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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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

Small N, high win rate (85%, 10ish drafts) in Vintage cube this run with relatively low Power counts. -Stop passing Psychic Frog, also Dimir great -Legacy trends have transferred, best combo setups are easily hybridized into fair shells -More about best cards than best decks -Splash G, dont play G

Making the flashiest big flying rares in your Spaceship set just normal Angels and Dragons really implies you have no faith in that mechanic. Rest of the set looks better than the Station mechanic tho.

My final FF Limited hot take is that Dragoon's Wyvern is overrated. I might even have it down as 4th or 5th favorite blue common. Lot of minor reasons adding up here, but it is largely the format forcing U into early defense > proactive bulky end game, and Wyvern is just OK at both of those.

I think the big gap with Oops is how surface level it is similar to Belcher, so it gets a surface level pass, but in practice its not remotely the same experience. It's much closer to asking "What if every Epic Storm combo line was a 4 mana instant kill"

Would have biased towards Talent (1 cost and still loops) over This Town (you made Peel from Reality good, plz clap), skeptical of 3 years of Stock Up, but Standard fixes are good. Banning Tibalt's Trickery in the 47th format but saying Oops is OK is a bad look tho

I think the reason FF draft isn't going to hit all timer status for me is a broader lesson that Living Weapon style equipments really constrain end games in a format. They are all balanced well, but the mechanic fundamentally forces every deck to have an assertive end game.

The whole "capitalism format" stuff is nonsense. The actual story is this format has older origins that have been incidentally destroyed via changes to Booster structure and Organized play, and the version "brought to market" has to exist as a shell of itself as a result.

This is the coolest shit ever for anyone who remembers what a Magic Online Daily event was

I think a lot of the UB fatigue from the Final Fantasy set comes from the set size increase overlapping with the exposure of previews/visual spoilers. Look at a pack IRL/on draft sim and the vibes are so much better, or in game compare how intrusive Sepiroth is vs The One Ring.

in 2015, competitive players loved Goblin Guide. in 2025, competitive players only want Sideboard Guide

Bloomburrow to Tarkir is definitely one of the all timer set design runs. Has a weak offering in the middle like all of the others, but really impressive how every set has panned out.

Hearing the complaints about this Standard format like its a cascading design failure is kinda wild on a long scale 1. The last time aggro was close to this good in Standard was 7 years ago, Venerated Loxodon. 2. Pretty sure the last format this polarized was the last time Titans were legal.

Sway of the Stars vs Gifts Ungiven is a great example of how systemic waste is allowed to flourish. Almost certain the later unban costs an order of magnitude more of human life hours, but Sway takes the heat.

Just non-stop MODO wins these days -Can't tariff a digital product -Don't have to learn if Amazing Spiderman is the 4 drop or 5 drop -Still get to ride chocobos -Bugged rulings are consistently wrong, unlike judges -Opponents cant cheat you, also apparently unlike judges