mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

Tonight is absolutely amazing, all the worst people are completely eating shit

The name is Mamdani M A M D A N I

Might be my favorite horror movie, it's just so damn deeply unsettling!

Something really perverse about Magic's direction is just how much it is a product attempting to hijack your identity. Century-of-the-self-ass card game. Prove your devotion to your toys by spending absurd $$ on serialized, hyper-personalized advertising in the shell of a game piece. It sucks!

Here are 4 standard-legal cards I think are neat and make me happy when I get to play with and against them in non-rotating formats. "Designing for Eternal" is broke. Let the cool Magic cards trickle down to their forever homes.

All the videos and photos from the protests today are insane morale boosts, it rules.

GO MARINERS

Mr Mamdani do you recognize Skyrim as a Nordic state

Very genuinely will kinda freak out if they don't ban Planar Nexus and/or Kozilek's Command. The extremely explosive colorless combo deck that kills you through turn 1 Null Rod pretty easily is not okay.

North America Eternal Weekend 2025 Legacy Champs Data Sheet hosted by @cardtitan.bsky.social #MTGLegacy 944 players. Won by the one and only Tom Basketball on Mystic Forge. Also Loam Pox in the Top 8! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

EW Top 8 pretty clearly signposts which decks need to be taken down a peg. Colorless Bullshit.dek and UB Reanimator (again). There's a lot of fair discussion to be had about what exactly should be hit though (other than Tamiyo 100%)

go mariners

enjoying this lurrus vs goblins battle @maxtortion.bsky.social

Promises #MTG

Legacy hot take I developed last night: Planar Nexus is better than Mishra's Workshop would be in the KeyRing deck.

It’s kinda funny that basically every early criticism people made of bringing other IPs into Magic came true

leaked email

Yo Jimbo

Actually maybe getting somewhere with "neoclassical" Vial Goblins. Really focused on streamlining my engine so that I wouldn't run out of cards, and be resilient vs spot removal. Reanimator, mono U Jewel, Jeskai Wizards, Cephalid Breakfast, Reanimator

I'm a certified Oops hater but absolutely love deep dives on the history of Legacy decks, I contain multitudes.

Got tempted into watching All the President's Men on Criterion then realized I absolutely cannot handle the psychic damage of seeing journalists at the Washington Post do their jobs

Thinking once again about the greatest match of Magic: the Gathering ever played. youtu.be/jkwLJjBGzEE?...

Strongest possible cosign

No Ancient Tombs, some Ports AND Mogg War Marshals? What a day. (Port was actually pretty decent, MWM probably just better as Searslicer)

They should probably ban every 1-3 mana creature in Legacy that draws a card when it attacks/deals damage. That design is just so inherently busted with Force of Will that is sorta devolves the entire format around that class of cards.

Went to the Paris theater in NYC today with two great friends and saw Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm. Absolutely stunning picture quality, it was a brand new print.

Man I miss Rishadan Port

Duel Commander giving me some new experiences still; Recruiter pass into Snoop with Arena of Glory. I had Snoop in hand > Goblin Chirurgeon on top of the pile so I could combo with protection and ended up beating this Kinesis with exactly enough Goblins in play. Infinite mana > muxus > Kiki Crafter

Wotc if you’re taking recommendations on which singular showcase to look at to influence your next bnr decision, might I suggest this one?

Got a new video up for the Vial-less build! www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wq...

In a time of dire need and abject suffering, this is the least we can do. This organization is legit (a quick check on Charity Watch speaks highly of their efficacy). Donate if you can!

I've been killing it with Vial(less) Goblins recently, so I've put together a sideboard guide for the Patreon, which will have a few more matchups added to it across the summer. Check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/legacy...

An immutable law of the universe is every time you’re playing MTGO and say “okay 1 more match before bed” you instantly pair into the slowest possible opponent

Got a video out with this new spicy list, catch these goblin hands www.youtube.com/watch?v=v51h...

Pulled out another Duel Commander trophy same night as Legacy, I'm just on a 10-0 tear tonight! Drew a lotta Goblin Recruiters in this one, essential to beat the nearly unwinnable Light Paws matchup.

2nd 🏆in 3 leagues!! Beat Jeskai Blade, UB tempo (or reanimator tbh, but probably tempo), Oops, Maverick, Wakame Doomsday. Insanely stoked about this list after having quite a dry spell of results.

Genuinely breaking new ground with this 5-0 on my first attempt building an aggro midrange Goblins that is neither Turbo Muxus nor Vial Gobs. Such crazy matches. Turbo Dday (I assume) UB Tempo Mono B Saga Storm Stiflenaught KeyRing w/Painter

Preview for tonight's Youtube video 👀

Got my first 5-0 in Duel Commander, it's my 6th league of the format and I've been 3-2x3 4-1x2 before this. Leagues heavily over-rep mono red, which I've beaten maybe 8-9 times, lost once. Muxus genuinely feels like such a beast in this format!!

Honestly warms my heart to see Stryfo come out of retirement and top 8 the Showcase with a deck no one else is playing, with cards no one else has registered. There's hope for Legacy maybe.

I had a blast with @xjcloud.bsky.social showing me the world of Duel Commander on MTGO. It was genuinely a really fun time, and you should check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKbK...

gonna post a bunch of thoughts on the legacy B&R. I think the most important note to keep in mind is legacy in 2025 is inherently a casual format. There are competitive events, but it is a format defined by casual interest. Without weeklies and paper play, legacy dies. This B&R ignores this fact.

What stings the most about today’s B&R is the dissonance between March’s “legacy looks balanced but we know people aren’t happy so we’re changing things” to today’s “legacy looks balanced so no changes.” I had hopes we would continue to improve the format, now we’re stuck with this until 2026.

I think the big gap with Oops is how surface level it is similar to Belcher, so it gets a surface level pass, but in practice its not remotely the same experience. It's much closer to asking "What if every Epic Storm combo line was a 4 mana instant kill"

Wotc is treating Oops as a museum curiosity (look at how wacky our game engine can be, isn’t that neat??) rather than a wart on the face of Legacy