On this week's #mtgcube conversation on Recross the Paths, I get to sit down with @bsweitz123.bsky.social and chat about Mono-Red! Lots of great insight from Ben's role as a game designer at Wizards of the Coast. open.spotify.com/episode/3p9A...

If you want to hear me talk about Magic design, Cube design, and how I’ve applied it to my Monored Cube, check out this interview! I love yapping and you can get plenty of it here.

Lost in top 8 sadly. Wasn’t meant to be. But I’m happy to have made a deep run with a self-made brew. Jeweled Colossus is the truth, just some nice chonk for the pump spells. Decklist here:

Top 8 the Riftbound 10k at @scgcon.bsky.social with Ahri. Aiming for that trophy and to properly represent my midlane one-trick!

Won our #wotcstaff Avatar Limited tournament today. I won the Spider-Man one too a few months ago! Perhaps only mostly washed :)

My favorite adds to monored cube from Lorwyn Eclipsed! #wotcstaff

Brion Stoutarm is my forever-favorite commander. I've had my Brion deck for 15+ years. I was super happy the ECL set team asked me to design a new member of the Stoutarm family. Bre is great in my Brion deck, but with her own buildaround power for any new fans. #wotcstaff

Just updated my cube overviews to be a little more sales pitchy for the next CubeCon. Now that I've played in one, I understand the mechanics of how people choose the cubes to play (it is quite an overwhelming process). And advertising that I'm #wotcstaff probably doesn't hurt :)

2025 was an incredible year for me and has brought me a lot of happiness. I met my wonderful girlfriend, I saw the successful release of several work projects I put a lot of effort into, and I found a new card game to compete in. Really excited for 2026!

My favorite card of the year is Teval, arbiter of virtue. The text never changed in from my brain to print, just the mana cost and power toughness. I think it’s super fun, you can get big pop off turns but it’s risky and you’re often balanced on a knife’s edge. The art is also incredible. #wotcstaff

New upgrades to the monored cube! I’m in love with the nevys disk

Ordered Chinese takeout, now have a fire roaring making s’mores for a 5 year old while listening to Bob Dylan. Merry Christmas from an American Jew everybody!

Doing some coloring and wood puzzles with my niece this fine Christmas Eve

Doing some nice calm model building with my mom for her birthday. We’ve got the train car done but the surrounding setting to go!

Played a full box sealed grab bag at work today and went 3-0 with this nice crime mill deck. Shoutout to Unlicensed Hearse for the DSK matchups and Dave Humpherys for making the 1B vampire mill target player.

Have had some banger monored cube drafts recently. Been trying to add cards to laser-focus buff some strategies and it seems to have worked. Combo cube has also improved after cutting half the under supported stuff to properly support the other half. Feeling proud of my work.

Heading to dinner with some PT winners

Ended up 5-4, at least I have my “better-than-50%” pride. Lost to kaisa more than I was hoping to, I thought my list was at least reasonable against it though not favored. I should have played 3 jeweled colossus.

Three rounds in and I’m 2-1 at Riftbound Houston. My loss was super close too, this game is really fun! Charm and Thousand-Tailed Watcher please take me home. #ahribestgirl

At the airport too early and you know what that means. Time for an AMA! If you’ve got questions about magic design, other games, or math then here is a good place to ask. #wotcstaff

Soft locking my decklist for Riftbound Houston. If the Friday tournament brings disaster I’ll reconsider, but feeling good about the build and slots.

I’m preparing for a competitive card game tournament for the first time in 5 years and it feels so goddamn good

Had a nice Riftbound day yesterday ft a few hours of playtesting in the morning into a Skirmish. The tournament boiled down to us and another testing discord on each side of T4 (with @bsweitz123.bsky.social's Ahri knocking me out in said semis 😵‍💫)

Well, looks like I might have to be an Ahri one-trick in the card game too.

2-0 in my first sanctioned riftbound event. It’s double spell-o’clock in Noxus Standard Time

Went 4-1 in a six-person rotisserie draft of monored cube. Loved my deck and the soothsayer+gargadon combo was awesome. Lost to Goblins chumpblocking to buy enough time to combo kill me with Kiki jiki or Muxus.

Had a sick Jeskai Kiki combo cube deck this evening. My favorite event was Hedron Crabbing myself then Collectors Cage, find Karmic Guide reanimate Kiki reanimate Village Bellringer. Also ephemerated a manifested bellringer to win.

Capped it off with an 0-2 with a pretty bad deck in @turn3coco.bsky.social’s CoCo Cube. Tried some stuff out I hadn’t done and it didn’t come together very well. Playing only 2 cocos is probably griefing.

Won a for-funsies team draft of Monored Cube with this nice artifact deck. Agatha’s soul cauldron on gingerbrute and steel overseer carried me. Never got to make the Chad mako+LED play

Lost to @GavinVerhey in the top 64 in Old Border Foil cube. Tried to draft Storm and had to pivot into a Forbiddian Reanimator deck. Sad to not get to draft the maximum number of times but the event was a blast overall!

Lost a super close finals in the 6 drop cube to finish 2-1, but good enough for the final day. I cast Moltensteel Hellkite on turn 4, put all my life into it on t5 and then toil//troubled my opponent for lethal. #cubecon2025 #wotcstaff

Got to make a toooon of zombies and 3-0 with this sick sultai graveyard deck in the @TheChicagoCube. Scavenging Ooze plus Teval is just plain dirty. Super fun cube based around 3-color synergy clusters. #cubecon2025 #wotcstaff

3-0 the Ravnica/Time Spiral Standard cube with UGw Pickles Glare. Never got to execute the Brine lock, but did get to make 12 saprolings with Vesuvan+Thelonite. So much fun, highly recommend this cube. #cubecon2025 #wotcstaff

2-1 in Gizmo cube but 3-0 in Study in Harmony cube at CubeCon. Forgot to get a gizmo pic, but here’s my mardu artifact aggro in Harmony! #cubecon #wotcstaff

Is it possible to get FOMO for an event that I’m transit to?

Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve weighed in on something on here, but since the influencer team reports up into me, let’s talk about this question (1/5)

My ex turned me in for a model 10 years younger. But he’s a pretty cool guy and we talk about silksong

Looking for a mutual friend to share an AirBnB with me and some other very cool #wotcstaffers for CubeCon. It's a sick lakeside bungalo, please message if you're still looking for accommodation.

Ok beat silksong any% in 3hr30min. High halls arena is so goddamn hard with only 5 masks. I learned silkspear is so much more OP than in my first playthrough.

The sheer level of vitriol, disrespect, disgust, and hatred I see people throw at their fellow humans these days gets me depressed. The empathy is replaced with needlessly inflammatory rhetoric, and it's seeping into more and more parts of life. We should do better.

61hrs in and I’ve 100%d silksong and gotten every memento. I had to look some stuff up at the end, even after doing a sweep of every area. Only missed a very small number though. Not sure I’ll try a steel soul run until there’s a boss rush DLC. Feel like I need to practice.

I might be losing horribly at the this board game tournament but goddamn it I’m undefeated at Dune: Imperium. If only it was a main event game.

I saw the credits in Silksong a while ago, but each time I think I must be nearing full completion I find an entire new area. How much stuff did they put in this game!?!?

Didn’t think I could hate a biome more than Deepnest but here we are. I find myself wishing there were more spikes.

Went 5-0 into top 8 at the WOTC EOE championship. Had a sick UB splinter twin deck. I made an opponent draw 30 cards and lose 30 life through untap shenanigans, and Consulted the Star Charts to put it all together. Super fun deck!

Team Cherry is evil

I have banned JC Tao from cutting Dragoons Lance from his team sealed deck for the last 30 minutes and then in the last 5 he told me he’s swapping it out for Summon: Fat Chocobo.

Successfully defended my Dune Imperium title at PAX!

This is your regularly scheduled announcement that Set Roulette is one of the most fun tournaments of the quarter. I’ve already brewed up some crazy decks like Waste Not and Upheaval, and I’m sure there are way more to find!