the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

If there's one thing about a Modern Pro Tour, it's that there's always (at least) one copy of Amulet Titan in the Top 8.

Shoutout to Reid Duke, who this time yesterday was 1-4 and has not lost a match yet 😱 Just classic Reid Duke things

I'm in a pod with Socrates, send help. #CommandFestUK2025

"What is Sneak Attack but long Evoke?" - @angrygreenmtg.bsky.social #CommandFestUK2025 #MTGNoContext

"Fblthp is so good, it's essentially half a Mulldrifter" - @ashleybits.com #CommandFestUK2025 #MTGNoContext

cow. #CommandFestUK2025

I require beans (of the coffee variety). 😴

I’ve not seen the full Dandan Secret Lair. I don’t really care if I get credit or anything from it. Rhystic Studies and informed players know its origins. I just hope I’ll be able to own a copy of the official release and not have them sell out to scalpers and stuff like I’ve heard can be a problem.

Congratulations to Shuhei Nakamura, the only undefeated player at the end of Day 1 at #PTEOE!

Okay, been hanging at CommandFest UK so haven't been able to follow the 2026 Release Schedule as much as I would like - but have caught up based on what I've seen on socials so far. Going on gut instinct here - it's just a lot, isn't it? 😵‍💫

If you already called it, give yourself a pat on the back. That land art from earlier is indeed Shock Lands! They just happen to be Borderless and Reversible, so you can rep either Lorwyn or Shadowmoor with your hot new lands. #MTGLorwyn

Live in 5 with Broodscale! twitch.tv/ross_merriam

Live for Pro Tour Edge of Eternities in 10 minutes! Come hang! ✨♥️

Upcoming promos for Japan's Planeswalker Series events have been announced! In October, the winner promo is Slickshot Show-Off and participation promo is Monstrous Rage. The following season's winner promo is Beza, the Bounding Spring and participation promo is Into the Flood Maw! #mtg #mtgjp

Everywhere I go, I see his face.

The Preview Panel will be happening between 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM EST on Friday. > mcatlanta.mtgfestivals.com/en-us/experi... #MCAtlanta

It's Modern Pro Tour Time Again - Episode 49 The latest episode of the Horn is live on Youtube & other places where Podcasts are shared freely. @emmapartlow.com tells Cal all about the upcoming Pro Tour & then Cal complains about Go for the Throat. youtu.be/Mks8m15bc4U?...

The Modern metagame for #PTEOE is here, and it's a doozy! Check out Frank Karsten's full breakdown and what to expect this weekend on magic.gg: magic.gg/news/pro-tou...

Y'all better play some Canadian Highlander at MagicCon: Atlanta since I won't be there. 😤 #MCAtlanta

I remain undefeated on the "Oooh, your hair is lovely and thick, isn't it?" comment when at the hairdressers 😂

"How many keys do you want?" "Sixty, I need a full deck." #mcatlanta

The Week That Was: My First Modern Deck #mtg #mtgModern #PTEOE 🖋️ @chosler.bsky.social Featuring John Cuvelier, Pieter Tubergen, and @archiecoder.bsky.social www.magic.gg/news/the-wee...

New episode tomorrow! Featuring very important information that you need to know

Hitting that age where I'm packing my own green tea, coffee, and baking my own snacks to have over a Magic convention weekend. 😆

I would like to piggyback off this and share my own experiences as someone who's been in the Magic space for around 11 years now. I think the most notable one for me is how I've had to work twice as hard to get where I'm at today, simply because I'm a woman.

The video is an uncomfortable watch, but an important one nonetheless. Hearing Cathy tell the story of what happened to her is an important part of Magic: The Gathering's history, one that needs to be known about and acknowledged: youtu.be/-WVnrKRsuqI?... #MagicTheGathering

Playing FFTactics is at best a paramilitary management sim. I've played roughly 30 hours. 27 of them were spent in menus and starting a fight over 20 minutes deep bc my healer died and FUCK YOU if you think I'm gonna take the time to train another Orator. It is the single best FF game ever made.

ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.

Won't echo too much as I wasn't directly part of these Commander changes, but it was (by and large) one of the ugliest periods for Magic and the community. Didn't feel at all proud to be associated with Magic after the hate and anger that came post-announcement.

More seriously, if you aren't aware, Tylenol the ONLY painkiller it's considered safe to take during pregnancy. There's definitely a possible correlation (autistic people are more likely to have minor aches/pains & more likely to have autistic children), but the end goal is just making women suffer.

I understand there was some hubbub around there being zero Commander Precons with Marvel's Spider-Man release, but I am surprised that there hasn't been much around the Welcome Decks - and turning those into budget Commander Decks. 👀 #MTGxSpiderMan

Spending some of today writing about Mystery Booster 2, so I'm thinking about some of the fancy foils I'd quite like from the set. 🫣

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

I'm changing up my schedule this week--no stream tomorrow, but I'll be live Wed at my normal time of 11am eastern. If you want to stay abreast of schedule changes, drop a free sub on my Patreon where I make weekly posts of my stream and content schedules. www.patreon.com/RossMerriam

Collective action is what led to this. Keep the energy up for trans people, for artists, for our BIPOC community, for Palestine. We have shown them WHY we have free speech and HOW we will keep it. Now. Keep USING it.

The decks I'm bringing to CommandFest UK: Commander 💢 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole (Bracket 2) 🐮 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter (Bracket 2) Pauper 🧚‍♀️Mono-Blue Faeries 🩳 Selesnya Bogles 🔥 Jund Wildfire 🔆 Mono-White Aggro 😵‍💫 Mono-Red Madness Burn 🐟 Azorius Familiars > moxfield.com/users/emmadp... #CommandFestUK

Hobbitsssssss.

This is...incredible?????

Live in 5 w/ Tezz Broodscale! twitch.tv/ross_merriam

A long-time idea I had was to essentially be the Trent Crimm (Ted Lasso) for Team ChannelFireball when Pro Tour/Worlds testing was under way. I would be hiding in a corner at said testing house writing away, being the fly on the wall essentially - think it would make for interesting coverage.

Yeah, thanks to the new Pick-Two Draft format, my first picks from this second pack were pretty obvious: Burst Lightning for my deck and a foil Tarmogoyf I can sell later

Since it's Marvel's Spider-Man release week, I have a monstrous writing week ahead of me 😵‍💫 (before travelling to CommandFest UK on Friday). That said, I'm spending some of today thinking about some of the "just a lil' guy" cards in Magic.

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

redzone is a carnival of football players failing to play football

I agree, Scott Hanson (of NFL Red Zone fame), the Carolina Panthers winning is a huge surprise - we are just are as surprised with the score! 🤠

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

I for one am not at all worried that the most powerful people on earth have optimized my society and my brain to be ultra-reliant on the misery machine we keep in our pockets.