A new piece on Signs of Wear looking at friction, variation and the games we play in Magic the Gathering. Core Chronicles #1: The Known and the Unknown signsofwear.beehiiv.com/p/core-chron...

An absolute blow to the chest and a much needed balm after some recent disillusioning news in Magic. To reiterate that Cascade Cascade is publishing some of the best writing in MTG is starting to feel like an understatement

Reality Fracture can't come soon enough. Please let it be weird, Magic is at its best when it does weird shit

Wild speculation for Reality Fracture: The Feeble 6. Give me a White Lotus that you tap for 3 mana to gift to your opponent

At the end of the first month of Signs of Wear, I decided to come to terms with a blemish on my MTG bona fides, I kinda dig Loot

You need a certain amount of student loan debt to understand the humor on BlueSky

At the end of the first month of Signs of Wear, I decided to come to terms with a blemish on my MTG bona fides, I kinda dig Loot

Kudos to Scryfall for today's theme, presumably, in support of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA. The community really is at its best when its united

This absolutely rules, an early May Day surprise

I just want to say that @cascadecascade.com is the kind of project the community always asks for and then wonders why it goes away. Great writing takes financial support. If you want less shitty content in the world, get a subscription. It's like getting 20 Patreons for the price of one.

The biggest surprise of Strixhaven? How the school provides an elegant solution to one of Magic's trickiest narrative issues: the multiverse. Lessons from Strixhaven's Sophomore Swing signsofwear.beehiiv.com/p/lessons-fr...

I once had an improv teacher — it was the early 2010s — who described the first draft or attempt as "squeezing the dried mustard from the top of the bottle." Somehow this has become the most valuable writing advice I've ever received

One of the things about playing a Final Fantasy game is the further you go along, the more you feel a looming incomprehensibility creeping into the plot

One of the special things about this book is you really can be a reader discovering Magic for the first time or someone deep in the lore, and it's still a fantastic read

Buying clothes in your 30s can be divided into the new holy trinity: the father, the posh and the hype beast

We're on the cusp of the Secrets of Strixhaven prerelease, I'm signed up for a couple of nights at my LGS and I've been brewing the new Shadrix; so of course I'm writing about the ever-timely idea of mono-black angels signsofwear.beehiiv.com/p/a-fallen-a...

There's been some incredible writing on Magic the Gathering lately, building on the vast archive from the game's 30+ year history. I wanted to build a weird little nook to write from, and hopefully Signs of Wear will be a fitting spot. On Beginnings signsofwear.beehiiv.com/p/on-beginni...

Strixhaven coming in hot with the typical grad school experience for store championships

The extended art of Silverquill is the dopest, bookish dragon I've seen in a good long time and I can't wait to brew it

Every rainy day I'm faced with the choice to either lean into the mood with melancholy folk or counter program with ska

Wizards, please release Angel of Suffering from the shackles of New Capenna

Creating a website is not for the faint of heart

Everything @cascadecascade.com has published absolutely rips, but this might be the best of the bunch. Writing about Magic doesn't need to just be deck techs and tier lists

After twenty-some-odd years, this is the surest sign that I need to get around to building esper #私を作ったマジック9枚 #My9MTGCards

i know people are intentionally lumping things like spell check in with AI to make opposition feel ridiculous but honestly don't push me. i'd strangle clippy with my bare hands if it meant getting rid of AI

The ever-thrilling thing about writing about Magic the Gathering is the objects in the card are much larger than they appear

With the decline of book news, reviews and coverage in major publications, I think it's the responsibility of Booktubers and NetGalleans to get weird with their reviews. No more x/5 or talking heads where you slap[ the book every once in a while

Why is my solution to cracking a story seemingly always to brighten the characters but darken the world? Despite everything, hope is a motivating force

To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories: - Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy - Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever

Every deck I brew is just a bunch of New Capenna cards in a trench coat

The line between enough coffee to stay awake and over-caffeinated has become razor-thin in my 30s