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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the share Joe!

Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats!!

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · 4d

My top 64 draft of #cubecon2025! Eliminated last year’s champion in the first round of A Study in Harmony but lost the next one. Drafted a pretty mid bant enchantress deck that had 4-5 cards off theme due to lack of playables. Top 32 is still great, what a fun week! #mtgcube

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · 4d

Slightly late CubeCon main event day 2 post. 2-1 in TLDR and 3-0 in El Classico. Finished off the day 3-0 in my top 128 draft of Six Drops where I picked depletion lands over any other card in the draft. #mtgcube #CubeCon2025

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · 5d

Day 2 of CubeCon, and the first two main event drafts. 2-1 in both my own cube and Lavender Desert (amazingly designed). Then 3-0d the Late for Dinner side event in Cascade Cube with affinity. Fun day overall! #mtgcube #CubeCon2025

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · 7d

First couple of CubeCon drafts in the books! Lost both finals which stings but still a solid day overall. Played Omnipresent Imposters and The Ball Pit. Interestingly only maindecked one imposter. Had a super tough matchup vs control in draft one, and died to onboard effects in the second. #mtgcube

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · 8d

She’s all checked in! For those at CubeCon, give Enchanted Evening a try. In my (very biased) opinion, exploring synergies of an often forgotten card type is a hoot. cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...
#mtgcube #CubeCon2025

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · Aug 24

Wayward Games in Vancouver runs cube at 6pm on Mondays. I don’t think we currently have any groups on Sundays… if you’re in the area consider joining the PNW cube discord: discord.gg/ehkevnFK

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · Aug 9

Cube is the way.

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · Jul 28

I’m no expert… but if you want to pull off some typal synergies seems like you’d want like 8 creatures of the same type or more. Truly I don’t know though lol

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · Jul 28

I think in general typal cubes can be fun! These specific cards (and ones like them) sometimes seem like the juice is not worth the squeeze.
I could just spend 5 mana casting a creature instead of the first artifact. And the second is 4 mana invested for +1 mv payoff.

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · Jun 25

I lean heavily on my tight play to win games of cube, so I tend to draft too “safe.” I end up with solid decks but I don’t take enough risks during the draft for my decks to be truly great. Too afraid to train wreck, essentially.

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · Jun 24

“Looks good to me”

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Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just like a real dev!

Rory Straubel @rortimer.bsky.social · Jun 18

My cube, Enchanted Evening, is up for CubeCon voting against a bunch of (admittedly cool looking) artifact cubes. But would love a chance to show the world that enchantments are sweet too! #mtgcube #cube #CubeCon2025

cubecon.org/vote

cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

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