How long until we have a Magic card called Prosperous Pickpocket that costs three mana and has a saboteur ability that creates Treasure?

If you were to build an EDH deck with a restriction of only "Universes Within" cards, do you consider cards from the Forgotten Realms and Baldur's Gate products to be eligible? They're not considered Universes Beyond but perhaps also not Universes Within. They're ...Universes Adjacent? 🤣

*me, a CODA, rushing to the teaser trailer after seeing this art*

Didn't expect a card I designed 18 years ago and was printed by Wizards (just two copies, at least mine is oversized and encased in a trophy) to be discussed in a video uploaded today! Full vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i76n...

Unglued Unhinged Unstable Unsanctioned Unfinity ...UNBEATABLE? That's right, UNBEATABLE has followed a Magic: The Gathering tradition of associating "Un-sets" w/ April Fools (or Leap) Day! An update today: UNBEATABLE x "Do No Harm" Title Theme @dcellgames.com x @jamies.page Unbelievable 😍

An important message from @ZohranKMamdani. Location: Daruchini Restaurant & Cafe in Cypress Hills. Time: late last night. The deadline: midnight. The link: secure.actblue.com/donate/cvzeoq

Did you know? If you interpreted in American Sign Language the first moment Abigale signs in the Strixhaven cinematic trailer, she says "pay attention." #MTGStrixhaven

Some suggestions for @scryfall.com 's April Fools page: - Reference older Magic formats. I enjoyed the Emperor format myself back then - Reference Bob from Accounting, who was related to a few commercials back then: youtu.be/SgPEhrB7ebc?...

@jay.bsky.team My earnest feedback: Attie ain't it. It's 1 thing to build w/ AI tools. It's another to market the AI affiliation of your new products. Even worse is pitching new product features as AI-based. No Bluesky AI is great to hear. I wish Attie wasn't from the same team building Bluesky.

I decided to stay home today rather than attend LDXP Tacoma today. For the one event I wanted to attend, Lorwyn Block Sealed, I see that there's 5 of 8 peeps signed up. If I had joined, it'd be 6. Would it have fired? I guess that wouldn't have been too bad. Sorry, peeps! melee.gg/Tournament/V...

Man, #LDXPTacoma2026 happening today / this weekend snuck up on me! Too tired to think about EDH, so I'll keep my goals short & sweet: Of the scheduled events, Lorwyn Block Sealed on Saturday appeals most to me. There's also on-demand Lorwyn Eclipsed draft. And, as always, Mystery Booster 2 rocks.

All my homies don't like talking about that wizard book author & her works. 'Cause our ideal life contains no thought of them. They're beneath us. Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world. We're forced to talk about them. It's topical again, so: Reject supporting them. Support human rights.

Current bookmark: Base Set Oak

Tired: Mega Man X Wired: Mega Man Bluesky

Happy birthday, Chester

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Shoebox peeps, find Adam! He's my bud and great people. Ask him about what it was like to start a weekly Magic design podcast that still survives to this day even without his involvement. Or, you know, draft and/or play Magic gameplay variants with him. ^_^

A CommandFest in my backyard once again? You know I gotta go. (July 3th - 5th in Tacoma, Washington)

Tactics I use to mitigate spoilers while I stream my 1st playthru of Breath of the Wild: - Stream title & tags, pinned comment, custom command, & timer bot (every 20 mins) says no spoils - Say "no sharing info" because everyone has a different idea of what "no spoilers" means - Followers-only chat

Man, I got unlucky w/ having AI feature noise on my Pixel 8 Pro! Pixel 7 has no AI noise, which is amazing. Pixel 8 somehow has more AI noise than Pixel 9. (Of course, the latest Pixel, Pixel 10, has the most AI noise.) I hope the AI fad fades before I need to upgrade my phone.

"One of our mandates starting out with the set was 'a Turtle in every pack.'" This requirement plus forcing the product to be a Standard set means you're stuck between a rock(steady) & a hard place. The feeling of character oversaturation for, say, some enfranchised MTG drafters, is inevitable.

The MTG TMNT sets persuaded me not to play more Magic but rather to catch up on a couple of Turtles movies. Mutant Mayhem's style is awesome. Donnie was my fave, even tho I usually stan Mikey. Rise of the TMNT: The Movie felt anime-like—cool! Surreal to see personality swaps between Leo & Raph.

Besides being unaware or resistant to change, is there any reason why a Bsky account should NOT have the setting that forces you to add alt text to each image in your post in order to post? I want to make sure I'm not missing edge cases here. Presumption: all Bsky accounts can turn that setting on.

Did you know? MTG's TMNT cards use '&' so often that there are no uses of "and" on any of the new cards. Even when the use of '&' isn't necessary to save on character space in the card name. The only time "and" is used is on a reprint card. Marvel's Super Heroes will return... ...to using "and."

@amazonchique.bsky.social Just read your article! Awesome thoughtfulness in character design. Trying to understand - are Magic's Turtles distinct from the Turtles in the shows, movies, & comics? Or are the Turtles in Magic the same ones from the other media but visually expressed in a Magic style?

In an accidental twist of fate, I'm celebrating my 3 years of streaming w/ a 1st-playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the same day as Zelda's 40th anniversary. 😮

I haven't gathered the data to confirm the following, but my Magic: The Gathering theory is this: The more whimsy a set has, the more likely any one of its cards uses alliteration in the name.

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

I was listening to Flobots' "Handlebars" by happenstance recently. I had only ever listened to that one song by them. So I was curious to find out what's up with them. Turns out, they released a topical vid a few weeks ago!: youtu.be/xMR61AI-TWc?... Keep the resistance spirit strong with anthems.

I did a "creative theme EDH deck" series years ago. I'll describe 'em in this format: Deck 1: Oops Alliterative Names Deck 2: Oops All Card Art Has 1+ Torches Deck 3: Oops All [REDACTED] (This is the Princess Lucrezia deck) Deck 4: Oops All Creatures Don't Share Any Creature Types w/ Each Other

Messaging in the playmat is 👍 I had already decided to cancel attending Shoebox for safety reasons. Risking health/detainment for this can be worth it, but not in my case. Each of us have a different risk/reward ratio for attending, and each of us have different ways of helping the resistance. ❤️

Bought my tickets for ticketed play events for MagicCon: Las Vegas 😄 Got a nice spread of sealed, draft, commander, and [REDACTED].

Catching up on Hasbro x H_arry P_otter news, If Wizards funds Hasbro initiatives, & Hasbro profits from HP - it still makes sense to respond by changing how we buy/promote Magic, yeah? From a consumer perspective, not as a creator or Wizards employee. Each of us are different. Resist accordingly.

Catching up on the latest with Commander, it looks like my Lutri Kaboom EDH deck is finally legal! Here's my 2021 blog post about the deck: medium.com/millingfor53...

I usually wait for some kind of special release, omnibus, or box set before getting a certain comic / manga series. For Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated., I might be waiting about a decade for a CHANCE it'll get rereleased in a new collection .🤔😱 (I've never read it.)

Happy to see the responses to this because it vindicates the Baten Kaitos devs, assuming the following is true: I had heard Monolithsoft once pitched "clay Earthbound" to Nintendo - it was rejected. The pieces used for the pitch were repurposed for this odd clay town found in Baten Kaitos Origins.

Stumbled on an old Fa_cebook post I wrote in 2020, shortly after we discovered Tr_ump lost the el_ection. Reading the sentiments, it feels like I could have written this today.

Was watching the show Poker Face with my partner; and, boy, did I not have on my bingo card @themountaingoats.bsky.social popping up on my TV 😮 Hi John! 👋🏻

My partner is not usually one for TCGs, so when she approached me about maybe trying out the CookieRun TCG together; I was, like, "say less!" ^_^

Using an Oubliette Magic card as a bookmark. Feels appropriate for when I tuck the card away, buried within the pages while the book lies dormant.

Was casually watching some early DBZ when I noticed Gohan's passion for bugs began a long time ago. 🐛🐜🐝

Was grocery shopping when my partner overheard another person who looked our way and was passing by us tell the person they were with "...it's a game..." UNBEATABLE fans are amongst us 😱

Same energy: Pui Pui and Matthew Patel.

I'm no longer attending the Shoebox Magic: The Gathering event. The event itself is cool. Current events of the area have scared me away.

Was running errands & the following paraphrased convo happened w/ 1 of the usual employees I chat w/: Them: "Play any games lately?" Me: "Yeah, Jet Set Radio." Them: "Awesome game." Me: "Figured it was a good follow-up to UNBEATABLE." Them: "Dude, I love that game." Me: "No way, you've played it?!"

*exhales, choked up* Rolled credits on UNBEATABLE. Let's rewind. *takes a deep breath* Apr 9, '25: Learned about UNBEATABLE, joined Discord server, followed @dcellgames.com Sep 1, '25: Visited UNBEATABLE popup @ Pikarar & Friends, took pic w/ peeps Jan 6th '26: Finally posted pic ty, peeps <3

Recently gave up my admin powers for Beacon of Creation Discord server. This follows ending my hosting the podcast a # of years ago. Luckily, it's easy to do this thx to other passionate peeps who already server-moderate &/or podcast-host. I'm freeing up energy for new card game design ventures 🤘🏻

Happy New Year! I made a lil marketing teaser for the fan set I'm designing for the DBZ CCG (the one published by Score in the year 2000). This will be my second high-effort card design project for this out-of-print and "dead" card game. ✌️

Seeing any of the Lorwyn Five* again for Lorwyn's return is like writing a love letter to a certain generation of MTG players. *Lorwyn Five are the first five planeswalker cards, debuting in the first Lorwyn set.

Obligatory future cosplay - Bradley the Badger : www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1I...