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Mark Confidant, aka Markus

@markconfidant.bsky.social

Magic player, game designer, systems engineer. Actually dumb as a bag of rocks.

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If it helps you feel at all better their orbital decays are kinda beam sabering them little by little already.

16.10.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Howms’t?

11.10.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It implies a mayonnaise decanter.

09.10.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The use of β€œuncorked” here is an affront.

09.10.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@rhysticstudies.bsky.social I've got a friend who's on the Japanese localization team for Magic if you want their info if you ever end up doing a video on Magic translation.

09.10.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Downshift it for pauper.

08.10.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(Nothing against OP, go help them pick some cards for the 99)

01.10.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m pretty darn Scryfall api literate. Whatcha needing?

01.10.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hot take but β€œ5c commander featuring [new or featured subtype in set]” has felt like a pretty creatively bankrupt design the last three times they’ve done it and I’m not optimistic when I see it in a card file.

01.10.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine a storm turn.

28.08.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Unironically I would watch β€œcommander but any time a triggered ability triggers it gets 1.05x faster.”

Start it at like 80% speed. Instant comedy gold.

28.08.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I could also see red white. Boros is probably the most typecast color pair, so making a version of it focused on the kinda paradoxical question of β€œhow do we make systems that make people as free and equal as possible” would be a cool direction.

26.08.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly yeah. There are cons to the collector boosterification of magic, but the ceiling on how good art can be is only rising.

26.08.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anarchists charm

26.08.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s the one with the detective who can see the history of food he eats, right?

25.08.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Okay but @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social is there any chance you’d put a World Trade Center card from the Sim City TCG in your party box?

22.08.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s hard to find but Tetris: the Games People Play by Box Brown is also really good. The history of Tetris is fucking crazy. Like it features yacht suicide, kgb agents doing contract negotiations, Nintendo being Nintendo, and the original creator getting completely screwed.

17.08.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like A City On Mars by the Wienersmiths. It’s about the feasibility of space exploration in the near future.

17.08.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Inspect element crimes? I thought this was less bad twitter.

14.07.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Personally I take that just as β€œdudes transforming into other dudes is an FF thing”. Like twink death by turning into elder god is kinda par for the course over there.

Those might be a perfect example of a thing that’s on its face nonsense but FF peeps are just like β€œoh yeah it’s this guy.”

14.07.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We should all aspire to study so Rhystically

14.07.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apologies in advance for what I’m about to do:

H.R. Gieger? I hardly knew β€˜er!

14.07.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is right in the gieger space of both phallic and yonic.

14.07.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean β€œwe’ve noticed that UB sets are motivating enough to new players that we can get away with more complexity” seems like a reasonable account for FF’s mechanics. Especially if mechanics like job select feel intuitive enough to FF players to do some information piggybacking.

14.07.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You should be able to sign up to be an organ donor who donates only to people who signed up to be organ donors.

11.07.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s negative 63 to negative 163 rafts. That’s a lotta raft debt.

10.07.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This #MTGEternities commander card has some pretty poor templating to its reminder text. IMO it should at least be β€œa player commits a crime” and ideally would be β€œa player commits a crime if they target any of their opponents, anything their opponents control…”

10.07.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Art depicts a robot with floating limbs standing above a cloudscape as the corona of a black bike lights the background
Artifact creature β€” Robot Giant 
Warp 3 (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)

Flavor text: The Edge is littered with the vestiges of civilizations annihilated by the Eldrazi. 

9/9

Bygone colossus 9 Art depicts a robot with floating limbs standing above a cloudscape as the corona of a black bike lights the background Artifact creature β€” Robot Giant Warp 3 (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.) Flavor text: The Edge is littered with the vestiges of civilizations annihilated by the Eldrazi. 9/9

This card from #MTGEternities is so wild to me, because it basically is a thumbs up or thumbs down check on if Spacecraft are good in the format.

Although if the literal space opera set isn’t battlecruiser magic we might be absolutely cooked as a society.

10.07.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just use #MTGEdging

09.07.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Or like ancestral sapphire sol ring

09.07.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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