Solely Singleton

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about their favorite snake charmer, and it’s not Sasha Gray.  After paying the stax-tax they move on to choosing card printings for your cube. Brad also loses all ability to form coherent sentences or pronounce words in the wake of last week’s recording session.  Tune in to watch as he loses his ability to speak English before your very ears.   0:30 - Intro 1:25 - SCD: Ophiomancer 9:20 - Choosing Card Printings 42:20 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube

Join Brad and Eric as they welcome back their esteemed guest host Spootyone, joining them once again in this three part, 6 hour long ramblefest about War of the Spark! This episode covers all of the multicolor cards of the set.  A text version of Brad and Eric's initial thoughts on the set is also linked in the show notes below (given as the cards were spoiled, so opinions may have changed as of this recording.)   The editing on this is light due to being bonus content and not a main episode. Episode contains explicit material. Listener discretion is advised.   Show Links: Link to WAR First Impressions Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iiXAbiQrDYdvaICUzUuV1EzF8cmF0_kYfyHPNY-ZbhI/edit?usp=sharing   Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Tr

Join Brad and Eric as they welcome back their esteemed guest host Spootyone, joining them once again in this three part, 6 hour long ramblefest about War of the Spark! This episode covers all of the Red, Green, and Colorless cards of the set.  A text version of Brad and Eric's initial thoughts on the set is also linked in the show notes below (given as the cards were spoiled, so opinions may have changed as of this recording.)   The editing on this is light due to being bonus content and not a main episode. Episode contains explicit material. Listener discretion is advised.   Show Links: Link to WAR First Impressions Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iiXAbiQrDYdvaICUzUuV1EzF8cmF0_kYfyHPNY-ZbhI/edit?usp=sharing   Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/dr

Join Brad and Eric as they welcome back their esteemed guest host Spootyone, joining them once again in this three part, 6 hour long ramblefest about War of the Spark! This episode covers all of the White, Blue, and Black cards of the set.  A text version of Brad and Eric's initial thoughts on the set is also linked in the show notes below (given as the cards were spoiled, so opinions may have changed as of this recording.)   The editing on this is light due to being bonus content and not a main episode. Episode contains explicit material. Listener discretion is advised.   Show Links: Link to WAR First Impressions Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iiXAbiQrDYdvaICUzUuV1EzF8cmF0_kYfyHPNY-ZbhI/edit?usp=sharing   Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drrul

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric walk you through the Rabble-nots.  From Goblins to Humans to Warriors, everybody loves punching people in the face with tokens.  Find out which we like best and how we initially evaluated the all new Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin.   0:30 - Intro 1:35 - Rabblenots 35:15 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve the show.  Feel fr

On this important episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric run through two of the sets released in the Summer of 2018.  Some people laugh at these sets for being so light on playables but we still managed to waste over an hour of your life talking about them.  Listen in as our woke hosts tell you about all the real secret government conspiracies.   0:30 - Intro 3:30 - Battlebond 41:25 - Commander 2018 1:11:00 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube Show Notes   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Sole

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric break down the best areas to spend money on to improve your fledgling cube. The guys explain the base improvements you should try to touch on while explaining the traps you can fall into while doing an update on a tight budget.   0:30 - Intro 2:25 - Upgrading New Cubes 28:25 - Outro   Show Links: Mana Fixing Land Rankings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BEwZZ-nqgRGiRUFgXYT1rpOQUQWMy_76oKil9djv4cA/edit?usp=sharing Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Informati

On this important episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric give a complete primer of The Board Game Cube. Covering everything from the history of the cube to the current archetypes supported, the guys start off season 5 by repeating Season 1 Episode 1!  How original… The episode will act as the 2019 primer for those with interest in an extremely budget friendly entry-point into cubing.   0:30 - Intro 2:50 - The Board Game Cube Primer & History 37:10 - Archetype Discussion 1:22:15 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube Show Notes   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about the patron chosen topic, traps in cube design. The guys finish season 4 by talking about the major and minor traps in cube design. Season 5 will start up on April 2nd.   0:30 - Intro 3:42 - Cube Design Traps 32:06 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube Show Notes   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve the show.  Feel free to email questions and comments to the show’s email

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about using multicolored cards as signals. There are plenty of multicolored cards that are generically good, but that doesn’t mean the entire section should just be these ‘best’ cards.   0:30 - Intro 2:14 - Multicolored Card Signals 30:19 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve the show.  Feel free to email questions and comments to the show’s

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about a big update to the Board Game Cube. It has been awhile since the last Board Game Cube update, so this was a fairly large update. The guys start by talking about what rotation means for budget, and then dive into the changes made.   0:30 - Intro 1:21 - Board Game Cube Update 40:33 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube Show Notes   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve the s

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about custom cards. The guys are joined by team Think Twice. Justin Parnell and Ali Aintrazi made the custom card cube several years ago, so we figured they might know a thing or two about custom cards.   0:30 - Intro 3:24 - Custom Card Cube 1:34:10 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Custom Card Cube:   Google Drive Zip The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve the show.  Fee

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about the white walkers. The guys decided to rank the white planeswalkers. Perhaps not the most exciting of topics, but to amp the episode up a bit the giveaway winners were announced. Remember if you are of the Venser supporter tier you have until Friday the 15th to vote on which topic we should cover this season.   0:30 - Intro 1:09 - White Walkers 35:58 - Giveaway Winners and Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube Show Notes   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely S

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about artifact aggro. The latest cube update for Brad has finally ended the artifact aggro package testing, and the guys talk about how it went. Don’t forget to enter into the giveaway, good luck everyone, it ends Feb 8th.   0:30 - Intro 1:48 - Adding packages to cube 8:13 - Artifact aggro card breakdown 1:03:24 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube Show Notes   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to g

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about cards we originally missed. The guys talk about accepting that you will miss evaluate some cards as a cube designer by going over several cards we were late to the party on. Don’t forget to enter into the giveaway, good luck everyone.   0:30 - Intro 1:13 - State of the Podcast 4:02 - Sleepers 53:36 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name DraftTemptation - 9-5 cube   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric break down Dominaria. The guys talk about basically any cube worthy card from Dominaria. It turned out to be a fairly good set for cubes.   0:30 - Intro 1:13 - State of the Podcast 6:20 - White 8:12 - Blue 31:05 - Black 40:55 - Red 47:28 - Green 58:55 - Multi 1:02:12 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve the show.  Feel free to email questions and comments to the show’s em

Join Brad and Eric as they welcome on a guest host, SpootyOne, to join them in the second of a two part bonus episode featuring first impressions rundown of the newest magic set, RNA.  This episode covers all of the multi-color cards of the set.  A text version of Brad and Eric's initial thoughts on the set is also linked in the show notes below. The editing on this is light due to being bonus content and not a main episode.   Show Links: Link to RNA First Impressions Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kqUWQlo8XkzK5uFsctBC0B-rUnrwlbWasUgR6duoZTQ/edit?usp=sharing Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class me

Join Brad and Eric as they welcome on a guest host, SpootyOne, to join them in the first of a two part bonus episode featuring first impressions rundown of the newest magic set, RNA.  This episode covers all of the mono-color cards of the set.  A text version of Brad and Eric's initial thoughts on the set is also linked in the show notes below. The editing on this is light due to being bonus content and not a main episode.  The first episode of this hot-take-fest also suffers from worse audio quality issues than the second episode.   Show Links: Link to RNA First Impressions Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kqUWQlo8XkzK5uFsctBC0B-rUnrwlbWasUgR6duoZTQ/edit?usp=sharing Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporter

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk utility lands. The guys take a page from monopoly and have a wholesome discussion about the colored utility lands. This topic ended up a bit larger than originally planned, so the colorless utility lands will have to wait until we land on the other utility space.   0:30 - Intro 1:39 - White 7:47 - Blue 12:46 - Black 16:42 - Red 23:20 - Green 32:22 - Multi 41:51 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube Ravnica Allegiance First Impressions: Google Doc Link   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class melbournerobert - Cube of No Name   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely S

On this episode of Solely Singleton Brad and Eric talk about the best black four drop. The guys have a single card discussion about Ghirapur's most infamous crime lord. Then they smoothly transition into a discussion on seeding packs, and pack distribution.   0:30 - Intro 1:11 - SCD - Gonti, Lord of Luxury 10:40 - Seeding packs 29:55 - Outro   Show Links: Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Misers Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/themiserscube The Board Game Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/theboardgamecube Brad’s Main Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/drruler Eric’s Travel Cube: http://www.cubetutor.com/travelcube   Draft the cubes of our Biggest Supporters: Riku - The Jund Cube Spootyone - The Spooty Contemporary Peasant Cube DruMau5 - War on the Middle Class   Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on reddit, discord, and twitter to give input to improve the show.  Feel free to email questions and comments to the show’s email address. You