Once again reminding the world that colour pairs should be listed WB, BG, GU, UR, RW Don't care if anyone says otherwise

I've got high hopes for the upcoming return to Lorwyn, and a very specific wish, motivated by the needs of my Cube and the themes.of Lorwyn: a 10-card cycle of hybrid Changelings at common, all with staple effects for their color pair. Like, a Doomed Traveler-type for {W/B}, ...

...And I wrote about the feedback I got on my own #mtgcube zoydraft.tumblr.com/post/7964746...

Coming to y'all hand in hand asking for new work while I find a new job! Here's some things i've made in the past few months. Please consider sharing with folks. I would love to do any brand related design or illustration work. for inquiries: [email protected]

Toronto had its first mid-sized #mtgcube event! @to.untap.ca was incredible and I wrote about it here: zoydraft.tumblr.com/post/7957097...

Sort it (physically) along two axis: Card advantage (positive/neutral/negative) and Big game vs neutral vs small game Compare between colours. The distribution is interesting, but the qualities of cards are even more interesting. *How* do the cards do these things? (1/x)

The sooner you get introduce them to the joy of Remembering Some Guys, the more likely they can be saved.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

I took a few minutes to show my dad Tunic. I spent about 90 seconds in the overworld and 10 minutes flipping through the manual, and I think that accurately conveys which parts of the experience were more salient

Does anyone run a public equivalent of the old SportsClubStats 50-50 model for the NHL? That is, playoff probabilities that take into account schedule but make no attempt to evaluate team strength

I love seeing @luisasotomayor.bsky.social 's comments on the nature of 33 Charles's lawsuit against a charity. Seeing all the poverty in this neighbourhood sucks. Suing people who are helping, for things beyond their control is repulsive www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Clearly their training data didn't go far enough back, or it would already be trying to verify this early in any CHAT by asking "A/S/L?"

If I made a clown shoes #mtgcube, it would be a Teferi's Puzzle Box cube

Trophy in @zoydraft.bsky.social pink sleeves at @to.untap.ca. there was a 4/1 split FoF with the 1 being htkaimb

I do my part, by always sharing memes etc as screenshots. Every share should degrade the quality

"retweets are not endorsements. follows do not mean I follow someone. likes do not mean I like something. views do not mean I saw anything. posts are not reflective of anything"

Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.

A fringe benefit of having your cube in @to.untap.ca is Gray takes a fun photo of your cube that really draws attention to the white borders and printer paper proxies

I keep thinking about Broadcast News (1987)

If It Wasn't A Sequel to Hollow Knight, That Mechanic Wouldn't Register As Something Valid To Complain About

Running Mothership (Another Bug Hunt) tonight for the first time. Very excited! Also, exhausted cuz my 4yo woke up at 430 to be irritating (he did not go back to sleep and neither did I)

I was gonna post about how @mothership.bsky.social does a super good job of explaining everything... except running monsters. This blog does a way better job of critiquing it than I ever could: forestoath.bearblog.dev/how-violence...

Silksong should be like $50

Hey Firefox users.

are oils slime?

Cutting a pet card for a bad card to make the eventual swap to a good card easier

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Referring to any bar chart as "a Pareto diagram" to be awful

I got to draft a bunch of #mtgcube so I wrote about: Scripted cards, my taste for "combo adjacent," and who that's bad for Transformative modules & losing a drafter's trust Table size & Cogwork Librarians Dom Harvey finding a secret Storm deck(!?!?) zoydraft.tumblr.com/tagged/2508/...

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

The Storm Control deck was mind boggling to see come together

My cube is being drafted by a bonafide M:tG Pro™ this evening and I think it's funny that they're so far away from my idealized player [someone who knows how to play Magic but I can't assume knows any of the cards]

Was watching a movie on my laptop and suddenly it stopped, got BSoD and bad_system_config_info and all the options/instructions (including command prompt stuff) short of using recovery media (which I do not have, nor do I even think I have a usb key) have failed 🫠

Folks who have had their #mtgcube featured in an event, did you do anything to solicit feedback from players, or is there anything you wish you'd done?

Needed to update my pinned post because we got a new poster! Tickets for Untap T.O. are still available. #Toronto 's (And Canada's) First Major #MTGCube Event. Don't miss out on plenty of locally designed Cubes and locally brewed brews. Only one month away! www.tixtree.com/e/untap-to-4...

Sacred & Profane #mtgcube packs (Just sorting your cube by word count)

Does it ever feel like one of those days where you're lightyears away from facing Brock?

Okay, Chapter 7 of Mother 3 was incredibly tedious, but Chapter 8 has me right back on board!

P1P1 Friday - NEW CUBE ALERT! Brought to you by @hyenaemoji.bsky.social. This highly synergistic Cube focuses on artifacts and what artifacts do with other cards. A brewer's paradise where YOU are an ARTIFICIER. What's your pick? View the full list here: cubecobra.com/cube/overvie... #mtgcube

ALL GLORY TO THE PSYCHIC FROG! Pins have finished production and are almost ready to go for Untap T.O. ! Pins will be given out for any 3-0 drafter, so you too may pay tribute to the frog. #mtgcube #toronto

Decided to switch it up with a 4-for-1 retro set review, focusing on a historically tricky archetype for Cube designers: creature-type matters decks. They may be hard to design in Draft, but the flavor and intuitiveness make up for it, as these 4 sets show! luckypaper.co/articles/the...

This was not rhetorical, I wanna know if people do stuff! @usmantherad.bsky.social @matt-grenier.bsky.social

How do you evaluate your own #mtgcube if you can't organize a draft right now? I have some kinda qualitative exercises: zoydraft.tumblr.com/post/7904369...

If LLMs were actually a belligerent AI that was trying to hide its intelligence while inflicting widespread damage, would it behave kind of like how it does?

I really like the game pedantle and it seems like no one else plays it. Guess words to fill in the Wikipedia summary of a topic, but it uses semantic data to pencil words that are close but wrong, so it's less blind guessing than other similar games ice played pedantle.certitudes.org

I can't reply to this, but Forge has an updated version of Shandalar and it's really cool youtu.be/d9SAIG5M3As?...

Tlön, Uqbar, Goop, Oobleck

Kept dreaming about Caverns of Thracia