The Frog and The Dragon

After a couple months off Rupert & Ben are back with another season of The Frog & The Dragon. Today the duo address the future direction of the show, what to expect from the new season, and an update on their magic lives.

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This week the dynamic duo of distant deck builders discuss phyrexian mana. What a small price to pay 2 life for so many varied effects. What's it good for and how can it impact your cube?

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Modern Horizons is coming back to Magic Online! We take some time to revisit the set and discuss the archetypes and cards available in the format. Encore format means you get to keep the cards you draft so we also discuss money cards in Modern Horizons!

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Here we discuss the outright bizarre stuff with no home other than cube. We discuss conspiracies, ante, silver borders and more! What weird stuff do you play in cube?

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From cruel to mystical and everything in between we discuss tutors in cube. What are they, and what impact can they have on your environment?

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With Kaldheim just around the corner we decided to discuss the set from a limited perspective. What are the archetypes? What colour has the best removal? What are some sleeper hits for the set? And what even is Kaldheim?

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We discuss building a new kind of cube that's gotten a lot of excitement, and new tools in the wake of Commander Legends. This week we discuss building a cube designed for EDH style gameplay. What fixing, and archetype options are there, how do you handle combos everything from CEDH to casual kitchen table gameplay can be found in commander cubes. 

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This week we go off the topic of cube and discuss the budget format, 1 Tix commander. Build an entire MTGO commander deck for 1 dollar. How is such a budget format even possible? What cards even fit into that budget? And why the hell is Sylvan library BUDGET? Check out the Discord community, and get some 1 tix games in while we close out the season. We will return in January 2021 with an  all new season of The Frog & The Dragon!

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This week we are joined by Zach Halpern, lead developer of  Cockatric, MTGJSON, and Dr4ft. We delve into what these tools are, and their impact on Magic, as well as how you can get involved in making them better!

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This week we discuss microcubes, the tiny cubes of the world. What are they, and how can you apply what you know about traditional cubes to scale down? We both took it on ourselves to make a microcube with very different styles in mind. Those can be found on our cube cobra.

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This week the two discuss free spells and their technically free spells. Everything from moxen, to force, and pacts while also stretching the definition of "free spell" to include things like shoal's and traps. 

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On this week's episode we discuss set cubes. A style of cube that breaks singleton with the aim of simulating a particular set. We show off our different ideas of set cubes and the design that goes into them.

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This week we discuss Cube Cobra with none other than Glen Dekker, the man behind Cube Cobra. We discuss the humble origins as a passion project, all the way up to the ambitious future of the site, and how you can get involved in the development. 

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Today we tackle the age old question,  a question as old as time itself (or at least as old as Ravnica), Talisman or Signets. What are the pros and cons of each, and which is right fore your cube. 

This week we discuss the ins and outs of Jumpstart, a Magic the Gathering product like no other. We discuss what it is, the strategy involved, some of our favourite cards fro cube and constructed, and final how you can build your own Jumpstart style cube.

We are back with season 2 of The Frog & The Dragon. We kick things off this season by reflecting on the cube from last season, from the good the bad, to the downright awful. We dive in on why aggro failed in our cube, and the warping effects of wurmcoil engine in our environment, as well as some technical issues that occurred when trying to use draft matters cards on digital clients.

Today we discuss how to run a draft and all the care that goes into ensuring both your cube, and your players are well looked after.

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This week we discuss packages in cube. What are they, how can they improve troubleshooting, and freshen up your cube between drafts. We discuss some packages in our cube from those practical and essential like removal to the silly and unconventional conspiracies. 

Today we discuss the signpost cards, for the allied colour pairs in our cube. These are the cards that make you say "Hell yes I wan to draft that!"