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!

Tried to take the survey about the Spiderman set but WotC is being very blatant about not caring about what I think. Not cool!

A little MTG timeline. May 2024: Extremely happy with standard, can't get enough of the format. January 2025: Hesitant about Standard and attending the first Spotlight Series. October 2025: I don't think I'll ever buy into Standard again.

I've been very much enjoying FAB recently. Especially with the new tournament packs having a shot at a fancy version of my favorite hero

This will be hard to open up after strixhaven's last narrative but I will do it anyway for the love of the game.

Donate to scryfall!

I'm really excited to see when and how they print a second necromancer. First attempt at the class is good and fun to play.

In my local area, Magic RCQs this weekend had 9 and 10 players (2 RCQs). FAB PQ had 43 players.

FAB proxies until real cards arrive.

I am on my sixteenth steel soul 100% run. I haven't gotten past act 1 yet.

Crowdsourcing a little here: what are some iconic Magic cards that do not have a tournament resume?

My whole group chat is mourning competitive magic and trying to quit but I'm so glad magic is making more money than ever.

Patreon app home page went from just my stuff, to random selections of my stuff, to a tiny selection of my stuff and then a ton of random promoted patreons.

This was a fun pro tour to watch!

Nah man a big part of why the UB stuff makes me sad is cause I know it's extremely popular so they're going to keep doing it despite it making the parts of the game I deeply care about worse. Like I know a bunch of people are going to buy the 6th marvel set but that doesn't make my FNM fire.

Yeah I think I may be largely done with magic the gathering at this pace.

Every clip I see of the Kamala interview is crazy in a new and exciting way.

Reports from locals that spider man prerelease attendance is less than enthusiastic. Unfortunately I don't think this means anything for wotc.

Now to hunt for achievements!

Does the dromai armory deck exist or will ever exist?

Act 3 in silksong is a banger. Will be replaying this game several times

Man, I thought they were joking when they called Silksong difficult.

Our last local Standard RCQ had 14 players and the store hosting it is considering changing how often they support organized play.

Silksong spoilers (not plot related).

Silksong is the goat

Entering silk song hibernation mode

Jesse top 8d Orlando with Vivi cauldron!! Let's go!

This is why i respect folks taking stands but I'm never the one to clamor for people to drop their sponsors.

I'm still surprised that even in the year 2025, we don't always have player pronouns when it comes to Magic: The Gathering coverage. Literally the easiest thing to do.

Another excellent day for gravy Bones at the local armory. 🤠

Best sets of all time, based on only my opinion. No particular order. Alpha Antiquities Invasion Ravnica: City of Guilds Time Spiral Zendikar Innistrad Mirrodin Besieged Dominaria Modern Horizons Ikoria Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty

If I get bored I'll do a short list of the BEST SETS OF ALL TIME

This is possibly the worst list of all time.