JasonILTG

it's a way to stop scepter chant for a turn (chant in response to scepter activation) that can also buy you a turn vs wrath yeah

Gabriel Nassif

Mani Davoudi

The first Twitch stream of CubeCon 2025 (🔗⬇️) will be starting soon! Watch the Ravnica/Time Spiral Standard Cube at 12:00 PM Central with Mani Davoudi and Gabriel Nassif as part of our first draft of the year! #mtgcube #CubeCon2025

i haven't finished a run yet, previously bc i lept dying in the mist and resetting, this time bc i had to go to get to my cubecon shift :p

Woke up, did 2/3 of a Silksong speedrun attempt (got to Clawline at about 1:10), now I'm ready to go judge some cubes (despite not doing the Last Judge route in the speedrun)

oh i should note the thraben charm is entirely for phlage reasons, and if you have surgical it's probably better (and if there's no phlages you don't want that stuff)

i would recommend having 0 static prison, 2-3 galv, and 1 thraben charm postboard. don't cut any threats.

to replace things, probably 2-3 moons and 2 chants? idk what numbers look like.

also if you have sensible alt threats in the sb they can be fine, but i don't love clarion conquerer

(i wrote this instead of sleeping bc i have an early flight to cubecon lmao)

I was bored so I wrote a thing. It's very stream of consciousness and maybe not that good content idk.

Also I'm having some technical difficulties updating my website so I instead copied it to a gdoc for now. Much jank, have fun.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Higaaale!

Garama!

ejiiiiiro!

ok *now* i'm done

(until rando exists)
(...or until DLC comes out)
(.......or until i decide i want to try speedrunning)

shoutouts to all my fellow Aces

1. no but i probably would enjoy it in theory
2. no but i probably would enjoy it in theory

NYC local pauper event tonight has *40* people

i know several plural trans women-

oh wait that's not what the post was about :p

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nine sols?

Thanks so much to everyone who tuned in and donated during the trans lifeline fundraiser today, it meant a lot. To anyone who wasn't able to make it but still wants to support this important cause, here's a link to the campaign tilt.fyi/Jr23vhNVE6

100% agree with this, tho tbf I think a lot of points that Jake brings up are still directionally true, just not to the extreme of zero-sum

There are a lot of corporate decisions being made that come at the cost of various parts of Magic, and even if it's not zero-sum it can still be disheartening

also ryan i'm willing to help if you want me to do some of this :p

i would recommend popping out gy to be visible in the screenshot

you can also make a custom token named "Land Drops Remaining: 1" or something like that if you want everything to be in the screenshot

you can start a local game instead of connecting to a server with Ctrl-Shift-L (or "Start Local Game..." in a menu somewhere)

you can initialize this game with any number of players, including 1.

Reviews are in from my PT teammates @ambercxc.bsky.social & @minhwins.bsky.social:

Here it is: 18K words on how to win with Sanctum Amulet at upcoming RCs.

It's the best deck to play in modern - even if you're just okay at it.

Put a ton of work into this one, so it's $15 or a $5 sub (comes with all my other articles).
@fireshoes.bsky.social

www.patreon.com/posts/140190...

a common sentiment I've seen about MagicCon Atlanta has been "they shouldn't host events in the South"

while i understand where this comes from(feeling like The South™️ is hostile to queer ppl) it fails to acknowledge an often ignored part of our community: people of color(specifically black folks)

and theoretically winning round 15 and two of (4, 8, 11) would've gotten me to 12 wins for top 8 (though obviously my tournament path would look different)

magic is hard eom

i do think that there were at least 2 losses (rounds 10 and 14) that were unavoidable, and one that seemed pretty hard (round 16)

and at least 3 more (rounds 4, 8, and 11) that i would've had to both play tighter *and* get a little lucky to win

but i definitely could have won round 15

was thinking about my pt eoe run again

my thoughts last sunday were kinda "it wasn't my tournament to win", as i had quite a few stockfish-would-lose moments

but after some more reflecting i do think i still could have top 8'd w/ better play

magic is pretty hard

still pretty happy w/ my play tho

The schedule for the trans lifeline fundraiser is up, and we have a stacked lineup!
To get questions set up for our two amazing panels, I'm personally matching the first 1000 dollars donated before the stream (which Hasbro will then match), so use the link below to donate now! tilt.fyi/Jr23vhNVE6