Lucky Paper Radio

Chart trend

Position in the Games chart (US), last 90 days.

#1#54#106JunJulAugSep

#15

all-time peak

152

days in the top 50 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

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What Makes a Card “Sacred?”

View all cards mentioned in this episode Sometimes a card design just sings — all of the individual elements come together to make an elegant, resonant game piece. In th

Aug 31
56 min

Open Drafting Take Five

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony collaboratively draft Andy’s Take Five cube, discussing their strategy through a whole draft and how they might

Aug 24
59 min

Exploring Cube Cobra’s New Winrate Analysis Features

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony explore Cube Cobra’s new analytic tools for card and deck winrates. The new features allow you to upload decks

Aug 17
1 h 00 min

Summertime Mailbag

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony first talk about their upcoming series of interviews related to Cube For a Cause: Obscura. The event will featu

Aug 10
52 min

Cross Pod Cube Throw Down: Regular Cube vs Sacred Geometry

View all cards mentioned in this episode In a strange experiment, Andy and Anthony organize drafts of their cubes Sacred Geometry and Regular Cube and then pair players

Aug 3
57 min

Narrow Tutors in Cube

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about narrow tutors in Cubes. In contrast to the most open ended ways for players to search up a card from

Jul 27
1 h 00 min

CubeCon DMV Tournament Report

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony report on their experience at CubeCon DMV — from the organizers of the original CubeCon — a cube event right in

Jul 20
1 h 06 min

Cards that are Cool — Part 2

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about cards they think are cool. In the long anticipated follow up to episode 108, they just talk about th

Jul 13
1 h 01 min

Board Stalls and Cube Design

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about board stalls and Cube. They talk about what they don’t like about this particular genera of board st

Jul 6
1 h 01 min

Token Episode

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about the logistics of tokens for Cube. They talk about different ways they’ve managed them over the years

Jun 29
1 h 02 min

Powering Down Eternal Cubes with Jake and Parker

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony are joined by Jake and Parker to talk about their shifts in approach to each of their eternal cubes. While Jake

Jun 22
1 h 07 min

Cube Cards That Are Hated

View all cards mentioned in this episode Riffing on last week’s slightly divisive topic, Andy and Anthony talk about cards in their own cubes that players hate. They com

Jun 15
1 h 12 min

Hate Cards in Cube

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about hate cards, and how they fit into Cube design in particular. Of course, they start by trying to defi

Jun 8
1 h 06 min

Steal Our Cube Ideas

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony scour the cutting room floor for unfinished gems. They offer up some of their half-baked, unfinished cube ideas

Jun 1
53 min

The Scorpion and The Cube with Ollie Beeks

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony are joined by Cube Person of the Year 2024, Ollie, to talk about whether it’s irresponsible to present a cube f

May 25
1 h 03 min

Salt Box Recap with Judge Bones

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony are joined by the de facto Cube judge — Bones! The three recap The Salt Box, a small Cube event in Baltimore. A

May 18
1 h 10 min

The Barash Files 006 — Cube Design Lenses

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony are joined by returning guest Zach Barash. They talk about about different lenses Cube designers can use to app

May 11
1 h 13 min

Theory Drafting the Best Decks in Regular Cube

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony and joined by Adam, a local player who suggested a novel way to cube. All players involved built what they thou

May 4
1 h 14 min

Playing Proactive Green Decks

View all cards mentioned in this episode Following their previous episode about playing with Young Pyromancer Andy and Anthony talk about how to win with proactive green

Apr 27
55 min

Tricentennial Q & A

View all cards mentioned in this episode Celebrating 300 episodes, Andy and Anthony answer listener submitted questions. They address their favorite gummy candies, opini

Apr 20
1 h 29 min

Chart positions

Where Lucky Paper Radio ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 7, 2026).

#50 ▼ 1 Games US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

This show has not only given me that final push I needed to design my first cube, it also helped me clean my house. Focusing on the cards that brought me joy let me get rid of so many that weren’t. And I don’t miss them. Thank you to the good folks at Lucky Paper Radio.

Remixologist · Mar 2025

This show is as genuine as it gets. I admire the hosts so much for the energy they pour into this show without asking for anything in return. Thank you for helping restore my love of 1v1 Magic and showing me my new favorite way to play the game!

AShorterName · Nov 2024

Just adore this podcast- it engages with Magic in a relevant way while also creating space for unique conversations, voices, and creative ideas. I was getting tired of keeping up with Magic podcasts that were hyper specific on new releases and the way Lucky Paper Radio engages with this stuff is a breath of fresh air. I highly recommend this for any Magic player— not just cube folks.

Jkief · Sep 2024

This is my favorite podcast because: they cover my favorite format in an open minded and analytical way; they sprinkle jokes through the intro, editing, and natural conversation; and it’s free of ads and Patreon plugging.

James —— · May 2023

I stopped listening to Lucky Paper Radio something like a year ago because the hosts had grown increasingly negative about Magic. Not just aspects of Magic, but making comments about how Magic was no longer a game they loved. I just took a listen to the 2025 State of the Game episode (the most recent episode as of this review) to consider diving back in, as there was a time when I quite enjoyed the ‘cast. Alas, it’s another hour of finding everything negative about the game. If the podcast were about Standard or Modern or Commander or any format except cube - which we each design ourselves, according to our aesthetics and design goals - maybe they’d have a reason to keep doing this. But why am I going to listen to a couple of guys who don’t enjoy Magic talking about a prison of their own making?

JeFF Stumpo · Oct 2025

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