8 hours later, the movers are done. First meal in the new house!

Moving Day!

Had a rough day but also made this banger Salad Nicoise so I’ll call it a wash

“Is a hot dog a sandwich? The answer is go f*** yourself.” Had me howling in the car this morning. Big agree @anthony.luckypaper.co

My friend referred to “buying a house, selling a house and having a baby” as the adult triathlon. Doesn’t feel too far off We’re in the middle of leg 2 and getting fast offers on the house is a MASSIVE relief

if you build it...

Any loners out there qualified for Historic Arena Champs and need some people to test with? I’ve got a few folks from the LOL discord looking to gather and I’m happy to connect!

Young Sherlock: “what if we did Smallville but British and Good Will Hunting with a splash of Peaky Blinders?”

Huge thank you to @andy.luckypaper.co @anthony.luckypaper.co for introducing me to this incredible clip this week, somehow this slipped through my ebaumsworld cracks as a youth. Incredible start to the episode and this week www.youtube.com/shorts/pVb55...

The fourth and final region for our round of 64 is here with Mythic Uncommons!

Voting for our Third Region of March Madness is underway. This bracket: Synergy Commons!

Day 2 of March MTG Madness brings us to the Bombs Bracket with some of the most busted rares (and 1 sneaky mythic) in limited history! Wanna join the voting and discussions? Come join our discord!

Clean 7-0, this format is GOATed

It's March MTG Madness time! We've got Four Regions that our discord will be voting on in the coming days in preparation for a really fun episode we've got lined up. First Bracket: Build Around Region!

Oh companions, how I've missed you!

Travel stress aside, @shoebox.gg was a great event! Good vibes, teaming with @stryxfamiliar.bsky.social and @sampratt.bsky.social was a delight as expected and hanging with @ggards.bsky.social and his crew all weekend ruled capped off by an Oscar Watch Party last night. Til next time!

Tumultuous travel day (4+ hour delay) but we made it and sitting down to a good looking dinner at Vinai!

I’m really excited for this tournament. Seeing lots of friends, scratching the competitive itch with team limited, and going to some dope looking restaurants. T-36 hours til I leave!

9 MTG cards that made me!

Small Sets are gonna be the death of our podcast. Spent an hour yesterday mapping out the schedule of episodes for the year and there are just multiple 4 week chunks of "????" because three releases this year are small sets...

Generational taste is really interesting. My parents and in-laws seem to respond way more positively to things that are rigidly one genre or tone like “Hamnet than something like “Sinners” or “OBAA” both of which I loved. I wonder when my tastes will calcify…

Uhhh arena you good?

If anyone is looking to pick up this deck for whatever reason (I think it's really fun, resilient, and actually kind of broadly misunderstood) here's my sideboard mapping I came up with for the tourney docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is healing

The Limited Championship Qualifier on arena is an absurd structure, feels lottery ticket adjacent. I hope the team rethinks the "bo1, 1 loss to give" format in the future because I think it's a horrible player experience. Won't be participating next time if it's the same.

4-3 and out of Arena Champs. Really happy with my prep and performance today and it feels good to have come to an eerily similar list of Excruciator as the PT champ did for this weekend despite being on my own. Good riddance constructed for a while now! Thanks for the support out there!

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Me: I should get some BO1 ECL prep in to dust off the cobwebs Me: WHAT THE-

Jonah has gone full Sid: biting off the heads of his Toy Story Legos and assembling this monstrosity

The decathlon not being an annual event is such a missed opportunity. Was something that really brought players from all different areas of the game together. Plus it was super fun!!

Speed Ran to Mythic, dare I say Standard is…fun?

I am but a mere net-decker limited player prepping for a constructed tournament…. BUT this card has somehow made its way into every sideboard despite not actually doing anything remotely resembling a whole card outside of against Reanimater What am I missing?

Shallot Pasta for the whole family!

Gotta brag that my friend MADE this rocketship birthday cake and alien cupcakes for Jonah’s birthday party, was very magical for the little man.

I blight have a bit of a problem...

🏆If I have to play Kithkin, I'm gonna splash my broken blue rares

So I might have a bit of a bias towards rakdos...

Today's the daaay! We are pleased to share with you all the complete Shoebox 2026 event schedule! But don't let these incredible pods fill up without you~ Event registration is ✨ NOW OPEN! ✨, so go lock in those schedules ASAP! 🏃‍♂️ 💨 #MTGCube #Shoebox

Classic Limited Podcaster Rankings

Flight booked? ✔️ Hotel booked? ✔️ Team Locked for Sealed? ✔️ (shoutout to @sampratt.bsky.social and @stryxfamiliar.bsky.social) I've also corralled three friends from Pittsburgh to come as a team, and we'll be around Thursday and Friday to jam some drafts, so hit me up!

A message from the Shoebox team about current events. ❤️

Jund Goyfs good enough for the 3-0!

Much more hyped about our creator wrapped than my own personal wrapped which was a mix of Jonah music, synthwave, and Bob Dylan

Christmas Eve Dinner with the in-laws! (Even Jonah had some!)

The discard theme in vintage cube is 10/10 “tier 2 bullshit” and I love it. I wish there was a bit more stuff like this, throw in 10 sideways build arounds to derail my draft (like Ketramose!)

For all the sickos out there, there is a FOUR hour gameplay video up on youtube from my Day 1 run in the qualifier (with day 2 coming), but as just a sneak peak of the maneuvering I was doing, check out the triple deck swap here! www.youtube.com/shorts/BuNUd...

Not quite back on the Pro Tour, but qualifying for Arena Champs for a second time feels reallllllly good

I wish I was playing sealed instead...

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