How to Win with Young Pyromancer

About this episode

Andy and Anthony discuss the card Young Pyromancer and strategies for optimizing its use in cube drafting.

View all cards mentioned in this episode Andy and Anthony talk about one of Andy’s all time favorite cards Young Pyromancer. After a recent draft of a peasant cube at their weekly cube night, Anthony realized that despite it’s iconic status, it’s not a card he feels like he know’s how to optimize. Andy shares his experience with the card, what he thinks it takes to support it, and a handful of his cube draft decks it headlined. View the full decklists of Andy’s referenced drafts on the cards page . Discussed in this episode: Library of Babel , Local Peasant Cube Deck Pics! Alternate Timeline cube by Joe Donkey If you’d like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen. Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay. You can find the hosts’ Cubes on Cube Cobra: Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube Anthony’s “Regular” Cube You can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord . Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box: Lucky Paper PO Box 4855 Baltimore, MD 21211 Musical production by DJ James Nasty . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:03 - Sorting Cards 9:07 - Helping…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andy Mangold, Anthony Mattox

Topics covered

• Young Pyromancer
• cube drafting
• card optimization
• deck building
• Magic: The Gathering

Keywords

• Young Pyromancer
• cube
• draft
• Magic: The Gathering
• deck building

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Local Peasant Cube, Lucky Paper, Twitch, YouTube, Cube Cobra, MTG Cube Talk Discord

Books & works: Young Pyromancer, Library of Babel, Alternate Timeline

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