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Let's add a playset of beautiful mismatched Strip Mines to the pool!

I haven't, but I'm going to now!

The people I met at MagicCon Vegas played it more like a cube though (they brought all the cards with them) rather than doing it with booster packs like in the article.

Wizard's Tower: A Magic Format | MAGIC: THE GATHERING One day, while working in the Pit (our affectionate name for the R&D area) I overheard someone say, "Have you played Tom LaPille's Cube? It's awesome!" Cube is a Magic Draft format in which a player c...

It was actually Wizard's Tower rather than Mage's Tower. magic.wizards.com/en/news/maki...

Splashing blue is one thing. Splashing blue in a 75 card deck with no sideboard just for Fog Bank, on the other hand, is some next level Platinum-Mythic Ranked Player deckbuilding.

One of the GOATs hanging up his brushes for health reasons.

I got a super cool gift today from @volrathxp.bsky.social!

Final Fantasy has like 150+ legends, apparently. I expect this will be pretty common for UB sets where they will want to show off a lot of named characters. With 20 legends per set "legendary matters" can be interesting. With 150, not so much, at least for me.

Maybe I worded that poorly. What I was meaning that "legendary matters" cards like Jodah or Djeru and Hazoret (etc.) aren't especially interesting when most creatures are legends, because they work with everything. They are much more interesting when there are fewer legends.

With the number of legends in Universes Beyond sets I think Wizards needs to sunset "legendary matters" as as theme. It's a cool gimmick in a world where legends are scarce, but incredibly boring when we're getting like 150 legends a set.

Actually not this time. It was Avabruk Caretaker.

Almost accidentally put a day/night card in my Commander Clash deck for this week. Thankfully I caught it before recording. I'm not tracking that...

Yeah, I'm super curious to see how the play. The designs are really interesting.

So far it feels mostly like a Commander set to me, although that might partly be because there are so many legends to show off various characters. The power level seems pretty high, I'm just not sure where most stuff fits in Standard yet.

I really like how Final Fantasy sort of feels like Time Spiral or a Horizons set in the sense that there's a ton of one-of mechanics.

Apparently Richard qualified for One Piece Nationals going 8-2 in a 1k player event yesterday.

Bwahahahahaha

YouTube video by MTGGoldfish 12 Rhinos | Against the Odds

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I'd say so! That's awesome.

Sorry everyone, no stream today. I'm still a bit under the weather and trying to catch up on Youtube stuff after being away last week for the wedding. We'll get back to normal next week.

What was your all time favorite Standard format?

Oh yeah, the $350 is in Canadian dollars, which I think was about $250 USD at the time.

Unlimited Black Lotus, with original receipt from 1997... www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/c...

YouTube video by MTGGoldfish The Time Pizza Saved Standard | Magic: the Gathering

The Time a Pizza Saved Standard www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQE9...

Yeah, there are instructions, but they are pretty basics "make sure you pad the box, don't have any parts sticking out of the box" stuff like that.

I think it's going to be just Arena this time for the sake of simplicity.

Wait, there are places that will do it for me? I didn't realize that existed, I guess that's what I get for living in the boonies.

Added!

Sweet! I'll add you to the list!

Super random question: anyone know a good way to ship at PC tower? My new PC broke (probably the motherboard?!?) The good news is it's under warranty. The bad news is need to ship it to the company for them to fix it.