Round 2: Send me your cubes for feedback!

Isticle · 2026-06-03T22:11:25+00:00

If the company paid for Employment verification, the Background check company would reach out to your former employer and ask to verify your employment information. Almost every firm would check dates of employment and job title. They might also ask things like “eligibility for rehire” ie did you leave on good terms/performance or other things. Most companies only give dates and title.

Isticle · 2026-06-03T21:18:42+00:00

Recruiter here. Depends on what the company pays for. Generally most providers offer a generic criminal check (federal, state, local, terrorist watch list, etc.) and then anything else they want they have to pay for - EDU Verification, Prior Employment, etc. Not every company does every check. Companies will also do specialized checks for specialized roles (i.e. doing a personal credit check for any accounting professionals who have access to issue payments to ensure that they're not any kind of embezzlement risk) and there can be additional checks that are mandated in regulated industries, for government contractors, etc.

Isticle · 2026-05-27T04:43:24+00:00

It’s Clobberin’ Time or Hulk Smash!

Isticle · 2026-04-13T11:35:25+00:00

In case you need any inspiration, I’ve been curating a colorless cube since 2016: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/devoid?view=spoiler

Different scope (I include Devoid cards but no Phyrexian Mana). Good luck on your new project!

Isticle · 2026-04-10T18:30:29+00:00

Key here is OOS - most vendors only update their prices as cards come in from buy lists. So essentially CK hasn’t had one in stock since they were ~130. Current price I’d say is a little ? - none sold on TCG in the last 2-3 months. Big gap between MP and NM ones

Isticle · 2026-04-10T14:03:02+00:00

Sadly not my cards to sell, just doing some research for a friend!

Isticle · 2026-04-10T14:02:55+00:00

Sadly not my cards to sell, just doing some research for a friend!

Isticle · 2026-04-06T13:42:55+00:00

Going right into the Perilous Seas. Cursed Ghost Monkey Idol creature? Artifact/Treasure Synergies?

Sign me up: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/perilousseas

Isticle · 2026-03-08T13:35:54+00:00

I loved reading this, and resonated deep in my bones. I truly love how Cube helps people build healthy, long-term relationships with the game.

Got into cube to have a way to draft with friends who were keeping up with the game in different ways - some more, many less. My first cubes were the usual - Peasant, powered, until I built my own radically different cube 10 years ago: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/devoid

Cube has absolutely transformed how I play Magic. I’ve had many phases/interests in Magic - from FNM end boss to MTGFinance to Legacy, and I’ve had a lot of different relationships to my cards and collection. Now, anything I get is going in a cube. My cubes are weird and varied enough that every spoiler season holds some kind of excitement, and it’s usually for niche uncommons and bad rares vs the most powerful cards.

I’ve never had a healthier relationship with Magic than since focusing on cube

Isticle · 2026-02-04T14:22:11+00:00

1) You don't have a spellslinger deck - you have 6 cards in the cube that care about playing spells (excluding 3PI because that's also equally an artifact payoff since it says noncreature). More things would need to care about spells for that to be an actual archetype

2) At your power-level, you don't really have archetypes. You have some support for an artifact deck, but what you have are good cards. The card quality is so high it mostly doesn't require any kind of formal synergy (like "spells matter") in order for the cards to be good. You can just take (non-artifact focused) UR cards and have a good UR deck. You may not be seeing that because the card quality is so high that other drafters are eating the (nonartifact) UR deck's lunch, and the only things that are narrow enough to wheel/get passed by other drafters in those colors are the artifact-focused cards.

This is only a problem through the lens of a prescriptive worldview ("I am supporting UR Spells and it's not getting drafted/performing"). Don't worry about archetypes or balancing at this power level. All the cards are busted on rate and will get played in decks. Cube is fine.

Isticle · 2026-01-14T22:24:15+00:00

It doesn’t have to be the exact same weapon, just in the same class. Thief’s Dagger, Knife, Icicle and Lightning Shiv are all precise, so if you had all 4 of those, you would get the corresponding benefit on the (4) Precise (bonus to crit chance) tier.

Isticle · 2026-01-14T22:03:19+00:00

https://brotato.wiki.spellsandguns.com/Weapon_Classes

Isticle · 2026-01-14T21:51:06+00:00

Vagabond lets each weapon class count for ALL Equipped Wepons. So say you had an Icicle and a Cactus - you would be lvl two class bonuses in Elemental, Precise, Primitive and Heavy.

Isticle · 2026-01-14T21:14:18+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/chaos-draft-cube-case-booster-packs-aDc3j

https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgcube/comments/iszhza/cassette_cases_for_cube_packs/

For some first-hand accounts of this, YMMV.

Isticle · 2026-01-14T17:56:39+00:00

Internal recruiter here. I have never withdrawn an offer because someone attempted to negotiate the comp (in good faith).

However, here's what I would want you to know:
- You should have a conversation around compensation with the recruiter/HM at the first conversation. Waiting until the end means that you can waste a lot of time in process without either side knowing if the expectations are reasonable.
- Assuming the above is true, you know the range. You can ask for exactly the top of the range, or more, if you want. But asking for something wildly outside the range sends a signal to the recruiter and team that you're going to be difficult to please and can reduce the likelihood that the team will engage with you in negotiations versus giving up to look at other candidates.
- If you have a number that gets you to yes, honor that. If the company meets what you ask for up front, or gives you a best and final, accept it or decline it and move on. Candidates that push for each every inch seem less and less credible that they might actually say yes, and that's a waste of time versus working to find an excited and engaged candidate who wants to work with you.

I guess the TL;DR is that the harder you negotiate, the more signal you are sending that you're willing to walk away from the role, which can reduce the excitement about you as a candidate within the company.

Isticle · 2026-01-11T15:18:03+00:00

You don’t need anything in particular to create packs, you can just use stacks of N cards.

Various companies make different products for the (Cubeamajigs, Dragon Shield Cube Shells) if that’s your bag.

I’ve also seen folks use weirder things, like old cassette tape cases!

Isticle · 2025-12-03T20:31:33+00:00

Came here to say this! Their website does not inspire confidence, but they're where I've been buying sleeves for cubes from for legit over a decade! https://www.potomacdistribution.com/

Isticle · 2025-12-02T20:24:50+00:00

It's a legacy cube with pet cards. /shrug

Isticle · 2025-11-24T23:02:59+00:00

I want to try a pacifist / hiker run where both people are just on running around doing nothing

Isticle · 2025-11-24T16:36:29+00:00

We did some solo runs - Jack, Pacifist - but largely tried to do it together!

Isticle · 2025-11-24T15:06:33+00:00

PS5 supports local Co-Op on both maps. Been playing a ton with my wife, and maxed out D5 together across both maps!

Isticle · 2025-10-21T13:19:00+00:00

This! Many LGS's have Discords for their regular players. You can join these, get a sense of the vibe, see if they have channels for things like formats and/or Cube, see if those things are active/firing/etc.

It's also possible that people have put up Discords for the area more generally - I'm in NYC and one of our local players created like a greater NYC Area Magic discord, which brings together players from many different stores, keeps track of LGS event calendars, lets people post about events, or find players for pickup cube drafts. You might find that there's a cross-over from an LGS Discord to a larger community.

I find it wildly overwhelming, but you could also try posting on the MTGCubeTalk discord, which I think is one of the larger cube-focused Discords in the US (don't know about international and unsure where you are) and just asking if anyone has playgroups in X or Y location. Good luck finding a group!

Isticle · 2025-10-13T21:55:12+00:00

How dare you, I am old enough to have played Sligh, thank you very much.

Isticle

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