Limited Resources 846 - A Conversation with Zach Barash, Wizards of the Coast Designer of the Arena Powered Cube
Limited Resources
Marshall Sutcliffe
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week on Limited Resources Marshall and Luis welcome Cube designer Zach Barash on the show to dive into how the Arena Powered Cube was designed, how it's curated, what goes into the decision making process around new cards, and a lot more! Thanks to Zach for the great insight!
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everybody? |
| 0:15.2 | Welcome to another episode of limited resources. |
| 0:18.8 | This episode number 846. |
| 0:22.6 | My name is Marshall. I'm here in limited resources and joining me on the line all the way from Denver, Colorado. It's Louis |
| 0:27.5 | Scott Vargas. Luis, did you win your cube draft? I did. We, uh, nice. You know, we, we, we, we have |
| 0:34.2 | like a kind of, I would say like twice a monthly date or so where we play against a team of Finnish guys, the Finns, and they're all great dudes. |
| 0:42.2 | Actually, Ira just top-baited a Pro Tour pretty recently. |
| 0:45.9 | You might have gotten to cover one of his matches. |
| 0:47.8 | It was like, I think, the standard one two PTs ago or something along those lines. |
| 0:53.3 | But yeah, all is fun to cube draft against those guys. |
| 0:55.9 | There's really something to cube drafting with the same people and same teams, |
| 1:00.1 | because it's usually like me, my buddy Mark who all has drafts Bulls, Citadel's, |
| 1:04.8 | Will, and Quinniac is like kind of our standard team. |
| 1:08.4 | We just get to know each other's predilections. |
| 1:10.1 | So I opened |
| 1:11.4 | Time Walk, Mok's Ruby Demonic Consultation. My teammate Mark two seats down. I knew it was going to line up. I take walk. The guy in between us takes Ruby. Mark gets a third pick demonic consultation and is kind of in the lane he wants. So it's the vibe. Yeah, it can be really fun. Do you have a good sense for the opponents as well? |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:30.1 | You get a sense of kind of what the vibe. Yeah, it can be really fun. Do you have a good sense for the opponents as well? |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:30.1 | You get a sense of kind of what the things they like to do, like Fullero likes drafting, you know, kind of mid-rangey decks sometimes or Grixis, he defaults to that. |
| 1:38.1 | Whereas like Testang and Max, they both really like combo decks, it seems like. |
| 1:42.1 | So it's good times. |
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