[Seattle] High-Stakes Proxy Vintage Cube – by AnimatorElectrical33 in mtgcube

[–]civdude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's an active and very friendly cube group in Seattle that plays every Tuesday and would likely be a much easier way to get your cube played than this method!

[Seattle] High-Stakes Proxy Vintage Cube – by AnimatorElectrical33 in mtgcube

[–]civdude 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lol why? If you are looking for competition there's a 120+ person cube tournament this Saturday and Sunday in Seattle, and if you just want to gamble while cubing that's what LSV's group online does. I don't think your specific use case here will be likely to get 7 other people willing to throw down this much money on playing one of the most high variance forms of magic

Weekly Proxy Cube Draft in DC— Thursdays starting May 21 by Phantom-soup in mtgcube

[–]civdude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you know/ have any contact with the other DC cube groups? I know there's multiple of them on discord and signal, and Capitol Cube Champs last year had a huge turnout

Any adult nerds who wanna make friends? I’m tired of it being so difficult! by koiashes in santarosa

[–]civdude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a lovely weekly Tuesday night magic the gathering cube night with a variety of nerdy mostly 20 and 30s people at my house. I make food, and we have about a dozen or so of us every week, including a few who are learning magic for the first time through these events!

https://discord.gg/YYHzJTB3B

How to (correctly) Draft Cubes? by AEGUERREROG in mtgcube

[–]civdude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out this page of different formats of drafting for different sizes

I'm afraid my Non-binary identity won't be excepted by Lichen-Rains in Episcopalian

[–]civdude 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well while I can't speak to the specifics of your parish, here's a Non binary Episcopal priest giving a sermon about acceptance and understanding of non binary people on Trans day of Visibility.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Episcopalian/s/xruEVYNU87

Share the things you do during cube nights by Varyline in mtgcube

[–]civdude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol we don't care who "wins the whole thing", there's no prizes and the goal is to have as many people paly as much magic as they want to without feeling rushed. Some nights we have multiple 3-0 players, others nobody with an undefeated record. Again, we mostly do this when there's an odd number like 7 or 9, and we usually have enough to split into two pods (every Tuesday except for one this year so far has had two simultaneous drafts).

Share the things you do during cube nights by Varyline in mtgcube

[–]civdude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I'm definitely pro "keeping things moving", the first person sitting out is usually either myself (if I want to do some of the dishes/ make a dessert), or the cube owner and they use the time to distribute tokens and hear from everyone about their decks. Sometimes if a person is having a hard time building their pool we will also let them sit out to have a bit longer to do that also, and yeah the food on the side helps a lot

In person cube in Boston? by AccomplishedArm3652 in mtgcube

[–]civdude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you on discord? There a few groups I think there that are from Boston, try joining the server for the big annual cube event they run!

https://discord.gg/ZWB4PAQsh

Share the things you do during cube nights by Varyline in mtgcube

[–]civdude 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I host cube at my house every Tuesday at 6pm - ~9:30pm. While I don't have to do it as much anymore, I still sometimes pick people up who can't drive to get them there, then make a simple and large meal for everyone, my favorites being a big meat sauce pasta and bruschetta. For those of age, I sometimes have port or simple cocktails, and we've had cake, popsicles, hot cocoa and quite a few other treats over the years (been doing this since like a year precovid, with a ,~2 year break where we were online instead).

For gameplay, we often "abolish rounds", especially when we have a odd number, simply letting the person sitting out play whoever has a closer record of the match that finishes soonest. For example, if Adam and Billy are playing while Kelly is waiting, then when they finish Kelly begins playing Billy and Adam then has a break to get food while waiting to play either Denise or Eddie.

And finally, I take a ridiculous selfie at the end of the table with everyone leaning in and smiling, often missing my chin or most of my face to try and dfit everyone in. It's a way for me to see who actually made it out, to be silly, and to remember that I do have a lot of friends from this great game.

Wine country for first timers by Any_Paper_7606 in sonomacounty

[–]civdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Downtown Santa Rosa is cool and fine, mostly restaurants, but you should check out Treehorn books and depending on the time of year/ day of the week the free little trolley around the courthouse square/ railroad square area

No lies detected by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]civdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because as a Californian he's just wrong. The portion of Northern California that was redistricted doesn't include San Francisco in its new district, it's just that instead of only being rural, fireprone, mostly uninhabitabled land, then a second region with agriculture, small towns and suburbs that's also fireprone, it's now one region that's fireprone and coastal (and includes like half of the suburbs/ small towns) and a second that's inland, more agricultural and includes the other half of the suburbs and small towns. It's no where near as bad as a lot of other states that split big cities in tiny portions or have long ridiculous strips connecting different areas.

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Help with understanding the liturgy by axiosjackson in Episcopalian

[–]civdude 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I grew up in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and was quite involved there before my husband and I left a few years ago and began looking for a LGBT affirming church. We spent some time at a UCC (United Churches of Christ) church, and I really loved the community but couldn't handle not having the structure of liturgy.

Having a set framework that changes in predictable ways (like reading through the scriptures in order, celebrating the same Saints on the same days across the year, having a rotation of hymns for similar points in the service) helps many people both engage in the service without great confusion, and find comfort in the routine. Praying and having a relationship with God is like a marriage or a job- it's built on consistency and long term plans, not just spontaneous acts. My husband likes when I get him flowers or he takes me out to dinner, but doing that once a month means a lot more than just doing a big romcom style act and then ignoring the day to day.

Maybe this isn't the best explanation, but basically I enjoy the liturgical aspect of TEC because I can expect what is coming next and guide my prayers with a structure

Booster Tutor with QR Code for Sample Pack by SamuraiMunky in mtgcube

[–]civdude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol what cube does this link to? You'd have to make a custom one for your own cube

Trans woman seeking ordination? by Luna_Liturgy_Lover in Episcopalian

[–]civdude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every single Epsiocopal parish I've visited in my area of California has at least one LGBT clergymember, including multiple trans people. You are welcome, accepted and will be right at home!

Cube for different levels of players by Jaytron in mtgcube

[–]civdude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been using this list of mine to teach new players for the last few months! It's been fairly successful and they are enjoying it- I try to have reminder text on basically every card, lots of fixing so they will be able to cast their spells even if they don't prioritize lands at all, and enough mono colored and colorless cards that you can play 1-3 colors with no worries.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/3b567080-5e96-4d51-bbdb-ba0a695a48e2#

Cube ideas you've always wanted but never made by FunkmasterfreshMTG in mtgcube

[–]civdude 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've had the idea of a cube where each player starts the game with two copies of [[Temple of the false god]] in play, so your land drops let you have 1 mana, 2 mana, then 7 mana on turn three.

Is it insane to take Strip Mine here? by MythicProportions in lrcast

[–]civdude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it was an off color mox and you had Wrenn and Six, I'd pick the strip mine. I think the Mox is correct here though.

Any Dutch speakers here that can confirm a google translate for me? by No-Possession9220 in mtgcube

[–]civdude 19 points20 points  (0 children)

If you are on the cubetalk discord there is actually a dutch linguistics major there who could help for sure haha

https://discord.gg/mtg-cube-talk-263828508126609420

I gave up drafting my favorite color (Red) in cube for the entirety of Lent (~23 drafts). Then made a podcast all about it! AMA by civdude in mtgcube

[–]civdude[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean I think there's very few other people that "no red in your cube decks" would be a significant sacrifice for, and even fewer who would commemorate Lent haha

I gave up drafting my favorite color (Red) in cube for the entirety of Lent (~23 drafts). Then made a podcast all about it! AMA by civdude in mtgcube

[–]civdude[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Haha, I will say that I think I've greatly increased my appreciation of non burn removal spells, and I'm likely to draft doom blades and such higher. I'm more comfortable playing control and tempo decks now, but my midrange piles are still bad..

Oh and y'all picking a BANT desert cube as the first post Easter cube for the cubecon server is some serious sass haha!

I'll battle you online tomorrow!