Joe van den Berg

I tried to build a separate version of Aluren that was just UG Miracle-Gro with Alurens and Man-O-Wars in the deck as a combo. It was quite effective as well, and there I used this guy as a 1-of. Wasn't great for me but maybe it'll work for you

This is cursed, whatever this is

Did you ever pull off the t0 win off Leyline and Charblecher

Really interesting! Wouldn't have guessed it was such a prominent part of the games aside from being a Char variant

Why is 2001 so Urza's Rage dependent?

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.

Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

How did you feel about drafting 80 and playing 60 cards?

cover of The Economist this week

There are two kinds of people who play cube as their main MTG outlet

1. Vintage Cube Only, might moneydraft
2. Has 40 different cube projects in their brain, half of which are functionally different games from magic the gathering, has strong opinions about cogwork librarian

Chaos draft is my second favorite way to draft, behind cube draft

So many! All the unequal cube cobra columns!

YouTube video by Joseph van den Berg A sassy chat about color balance in cube

youtu.be/HDFu38ydwlk?...

Tl;dw color balance in #mtgcube really doesn't matter and you can just kinda do whatever

Maze of Ith?? Tough to turn that down, but I am for Ranger Class

As a Niners fan, I love this man and a rooting for him

It's easy for me because I live in SF

Totally understand the Puka hate but I'll never understand the Stafford hate. He's a wizard, one of the best to ever play the position, and he's on our side! Born in Texas and played football at Georgia and somehow still didn't get MAGAed

Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000: Local Officials According to two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health who spoke with TIME.

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That was so disheartening to watch, sitting on the couch next to my brother, a United fan, who proceeded to do 3 hip pumps after the Cunha goal

As an Arsenal fan, I hate to admit it

Brb starting the Mack Hollins fan club

Auction draft, hausman draft

P1P1 LA: As a designer P1P1 LA: As a designer In tyotl 2026, we are blessed enough as a cube community to have an ever-increasing breadth of cube events to attend to. I am fortunate enough to be based in a fairly large cube...

Wrote about my experiences at P1P1 LA as a designer!

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

Draconautics or Ritual of Soot for me!

I keep coming back to it, it's so good

Gbless you captain, thank you for the share

You can't just share this and then not drop the link, that's illegal I'm pretty sure

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Wow this deck is WILD. I was rooting for you, cool to see Primal Odin end someone's career!

Because they don't want to get pigeon holed