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! :)

Happy anniversary to us! Today, MTG Wiki is 20 years old! From our start at @mtgsalvation.bsky.social to today, hosted by @scryfall.com, we've been here to serve the community for a long time. Here's a summary of our work this last year, and some thoughts looking ahead! reddit.com/r/magicTCG/c...

That’s 15 further precons complete, and only 2000 odd left to go. If you count ones from Shandalar and MTGO etc too. Which obviously I do.

So what if you took one of the @mtgarena.com Starter Deck Duels decks and built it in paper using Double Feature printings? What would that be like? A question you’ll never have an answer to because nobody would be strange enough to actually put the time and effort into doing something like that.

I’ve never played Yu-Gi-Oh! but occasionally a history video (like this one) will pop up as a recommendation and they’re usually really fascinating. The Gishki FTK deck seems to be the equivalent of MTG’s Eggs deck, and interestingly this went down a couple months after Pro Tour Return to Ravnica.

Going through the @sorcerytcg.bsky.social Gothic precons a second time (sleeving them up) and these are my favourite cards from each deck. Based pretty exclusively on the art. The Harbringer deck especially was a particularly difficult choice. 10 Tonne Slug and Call of the Sea were my almosts.

In today’s episode of Commander is a silly format which shouldn’t exist but I’m not too proud to take advantage of the whims of its playerbase… I only had one of these in my bulk. Surprisingly. Time to put it into my trade binder where it’ll sit unloved until it is time to go back into the Saga box.

This account was originally just to automatically post stuff from my MTG Precon focused Wordpress site. But nothing that WoTC has released this year has had any appeal to me. Next year, maybe. Return of Theme Decks in Lorwyn is promising. But honestly… I’m not sure if I care. Pic related. :)

So I hear people are into Professional Magic related drama? Well, it doesn’t get much bigger than this one. This newly re-edited (and able to be monetised properly) 40 minute deep dive into Mike Long’s lap is definitely worth a watch. Even if you already watched the longer cut.

I really should actually try MTGO at some point. I mean I have an account and it’s downloaded on my computer… but that’s as far as I’ve gotten.

The dates aren’t quite locked in yet: we’re discussing how soon after Christmas/New Years we want to kick off. But I’ve earmarked this art for a poster for a while now, and with Margaret Organ-Kean doing illustrations in the new Lorwyn set (her past piece was for Tempest in 1997) it seemed time.

So I tried to do the Japanese triangle deck pic thing which was all the rage in the Pauper and Premodern scenes (and assumedly Japanese Middle School scene?) a few weeks ago. But I didn’t check any references before doing so. Don’t think I got it quite right. But hey: it’s the premodern.com list!

What were your first four Commander decks?

So @moxfield.com has a @sorcerytcg.bsky.social version of thier site now? This is pretty awesome to see! sorcery.moxfield.com

So guess which weirdo they let have access to the Wiki Bluesky account? Probably the same one who meant to go back and tweak this post a little bit but instead got distracted by reading 23 year old tournament reports from the Snapcaster Mage. Oops.

Watched the 2018 Stallone film Backtrace last night, which certainly was a 2018 Stallone film. But I did keep expecting that Modine would sit down and start explaining what made Chicago’s 1972 smash hit “Saturday in the Park” great, before complaining that his reaction videos keep getting blocked.

For the first time while collating Nationals info on @mtg.wiki I have managed to fully complete a 1995 box: way to go Sweden!

I am to blame for all but one of these, haha. All non-American former pro-players should be shaking in your boots: you’re next! Alternatively, if you want to spare yourself some pain then feel free to send me through a good headshot: the sideboard coverage team weren’t always the best photographers!

@flamedash.bsky.social Kia ora Johanna. I’m currently creating pages for Nationals on the MTG Wiki (mtg.wiki/page/Finnish...) and I came across a link to your “history project” article on mtg.bore. Unfortunately this isn’t archived by Wayback. Can you help me with some Finnish information? Reuben.

What’s the coolest Premodern era art sadly attached to a card which isn’t really good enough to play? Maybe it’s this one: it’s a pretty strong contender at the very least. Makes a pretty awesome event poster if nothing else, so that’s cool.

Do this. :)

Posting this here so I can reference it on the wiki! :) For context: MaRo has mentioned that there was a 1994 Belgian Nats in a few articles, but I couldn’t find anything about it. So I emailed Carl Devos who did reports on the Dojo (and is still doing OS93/94 reports on zongo.be/magic) and boom:

Ok, this is pretty concerning. I get frustrated with the low resolution many/most older videos have for sure, but this is not the way to go about things.

From @jespermyrfors.bsky.social, The Dark set art director over on Facebook: “The Magic: The Gathering release The Dark was 100% a commentary on the evils and hypocrisy of bigoted right wing Christians…” Some cards for context and the set list: scryfall.com/sets/drk

Kia ora, I’m Reuben and Hybrid is fine in monocoloured Commander decks. However I also think off-coloured activated abilities shouldn’t count towards colour identity. You could play Gruul Guildmage in your Alesha, Who Smiles at Death deck — and not Orzhov Guildmage — but couldn’t pay 3G for +2/+2.

Many Magic Players ask the question… what team at Worlds 2018 was the most Metal? And the winner is… BULGARIA!

By dumbest they clearly mean best ever.

Dude is up in the New England area so even though I wouldn’t personally benefit from it, being very much not from anywhere close to there, I reckon the Lobstercon peeps should try to get him for one of their events. He’s definitely a Top 3 MTG artist for me. His Goblins in particular: amazing.

Ok: next up on my @mtgwiki.bsky.social editing journey: 5 Colour. The format. Which is going to kill me being forced to misspell. Did anyone on here use to jam that format? If so some #DeckPics would be choice! With scribble ante being such a key aspect I wanna bask in the beauty and memories of it.

This post is brought to you by uk.games.trading-cards.misc and the letter Zed. Honestly, that Usenet group is a gold mine. And is it just me, but is there a surprising lack of UK representation at the pointiest end of competitive Magic? Compared with the cultural impact the place has elsewhere.

Every found yourself awake late at night, desperately trying to remember who the third best Canadian Magic: the Gathering player was in 1999? Me too. Fortunately now there’s an easy solution to all your nocturnal Canadian Nats questions: mtg.wiki/page/Canadia.... (It was Jürgen Hahn, obviously)

Getting a bit ahead of myself in poster stakes, but when inspiration hits… love for some more cats in Australia, Japan, Philippines etc to join us. Got a pretty cool group of people regularly jamming some premodern together!

Alright. I think I’ve finished* my latest project on @mtgwiki.bsky.social. Or at least, until I can track down InQuest 22 which I’m sure should have some of the decklists I couldn’t find through other sources. Next up: LA ‘97 with the infamous David Mills DQ!