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CubeCon @cubecon.org · 1h

We're so excited for those of you at home to tune in live for four days of world class Cube coverage! Catch all the action here: www.twitch.tv/cubeco...

Thursday, Oct 16

Draft 0 – Prequel Draft: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Mani Davoudi / Gabriel Nassif

Special Draft: 4:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Tannon Grace / Ross Merriam

Friday, Oct 17

Draft 1: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Ross Merriam / Mason Clark

Draft 2: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Luis Scott-Vargas / Marshall Sutcliffe

Saturday, Oct 18

Draft 3: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Arya Karamchandani / Ross Merriam

Draft 4: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Gabriel Nassif / Brad Nelson

Draft 5 – Top 128 Final Fortune: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Mani Davoudi / Arya Karamchandani

Sunday, Oct 19

Draft 6 – Top 64: 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Arya Karamchandani / Brad Nelson

Draft 7 – Top 8: 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Mani Davoudi / Arya Karamchandani

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 16h

ascii 145 strikes again!

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 1d

Mamoru Oshii planned it. A young Satoshi Kon took the lead on its layouts. The result: a stunning moment from Patlabor 2.

We're looking inside the film's martial law sequence, including storyboards and production art:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/life-under...

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 2d

Ahh ha, no true days off.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 2d

The curse of work from home?

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 6d

Added a column last night that naively strips out everything inside of parentheses before doing a word count. That's not going to be *exclusively* keyword reminder text, but it's perhaps a bit closer for most cubes.

haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 6d

Yeah sure, here or discord (haganbmj). I'm heading out to dinner in a bit so might be slow to respond.

Came up on discord that the scryfall oracle text includes reminder text... Sometimes. So that's another thing to sort out.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 6d

@mtgds.bsky.social Just a question, but you had a chart here showing rarities in each cube. Was that including every rarity that a card was printed? The rows all seem to add up >100%.

x.com/mtg_ds/statu...

Magic Data Science on X: "I was curious as to whether certain #CUBECON curators had predilections toward certain rarities, and -- yes, they do*. @dvdsndvdsn's Penrose Cube is an "on the go cube" without explicit rarity restrictions, but with lots of commons... https://t.co/23Wzagv3L4" / X

I was curious as to whether certain #CUBECON curators had predilections toward certain rarities, and -- yes, they do*. @dvdsndvdsn's Penrose Cube is an "on the go cube" without explicit rarity restrictions, but with lots of commons... https://t.co/23Wzagv3L4

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 6d

I saw you had "proportion singleton" in your twitter thread, so maybe I'll do something similar to that. Does seem like a decent way to hint at deserts, set cubes, ornithopters, etc.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 6d

I've got the UB/UW there in some limited capacity; probably could make UW more explicit - but I'm only looking at the original printing of each card for now and not which edition is listed as being included on Cobra or a summary of which reprints are available for a card. That's another neat idea.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 6d

Coolio, more text matching might be something I do bit by bit.
I was already running into some challenges with keywords/layouts not being as comprehensive as I was hoping.

I need to sit down at some point and do unique tokens and game objects and that might help to improve that.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 7d

I might not have asked _here_, but I did ask some friends a few days ago while slapping this together so that's perfect.

For referenced Zones and some of the mechanics (shuffle, counter, choose) did you have a clean data source for those or is that just trying to do text/keyword matches?

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 7d

I'm using Scryfall for that right now - with multi-faced cards just being concatenated. Then I'm just doing the word count in regex.

The only things coming from CubeCobra at the card level are the ELO and Popularity scores.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 7d

Yeah definitely, I'll get a percentage added after work.

I'd like to add some charts to plot some high level stats of each cube against each other too, so maybe that'll help with some of those comparisons.

I need to circle back and figure out what I want to do with MDFCs too /shrug

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 7d

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

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 7d

It's probably Swiftspear, but I always liked these two because they further reinforced specific types of spell patterns. They're probably not the "most" prowess-y though as a result.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 8d

Gotcha, looking at it that way I see Initiative/Monarch as dedicated entries under Additional Rules (722/723) rather than being a sub-entry under keyword abilities. Makes sense to match the comp rules, so at least I know how to distinguish that now. Thanks!

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 8d

Tossing out a question about @scryfall.com 's Keyword classification in case anyone happens to know.

Why are "Become the monarch" and "Take the initiative" not categorized as keywords, but "Venture into the dungeon" is? Is that a single owner vs designation thing?

scryfall.com/docs/api/cat...

/catalog/keyword-actions

Returns a Catalog of all keyword actions in Scryfall’s database. Values are updated as soon as a new card is entered for spoiler seasons.

scryfall.com

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Whitman-Walker @whitmanwalker.bsky.social · 8d

𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗲 chose Whitman-Walker as their charity for the #Cubing #championship on Sept 20! We were 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 $𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 from the participants!!!

BIG THANKS to @capitolcube.org Lincoln Davidson! The pic w/the DC flag show the folks who placed top 8 in the tournament!

#whitmanwalker

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 12d

on october 3rd he asked me what day it was it is october 3rd

ALT: on october 3rd he asked me what day it was it is october 3rd

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 13d

Those are all hideous, but you could tell me half of them were real secret lairs and I'd believe it.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 13d

a castle with a burning eye on top of it .

ALT: a castle with a burning eye on top of it .

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 14d

From: Patlabor 2 (1993), dir. Mamoru Oshii, Production I.G

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 15d

Yeah that's fair. I find I wind up in 3-4c value piles with Sylvan though frequently enough in my cube to make that a flexible first pick.

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haganbmj @griselbrand.com · 16d

Probably a couple cantrips and secondary threats or something in there to fill it out, but yeah. Feels like that belcher would just guide my whole draft then make my games boring while I go 1-2 and get what I deserve.

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