This walkthrough of my current version of the Edison Format Cube will give you an idea of the type of deckbuilding philosophy @E3 Yu-Gi-Oh and I had when building a cube! Below are the timestamps, and then the list. Hope you enjoy!
0:00 Intro
5:30 Recruiters
8:58 Dark
17:30 Blackwings
26:00 Tribute Summonables
30:07 Machines
37:10 Synchrons
39:00 Warriors
47:16 Light
51:04 Zombies
53:47 Aliens
55:40 Water
59:52 Gladiator Beasts
1:02:12 Earth + X-Sabers
1:05:08 Psychics
1:06:36 Plants
1:09:11 Fire
1:10:48 Spellcasters + Gravekeepers
1:16:22 Intro to Backrow
1:16:44 Offensive/Proactive Backrow
1:20:32 Removal Spells TM
1:20:54 Hybrid offensive/defensive
1:22:42 Backrow removal
1:24:24 Battle tricks
1:25:32 Defensive Traps
1:28:37 Discard Traps/Hybrid Removal
1:30:40 Extra Deck
1:35:48 Final Thoughts
Cube List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hSSFYBkA3gbHs2TAK9hOSGi11vA-iv6ihoBMl7nDFzo/edit?usp=sharing
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Lol it appears I forgot to do a cut part way through the video, so I got to let you know twice how much this video was about having fun and discovering what each part of the cube does! I hope y'all enjoyed it.
Excited to listen through this, your first video ignited some passion to explore these alternate formats. Created a cube irl riffing on a cube I found on ygoprodecks and drafted it with my friends and roommates who don't play much. It was so much fun, I'm excited to explore this type of format more! Keep up the great content
this is my favorite thing ever đ
Love to see this come together!
6:00
RJ discovers the biggest issue with streaming cards over a webcam: Lights and Glare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqeLft9FEmw
The Spike Feeders (Jim LePage narrating) who cover MTG EDH content have a wonderful video on how to solve the issue for $12 or so. If you cant watch, a general idea is you can go bright, but if you can diffuse the light, that will really help.
(Note, I only post this comment because any time glare comes up, I always like to share this video to people. I am merely just a fan of that channel)
31:46 I suggest torque tune gear for the union. Lvl 1 tuner. Light machine. Union. Makes whatever its equipped a tuner. Not too busted. And you can summon it with shining angel. Search with neutron, etc.
WHERE'S FLYING KAMAKIRI RJ
the FABLED edison cube?? doug zeeff will be overjoyed
nah but fr im 100% here for the cube content
Hey RJ, thanks for sharing your list! Looking forward to seeing some more cube content in the future, thanks for highlighting this frankly underrepresented side of Yu-Gi-Oh.
Aliens are cool, and having another light focused deck that's not machines or lightsworns is something I should look into.
I LOVE the addition of Hanzo into Nephthys, blackwings or a dragon. So cool! I'm already running armed, crimson, Sasuke, and strike ninjas in my cube so that's a great inclusion I shall be using.
I will say it may be worth putting in a few more silly meme cards like exchange, or one day of peace, or maybe putting in a REALLY off the wall style of deck like PACMAN/Flip control/diamond dude/convulsion of nature control (with all those trunades resetting your spells maybe?).
My water strat is legendary ocean and 5/7 star beaters as well as Umi payoffs.
5 HYDROGEDDONS/VOLC SHELLS IS SICK!
But yeah, thanks for the video đ
The cube is up on YGOProDeck as well, after playing with a group of 4, I HIGHLY Recommend yall play this cube.
legendary video
I've built a Middle School Yu-Gi-Oh! (2008-2014) cube and a lot of the ideas carry over, though rather than feeling like edison it feels more like 5Ds/Zexal Prog Playoffs
i just played this cube with my friends and didnt even realize it was yours. We had a blast!
Did you run into people trying to draft the same deck? Like 2 people trying to draft lightsworns and just… both getting half a deck?
Hi RJ looks like the chapter timestamps are broken, I think there might be a space after 1:51 on the zombie chapter
Oh hell yeah, we're gonna have to draft this together sometime
I loved the cube but personally I would want the cube to be entirely singleton( 1 copy of each card) for two reasons, 1it makes the draft more easily readable as each card in it it unique and if you pass a card you know you won't get another copy of it, and 2. it gives cubes the ability to play more sub-optimal cards that never saw their case in the sun because of similar, but better cards and letting people pop off with the,
This is dope! I love cube and have been trying to get Joe and others to cube for a long time, so Iâm hyped at how cool this project is. Iâve designed lots of cube in paper and digitally in the past.
I love the design of this one. Drafting extra deck monsters in a separate pack in the middle of the draft (if I understand Patreon correctly) is such a smart way to integrate them, and I think using a variable number of copies to control the size and ârarityâ of archetypes is super smart, especially for yugioh, where effects are generally less replacable than in magic.
Itâd be super sick to draft this one day
How much time did you put in to get the cube to its current state?
Was it weeks? Months?
Poor flying kamakiri getting the recruiter snub
Have you considered adding a few normals and unexpected dai? Considering most arquetypes have a normal monster. The extra body for synchros, tribute fodder, fusions. Suggesting gene warped warwolf first. As it was mentioned in video, but alien shocktropper, gb andal, e hero sparkman for the meme, x-saber anu piranha, genex controller as a lv3 dark tuner. There's certainly a lot that it enables.
Junior Journey cube next!
This is great! I have recently been deliberating how to condense my collection of cards, and it all makes sense now.
How do you play cube? I want to play a GX and DM cube with my brother and cousin on thanksgiving cause we live old school yugioh
Needs more Copycat đ
Flying Kamakiri #1 into Armed Dragon LV3 or Twin-Headed Behemoth, maybe even Yata-Garasu?
Really cool box, it seems fun to play
Note about the video which should be a quick fix, a lot of the time stamps in the description ended up with the wrong hour timer, which causes them to not work since they go beyond the video length.
Really sick, I wanna run a cube based on the weird limited environment my friends and I played when we were in middle school and early high school. Is there a way to facilitate a cube draft online?
Only 1 minute in but I see KKM Bergzak so itâs insanely based.
For another Union target did peacekeeper Iâd definitely go with Torque Tune Gear.
Did/would you consider the card Tri-Brigade Airborne Assault? It can really create a bridge between Blackwings, Glad beasts, flamvell etc and promotes making a diverse deck, especially since it can tutor two of the element recruiters
One last obscure card id look at is Wattsychic Fighter. Itâs a good way to turn emergency teleport or serene psychic witch into GY disruption, and more level 3 psychics gets you closer to supporting overdrive teleporter
How many players would you reccommend for this cube?
I was gonna say it'd be interesting to have necroface gren maju stuff in here after the dimensional alchemists and bazoos then I saw 4 copies of gold sarc
SO SICK!! I loved this video! I am making a no tribute cube with cards like fiendish engine omega, Diablos, king of the abyss, super-ancient dinobeast, pot of the forbidden, and other bosses that would never see play otherwise (very much like junior journey). Plus this cube is probably the only time ever UFOroid has ever been playable. Thank you for the inspiration and the the in depth explanation of your choices in this cube! It has helped me a lot!