Eldrazi Paradox! What if we played Mox Opal and Kozilek's Command in the same deck? Glaring Fleshraker acts as the mana engine for our Paradoxical Outcome combo deck. And Cryogen Relic helps make Outcome a good fair draw spell! moxfield.com/decks/Q1LWmx... @handshakemtg.com @moxfield.com

Aftermath Analyst is back! It's Johnny Thursday, and I bring you a deck that has gone through more refinement than my last ideas - this one can actually win games! Rydia makes the deck go completely bananas. Eden enables an infinite loop. Turn 4 kill. You gotta check this out!!

All-nighter full of drafting and a morning flight is the best way to travel to the US. Hopefully I can get some sleep on my Vegas flight and be ready for the testing house with Team Handshake Moxfield 🫡

FaB Draft Guide for High Seas! This article covers 10 different archetypes in the set, giving some theoretical approaches to drafting and helps you develop depth in your deckbuilding. I worked on it for the last two weeks, and it contains basically everything I know about the format. Enjoy!

Firion Storm! It's time for another Johnny Thursday, and today I present a crazy, dumb and decidedly non-competitive deck. Firions ability is kinda broken with For Mirrodin. But with the right equipment, you can actually storm off and draw your deck! @moxfield.com moxfield.com/decks/yjzv_F...

LSS gave me a sneak peak of the new Gem Packs at World Premiere Taipei, so I made a lil pack opening video for you when I got home! youtu.be/EhIHXSsAnIA?...

I just realized that the Amulets in High Seas are all inspired by the Talents! From the top: - Shadow - Light - Chaos (affecting ALL heroes and allies) - Elemental - Ice - Lightning - Earth - Draconic - Mystic

Trailblazer Combo! Inspired by an @inspiringtimmy.bsky.social Modern brew, this standard deck tries to get Temur Battlecrier and Outcaster Trailblazer in play together. This makes your clone effects cost 1 mana, so you can clone your Trailblazer for free, drawing so many cards! @moxfield.com

On my way home from Taipei now. These trips are giving me life!! Made Day 2 of the Calling, but went 2-4 in draft to finish outside of prizing. Still, always happy to day 2 these competitive draft is just so much fun 🤩

I started playing a bit of Final Fantasy (IX) to see what the hype was about, and I have finally found a card game I can't beat 😡

It took three @scryfall.com team members, with breaks, about SEVEN (7) hours to enter all of the new FIC/FIN/FCA cards into the website. Just for transparency on the effort behind preview season. It was over 350 cards today, alone. This does not include time spent fixing typos or bulk tagging.

I find it ironic that the worst sleeves I've ever tried are the ones we get at the exclusive Pro Tour. This is after 10-15 games playtesting with a proxy deck 🫠🫠

On Sunday I'll play Aurora at a Pro Quest in Copenhagen. To prepare, I went to an Aurora concert today!

In Bologna for the Magic Regionals! Where the pizzas are bigger than the plates 🤤

Maybe Underworld Breach was just too slow all along! This is one of those ideas I had to bring into the world from my notepad. Does it function? Who knows! But now we have enough Moxes that Rona could act as support for the Riddlesmith + Ovalchase Daredevil engine. moxfield.com/decks/N9yxvK...

First time flying with Lufthansa, and first time I see someone board a plane the smart way! Window seats first 😱

Today I finished a 4-year long campaign of Betrayal: Legacy! (Yes it's just 13 chapters, but getting people together is harrrd) I loved the last chapter, lots of cool mechanics. The creativity in this game is quite impressive 😁👻 And now that evil is defeated I can finally sleep well at night.

Traveled to a Pro Quest to send Zen off Went 0-2 I think it will be a great thing for my winrate in this game that he will no longer be legal after this weekend 😂

Night before Pro Tour London. I'm resleeving my Zen deck (turns out my sleeves were not opaque 😖 ) Happy to play my deck for one last go before he leaves the format. Not so happy that I got sick this week 😷

Decided to register for the World Premiere in TaiPei just before going to bed and good thing I did because I got ONE OF THE LAST TWO TICKETS!!! 🤯🤯 Guess I'm going to a new country in May 😍

Playing a Flesh and Blood Pro Quest at riding school in the Netherlands (Battle Hardened tomorrow) Feeling inspired by this mirror, I hope my horse is brave today!

Three members of Handshake @moxfield.com are in Utrecht for the Spotlight Series! casting 🎤: @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social @huschenmtg.bsky.social competing ⚔️: @stefanschuetzmtg.bsky.social Catch them all on the livestream this weekend www.twitch.tv/ultimateguar...

Sadly went 6-0 into 6-3 (losing 3 win and ins in a row) in the recent Legacy Showcase Challenge with Mono U Painter. I'm not sure how good the deck is going to be going forward but it's quite powerful and gives you a way to play Stock Up in Legacy. moxfield.com/decks/pKq2ME...

Did my Masterclass Improv Show yesterday! At some point we have a bit where new characters appear on stage with increasingly worse conditions. No arms etc. I decide to enter with no head, doing the thing where you pull up your sweater over your face Though I wasn't wearing a sweater The result 😆

The Rabin threat is entertaining and quite crazy, but this is the one that tops it for me. Not even about Magic, but a Warhammer 40K event, where he did the equivalent of handing in a clean crisp 45 card Mono Red deck hoping nobody would bother to count because it's a paper decklist 😳😳

Good luck to Handshakers Nathan Steuer and Zach Kiihne at the Charlotte RC today! They both registered Temur Breach. List by @nathansteuer.bsky.social below: moxfield.com/decks/ViUokD...

Being anti-trans is really an elite phenomenon that elites are mistakenly convinced is widely shared.

If you haven't watched the @draftpunks.bsky.social interview with @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social about his Duskmourn Worlds draft... then block out 2 hours for some serious limited level ups. It really opened my eyes to some high-level drafting techniques. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtXo...

One exception - trans issues. We cannot let up even a little bit to protect our most vulnerable community, cause even those supposedly on our side will run right over our siblings if we let them.

A key part of our testing experience for Pro Tour Aetherdrift was the Convoke mulligan meeting, facilitated by Moxfield. We opened a bunch of hands in the playtesting tool and discussed their merits under certain conditionals. I think this is easily the lost unituitive piece to playing Convoke!

Good morning, Magic players! We uploaded the top 8 deck lists from the Pro Tour. You can view them here: moxfield.com/bookmarks/NA...

It was a great PT for the squad with everyone making day 2 and 12/13 requalifying for Vegas, but the highlight of the weekend is always team dinner!

Only bad matchup for us is FedEx!

3-0'ed my draft pod with this busted UW deck. Got passed so many mythics in pack 3! (2nd pic shows which cards I got in pack 3) Insanely lucky, like wtf 😵‍💫

PT time! Looking forward to playing with a bunch of rares in Draft and a bunch of commons/uncommons in standard 😄 #TeamHandshake #Moxfield

Excited for 2025! PT decklist submission tomorrow

I've got my phone BACK after a full week here in Prague without it!

FaB spoiler season is weird for me right now. I care so disproportionally more about limited than CC that I brush over all these majestics, starving for the content that really interests me. And then @teaandtcg.bsky.social reveals Public Bounty, a simple common, and I get super hyped 😂

📜 📜 New article from @tangrams.bsky.social on the differences between open and closed decklist tournaments. This innocent-looking concept turns out to be crucial to success at the RC and Pro Tour level. Read the article on the Ultimate Guard blog to find out why! ultimateguard.com/en/blog/open...

Team Handshake UG kicks off the 2025 campaign with the MOCS this weekend. David and Karl are representing the squad in an 8-player field, battling Modern and Vintage Cube for $50,000 in prizes. Catch them Sunday, Jan 19 on the @magiconline.bsky.social stream!

After many hours of writing (and teasing on stream) my Esper Pixie Deck guide is complete and available through my Patreon shop. If you are a subscriber to my Twitch please message me for a discounted price. Tagging @fireshoes for reach — its almost 8000 words 😅 t.co/oOMN2WxLwD

Made crepes for breakfast and now I'm meeting up with 7 friends to draft two FaB sets I haven't gotten to try: Tales of Aria and Outsiders!

I'm putting on my mean face and going live with the Foundations Sealed Arena Qualifier 😡😡 Twitch.tv/redbuttontie

Going live right now with some Pioneer Masters and Foundations limited prep for the Qualifier Weekend! Twitch.tv/ultimateguardlive #UltimateGuard

I felt like we needed some actual Strategy guidance for people coming into Flesh and Blood and so I wrote this comprehensive piece going through all the common strategic concepts to help you get a headstart in this exciting game! #UltimateGuard Link below ⬇️

It has begun! 🦋