular contributors of Cube Cobra: cubecobra.com/content/arti...
Low-Background Steel
Cube Design in the Zombie Era
cubecobra.com
Wait until you hear about the Dutch
This is a really nice design
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Here at Shoebox, we 💖 our judges! 👨‍⚖️👩‍⚖️
Rob and his team will be working hard all weekend to keep those events rollin' and stacks resolvin', so lets give a warm welcome to @judgerob.bsky.social as our Event Manager!
A colorful graphic with the text: 
"Meet the Shoebox team: Rob - Events Manager. 
Rob McKenzie has been judging events since 2004, and has worked events of every scope and type, from Pro Tours to CubeCons to GenCon to local draft events. 
Rob records with Good Luck High Five and Commander Arcade, and is on the Judge Foundry Board of Directors." 

The bottom banner reads: 
"Shoebox, St. Paul Minnesota. March 13-15th. Shoebox.gg"
Hello [object Object]!
Oh yeah I wouldn't be able to stop myself. Opening that p1p1 is such a gift
Let's take a break from vintage cube and play.... More different vintage cube? A lot of missed opportunity here...
That one is from oath of the gatewatch, not mh3. And I agree, it's cool! It's unique and kinda stinky and I love it here
Fleshraker is definitely the most obscene one though
If it were my cube I would remove every single card from that set, I get that may be a little extreme but it just feels like the cube used to be so much cooler without them
But man I just really got bummed out playing the cube post mh3 where there are so many absurdly above rate eldrazi running around... When I lost to them it just felt like their cards were just better than mine, and when I won with them it felt wrong too
Some stuff like one ring, palant, retrofitter I think are fine to remove just because they're insanely efficient one card engines, which doesn't interest me in this context
Ancient tomb never felt like an issue when it was being used to cast a literal masticore. Skullclamp was a power outlier but you still had to put a lot of effort into even being able to utilize it
I think the MH3 eldrazi are larger problems. What really drew me into this cube was having all these below rate pieces and having to scrap something together - but the MH3 eldrazi are just so strong on rate that it completely overhauled this paradigm.
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While trying to figure out what cubes I want to draft this year at CubeCon I wound up hacking together a basic cube comparison page over the weekend to help identify some candidates. #MTGCube

cube.griselbrand.com
That's what I think of when I do it - I'm giving up on an enormous laundry list of random todos and sporadic thoughts in favor of a clean slate