I don’t think this bash is gonna work eh. I just assumed that ancient soulgrinder kit and the metal demon prince kit would be a similar scale. Clearly not.

30 years ago to the day Michael Loconto won the very first PT against Bertrand Lestrée in the final. Fittingly we just deployed a nice "little" update to gatheringstats.com You can now filter player rankings by season and of course we added a bunch of recent tournaments.

Mike Loconto, who'd been enjoying liquid refreshments at the reception of PT New York, went up to Richard Garfield and told him that he'd be handing him the trophy on Sunday. True to his promise, on February 18, 1996 - 30 years ago today - Loconto became Magic's first ever Pro Tour champion.

Why do I not live in Auckland? This was a massive miscalculation. How amazing are those tokens!

This has to be my favourite Magic related content coming out at the moment. And boy is it coming out! Two hour long video interviews, and this must be the third in the last week? I guess Brian is just having a casual chat with his buddies but even so… utterly fascinating stuff. Highly recommended.

Oh, I forgot I had this lined up.

Ok, then. The 1997 Worlds page is now considerably more useful/interesting than it was before. (Forward to 1998 to see the difference) But if there’s something I’ve missed, or mistakes made then feel free to shout out. Or even better: just jump in and make any necessary edits yourself! I don’t mind.

Hungary has held #MTG National Championships annually for the last 30 years, not letting silly little issues like #WoTC cancelling Nationals - twice - stop them. Even better, they kept records of every Top 8! If you don't speak Hungarian, don't worry: we've got all the details. #FridayNightMagic

Here is the segment. Get on it Magic community. Need to see a Casual Magic interview and a Shuffle Up and Play with her stat! youtu.be/5sg9awJFZ0c?...

Feels good to get stuck back into writing up an old Pro Tour again. Don’t yet have access to a copy of Sideboard 11: once I get that I should be able to go into a bit more detail about both finals. But Fifth/Fifth/Visions draft? Absolutely wild stuff.

I was a bit too slack to back this — not that Pat needed the help it seems, funding goal has absolutely been smashed — but I’ll definitely have to grab a copy when (hopefully not if) has a wider release. Not sure how these kickstarter things normally go.

Cole Swannack was 12 years old when he became New Zealand National Champion. He was 13 years old when he faced Raphaël Lévy in a Round 17 "win-and-in" at the 2002 Magic World Championships. After three close games Lévy took the match. Cole finished in 17th place. #FridayNightMagic #WaitangiDay #NZ

The niche digital decklist posting will continue until moral improves.

Inspired me to finally jump into editing and shit… those are some numbers hey?

Things I didn’t realise I needed: a guitar with a sick rendition of Shivan Dragon on it. Maybe this is sign I should get myself a bass again. A red one, perhaps, so I can slap a Carnophage up on that sucker.

This weekend, the Pro Tour will return to Richmond, Virginia, for the second time. The first event that the city hosted, Pro Tour Dominaria in 2018, saw seven players reach the Top 8 by playing aggressive red decks. Will we see history repeating at Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed? #FridayNightMagic

I've been enjoying these videos for ages, and as good as they are it's wild that the channel has got to 5k subs! Not because they don't deserve it, but if you needed extra proof of how non-niche our previously niche format is (and NZ$60 for a Gold Bordered Powder Keg isn't enough) then here you are.

We are deeply saddened at the news of the passing of Magic legend Kai Budde. His achievements in the game and community go beyond what we could say in one post. Our thoughts go out to Kai's friends and family in this moment. Remembering Kai Budde: magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...

Word. Best way I’ve seen this put.

This event wasn’t randomly chosen. I was quite taken by “Avante-Garde Bard” and am graduating assembling it. Maybe there’s another monogreen dungeon-matters legend available, but I doubt rule-zeroing Ellewick will be a problem at my LGS. The alchemy cards are easily replaced too. #mtgcommander

Showing my skills of an artist!

Also, this is happening. Book your plane tickets now! :)

New event, new poster. New website. New imaging editing website. Old cards. Old men. Old fashioned.

Yeah, so if you’re not a fan of a lot of the wiki’s Bluesky posts over the next couple of weeks… you’ve only got yourself to blame. Or me, rather. I wrote them. But if you got involved then you potentially could be creating cool articles and posting about them on here. So yeah. Do that! :)

Watching oldhammer vids and trying to decide on a chapter for a hypothetical 1st ed army. As you do. I reckon Astral Claws would work well with those sculpts: except they don’t quite feel era appropriate. But wait: what’s this? That’s the lion badge, right? Next to a Marines Errant marine as well.

If you want well written, well thought out discourse about this very important topic... then this very definitely isn't it. But hey: I actually wrote a thing so that's something.

A couple of flavourful budget 60 card decks with a Lorwyn theme... unlike the Lorwyn Theme Decks which weirdly weren't.

So no surprises that Prof doesn't like these. Previous videos where he reviewed products focused towards casual players I found that he often missed the point; was too focused on "value", etc. But as someone who is a bit obsessed about 60 card precons... I just can't get excited about them either.

Speaking of the fish, Nick Floyd's YouTube channel is criminally undersubscribed.

Haven’t posted since the announcement. Wanted to share my early Christmas present from Wizards. They made sure I got one and I am grateful. It’s beautiful. I hope everyone who wants one can get one in March.

It's always amazing when you stumble upon old #mtg print coverage. And if you thought Michael Nurse couldn't be any rader: this was his second out of FIVE national championship titles. Bad luck for our Jarpie pals that they only got the one GP: dude might have been an absolute monster.

Now, obviously there's nothing much better than a good spreadsheet. This is one that I am constantly tweaking: a list of every Magic Precon ever. Which includes the lists from The Duelist, the player decks from Duels of the Planeswalkers, and from events on MTGO and Arena. Yes, those all count.

I did a thing! And that thing is to copy and paste things using WordPress formating rather than using Wiki formatting. Big difference there. In the time since I last did one of these though, Troll and Toad have launched a new site, and so all the old product listings (and reviews) are now gone. :(

Making progress with the Basilisk. Issue now is what to do with the shield thingy with the gun set lower and further back than it was designed to be. I do like it: one of the cool things about the model. However maybe I just leave it off? Go for that stripped back, utilitarian look. Hmm.

This is what art looks like. <3

Something I’ve been putting a bit of time into recently is hunting down and collating information about Nationals for @mtg.wiki. Super rewarding: previously only the 2002 Slovenian Champ, Primož Lavš, but thanks to @archive.org I’ve now got the full Top 8 from a report Primož wrote at the time!

An hour long interview with Weissman about the history of The Deck? Yeah, alright: go on then!

My first time building a Warhammer 40K vehicle so naturally I’m carefully following the instructions… except I really dislike the crew platform on the Basilisk. I’m building it for 3.5 edition Iron(wing) Warriors so it doesn’t even work anyway. I think I need a Chimera rear ramp: use that instead?

Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere is the best: can’t beat those long summer days.

Getting into the Christmas spirit by unleashing hellhounds on the 6 year old. (First go at the Gothic decks!)

Gamechanger.

So I threw together an article for 100 Ornithopters on @mtg.wiki as a bit of a proof of concept. And yeah: I think it demonstrates we could have pretty solid coverage of other notable cubes as well as other cube-y things. I’ve appreciated the feedback from the #MTGcube community: keep it coming! :)

All packed & ready go play Pauper (and maybe some Forgetful Fish, Premodern or Sorcery) but kids. Those little whirlwinds of chaos really cramp my style. Guess instead I’ll have take them somewhere to run off their energy. Hopefully I can lose at least one of them in the woods too? Fingers crossed.

#mtgcube community: there’s a bit of talk among @mtg.wiki’s editors about expanding the Cube content on the wiki. I’m interested in your thoughts about how we could improve what we’ve got on there. And, as always, if anyone is keen to get involved then feel free to create an account & get stuck in!

It seems that Kai not doing well, so people are posting their memories of him in this thread, where he will be able to read them. #mtg x.com/MartinJuza/s...

The utter disrespect for Morph Mayhem though.

When Premodern is life.

1997 MTG Worlds team lists. I should get around to putting the full booklet on @archive.org but if instead just post the page I want to reference on @mtg.wiki here then it gives me considerably more time that I can procrastinate. Or rather, spend time editing pages rather than time editing images.

What’s the best monored 7 mana vanilla creature in Magic? You’re damned right. Trained Orgg. Now let’s have some respect, hey?

My first thought was my gosh: could this person be any cooler? I want a giant plastic goblin king statue. But then I noticed who posted it! :)