Imo much of the luster of alternate reality Magic (cards) has been lost across Mystery Boosters playtest cards, Secret Lairs, cowboy hats, Lazotep Slivers, Smiting Helices, and all else. Can you imagine a colorless Omnath?! Buck wild ✊🫴

I am interested.

The weird thing about FAB previews is that I genuinely just want expansion slot previews as single cards, and then large card pool chunks. It's really hard to tell how to evaluate "fragment attack that synergizes with unreleased subset of cards." Just give me a bunch of those at once.

one required, but sadly enormous, shift in the way americans view things: recovering an understanding that a democratic government is a collective enterprise that should deliver tangible services and benefits to people

I type stuff out and delete it often

A: "I'm excited for Armory tonight!!" B, C, D: "Same!" E: "Remember today is Sage, not CC." A, B, C, D: "Oh never mind I'm not going." Incredible format!

I have three stores locally that host armories weekly and get good attendance. There are no Battlegrounds within 250 kilometers of me. Not sure how these tournaments were distributed, but it's a huge miss.

It was cool when MTG did boostie experiments like Conspiracy and Battlebond instead of printing Commander decks every set.

In FAB I've been trying to play every single hero in CC for the past month. I've been keeping track of my records and how fun the heroes are. So far I'm 7/39 heroes into it. The most fun has been Prism and Dash io.

Hey, remember when we had print to demand secret lairs?

I was so good not playing slay the spire on workdays and then last night I stayed up until 1am (way past my bedtime). 😵‍💫

By the way, LSS, on the stream where you are revealing the next set name, don't let your casters make a bunch of hint hint jokes about talents that do not appear in the set.

Okay I think I'm excited for Zyggy.

Gonna be boxing up a bunch of magic cards to sell at SCG Richmond this weekend. Sad time since I don't like selling Magic cards but don't see myself in the game any time soon.

Happy Sage bnr day to those who celebrate. I played Enigma in two Sage PQs and went 3-3 and 3-2.

Silver Age has been an absolutely miserable time for me. Really dislike the format; hope it can be salvaged.

Amazing thread! The only thing I'd like to add is that you should still make guides even if you're not an acclaimed player or have an impressive result. But just do it for free! What happened to making content and resources for the love of the game.

I have my own SAGE MetaFai :) guide that's completely free and will always be free! If you wanna check it out here it is: metafy.gg/guides/view/...

Compendium is cool but I wish I had more heroes to play around with. I'm excited to know what the next set is.

Ripped this from @TheQonfused from the other platform, since folks wanted hard analytics on what the reduction in published MTGO challenge results could mean for a metagame. @inspiringtimmy.bsky.social since you were asking.

This discord channel link (which I havent viewed) reminds me of the Arena forums where mods would instruct everyone who had an issue with the shuffler to post in this stickied, 1k+ page thread that existed primarily for people to complain in without infecting the rest of the forum with nonsense.

This is very funny Makes me wish I hadn't canceled nitro back in 2021 when discord higher ups were trying to figure out how to integrate crypto.

Hey @fabtcg.com , my favorite hero is Prism and I can't start making any headway on a Sage deck for her because none of her available weapons for the format are herald-focused (or they're Luminaris, Celestial Fury and abysmal). Please help me out. 🤲

Commander color identity strictness (including hybrid) is the absolute fakest thing about the format. Heaven forbid I play Ignoble Hierarch or Kitchen Finks in a g/b deck!

Finally, a card that scales exponentially.

Just gonna go to my little card game tournament and pretend the world isn't falling apart

I've top 4d with all 40 champions in TFT 🙂 Aurelion Sol was my favorite.

Had a fun time with Gravy at the armory and played a crazy game where my draws were nuts and I completely brutalized a poor vynnset player.

This morning's rabbit-hole: lorwyn elf feet hooves.

Why did all companies everywhere decide we needed a Spotify wrapped for everything I've ever used?

2025 what a year

I see folks who want Magic IP supported and given breathing space. Lorwyn Eclipsed stories start Monday, then Tuesday WeeklyMTG is showing Marvel Super Heroes previews. Now, I don't expect story to be sole community focus for a full week. But can you try NOT stomping out your own story with UB?

It's wild to me that FAB printed a truly excellent limited environment in High Seas, then went back to printing a extremely mediocre and uninspiring limited set in Super Slam.

I have gout and it SUCKS

I'll probably get suckered back into playing Richmond in March but this is how I feel about standard generally. You either play the expensive wrong cards that won't get banned or the expensive good cards that are definitely getting banned in 3 months.

Generally positive on BNR changes, but to be honest I still do not feel like Standard is welcoming and probably won't try to get back into it. (This is largely due to amount of set releases)

If the ban list update isn't good today, I'm blaming the Democrats.

This is actually the MOST NORMAL i can share the FAB server being this morning.

Watching the slow erosion of competitve Magic in my area in real time: The majority of our RCQs now won't have judge support next season (stores can't afford it), and weekly 60-card events are getting replaced by games like Riftbound. I think @magic.wizards.com analytics HAVE to be flawed.

5-0 into seed 1 at my FAB Proquest with Prism, immediately lose to top 8 match to a friend 😟 Still a good day - lots of fun

Local FAB armories have been popping off lately. 18-30 people per week since June; really great numbers.

Cubecon, as always, was the best event of the year.

Gizmo cube. Drafted ug energy and lost AGAIN in the trophy match. 2-1. Energy was neat but greens identity really was just Naturalize.

2-1 heartbreaking trophy loss but an extremely cool Izzet "Radiance" deck. Probably my favorite vibe here so far - Omnipresent Imposter cube.

Drafted the Odyssey Remastered cube, ended up with a 2-1. 🙂

Albert Brennaman's Innistrad Expanded Cube has the extra rule that each player starts with a Cogwork Librarian. ...that is wearing a *different hat.*

Drafted the sweet treats cube - and trophied!

First cubecon draft, first cubecon trophy! Alpha reimagined cube.

I am cubecon bound!