Tea Time!! Fresh off the heels of vegas Ger-Bear and I are here to tell you why your testing team sucks! Or maybe why it doesn't suck, depending on which team is yours. We tackle some of the inherent issues with teams in this game, tell ur friends youtu.be/tgrG7OafEV8

I am on shitty hotel wifi and can't get the YouTube video to upload until later, but the tea is still here on the audio channels! This week Ger-Bear and I ask the question "is magic dying?" watch the light leave its eyes alongside us! open.spotify.com/episode/40Ex...

Thursday starts with Tea! The PT is NEXT WEEK so we are delivering unto you the spark notes on how to make the Pro Tour! Cram this info now and maybe there's still time to qualify Between the two of us Ger-Bear and I have like 20 years of Pro Tour experience! tell ur friends youtu.be/ZY1c5e0p-pk

Today is the last day to bid on this sick piece of magic history A playset of Force of Wills, where the TERF art has been blacked out by @gerryt.bsky.social happy fuckin' pride, y'all actually, i might bid on these myself lol new.biddingowl.com/item/playset...

I'm back, did u miss me?? new tea time is up, happy pride! link to that below, but more importantly i want to share with y'all an auction page where ALL proceeds go to support @birdsofmtg.com This is something ger-bear and I are both very passionate about, pls share! new.biddingowl.com/bop

I've heard a lot of people saying they think FF set is a low power level set and they don't think it has many cards that matter for constructed. I think otherwise, so here's a thread on cards I see with some potential.

new tea! this is a special episode where "nile asks @gerryt.bsky.social anything" if you've ever wanted to know does gerry believe in ghosts? has gerry ever been in love? is gerry a fairy or a goblin? this is the ep for you! repost for a chance to win one(1) like from me youtu.be/ZAf2FeJfU_s

Aka The Yuuya Episode. Maybe the biggest heartbreak of my life.

Have not said this publicly really, but the real reason I did charity auctions, protest, etc was to hopefully inspire others to do the same. That was the plan very early and it failed. Can you imagine? The hype around the shit I was doing as an individual, except we had five people? Ten? More?

Walked up to my seat at the player’s meeting yesterday and heard the two players flanking my seat openly talking shit about me + my decklist. I sat down and they both shut the fuck up immediately. Weird.

How does one find what actually matters in a matchup aka The Truth? I’m better at doing it than explaining it prolly but oh well I tried

Ever had someone tell you something that’s a massive part of your identity is meaningless? I have! And enough times that I’m pretty good at convincing them that games do indeed matter.

My favorite time of the week If you’re enjoying the cast, spread the word

Don’t worry, a judge has been called and oracle text requested. Now everyone at this Modern RCQ knows what Upheaval does.

g'morning! it's time for a fresh cuppa tea! today @gerryt.bsky.social and i discuss universes within, the new player experience, and confronting internal biases when playing the game this is a really cool one that talks about some fairly important issues in our game enjoy :) youtu.be/hl3XvGxxrUQ

Acquired this at the Hunter Burton Memorial Open via silent auction Easily T5 purchase lifetime 250000 beads, 100h of work. Art is Unmask from @postrk.bsky.social, beadwork done by Willa Zandi. Thank you both for signing it!

hey. a very unfortunate and upsetting thing happened to me this week, and talking about it publicly comes at a great personal cost so if you could take the time to read it, it would mean a lot tldr: wotc pulled the ad i made on all platforms due to the comments said ad received

BUSY DAY for mommy but not so busy that she didn't have time to brew you a fresh cup of tea in this week's episode of the Nile & Gerry Tea podcast we talk about whether or not having friends is +EV tune in to hear @gerryt.bsky.social and i tell you how not to be a grifter youtu.be/IhRUx55Z5qM

new podcast episode with @bmeech.bsky.social is live now! @gerryt.bsky.social and i talk to Lou about "The Hammer Delusion", self-sabotaging your tournament success, and how Lou found his way onto the Pro Tour Live on YouTube now but also FINALLY ON RSS LINK BELOW YIPPEEEEE youtu.be/f8H6J_cMvIg

in case you want a deck for your moxen + emry + tamiyo + stations post the inevitable breach ban, 5-0'd with this pile in a pretty unserious league (dredge, mono white karn control...) Cache grab + mav rumble really churns through your deck and makes the pieces come together very consistently.

Dave and I played an average of 2.3 Kaitos per deck this weekend, across three different formats! Dave lost playing for d2 of Modern, then won to be 5-1 and maybe able to ID into T8 of STD in the last rd, but conceded instead to make his flight. Card is not weak.

Anyone who has judged a large event before, what are some things you wished you had known going into it? Reskeets welcome!

okay bad news, the tea time podcast with @gerryt.bsky.social is gonna be a day late. there is just some weird audio stuff i have to fix and am sorta out of time bc i gotta head to oklahoma for a funeral but it'll be up tomorrow and i'll tell you now that @raffsputin.bsky.social will be joining us!

sorry, nowhere close to ready to shut up about this yet I didn't realize how badly i needed to see jesse win this it is such a dark time for trans ppl, and has been for a while now i have felt like I've been suffocating for months, and watching her succeed is a much needed breath of fresh air

While the homies are battling for their lives in the RC, I have foregone playing LCQs, 4-0 dropped the Saturday 5k (deck was cracked, lotta fun), and helped liberate my friend’s car from impound this morning. Additionally, new seasonal Red Bull is tasty. Y’all aren’t getting the full RC experience

Bout to legally change my name to Gerry Tea bc I like this so much

Is this not cracked in wb now? Have phelia and ketra, always be solitude-ing etc Think i’m playing two in charlotte Bought a shizo today too 🤷

damn this kaito card is kinda good

very soon @gerryt.bsky.social and i are going to be starting a podcast together more to come on that, but for right now we are looking for questions from you! if you have any questions about magic, life, tournament ethics, etc that you want Gerry and i to answer, ask em here!

- Y'shtola, Night's Blessed - Final Fantasy XIV x MTG One of the best things to arrive in my inbox : a commission to paint Y’shtola. I loved each minute of the process. Thank you AD Stephanie Cheung. <3

Vault Game Store had Soul Cauldrons and some other stuff I wanted in stock when a lot of my usual card shopping sites didn't. Also, getting good use out of the @gerryt.bsky.social GERRT discount code <3 vaultgamestore.com

Homie won today’s RCQ but not us. We did make a friend though.

I’m at a game store that’s wheelchair accessible, has a shelf full of books on Palestine prominently on display, and gender neutral bathrooms with changing tables. Paper Tiger in Richmond kinda rules.

Looking to borrow 3 mox opal for charlotte, I have references and collateral. Retweets appreciated.

Reminder that if you like free content, I have both a Magic and a Marvel Snap podcast. I’m doing the Snap one for free and my friend busts his ass making great content 7 days a week, so it’s be cool if you could sub to his channel to help get him paid. <3 youtube.com/@kmbcast?si=...

This is what I do it for

“Get in loser, we’re going to the RC.”

Update:

This is gonna be a good weekend

I guess I’m glad Portland isn’t using the new set bc then I’m not distracted by nonsense like Death’s Shadow vehicle But I may play an LCQ or two with my shark son for funsies

Two weeks til Portland

Lexi was an immediate advocate for me in the family when I came out & her & her husband have always been compassionate. She's never asked me for help, but is in need now. If you got a few bucks or bandwidth to share, It'd mean the world. Everything helps www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...

Despite registering HopeLESS Nightmare as HopeFUL Nightmare (I’m an optimist, sue me), I lost in the finals of my RCQ with this

True friendship

Caught up with someone I hadn’t seen since 2018 or so. They mentioned that they saw the mean article written about me. Me: Which article? Him: ‘I went on a horrible date with an MTG champion’ or something like that? Me: What!? That wasn’t me, that was Jon Finkel Him: You sure?

The weekend isn’t over quite yet since I have a couple more days in Atlanta, but it’s been great. Friday was stressful trying to cobble together cards, but any blame is on me. Had a moment to talk to Gavin Verhey who ninja appeared for a day (no suit, almost didn’t recognize him!).

This week on Casual Magic, I'm joined by Czech hall of famer and Magic great Martin Jůza! This dude is incredibly nice and really smart, and this was a delightful conversation. youtu.be/QW2btyDiAvM

Modern FNM deck ready

One thing that came up constantly when discussing Boros Energy was how Jegantha limited your options. Folks couldn’t get away from free (useless) card, even for something as important as Skyclave Apparition, which exiles the important cards in the mirror. Amped Raptor kinda did the same.