I am begging democrats to sort out their fucking goon situation before it is too late

Reading for the summer, some for fun some for work, some both. Also at home is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Message and a few books on learning.

Magic: The Gathering writing has a short half-life. Historically-important articles are taken offline every year. This sucks. That's why I'm launching Library of Leng, an index of 32 years of Magic writing. 150k+ articles, 20+ sites, fully searchable. library-of-leng.com

I barely post anything anymore so this feels a little bit redundant, but I'm officially pausing the patreon indefinitely, with no plans for new Youtube videos. Magic just doesn't hold my interest much anymore! www.patreon.com/posts/closin...

Expressive Iteration is so back

Puppies are a lotta work lemme tell ya, but lookatthatface

I got a lil guy, his name is Oban

Got a brand new Containment Priest bug for @magiconline.bsky.social to look at. Priest flashed in response to Muxus, exiling a buncha stuff including Squee. Squee should still be castable from exile, but I wasn't able to.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... It’s valuable to listen to this first hand account of what the conditions are in these concentration camps and to know that it’s a moral imperative that we liberate them as we did Dachau. Any means necessary. It’s an abomination.

5-0s continue to elude me, but I've been getting a pretty decent swath of 4-1s with Gobs since getting down to this build, of which there are 2 slots I keep fiddling with. Pashalik/Putrid Goblin are my current holds on that slot, but also will try Impulsive Pilferer over Putrid Gob next.

Impossible to say what the history of competitive Magic would have been without Kai, but it would certainly be vastly lesser.

Sorta interesting point on just how fast Legacy has become; there are 0 3 drops that people are actually spending 3 lands to cast other than Barrowgoyf. Legacy used to be basically defined by 3 drops. Goyf is often better than almost all the other options, but you'd think there would be something!

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

does this work how I think it does

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

The Bloody Massacre by Paul Revere, 1770.

The Chair for every ICE agent. Fuck these people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByKO... All Goblins enthusiasts should check out this league with the new cards from Lorwyn in Legacy! Really exciting time for the deck, completely revolutionizing the archetype from the ground up

Opp had me absolutely losing it, if you're tilting off in chat you should be this level of funny about it

I wrote a Legacy Goblins-based set review for Lorwyn Eclipsed, which may end up being the biggest set for the deck since at least MH1 and maybe even Onslaught. Check it out by signing up for the Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/lorwyn...

Some other exciting stuff, but this is some 10/10 Legacy Goblins material, LFG

A NEW FORMAT JOINS THE FAMILY We're ready to welcome Premodern to the MTGO Roster! Get ready to party like it's 1995-2003 🥳 youtube.com/shorts/qBDI7...

Since Premodern arrived on MTGO a few days ago, I've been jamming a ton of games with Gobs, and having an absolute blast. It's so much fun to Port + Warchief + Piledriver people, cycle Gempalm Incinerators (and easily connect with Lackey lol). First trophy here!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCcR... Made a video for the first time in a long time! Not stellar results but genuinely a bunch of really good quality games. Had some better results off-camera with some list tweaks, doing a SB guide for EW players!

jesper myrfors, magic’s original art director, providing advice to artists considering using generative ai

Yoooooo someone top 8d the challenge with my list, always super exciting to see!

🏆* (first match win through disconnect). Port Gobs actually doing substantially better than Tombs in this new meta for me. Might come down to extra R source more than anything though. Beat blue Post, GB midrange stuff, UR tempo w/tamiyo, and Omnisneak. Gonna -2 surgical -1 REB for 3 Leylines prob.

UR + Colorless being the top decks immediately postban just makes sense, but it is inescapably funny that UB reanimator top 8s the first showcase after banning Entomb.

Please make it stop

We've now suffered the tragic loss of Tatsuya Nakadai (92), Japanese film icon, and my personal favorite actor. He's the GOAT. I want to go through all of the films of his that I've seen to pay tribute to such a wonderful and talented actor.

Alright so didn't really hit any of the top priorities of the format (huge L) but Entomb + Nadu ban decreases Legacy's overall "well that's dumb and immediately wins"-type games, so I can't be TOO bad. Not sure what I'll do with Gobs from here, but I'm at least interested in trying things out now.

In order of necessity of making the format interesting: Tamiyo Planar Nexus Kozilek's Command Entomb The One Ring Probably but not necessarily Nadu

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

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

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.