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4-0 at prerelease with br beats
fire nation warship was a surprising overperformer

also shout out to this deck from an opponent i played against who made top 8. love seeing more evidence that the baneslayer strategy is strong

in earlier rounds, i played against mostly aggro so i was glad that i had a consistent manabase and the Prospectors. but in later rounds, games were really grindy. when i was building i didnt think i needed the extra power but in hindsight i shouldve splashed codecracker & mouth

YouTube video by formersquid When Bad Creatures Become Good | Limited MTG

talked for a bit about how to identify when you want to run "bad" creatures in limited and some pitfalls to avoid when you're forced to run them. useful for sealed and strong draft tables

youtu.be/vT4NS8rAXNU

no chrysalis? no problem

6-1-1 at the sealed PTQ at Atlanta, qualifying me for the top 32 draft tomorrow!!

7-X trophies from the arena direct this past weekend (no soup this time 😋)

i apologize squidnation but i caved in and played four-color soup 🤢

one-and-done 4-0 8-0 with UB
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small victories

ending the weekend with three more trophies, ahriman carry
surprised that brynhildr has such a low win rate, it's felt strong playing with and against it

won 3 collector boxes today with my favorite limited archetype! really loving this format so far
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i am in utter disbelief, but im apparently insane at LCI sealed, with a 78% winrate in the Direct this weekend
a few trophy decks below

went 3-1 with a slightly unusual Urg deck
streaming the final draft in two hours at twitch.tv/formersquid!
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after a couple attempts and a power outage, got there with mardu
twice during the run i ran out Fire-Rim Form as an Aura to push extra damage and speed up the clock instead of as a combat trick--not a play you want to be doing, but it does come up
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😼

I'm really excited for Dragonstorm, so I made a draft tier list prediction!
W, B, and G feel pretty deep at common, U and R pretty shallow
Aggressive Negotiations will probably be criminally underdrafted
www.17lands.com/tier_list/ee...
interested to look at this at the end of the format

gave the Limited Qualifier a shot today and made 9th, just barely outside of top 8🥲
will try again next season

Played my first Limited Super Qualifier and ended up 11th place with an 8-2 record! Not quite enough for the top 8 draft but still pretty happy with how I played today

I’ve been rotating this piece around for quite a while, because this kind of controversy is endless on Magic social media - I wanted to write something that could be my consistent “take” — Making this one publicly available to reach as many folks as possible :)

www.patreon.com/posts/120021...

Won 20 Duskmourn boxes this weekend :3 First time truly grinding one of these events--it was definitely interesting trying to game a flashback draft
a few of trophy decks below

made day 2 :)
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probably my favorite limited moment in a long time: locked my opponent out of their draw step with Spirit of the Labyrinth and Geier Reach Sanitarium. chaos draft is a magical place

2-0 against UB
1-2 against WU (very well played @turbotuli.bsky.social)
2-0 against GWU
2-1 against GW
2-0 against five-color Gates

Only sideboard change in the run was bringing in an Ingenious Skaab and a Devour Flesh against GW

i won $2,000 for the first time! wow! :3
vod of the run: www.twitch.tv/videos/23516...
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won 4-0 on the first draft with BR siding in Dreadhound, Mogis, God of Slaughter, and Pelakka Predation as necessary
streaming the final draft in 2 hours at twitch.tv/formersquid!
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got there on the third try with RG stompy
no i didnt cast boros reckoner a single time
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a couple of box-winning decks from the arena direct this weekend, 6-1 with RW and 6-0 with BGw

Qualifier Day 1 (Foundations Sealed) - formersquid on Twitch formersquid went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Magic: The Gathering VOD now.

vod of the run: www.twitch.tv/videos/23324...

made it to day 2 with GW counters
also won against a deck with three spinner of souls :333
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