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I've spent the last decade trying to get a little better at limited each week. If you're someone who is draft-curious but 0-3's more of your free Arena drafts than 3-3's, this is practical advice you can implement that I guarantee will make your game better without spending a dime. (buy a sub tho)

Get Better At Limited For $0* by @jakebrowne.com Cascade Cascade's resident Limited Guru weighs in on how to stop wasting your gold and start winning games. www.cascadecascade.com/get-better-a... *it costs a Cascade Cascade subscription to read

Crunched the available DanDan data (DanData?) from eBay: One seller sold 4 listings Four sold 3 19 sold 2. No one sold 5 or more. Similar story on TCGplayer. I don't think there's a big, bad reseller cabal holding the bag on these. Average sale = $232.90 across there and TCGp.

"This was a cash grab." Magic made $1.7 billion in 2025. That's $4.6m per DAY. 60k in DanDan was a ROUNDING ERROR to Hasbro. They hope that you talk about this. That it trends on here. And that you keep directing your rage at the resellers that make whole system work for them.

Hot take: this is still underpriced. $99 was a joke and designed to create an instant sellout after the disaster that was TMNT. Anchoring to that number is emotional. The market just told us what it was actually worth.

LOVE this waiting room concept and Nick Floyd getting his flowers.

7-0 for box 5! Wish I didn't have so much life stuff going on today but this was a solid weekend.

Now at 4 boxes at 74.7% overall. A little bit of data goes a long way and gotta agree with @sierkovitz.bsky.social that lack of discussion about the format is impacting how people are building for this event. Snow day here in Denver so hoping to get a few more runs in!

Two more boxes on non-Orzhov decks. Interesting discussion about if WB is dominant b/c of busted W rares. With GB also showing well and Boros struggling to trophy, I'd argue strong black cards are winning the weekend. WB still very good, just finding other ways to win today.

TIL you can go infinite in TMT with a common, uncommon, and rare:

7-0 with Orzhov good stuff for box #1. My best tip for Arena Direct this weekend: play WB. So far, it has 40.2% of all 17lands trophies. That's 2x what we've expect in a five archetype set. For context, Golgari is the runner up 13.7% of trophies. Orzhov is dominating, black cards are good.

if we're in a match and I hit you with this dude, please understand I mean absolutely nothing by it, I just can't get enough of him in my life

The thing about December birthdays is they're always finding new ways to make you feel like shit about it

TIL that claiming your GrubHub order contains chunks of human flesh only complicates things for your AI agent

When my 16 creatures have 23 total creature types, the limited environment is needlessly complicated. Especially when we're pitching Universes Beyond as an onramp for new players, creature type actually matters, but so many of these DON'T.

does this work like I think it does?

Finally saw this yesterday. Thought cancer was done emotionally kicking my teeth in but, almost a year after losing my father in law, it felt as raw as ever. If you've been putting off seeing it, stop. It's beautiful.

If you love music, give me a follow because I will put new, exciting music in your feed every day. If you are a musician, follow me so I can put your new, exciting music in front of music fans. I write this every week: www.etherdiver.com/category/oth... And I repost your music posts constantly!

Nice of them to include the swords on here, but a real pro breaks those Swisher Sweets down with their thumbs

It was sunny when it snowed but my younger neighbor shoveled my sidewalk. This is a midwest insult. I will challenge him to a fight tomorrow. Just as soon as he's done riding his motorcycle and playing in his band and tuning his motorcycle then, we'll fight.

One time this dude comic we worked with was having a bit of a diva moment and after confronted by the women working on the project sent an email that ended with, "I thank the lady spirit that moves through all things" with total sincerity. I think about this often.

doubling up on my thots this week, I wrote about the funny relationship between the Instant time--including the history of Interrupts and THE BATCH!! Give it a read! dominarianplowshare.substack.com/p/the-histor...

My DCI number was 52403. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned you could stack your deck in Apprentice when dc'd. I needed IRC to find games. We were here from the beginning. We made Magic. You wouldn't have made the JSS. I have bulk older than you.

Didn't keep a lot of cards. Held on to the important ones.

If you’ve missed my Magic writing, it has a new home: @cascadecascade.com I’m contributing as regularly as I can, but it's a stacked roster. It’s the hands down the most ambitious publication, Magic or otherwise, I’ve been part of in a long time.

“The suns of Mirrodin have shone upon perfection only once.” –Mox Opal (2010–) What is the perfect card? Towards Perfection by @trasgomorph.bsky.social is live now - free & available for everyone as we get this thing going! www.cascadecascade.com/towards-perf...

🎵One of these things is not like the others🎵 TCGplayer Direct order from 2/13 finally showed up today and... lmao

Amazing thread of the cool shit that is coming to CASCADE CASCADE

Shout out to these cards that live rent free in my head. I'll just be taking a game action in a format they're not even legal in and go, "But what if they have _____?"

Some early answers to FAQ! Q: Why Cascade Cascade? A: Cascade is the mechanical representation of firing off the dome. It's putting faith in a mixture of luck and careful construction, which feels like what we're doing. The only thing cooler than Cascading once is doing it again.

Coming out of retirement to write a little for a project I truly believe in. Since I stopped Mana Club, I've heard from a lot of people that say they miss longform, meaningful Magic writing. Not just "content" but the real shit that makes you feel something. Well, here's how to support that:

What if I told you this Secret Lair was $29.99? What if I told you it was low stock in the first hour?

INTRODUCING CASCADE CASCADE, a collective publishing weekly essays, deep dives, and other good-ass writing about the card game Magic: The Gathering. Built on the idea that those who love this game deserve more than an endless scroll of short form video. Community over content, every time.

I just published 4000 words on ECL draft to help you get ready for the Limited Championship Qualifier. It's free. It covers everything but Elementals/vivid, which only gets a 'lil section. If you have questions about that deck, I'll take 'em here. manaclub.substack.com/p/lorwyn-ecl...

Laughing at a man to his face remains undefeated in terms of finding out exactly who he is

Healthiest communities I see in MTG right now: - Premodern - Cube - Pauper What do they have in common? No whiplash from the constant release schedule or external pressure. This is what Commander used to be: your own corner of the game. Sucks they made EDH players the product.

Welp, the Universes Beyond cards are now exploring the Universes Beyond in the IP they've Universes Beyonded. We've truly jumped the dinosaur here, folks.

this stream is fun

Settling down and investing in land in my old age

hi hello do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior:

would you download a horse

Porque no los dos?

if i get bored between packs during a draft i WILL go on my phone

Hasbro knows Magic players are locked in by sunk costs/community. That’s why outrage is cheap, sales are safe, and “moral lines” go away when quitting is the price asked from the enfranchised. They paid Rowling knowing the backlash wouldn’t cost them a dime. And they were right. Again.

Really wish I had the time to finish my investigative series, "Who killed the Junior Super Series?" but here we are.

Lemme tell ya right now, if you've been looking for a lil publication that puts out best-in-class Magic writing with the same level of reverence as good sports or pop culture outlets, you are going to have a very exciting late February and March.

hey we noticed your lack of written content about loving magic the gathering from across the bar and

The level of telling on yourself by accusing someone else of being involved with something called 'egirls' is frankly a self own I could not write on my best day