MODO Legacy league opponents having Counterbalance in their maindeck is definitely not in the Christmas spirit.

It's kinda insane how every other set these days has 20-30 A-grade bombs and feels rare dominated, then the best performing card is a random bonus sheet mythic from Kaladesh.

Takeback stuff is a very reasonable thing to take issue with, if you acknowledge that the tournament rules have actually supported exactly what we saw on camera since 2018 and that it's a case where playing by the tournament rules as they exist is bad and should be fixed and not a player issue.

In retrospect, shifting the release schedule and giving Steam Vents an entire extra rotation in Standard was probably a bad idea

Significantly less sold on the shape of Standard now that the 9-3 decks at Worlds are 8 Riverpyre Verge decks and 1 Ken Yukihiro

Everyone please stop praying for Gran-Gran. She's absorbed all your energy and become too powerful

Not sold that the overall architecture of Standard is fixed, but its pretty sick that the players winning with Ux spells decks are undecided whether they want 0, 2, 4, or 6 Stock Up

All Around Good Formats 1. EoE 2. Aetherdrift -- Interesting drafts, but mediocre games 3. Tarkir 4. FF -- Good mechanics, draft and games mediocre 5. ATLA -- No 6th set in Ba Sing Se

Coming around to Time Vault being a fun Vintage Cube card, as long as you show design restraint and don't put Keys or Tezz in the cube. If the combo kills cost Mirage Mirror or Shifting Woodland amounts of mana, the natural Time Vault game text experience is pretty good.

The big things the Harmony cube currently up on MODO does right 1. The best standalone cards are Swords and Utopia Sprawl, not some individually broken "synergy card" like Esikas Chariot 2. Even the normal decks are synergy engine decks, but every deck is still 20-50% getting it done in combat.

Help, I Entered a Cube Draft and Am Being Forced to Learn About Layers

Magic travel remains cursed for me. 45 minute drive home from Baltimore, relatively new tire explodes about 20% through the 1.5 mile I95 tunnel under the Baltimore harbor. Solid 7.5 on the travel incident scale, minor delay but moderate risk, great job, fun had by all.

Bit over an hour left on the charity raffle entries, but still a whole Swiss round and Top 8 on the stream to crown this year's DMV Legacy League champion

Me when I trophy a league

Day 2, the DMV Invitational is starting now!

Going live around 9am EST with the $5k Open, year end DMV Legacy Invitational starting same time tomorrow! Maybe a last hurrah for some absurd cards, definitely some of the best Legacy players out there slinging them.

~24 hours until me and @jkyu06.bsky.social are let loose on coverage for the DMV Legacy League Invitational Weekend, starting with a Charity Legacy 5k. Hoping for Eumidian Hatchery and Cloudpost, expecting Tamiyo and Nadu

Alright, I just fully fell asleep, but let's see Who's That Guy??? Oh. Oh god.

Thanks to a very large anonymous donation, we have skyrocketed by 1k dollars and are very close to 2k raised for @TransLifeline.org ! Thank you all so much! Please continue donating below! https://tinyurl.com/DMVRaffle Invitational Weekend Signups: https://melee.gg/Hub/View/37042

I think Powered Cube on Arena needs a significant redesign. The biggest issue is that any time you do something fun, the limits of the Arena client show up, and this is even after a bunch of stuff like Doomsday was clearly cut due to this.

Today's idle design thought: The ATLA Ridgescale Tusker sparking dread and the Leonin Bolas sparking joy is probably related to why we got a "fixed" Necropotence last year.

MODO Horror Cube is a great showcase of the issues meshing pre FIRE and post FIRE design principles. Lots of cool themes, also God Eternal Oketra which is the 140th best FIRE/EDH card economy era design card and absolutely untouchable.

Hey Legacy gamers, Here at the DMV Legacy League, we know times are tough with the government shutdown, especially given our location. In the spirit of togetherness & community, we have decided to offer sign ups to The Classic under the honor system for those affected.

Check it out and sign up @ melee.gg/Tournament/V... . Looking forward to hanging out and covering the event too

Just played a perfect game of Modern Broodscale on stream! @handshakemtg.com @fireshoes.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/terribadmtg/...

Thinking a lot about this in context of the 2008 Detroit economy vs the 2025 DC metro one, where the former had PTQs bigger than this and Cryptic Command was sold out at $50 because too many people wanted to play FNM

One secret failing of the RCQ to RC pipeline: the biggest showcase for cool new tech that keeps players engaged with the format happens just in time to shelve that format for 6 months. Just the hard opposite of GPs

I think there's too many things wrong with Spiderman to blame any one thing on the set's failure, but the thing it feels like it caps off on the heels of MKM/OTJ is you need the majority of your work to be earnest to earn a dose of snark, not the reverse.

I really dont understand how they do it for a product locked a year ago, released a month ago, and already unofficially sunset, but Spiderman set continues to find new ways to be terrible

Congrats to your 2025 NA Legacy Champion, Tom Basketball! #EternalWeekend

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We are a month out from Invitational Weekend! We are happy to unveil a schedule filled with lots of Legacy (and a little Limited) for y'all! Prizes, swag, Magic Creators, and more announcements coming soon! All profits from Invitational Weekend will go to @TransLifeline.org , sign up below:

The Iron Maiden Secret Lair not having any cards from 2008 Legacy Mono-Black Pox guy's deck is the real erasure of Magic's identity.

....and here...we....go! Registration for The Classic on Nov 8th is live! As part of Invitational Weekend, all profits will go towards benefiting @translifeline.org ! We have much more to unveil as we get closer, but use this time to pre-reg! Link below! https://melee.gg/Tournament/View/363882

Quick theory crafting on Pick 2 draft, bc evaluating Spider cards sounds horrid -Signals volatile, easy for someone to take 2 and pivot under you, more trainwreck tables -Anchoring 1 color early, soft forcing high value, getting 4 good Green cards Pack 1 + 4 Green 1st picks P2&3 hits playable count

Is it the Spiderman set's fault for filling the file with 40 basically identical Spidermen, or the comic source material's fault for unable to change the timeless Spiderman character and telling the same idle "Uncle Ben dies, Peter pays rent, web sling a weird dude" story for 60 years?

Going to be cautiously pessimistic bc FF was better in packs than as a card file, but the Spiderman set looks like everything potentially bad about UB products stitched together. Contract limitations, source material issues, over designing for punchlines over content, etc.

if wotc cared about entrenched players they would find a way to make me 5 years old again and also give me a huuuuuge lollipop

Using whatever authority this gives me to tell you all to cut every Illvoi Galeblade from your decks. Absolutely psychotic they printed split card Mulligan/Mana Short Yourself and people submit decks with multiples.

Turns out EOE is more fun and skill intensive than 80% of draft formats released in the last 3 years. All it had to do was be a basic draft format where attacking and blocking with commons decides games, and players can run out of cards that matter.

My strong EOE draft opinions: Godmaw and Terrapact are more B- than B+. Godmaw's Hoof insta win promise is usually more 7 drop that wins in a turn with 7 drop liabilites, making the right Terrapact choice usually limits from being game dominating and 2nd Lander rarely matters.

Oops the best enablers for the Boros 2 tapped creature mechanic in EOE draft are Green - Gene Pollinator Blue - Tractor Beam their Boros payoff

Design lesson from EOE draft: Adventure and Warp aren't good at on-curve filling or reducing land variance. Thats a job for Kicker or Flashback. They are really good at letting you maintain mana efficiency in midgames though, and thats part of why EOE is so aggressive

Think I finally pinpointed the thing I liked the least about Final Fantasy Limited, and why Edge of Eternity feels refreshing. In FF the good commons are almost all card selection and removal, exception of White. In EOE, theres a lot more bodies and tricks in that mix

Really important piece of the one-off throwback designs from EoE: they just work out of context. Double strike especially important on the Sliver design, instantly gets over the "I dont have other Slivers" stop with "but 2 double strikers is sick"

Everyone is complaining about preview fatigue, but there have been 0 previews for Legally Distinct Arachnoid Human set for digital Magic platforms.

the average redditor can beat a bear in a fight

Either the Legend rule is changing, or Spiderman draft is going to get weird. No idea how a table full of people drafting Lutri-lite to dodge common legend duplicates is going to work out