Oh now this one is essential

Off the Table: The Gratuity of Magic’s Hidden Lore @mtgplowshare.bsky.social interviews format Magic Narrative Designer, Miguel Lopez, about the huge amounts of worldbuilding that never make it onto cards or webfiction. a free read (for now): www.cascadecascade.com/magics-hidde...

I've been so excited to share this: for CASCADE CASCADE, I interviewed Miguel Lopez, the former WOTC writer and worldbuiler who helped create the Edge (of Eternities), Ixalan, & more. we discuss the proliferation of tiny, irrelevant, beautiful details in the worlds of Magic. give it a read!

Artist Proof “Force” (Rise of the Eldrazi) by Eli Minaya @badking.bsky.social, via the Gallery Nucleus Magic: The Gathering in Miniature III (curated by the amazing @donnycaltrider.bsky.social)!! you know it’s good because when I took it out of the package I could smell the paint.

Paul Blartist

Please note that purchase of a Founder’s Club membership means that, if you come up to me IRL and show me your Founder’s Coin, I will buy you a drink, Ashnod’s Coupon-style [pre-errata! I will pay any costs for the drink (within reason)].

Hear that alarm going off? It doesn't mean that I accidentaly sat on my car keys. It means it's Wurm Time

"Dark Ritual's current oracle text simple reads "Add BBB," the Magic equivalent of "I am."

oops did I say Wednesday I meant Thursday. allow my error to heighten your thirst

🚨ALERT🚨 This Wednesday, my article for CASCADE CASCADE releases! I talk about those absurdly, seemingly unnecessarily minute details of Magic’s worlds—and I interview a stellar person who has helped create some of the game’s best worlds.

he’s so thoughtful, look at all those ideas

Announcing Writers but more. @vorthosmike.bsky.social is a known associate and usually the last on the plane. From helping found the MTG Art Market to over a decade of writing on art to bringing Magic’s art to museums and beyond, he’s synonymous with the visual culture of the game.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

all hail Donny, long may he reign

from bad (received constructive criticism) to worse (it was accurate)

math is dictating we have so many writers & so little time so we keep announcing. how exciting! you know 'em. or you don't and you should. @parker.luckypaper.co is bringing some strong Johnny energy to the table with thoughtful reflections on how Magic interacts with Real Life (& cube)

people who played magic prior to 6th edition: how much did you actually adhere to the rules of ~the batch~?

Time, time is a ship on a merciless sea drifting toward an abyss of nothingness until it can be recharted for its own destiny Time is an inanimate object paying and paying and paying for no justification for belief Time is dancing, boogalooing-away all memories of past—

Some of my favorite writing is hobby writing. I love when someone can put their passion for a thing, no matter how niche, into words and share that passion with you. Cascade Cascade is mine and @caljones.com's attempt at making a home for that sort of Magic writing.

does next article drop Thursday or Tuesday

INTRODUCING CASCADE CASCADE, a collective publishing weekly essays, deep dives, and other good-ass writing about the card game Magic: The Gathering. Built on the idea that those who love this game deserve more than an endless scroll of short form video. Community over content, every time.

I have something special coming out soon, and you’ll find it in CASCADE CASCADE!

vintage store charging full price beat-up mass market paperbacks. $20 for a shredded copy of a 1965 media philosophy book that is worth $5. madness reigns

download horse how

Heathcliff to me

Wuthering Heights (2026) is so bad I will probably devote 7-13 seconds each night for the rest of my life to seething about it

Today for @hipstersofthecoast.com I wrote about Lorwyn’s seductive violence and how we can see it evolve through illustrations by Steve Prescott and Evyn Fong (@evynfong.bsky.social). Give it a read! www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2026/02/thre...

this took me time to take (like a poplar digesting photons into ringed wood, perhaps?), and l’m going to share it again because it’s well worth your time. Andrew’s writing is the stuff I dream about but can rarely find in myself or in the world: a poetry of creation—of ink on cards and human lives

something about the way Adobe Acrobat pats itself on the back for integrating with MS Word to convert on doc a month to a PDF, something that Word already does by itself

ATTENTION #VORTHOSNATION STORIED SHOWDOWN will be at #MCVegas!!!! As we get closer I'll have more details but strap in for some highly narrative gameplay!!! HOLY SHIT

possibly Victory Road in Mario games might be peak evil. turns a bright beautiful fun game into something enraging. would serve a demoniacal role in Pilgrim’s Progress if John Bunyan had ever played one

Lemme tell ya right now, if you've been looking for a lil publication that puts out best-in-class Magic writing with the same level of reverence as good sports or pop culture outlets, you are going to have a very exciting late February and March.

rewatching x-files and then the move for the first time in 10 years I’ve realized that there are two kinds of mythology eps, the ones anxious about postwar America and the ones anxious about Y2K

Opening 5 commission slots for February in order to fund art supplies and token printing fees for Shoebox. $50+price of card if I don't own a copy. Includes shipping straight to you. These will likely be the only commissions I take through March because of time. DM to claim, share if u can!

really cool the visual storytelling you miss, but also unintentionally process, when you only see an image at card size. I had no idea the lizard was separate from the tree until now—but that’s the POINT! the tree stretches out like a tail: the land and the creature are extensions of each other

banger flavor text for banger art!!

@anniestegg.bsky.social and @justingerard.bsky.social have solidified my favorite #mtg arts of 2025 and 2026, respectively

Dominarian Plowshare consistently does a great job of demonstrating methods for appreciating the visual medium without making me feel like the silly philistine I am. And you get to see (and think through) more than 10 pixels of Providence of Night's stunning art! Read it now! 💜💜💜

Editing a piece for the Nook. Should be out Friday! Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the exciting things I have planned for ravnicanreadingnook.com! While you're there, read some of my other stuff! "Loops and Land Drops" has been really popular! #VorthosNation #writingsky #mtgwriting

I wrote abt Justin Gerard’s “Providence of Night,” one of my favorite new Lorwyn illustrations—one that, with the scale of Arena images, is *hard* to see. The painting’s both an achievement of world building and an object lesson in looking. Give it a read! open.substack.com/pub/dominari...

humble lil article out tomorrow

Fantastic and moving work. Hipsters of the coast continues to curate some of the best Magic related writing out there. Highly encourage reading

the RANGE!’

You can no longer find my writing on Substack. It is long overdue, but I just can't justify forcing people to use a platform that supports such hateful ideologies just to read my stuff. So now you can find it on my own site! ravnicanreadingnook.com #writersky #vorthos #indywriter #FuckICE

My art for Vinebred Brawler for Magic the Gathering. He's the same elf as in Dawnhand Eulogist! Art directed by the amazing Deborah Garcia : )

would like to live at the autumnal mishra’s factory

A thread of cards and artists for which the same artist has illustrated the same card multiple times. 1) This has happened for a million basic lands; they're not included 2) This has happened trivially in many, many cases -- Spectacular Spider-Man, Cavern of Souls, Traveling...

Five of Eyes — 🖼️ Prints www.inprnt.com/gallery/helv... 🃏 The Wormsong Oracle Deck helveticablanc.bigcartel.com