Leveraging Scarcity in Cube Design and Play

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Andy, Anthony, and Parker talk about how to draft cubes better by framing their thinking in terms of the scarcest resource in any give context. Flipping the perspective, they talk about how to leverage a diversity of themes as a cube designer.
Discussed in this episode:
• Birds of Paradise Fundraiser (givebutter.com/Lunchbox-BoP/lucky-paper)
• Level Up Your Cube Drafting With Scarcity (luckypaper.co/articles/level-up-your-cube-draf…) article by Parker
• The Self-Defeating Irony of Cube Conceits (luckypaper.co/articles/the-self-defeating-iron…) article by Parker
• Parker’s Articles on Cascade Cascade (cascadecascade.com/tag/parker-lamascus)
• Turbo Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/about/turbo?view=primer)
• Tupelo Honey (cubecobra.com/cube/about/tupelohoney?view=primer)
• 100 Ornithopters (cubecobra.com/cube/about/100-ornithopters?view…)
• Sacred Geometry (cubecobra.com/cube/about/sacred-geometry?view=…)
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You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra:
• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overview/andymangold)
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overview/regular)
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Musical production by DJ James Nasty (facebook.com/jamesnasty).
Timestamps
• 0:00 - Intro
• 5:15 - Turbo Cube
• 16:11 - Tupelo Honey
• 20:18 - Scarcity
• 26:41 - Applying Scarcity to New Cubes
• 34:24 - Scarcity for Designers
• 41:29 - Metagame Degeneration
• 56:57 - CASCADE CASCADE