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

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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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's a hate card for the people drafting your cube. This is one of those cards that will make it easy to rule out cubes at events.

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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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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah, a midrange beater that doubles as a mana sink/cheaty dude/ramp target is insane flexibility

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don't even think its a pet card. This card is nuts. The Anti-Lifegain lobby is just too powerful in the cube range where this is appropriate on rate. Flickering Fleshgorger after they pay the ward is amazing.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This Garruk exists in a weird space for all cubes in that Garruk Wildspeaker is perfect and this is that but adjusted to costing more mana.

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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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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Dude works less than a normal 8 hour day for a few days and is exhausted. What a pathetic man.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Haha, the color scheme for these has caused that comment to come up before I think.

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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 · 24/06/2026

Its always tough when you're one card off like that

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I chose not to cut it for BCP and wasnt sure if Ollie was going to have words with me lol.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I forgot to have you sign one of the lands!! I'm going to have to catch you at another event and get one from you. I'm glad you enjoyed it so much, I'm really pleased with the reception the cube had this weekend.

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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 · 17/06/2026

This card is pretty cool. Ive never seen it before.

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

Totally reasonable on both fronts! There are so many great cubes to pick from.

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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 · 14/06/2026

Only 10/51 for me. Looking to get that up to at least 14 over the course ot the event and I think Perilous Seas is going to be top3 on my list.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm sad to see Delney and Six go. A lot of these are great cuts imo.

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

When you scry a card to the bottom it eventually comes back:)

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

It's just a known quantity I frequently remove to test other cards. I've probably added and removed it 20 times.

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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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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Relic in 4% is insane. I think thats one of the quintessential constructed hate cards you don't need in limited

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The ability to make Immerstrum Skullcairn a land that goes into decks and occasionally get to do the thing is really only something a desert cube can have.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One of my favorite reasons to lean into a desert cube is to highlight lands that are cool but not seeing play anywhere else. My snow desert cube get to highlight not just snow, but also things like kaldheim utility lands that have fun play patterns but aren'treally "worth" a slot in many other lists

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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 · 18/05/2026

I think both are solid options. I do think the hierarchs are the kinds of cards I'd be happy to cog for. I also think nissa & Mystic might make another player go into green.

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

I think all of those lines have potential. Green is particularly hard in this pack because I want so many of the cards. I think Noble + Six is very high value too. Also agreed that Six is super fun.

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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 · 14/05/2026

Orvar is so cool. I should probably slot it into Midwinter.

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Deinonychus @deinonychus9.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

You’ll never catch me passing Emrakul in a cube like this.

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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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