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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 1h

My FRA Bodleian Cube update is complete. Set has some cool cards and it was fun to come back to look at the cube after spending so long working on Obscura.

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C4AC - a cube charity event @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com · 11/09/2026

It’s time to formally announce how much #C4ACObscura raised for our friends @maketheroadny.bsky.social Drumroll please 🥁🥁🥁 From GFM to tickets to auctions (another resolving soon for $759 more) to our sponsor & legend @slickjagger.bsky.social we raised: $11,300 #MTGcube Thats community.

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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · 01/09/2026

I'm so excited to finally share the concept of this cube, which I had to keep a secret for 9 months! Auction ends Friday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwK...

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Can I design a cube where players ONLY draft mono-color or five-color decks?

YouTube video by Lucky Paper

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My Obscura cube, Periodic, is based on the Table of Elements. It was an awesome challenge to get to combined two of my favorite things in this project. The drafts went better than I hoped they would. I even got to see three Melds happen live at the event! cubecobra.com/cube/list/Pe...

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Cube Cobra List: Periodic

Stand on the shoulders of the greatest scientists of the Multiverse and discover your path to victory.

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C4AC - a cube charity event @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com · 24/08/2026

One last push and ask for reposts Our GFM is still live for @maketheroadny.bsky.social Please help us hit $4,000. We’re close to setting a record for funds raised at upkeep and I’d like to push it further if we can! www.gofundme.com/f/cube-for-a...

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Donate to Cube For A Cause SS26 Obscura for Make The Road NY, organized by Scott Mirtsopoulos

Hi, I’m Scott Mirtsopoulos of Upkeep New York, and I’m hoping yo… Scott Mirtsopoulos needs your support for Cube For A Cause SS26 Obscura for Make The Road NY

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The four winners of Periodic, my cube designed specifically for @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com all got to sign basics. Thank you to @scottmirts.upkeepnewyork.com and all of mountain team for this unforgettable design experience.

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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · 22/08/2026

I am buzzing with excitement this morning. We're streaming the most interesting and experimental cube event ever run, Cube for a Cause: Obscura. The 17 cubes on offer were all designed in secret, specifically for this event, and none of the ~128 players have any idea what cards they contain.

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ericmassak.bsky.social @ericmassak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

26 days until my #mtgcube festival begins. I’ll be posting on here everyday. Day 17 - possibly a huge cube added to the main event. Finalizing merch quotes. Event info below: www.wolfpackmagic.com

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C4AC - a cube charity event @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com · 09/07/2026

#mtgcube fam! Break out your beakers and get your goggles 🥽 @deinonychus9.bsky.social is bringing the best scientists of the multiverse to #c4acobscura this August!!

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bumping this for the stream day. Can't wait to see you all soon.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You should check out the @bostoncubeparty.com stream this weekend for live paper cubing! Here's a P1P1 of my Bodleian Cube which will be on stream for Top64 on 21Jun ~9am EST. What do you take for fun? To win? Do you use your free Cogwork? How hyped are you for BCP coverage? twitch.tv/olliebeeks

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Bodleian Changes for @bostoncubeparty.com #3. I can't wait to bring both of my lists back to one of my favorite cube events. cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl... There are some aspirational tests, but I'm excited to see how they do. On Sunday June 21st ~9am Boston Time you might be able to see too 👀

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Zach Barash @improphilo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You might have heard that this event will be the cube event of the year. That it will be weird, loud, chaotic, and above all, awesome. You heard right. I can't wait for it.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Highly recommend this one. The concept speaks so much to what I adore about cube.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A Sunday afternoon #P1P1 from Bodleian Cube. The color spread in this one was interesting to me.. What do you take for fun? Do you take something different to win? Do you use your cogwork to take a second card? cubecobra.com/cube/list/hgs

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Bodleian returns to Boston for the third year. Really honored to have had it at every BCP. Also excited to bring Midwinter back to share.

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Nikki Petersen @nikki-m.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

On Facebook Jesper Myrfors had posted this and saw he's not on Bluesky so I wanted to copy & paste it here. I may not have many connections, but this means enough to me where I feel every little bit counts. There is one more paste in the comments, too, so please share! #mtgartist #magicthegathering

To all the MTG artists who still own the right to their work: The problem with Hasbro is that they bought into a hobby game community with no understanding of what a community is. The people who make D&D, the people who made MTG made it for themselves, their friends and people like them meaning fellow gamers. It was about shared experience and having fun together. I cannot speak on the business of D&D but I very much can soeak on the business of MTG. Artists were hired and treated as important and vaulable members of the community. It was the goal fo the compant that those artists should see a benefit from the work they did long term. After all, they helped create the game in a very meaningful way. That is why royalties were paid and meant to be paid for the life of the game whenever that art was used. Then the suits came in. These people were not part of the community, they were not part of the hobby and all they wanted was to profit from the hard work and vision of thers. Royalties went away so empathy imared wuits could take the money instead. New art was sommissioned so royalties would no longer have to be paid. It was a giant FU to all the people who made the game what it is from a visual standpoint. It gets worse.

Then came Hasbro. Hasbro is a billion-dollar multinational corporation. To my mind, they do not care about anything but money. They do not care about the lives of the people who made their current position possible, they do not care about their customers and the certainly to not care about the hobby or the community. They are in my opinion, a relentless eating machine that will devour anything to increase the bottom line. They are the ultimate consumer. They consume joy, creativity, the lives of those who make their products and the very community they rely on for their paychecks. They will not stop. They see this as how you do business. Get all you can regardless of who it hurts. That is not how a community works. That is modern capitalism. That is what destroys society. The idea that a rising tide should raise all ships is completely alien to them. How can they see themselves as winners if there are other boats on the water? Watching others drown is their idea of success. Sadly, many people have bought into this idea. If you don’t make ALL the money you are not successful. If someone else can afford to live then you failed as a business person. We see it all over this very broken country.
They have an army of attorneys who can live with their actions because they are “Just following orders” making it possible. Individually, that is hard to go up against. It has been my experience that Hasbro deals in bad faith and will attempt to get what they cannot bargain for through legal trickery. Be very careful signing anything they ask you to sign and get legal advice. I have personal experience with this. Better yet, sign nothing. More on that below. How they chose to release the 30th anniversary set at $1,000 for 4 booster packs shows they have nothing contempt for their audience. Once again, they do not see it as a community. They see their audience as livestock they have they bought the right to harvest when they wish for their true customers, the shareholders.

For those of you who still own the rights to your artwork. Hang onto those rights. You are the only place that Hasbro can get those rights and they, in my experience, will try to take advantage you. Do not let them. That artwork is valuable, very valuable. Hasbro would love to make millions off of that work as toys, action figures, movies, tv show, video games and any manner of future products, and collectables/landfill. You, as the creator of that work should get a fair slice of that pie. Stick to your guns, hold on to your royalties. If it comes down to accepting a laughable offer or getting nothing. Take the nothing because at least you will still have those very valuable rights.
You as the artist are free to profit from that old work within reason and it can be very profitable. Do not give it away. You are not allowed to use that work in another game. GAME. That leaves a lot of things free to be exploited. You may not be able to use the name of the artwork for copyright and trademark reasons but the designs? The artwork? Those are yours, they do not belong to Hasbro unless you sell to them. We live in a world of 3d printing, you can make your own limited edition action figures or toys, prints, posters, screen savers, puzzles, playmats, mousemats, the list goes on and on, this includes products and future tech no one has thought of yet. You may not have Hasbro’s reach but again, you are the ONLY place those items can be found legally. You own the right to make them. I say those rights are not worth selling for anything less than a fair price.
When musicians sell their back catalogues, they make a lot of money. Keep that energy.

30th anniversary was a colossal and laughable failure but it was not the only chance they will have at a milestone "celebration". There is a 40th Anniversary coming up and a 50th. Mark my words, you will be hearing from Hasbro and they will try to get you to part with those rights, Make it worth your while. You owe Hasbro nothing, they owe you their very success in hobby gaming.
Here is the most important point. They can afford it. They have more money than they know what to do with. At no point feel sorry for them.
When I went to work for WotC I told them upfront that I saw my job as protecting the artists who made our company possible as much as I was there to protect the company. I did not see those two things as different because it was a rising tide that would raise all ships. I saw having a good trusting relationship with the creative minds whose vision made my job possible as a great benefit to all concerned.
I still stand by what I said then only now there is no company I wish to protect as they made their choice to side with greed and I cannot get behind that, so I am left standing only with my fellow artists. Please look after yourselves, do not allow yourself to be taken advantage of.
To that end I suggest we stand together and pool our resources. Hasbro will win through enforced silence, through divide and conquer.
They will contact us individually to make a “secret deal”. They will do their best to make it impossible to communicate with each other concerning these buyouts. We should unite and make them deal with us as a group. Do not sign any document that limits your ability to talk with other artists about a buyout.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Secrets of Strixhaven update for Bodleian Cube is live cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl... What an incredible set. I wish every set had this many amazing designs in it. It took me a while to sift through them and I loved doing it.

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Cube Cobra

Build, playtest, and share your Magic the Gathering cube!

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bodleian Cube is featured on today's @cubecobra.com P1P1 cubecobra.com/cube/p1p1/d3... Vote on what you'd take, I love to see folks thoughts on these.

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Pack 1 Pick 1 - Cube Cobra

Vote on your first pick from this pack!

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I feel like SOS is basically "what if we made awesome Magic and were conscious of how many words went on them." Every set could feel like this, and I hope more of them do going forward. This is most exciting #mtgcube set in a long time.

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Bones (A Cube Judge) @goblingathering.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I started playing Magic in 2006. My friend @deinonychus9.bsky.social started in 2020. We're exploring the nuances in starting the same game 14 years apart. 2011 features Mirrodin Besieged, New Phyrexia, M12, and Innistrad. We also talk about Zombies, Game of Thrones, Skyrim, and bans in Standard!

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Magic in 2011, with Bones and Deinonychus

YouTube video by Austin Hale

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@shoebox.gg was incredible. Designer Pins - Phenomenal idea. Cube Selection- Top notch. Top 8ing the Cube Event - Insanely cool surprise. Experiencing people's excitement about Bodleian - Amazing. I loved getting to share it with folks. The people - Unparalleled in their passion.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It rocks to see The Fire Swamp be such a breakout success at @shoebox.gg. @aibretty.bsky.social has made such a unique, excellent list. If you haven't tried it you should do so as soon as you can.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My Bodleian Cube update prior to @shoebox.gg cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl... Bringing in some old favorites that are recontexualized by the changes since they left the cube. I can't wait to see many of you there and hear about your drafts of the cube.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I got my ticket. Can't wait to see many of you there! Maybe I'll even get to bring Bodleian back for year 3.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Last year's cube lineup was stacked. Lets help @bostoncubeparty.com get an even more stacked lineup this year!

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

If I were you I'd sign up for this event before it sells out.

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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · 21/02/2026

We’re going live now! www.twitch.tv/luckypapermtg We’re raising money for Make the Road New York, and yes, we are programming against the Olympic Games

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LuckyPaperMTG - Twitch

Cube for a Cause 2026 AW Day 1

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Can't wait to run it back a 3rd time.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Bodleian Cube updates before @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com . Not a big update, but a lot of the ECL cards are still shaking out too. Excited to see how folks in NYC make use of them all. cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl...

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Cube Cobra

Build, playtest, and share your Magic the Gathering cube!

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The cube bangers selected by @shoebox.gg can be described by the words of Smash Mouth "and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming"

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Time for some Monday P1P1 action from my Bodleian Cube. This pack is stacked! What do you take for fun? To win? Do you use your free Cogwork for a second card? Come check the cube out at @shoebox.gg in March! cubecobra.com/cube/about/hgs

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm so excited to get to bring Bodleian to this event. I hope to see many of you there. At the risk of self promotion, this is a stacked initial set of cubes.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This is amazing from Brennan. If youcan give even a little this is a way to stretch that impact.

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Good Luck High Five @glhfmagic.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Just a reminder that this is still open through the end of the month. Please help if you can.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Absolutely love to see Ryan take an unapologetic stand for what is right. For those who have the means, consider donating to any of the great causes Ryan took the time to list here!

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Good Luck High Five @glhfmagic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We're living in the heart of 🧊 terrorizing Minneapolis. We're witnessing the horror every day. If you’re able, please donate to one of these 3 organizations supporting our city. ❤️ Donate before the end of the month + email proof to be entered to win a massive MTG prize package. 🔗 to orgs below!

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

P1P1 of my Bodleian Cube ft two cards from the ECL update and some general all stars. What do you take for fun? What do you take to win? Do you use your free Cogwork for a second card? cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My ECL update for Bodleian Cube. This set looks great, and I'm excited to get some reps in with these before @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com. I think Moonshdaow is my favorite, but I'm hopeful Twlight Diviner has some explosive potential. cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl...

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Boston Cube Party @bostoncubeparty.com · 16/01/2026

A bright spot for anyone doomscrolling: venue contract should be signed imminently, keep an eye out for the official date/venue announcement soon! discord.gg/KmsTdqWs #mtgcube #magicthegathering

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Join the Boston Cube Party Discord Server!

Check out the Boston Cube Party community on Discord - hang out with 382 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Ryan Overturf @ryanoverdrive.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The people in power would like for you to believe that they're combatting extremism in any capacity, but this is the reality. Ordinary, decent, and kind people are rightfully, righteously angry at the injustice loudly on display here.

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C4AC - a cube charity event @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com · 08/01/2026

Our friend Noah of Madison, WI and cubecon fame brings us Alternate History Powered Cube! This cube riffs on a vintage cube by shaving off some of the newer universes and focusing on classic magic. Join us at #C4AC 2/21 & 2/22 Tix here: www.upkeepnewyork.com/c4ac-aw26-ti...

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Cube Cobra Overview: Alternate History Powered Cube

![Mingo](https://imgur.com/0xBF4bD.png) The year is 2020, a mysterious benefactor successfully purchases Wizards of the Coast from Hasbro shortly before the release of Theros Beyond Death. From that p...

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cuberviews.bsky.social @cuberviews.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

ConnectiCube is coming to Connecticut! Join us February 28th and March 1st at Pack Rat Gaming, just outside Hartford, CT, for a full weekend of Magic: The Gathering Cube! Website: connecticutcube.com Discord: discord.gg/X5mqx46NZW Follow along: @connecticube.bsky.social #MTGCube

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My final Bodleian Cube tweaks prior to @vertex.mtgcu.be this weekend. I hope to see lots of you there and look forward to hearing stories from the folks who get to play the list. cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl...

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Cube Cobra

Build, playtest, and share your Magic the Gathering cube!

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I really liked this episode. Avoiding "garbage time" is important to me as a designer. I love cards that dont feel unfair, but also ensure that there is tension in games until they end.

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Bones (A Cube Judge) @goblingathering.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I started playing Magic in 2006. My friend @deinonychus9.bsky.social started in 2020. We're exploring the differences in starting the same game 14 years apart. My Christmas gift to Jake? Magic history trivia, again. At the end, we discuss older decks like Doomsday and Caw-Go. youtu.be/fSJk6ZaTyTU

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Magic in 2010, with Bones and Deinonychus

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I'm so excited to get to bring Bodleian to NYC this February. I hope to see lots of you there and look forward to seeing what folks do in the cube.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

So excited to announce that Bodleian Cube will be coming to @vertex.mtgcu.be once again in January! It was a blast to bring it last year and look forward to seeing everyone again. Let's celebrate with a P1P1. What do you take for fun? To win? Do you use your free cogwork for two cards?

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