Xmas gift courtesy of @xahhfink6.bsky.social for my personal Universes Beyond Hollow Knight and Silksong decks.

And yet, a trace of the true self remains within the false self...

@hobbesq.bolasgang.com Do you ever think about this card? Because I'm running it in a deck I'm building right now

TCGPlayer buyers beware: The main set version of Spectacular Spider-man is borderless, meaning TCGP has it in its search as Spectacular Spider-man (Borderless). If you use mass entry for Spectacular Spider-Man, the ONLY version it will check/optimize for is the $100 Spotlight series one.

Vorthos theories: Every significant multiplanar event since the Phyrexian Invasion and Apocalypse can be traced back to one bellwether: The Mirari. There are basically four interplanar events of note in that time: The Mending, the release and defeat of the Eldrazi, Bolas's War, and New Phyrexia.

@hobbesq.bolasgang.com You ever think about this card/cycle?

Unpopular (maybe) Opinion: Mycosynth Lattice should be a Game Changer. It's exactly the kind of card that people want to run because it has interesting interactions with lots of commanders, but the reality is that even if you aren't pairing it with mass artifact destruction, someone will.

Define your musical taste in eight artists: Seeming VNV Nation Neuroticfish CHVRCHES Panic Priest Iris Solar Fake TR/ST

No I shouldn't, shut up cat brain

Building seven decks at once because I have two speeds: off and all the way on

So I haven't played much with sticker cards, but I have a deck that wanted one in particular for flavor reasons. And after looking through the stickers there's a lot of cool interactions with this sticker card in particular, as it can use the ability itself and whatever it's equipped to also gets it

"Why on earth would you fuck everything up like that?" I point to my WWJD bracelet. "??? Jesus wouldn't do that?" Yeah, but Jace for sure would.

An angle I don't see discussed enough: Arena is one of the biggest reasons for the recent Universes Beyond changes. Arena is Magic, but it's also a digital card game. And in a digital card game, 3 months is an eternity to wait for new content. Most have <2 months, sometimes 4-6 weeks.

@chucktingle.bsky.social Good morning Dr. Tingle. I was wondering if you were familiar with Aleister Crowley's Thelema philosphy. I was reading up on it recently and it seems to have a lot of parallels to you own. Lot of stuff about finding your greater purpose and following it being most important

the band Front 242 started in 1981 because the main guy with goggles realized there was no cool music in Europe and he wanted to make some. he teamed up with the only other guy he knew who owned goggles and the rest is history

Secret Lair Waiting Room has got nothing on Silksong Release Day Accidental Steam DDOS

Given Hollow Knight: Silksong is releasing in 10 MINUTES, I figured now would be a good time to share my "Personal Universes Beyond" Hollow Knight Deck. Kathril was chosen as The Vessel because A) Bug, and B) it gains powers from dead stuff, like how you gain abilities after defeating bosses

Wrote an article detailing the many interactions of Toph's metalbending: www.mtgnexus.com/articles/118...

Ugh fuckin TERFwizards infesting everything. Went to enroll Spitfire in a Minecraft Coding extracurricular only to find it was HP themed. Sent a polite yet upset email to the organizer, probably nothing comes of it. But just why? Minecraft on its own is already crack to kids and the bestselling game

My first 3 sets were: -Revised -Legends -Antiquites What do they say about me? I've been playing this game damned near forever, practically since I could read. And releases then weren't like now, you'd get whatever packs you could find one of the first cards I recall opening was Bartel Runeaxe

If you use a card to give Toph a layer of metal, she becomes an artifact and thus a land and can earthbend herself, buffing her and granting the resilience to come back if removed. Like a mech suit. And if that ain't the coolest fucking marriage of flavor and mechanics I don't know what is.

In case you thought Grok was the only horrible AI marinated in Nazi ideology, here's Meta's AI suggesting "Would a third Reich fix everything?" as a question to ask in response to a picture of Robert Reich and Sam Reich.

Harry Potter is clearly being aggressively cross-promoted right now, which makes sense with the new series coming and the creator trying to remain relevant to justify her bigotry as correct WotC is hungry for crossover properties for Universes Beyond and is willing to take stuff well past its prime

- "I think about 30% of the player base today are women, and we’d like to see that increase over time. So, we’re also looking at including HRT in our collector boosters."

This has to be a templating mistake, yeah? No way green is supposed to get "target creature with toughness no more than 1 greater than its power kills itself". @maro254.bsky.social

@chucktingle.bsky.social is legitimately and sincerely one of the great minds of our generation, and if you're writing him off as "that wacky Butt-Pounding erotica gimmick guy" you're doing yourself a severe disservice.

SOUND THE ALARM! <POWERTHIRST NOISES> I've been hoping they'd do this since they printed enemy ODY Filters in Fallout, I love these cycles but hate that there's only the allied ones. I think this is the set with the most cards that will make it into decks this year.

Sidequesting Beast

Dear TCGP sellers: You don't need to message me that you got my order and are shipping it. TCGP emails me when you ship it. Messaging me just makes me click through an email and log in for less info, worrying you misplaced a card for my order the whole time.

Throwback to the manager I had once, who after I said I would do something ASAP, responded without a hint of irony, "Please make sure you do that as ASAP as possible"

FYI, Steam Summer Sale has basically the entire Final Fantasy catalogue on sale 35-70% off. You can get the 1-6 Pixel remasters for under $50, 7 (non-remake) and 8 for <$5, etc. If you haven't played the series before and certain Magic sets have you interested, there's never been a better time.

With the Eldrazi being name-dropped in the Edge of Eternities Planeswalker's Guide, it's time to revisit my personal theory about everyone's favorite tentacle monsters: The Eldrazi are a multiversal immune system to keep the multiverse from being overrun by interplanar threats.

No MagicCon Chicago next year is tremendously disappointing as a Chicago-native and a parent who can't really take more than a weekend away. Putting one in Atlanta when GA's still gung-ho about anti-Trans bathroom bills (and whatever else comes in the next 17 months) seems like a major fumble too.

Your attention please:

Me: Okay, so if I use Agatha's Soul Cauldron to grant an easy/cheap/repeatable transform ability to Sephiroth, I can stack up a bunch of his emblems for value! Evil Me: Yeah but you could just do that with Ultimecia and take infinite turns.

Anyone with an interest in MTG rarities and oddities?

"Okay y'all we need to make a gunblade. How do we represent that?" "Staple a Moonglove Extract to a Trusty Machete!" "Perfect, no notes."

PSA: Don't use ChatGPT in general, but ESPECIALLY don't use it to ask about MTG rules questions. It will straight-up lie and cite rules numbers that absolutely don't say what it says they say. If called on it, it will apologize and invent new rules that also don't exist. Just don't.

Every time I play Teval I am more impressed by this card, and according to EDHRec, zero other people are running it. The deck can MacGuyver itself out of some really tricky situations, and Whiteout means whatever Rube Goldberg combo you assemble can't be interrupted because you can just restart it.

Opponent: Graveyard hate is uncool. Me: I mean normally I agree yeah. But you played Valgavoth? And Drannith Magistrate. Opponent: Yeah, those are OK. But I draw the line at Cling to Dust!

Watching Phantom Menace in HD, it's astounding how much better the practical effect aliens look than the purely CG ones. We really have to go back to the days of big screen puppetry.

Have I mentioned how much I love Teval? The deck has so many intricate lines, like this source of immortality. I'm tickled by the fact that Worldspine shuffling back in triggers Teval and similar.

They say follow your dreams but last night I dreamed about a rogue Subway franchise that sold burgers including one called "The Biden" which was a triple bacon cheeseburger with peanut butter, grapefruit, and a whole fried octopus and somehow I don't think that's a viable business plan.

Who up evoking they florals?

This week's update to Game Changers added a lot of important cards. I think there's still a few holes that need plugging. So here's my picks for one card per color that should probably be added to the list:

Overall the ban announcement is not a surprise save for Braids, which I think is a miserable Commander to play against, but I guess at least it's a GC. The GC list update feels good, there's a few cards I'm surprised to see (Aura Shards, Consecrated Sphinx) but overall some cards that need to be GC

Tarkir Dragonstorm tricolor commanders with a tricolor card you may not have seen that works well with them, a thread:

Pro tip: if you're Celiac/gluten intolerant and there's a Jewish neighborhood near you, check out the grocery stores there for Passover markdowns. Lots of GF pasta, cake mixes, desserts, cereals, etc for 50%+ off. (Not everything is gf but most is labelled clearly on the front.)

These two cards won me a game in my Teval deck. Whiteout let me return it to make an extra blocker mid alpha strike to barely survive, and then Devourer made infinite tapped zombies with Skeleton Crew, Teval, and Earthcraft. I love it when these things come together just right.

A is for Astral Slide