Ended up going 9-4 at the RQ with Diana. Pretty disappointed, I played poorly and got punished. I really need to play against more decks before these tournaments, getting owned just by lack of experience. But so it goes, Hartford soon for another shot!

Update: opened some packs and received a good portent

Lost my last round for 6-2 at RQ Vancouver. Bummed to once again be essentially eliminated from top 8 but will do my best to win all my matches tomorrow! Diana my beloved

Finished Friday 4-0-1 after splitting the final round with cftsoc, who I worked on the deck with. Here’s to hoping tomorrow goes just as well!

Heading to Vancouver via train for the RC. Have been tinkering a lot on my deck and I think it’s in a real nice spot. It’s also very fun to play and generates the kind of Riftbound games I love. Looking forward to the tournament! can’t let @samdsherman.bsky.social upstage me for too long in RB

This might be my favorite card in all of SOS. I love every part of it: the art is amazing, the flavor text is badass, and the design gives a high floor while forcing you to figure out what cards to play with it to maximize its abilities.

Experiencing spoiler season as a Magic Designer is really weird because I’ve seen all these cards before but I kinda forgot how cool they were so I still get hyped. Anyway I love SOS and I hope y’all will too!

I built another model. It’s a marble maze and it was frickin hard. My fingers are so sore from pinching and pushing wood but it feels great to be done and it’s cool af. Progress pics below.

The official article on Secret Lair: Dandan went up this morning. It was a dream leading this with @corriganabe.bsky.social, but I cannot stress enough that this wouldn't be possible without @magicstorytime.bsky.social. Magic's players are its legacy. #WOTCstaff magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...

My weekend combined record with Pit Crew Ezreal minus bye was 15-3. 3-0 Miracle Draven 3-0 Draven 2-0 Fiora 2-0 Ahri 1-1 Jax 1-1 Kaisa 1-0 Ezreal 1-0 Irelia 1-0 Sett 0-1 Miss Fortune Was very comfortable with Draven plans but definitely needed more practice against fringe decks

Preparing for this event is some of the most fun I’ve had, the squad is great 💕❤️💕

Update on discord's KDA on the weekend: 8 people 2 Regional Qualifications 4 Day 2s 1 Best of (Ornn) 5 plated cards Not bad :)

Emerging from social media exile to say I had such a damn good time this weekend. Lost back to back win and ins for regional qualification which was brutal, but had a blast prepping and playing with friends and came out of it with a plated card. Looking forward to Atlanta.

Finished the Riftbound Vegas RQ at 10-3 and 55th place, which fulfills the “qualifier” part! Proud to say that I’ll be attending the first Riftbound Regional! It was a harrowing day since I started with a loss but won out. Leaving with a Q and a metal card makes a nice weekend :)

Day 2 the Vegas RQ at 6-2! Really love my deck construction, though there is a lot of seal hate out in force. Game is completely impossible to play at 100%, just going to aim for about 95% and play at a reasonable pace.

Our testing discord went a combined 25-4-1 in the event :)

Went 6-0 at the pre-RQ tournament at Vegas. Sadly the Ahri metal cards were out but I got to at least got to pick up a heavy version of my legend. Riftbound is fun as hell

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