What Makes a Card “Sacred?”

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Sometimes a card design just sings — all of the individual elements come together to make an elegant, resonant game piece. In this episode Andy and Anthony talk about this concept through the lens of Andy’s cube Sacred Geometry (cubecobra.com/cube/about/sacred-geometry?view=…) as he considers committing even harder to the bit.
Discussed in this episode:
• Feudal Cube Auction on Ebay (ebay.io/m/GD0t12)
• Sacred Geometry (cubecobra.com/cube/about/sacred-geometry?view=…)
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellraiser
• Regular Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/about/regular?view=primer)
• Virtually French Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/about/honhonhon?view=primer)
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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
• 4:07 - Sacred Geometry Ruminations
• 8:52 - Slots
• 11:42 - Tokens
• 13:07 - Fixing
• 15:29 - Card Naming Thesaurus
• 20:13 - Power Deltas
• 23:30 - Oracle Text
• 29:47 - Artifacts
• 40:14 - Artifact Ramp
• 43:14 - Resonance Problems
• 48:44 - Mindslaver
• 50:31 - Conclusions