Forgot to post this banger batch of singles I picked up the other day for $1 a piece!

If you give me the bye in pauper, I probably will buy something funny:

Started writing the Anti-UB thing

Drafted this again yesterday and ended up on Grixis Midrange sort of list with both Breach and Thoracle combos lol. Won a game where my opponent had oath of druids out and killed me into Thoracle with 3 cards left in library and mostly blue spells on the table!

Give it away: ajohnnyspridemate.substack.com/p/sacrifice

The funniest thing about the game vs non-game discourse of MTG vs other CCG's I that I literally stopped playing Hearthstone and swapped to Magic because the # of non-games due to discover effects/ random output got too high for my taste.

Hot take: Laughing Jasper Flint is a badass Standard Brawl commander. Probably makes a cool as hell EDH deck too.

I've got a spicy list of drafts for non-Mechanics series essays (mostly titles to keep notes, but a couple of them are partially/mostly written).

Brought this out in paper and went 2-1 again. Beat Lessons, Simic Landfall 2-0, lost 0-2 to Azorius airbending. I think I need to find a way to make it faster.

Remember when we had the storm scale and not just storm in every new set? Pepperidge Farm Remembers

Am I doing this right?

Successful cube day on the curatorial side. Had 9 players including me there to play, so I got to run both SABRCube at 7 players and Stupid Cube with me and one of the other regulars!

I need to leave for cube draft soon, but the Angels are tied with the Astros in the 7th and I need to see them take 3 of 4 lol.

Once again breaking the Arena client with Scutes lol

Writing tomorrow's post rn btw

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Goofing of on Arena w/this sucker rn. Too bad I only have one rn

They feared him because he spoke the truth (a big flying demon that draws cards and eats hot dogs)

Glizzlebrand

Finally getting around to achievement hunting on arena a bit. Down to one challenge left for color mastery (copy spells in blue), and then onto the big boy challenges, lol

Just bought a ticket for @bostoncubeparty.com! I do need to figure out travel arrangements, but I'm stoked to go see my friends in town!

Watched this last night as I was getting ready for bed, and really enjoyed it! Definitely a good discussion of how tutoring affects cube/draft deck construction!

Also, idk if this is a hot take, but I'm actually fine with no changes in the sanctioned formats I play (Standard, Pauper). Both have a good metagame rn, I think.

Feels like a good night to play Terror in Pauper.

Fighting through an Ugin just for them to drop a second Ugin is dastardly, lmao

ICYMI, I released a double feature yesterday to make up for missing a week: ajohnnyspridemate.substack.com/p/flying ajohnnyspridemate.substack.com/p/reach

Substack just has to freeze while I'm putting a new post together doesn't it lmao?

Despite being sick all week, my mom (yeah, I'm a millennial who crashed out and moved back in with my parents, sue me (or don't, I don't have any money)) just asked if I was going out to draft tonight and hahahahahahahahano.

This makes my inner Timmy very happy.

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While I was out of town, my powered cube proxies came in. Check out this powered TwoBert, The Stupid Cube. cubecobra.com/cube/list/St...

No new 'stack this week (was out partying too much with my fellow writers). Will double dip next week!

I feel like there's a lot you can tell about a Magic player by whether they call it commander or EDH.

Reposting to see if it gets more interaction outside of the thread of posts! Come check out Exile, with a few thoughts on how Farewell is fine, actually.

The standard combo they don't want you to know about.

The craziest thing about my cube is that right now, these are the top-10 best cards and I've got the data to prove it:

Considering a trip out to Boston for Boston cube party since I still have friends in town. Lots to think about...

I have to say, I love being a perfectly mediocre magic player

This tweet the direct result of learning Murder and Doom Blade are not as old as I thought they were (still pretty old re: Magic cards)

When you stop to think about it, murder is just bad doom blade, but doom blade is just better terror.

Pulled off a cheeky little 2-1 on SABRCube today. Golgari Aristocrats (featuring a 4-card infinite I never quite managed to pull off) cubecobra.com/cube/list/SA...

Mono -G landfall at the biggest slice of the pie? Never change Arena players

Man, I popped on Twitter and saw a bunch of people fighting over UB. Another round of the good old slop/let people enjoy things arguments. Never change, Magic fans.

Pauper Monday, Standard Store Champs Th., Cube Sat/Sun sounds like a pretty good week of Magic to me ngl

Cut the deck: open.substack.com/pub/ajohnnys...

3-3 in Powered Cube. Lost my last game forgetting that Bomat Courier discards your hand when you sac it, and threw away two thirds of the breach combo 🤦‍♂️

*Hootie and the Blowfish voice* LET HER SCRY!

Just finished the two day process of updating all my decks on Moxfield. I've got all of what's listed there in paper, except for the Oops! Timeless deck, which I only play on Arena. Check it out! moxfield.com/users/AJohnn...

I just realized I have 6 60-card decks, and five of them are in monocolor of different colors. The 6th is 5c Gates 😂