Hello! I'm Shamim and I've been cubing since 2014.

Draft has been my favorite way to play Magic for a long time so one day during the summer of 2014 I decided to build my first cube so that I could draft whenever I wanted and I haven't looked back since. I don't get as many chances to draft the cube as I'd like nowadays, but the few times I do over the year are always fun! That same cube I built way back when has gone through many different iterations as I constantly look to update and improve it whenever new cards are released.

My design philosophies lean towards creating a replayable environment focusing on synergies and card interactions rather than raw power level. I deploy custom implementations to solve issues I've run into over the years with weaknesses in draft.

I'm also an active poster on the Riptide Lab cube forum under the username shamizy where I maintain a Cube Blog detailing larger changes and updates as well as musings on general cube design and theory.