{"podcast":{"title":"Lucky Paper Radio","slug":"lucky-paper-radio-380785","podcast_index_feed_id":380785,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/29f49e0c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://luckypaper.co","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/6938971/6938971-1713137044666-cd45220107ac5.jpg","author":"Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox","episode_count":318,"summary":"Lucky Paper Radio is a podcast about Magic: the Gathering hosted by lifelong friends Andy Mangold and Anthony Mattox. Focused primarily on sandbox formats like Cube, which are free of banlists, rotation, and net decking, the show is about the best parts of Magic and how to get the most out of the game.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T00:18:11.796459+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lucky-paper-radio-380785"},"episode":{"title":"How to Win with Young Pyromancer","slug":"how-to-win-with-young-pyromancer","published_at":"2026-04-13T10:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lucky-paper-radio-380785/how-to-win-with-young-pyromancer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lucky-paper-radio-380785","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lucky-paper-radio/episodes/How-to-Win-with-Young-Pyromancer-e3hqctg","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/29f49e0c/podcast/play/118354288/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-13%2F17b8f5cb-d477-5e1e-0bc6-f5b8e87a610c.mp3","summary":"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 Anthony with Young Pyromancer 18:40 - Card Quality 24:06 - How to Draft the Young Pyromancer Deck 29:33 - Why Blue-Red Pyromancer 34:51 - Modal Double Faced Cards 36:20 - How Many Counterspells 37:34 - Mulligans 44:30 - Off-Strategy Splashes 49:42 - Wrap Up 55:17 - Andy is Bad at Big Games","meta_description":"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 pea…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3784,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lucky-paper-radio-380785/episodes/how-to-win-with-young-pyromancer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lucky-paper-radio-380785/how-to-win-with-young-pyromancer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}