Traded my Aerith promo from RC Houston to a friend in exchange for an art commission and I'm super happy with how it turned out. Support your artist friends! Reject capitalism!

1-2 into 7-2 day 1 of RC Vegas with Izzet Metalcraft. Tires got slashed day 2 to drop at 8-6. Deck is a blast to play. Big shoutouts @mixolydia.bsky.social for the testing process + also day 2’ing with the same playmat + same 75 combo. We’ll get ‘em next time!

when i was a teenager the funny number was 69. now it's 67. the devastating effects of shrinkflation on the meme economy can no longer be ignored

Had a blast at LDXP Phoenix (helps when you live 20 minutes from the venue!) Built a busted deck with @mixolydia.bsky.social, then scrubbed out anyway! Unclear if Artist Talent Vivi is actually better than stock Cauldron but it’s certainly doing some nonsensical things moxfield.com/decks/uNd4td...

Spider-Man cards! Avatar card! Look we turned <Popular Brand>™️ into a Magic card! Don't you love <Popular Brand>™️? Why is this happening before prerelease?? I want to play and enjoy the cool looking spaceship cards! Just chill for like a minute! Please stop showing me pictures of Spider-Man! AHHHH

store didnt wanna run 5 rounds on a tuesday so i guess i split the finals of a 2-slot store champs for an urza's saga lmao. shoutout @reavh.bsky.social for the list, izzet cards still real good

Gone but not forgotten, thank you for your service you beautiful bastards 🫡

Won a cursed 28 person 1-slot RCQ yesterday. First fire alarm went off mid-semifinals, hour and a half delay waiting for the alarm company to turn it off, second alarm mid-finals, finished the match in the jack in the box. Successfully turned the frogs gay, happy pride everyone~! Matchups ⬇️

I get borderless cards but without any frames or text boxes, the Through the Ages bonus sheet cards look like they're one step away from someone googling "iconic Final Fantasy stills" and slapping them into a meme generator. BOTTOM TEXT

T16ed Hartford to make the PT again! So lovely to be back. Cutter deck was great. Too many people to thank but deck was busted. Get out was an all star out of the sideboard. Played a bunch of extremely crazy matches against very pleasant opponents.

Wheels fell off a little in the morning lmao. Scraped some wins off the pavement after to finish 10-5, good enough for 114th and an RC invite! Opponents were a pleasure and had a blast all weekend. Excited for the next one!

8-1 today, so far it’s been a good take 🙂

Gaming!

Theory: WotC killed competitive pioneer until we can fully play it on Arena. They’ll simultaneously announce a release date for on arena to coincide with an upcoming RCQ season.

Obligate post Magic tournament social media post. Lost a day two win and in, ended 5-3. Played a bad deck with great vibes in the 10k to expected bad deck results. Had an absolutely wonderful time in each and every single one of my 14 rounds played this weekend. Excited for Minneapolis soon 🙂

The eyeball deck from the PT looked fun so I bought three of them to finish my playset. Conceded the finals of the next two weekend’s RCQs. Can confirm the deck is very fun!

As an enjoyer of Smash Bros tournaments, something I've felt is missing from the comp Magic scene is people popping off after big victories and it's really cool to see some of that happening at this PT. We should normalize and encourage popping off after wins! www.twitch.tv/magic/clip/D...

Portland bound and ready to game 🫡

What testing Energy for Portland feels like

sanctumofallpod.libsyn.com/episode-15-s... Episode 15 is live! Join Jason, Nicole, and special guests @reavh.bsky.social and @skybsween.bsky.social as they discuss the winningest deck at Magic Spotlight Series Atlanta, their various modern brainworms, and yet another giant Tinybones.

Back home from Atlanta and near immediately getting to nap on the couch with my cat under the blanket. Great end to a great weekend.

Played Small Town Dimir to 10-5 at the GP for a shiny dragon. Shoutout to Dave Shiels for a lot of the ideas and shoutout to @reavh.bsky.social who went 11-4 with the same list and supplied the ttabes. Deck felt great, wish I’d been able to get a better result

Hastily switched to Small Town Dimir 90 minutes before deck submission deadline at SCG Atlanta Ended 11-4 for 63rd place to cash my first GP melee.gg/Decklist/Vie... Awesome hangs all weekend. This is great. Magic is so great. Also I white bordered my Hopeless Nightmares and TTABEs for the event

I am Atlanta bound! Excited for card games and cool hangouts at scgcon

Hoping for changes in Modern but there is historical precedence for "No Changes"

Back to back RCQ wins, this time with Gruul! 31 players, list in alt R1 Mirror LL R2 Otters WW R3 UW Control WW R4 Dimir WLW R5 - ID T8 MonoR WW (mull to 5 on the draw game one!!) T4 R1 Rematch Mirror WLW Two slots 🤝 Standard is still great!

Won a 31 player RCQ with Sultai Crabs. List in alt text Dimir WW Dimir WW Domain Zur LWW RB Reanimator ID - Take a nap Domain ID T8 Domain from round 5 WW Otters WLW Two slots, reanimator took the other invite. Standard is great, another RCQ to play tomorrow. Shoutouts to Sir Edward Murkington

Unfortunately we have been told that there will not be space for us to have our Safe Playspace at future MagicCons. :(

Lost in top 8 with Bant Gumbo Gruul LL WB Midrange WLW RG Smugglers WW Jeskai Convoke WW MonoW Caretakers Draw QF Gruul Rematch LWL The last minute changes were adding the 18th land, a basic plains, and 2 Sheltered by Ghosts in an attempt to be able to beat Red G1, which didn’t quite work!

An hour and a half before my RCQ seems like the perfect time to make untested changes to my decklist. "There is no fault in this logic" and "Nothing could possibly go wrong" are amongst the lies I'm telling myself this morning. Time to plays cards!

I wrote more about Dimir! This deck is one of my favorite decks ever and it's part of an amazing standard format! This one is more focused on how to play+think about the deck, rather than how to build it. open.substack.com/pub/skybauer...

Up to completely normal things tonight. Serious business only on a Sunday night. No shenanigans at all, promise.

Lost in top 4 of the first Standard RCQ of the season with Dimir. Excited for more standard to come! Also my prize packs were good! 13 people cut to T4 R1 BW Midrange ft/ Elenda WW R2 UW Artifacts WW R3 MonoW Caretakers LWL R4 Golgari WW R5 Dimir ID T4 MonoW rematch LWL

3-0’d the first Foundations prerelease with this, got another one to play tomorrow! Initial vibes for this set are -extremely- good. Very solid Magic: the Gathering gameplay.

Vegas bound for MagicCon, real excited for another big limited event and hanging out with friends :D