Jason Shaffer 🔜 PAX Unplugged

A custom-created Magic card that reads: Goblin Kingdom Kindred Land - Goblin Mountain (T: Add R.) Tap two untapped Goblins you control: Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target to target Goblin you control. That permanent becomes a Noble in addition to its other types. “Who’s your leader?!” bellowed the adventurer. “Uhh... That guy!” the horde replied in uncanny unison, each pointing in different directions.

To quote @sergeyager.bsky.social: "The one year!"

As a special reward for your dedication, I have news to share via connections I definitely have: An early spoiler for Lorwyn Eclipsed*! Thanks WotC for this free* preview* card*!

(*Absolutely not a real card. WotC R&D members, please don't look!)

If I had a nickel for every mono-red, 5-drop goblin that ends the game the moment it shows up, and is posed pointing at something off-frame that it's about to ruin the day of, I'd have two nickels...

Sure is! Been real busy this season! Fun fact: my name always has my next event in it!

Wheeler's face in this thumbnail:

Nashi, Hamelin's Legacy by Jason Shaffer (@Super_Ashura) A Commander format Magic: The Gathering deck list on Scryfall.

I built this: The Commander changed from Damia, to Leovold, and now to Nashi. The core changed from Relentless Rats to Rat Colony. It's goal has remained the same: Retell the story of the Pied Piper entirely through gameplay patterns. It's probably the most opponent-favored deck I've ever built.

Liquid design.

That was a fun party. That burger kicked my ass!

Da Family by Jason Shaffer (@Super_Ashura) A Commander format Magic: The Gathering deck list on Scryfall.

May I introduce you to a deck that's been with me since I started playing Magic some 25 years ago? It was my first deck ever, and every time my relationship with the game changes so does it.

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This is Changeling: The Lost.

Autism? Nah, the neurologists ruled that out as a possibility. Why do you ask?

No. Labubu are a subspecies of Trubbish. They came about from years of self-depreciating humor where humans identified themselves as trash. The result: Trubbish adapted into a visage mocking us for our hubris.

I am unsurprised. My mild jock fights my overwhelming nerd, but always loses. The goth, meanwhile has absolutely nothing to fight against.

Scryfall for Card lookup
MTGFamiliar for Comp Rules reference, MTR/IPG reference, life total tracking, and trading.
MTG Judge Core v2 if I ever need to call a draft.

It was great to finally meet you in-person! We're at critical threat levels of unending rambling with each other.

Hey look, I made it onto the pitch of a stadium! Worst travel day-and-a-half over! Now for sleep-deprived Gathering™️!

Come out to the stadium! There's lots of Magic there!

Hey look! It's my favorite hoodie!

Side note: if anyone recognizes the Surge cosplayer, please let me know: I'd love to credit her!

ConnecticutCon is finished, and it was certainly... an event of all time. There were some highlights, though! We were right next to Jon St. John's puppy rescue, a Surge cosplayer gave me a bracelet for recognizing her, and I managed to play a full round of DDR without dying!

That is the only Sliver-related card in the set. One of the characters in the story refers to them as a horror movie monster that they're very glad isn't real.

I just want my Booster Gold and Blue Beetle buddy cop adventure. Is that so much to ask? The friendship those too have would be so nice to see explored in this new earnest tone established for the setting.

It took 3 hours of standing in line, one Lyft, one commuter rail from Worcester to Boston, and I'd already boarded my bus to Portland, but we got there!

3-hour line for an autistic obsession high five!

If anyone gets through this accursed Sonic Secret Lair queue that I am also waiting in, hit me up. Together, we can beat this terrible experience and receive a little fan-joy. As a treat.

Off to CommandFest Worcester! I'll be working the floor all 3 days, but I also hope to get some table time in with my newest brew sometime this weekend. Come say hi and ask me about it! (If you have the stamina to withstand my relentless ADHD rambling.)

Highlights of a Locke Cole and Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant deck including a suite of voltron elements representing the search for Phoenix, Phoenixes that bestow their power to others, and Phoenixes that torch the board.

Mail day! Commander deck number 23 and my first Rule 0 Partners deck. Light spoilers for Final Fantasy 6:

Strangely, reading this particular article came as a relief to me. I LOVED Part 1. When I started playing it, it rocketed to one of my favorites of all time. I watched 2 full playthroughs of Part 2 and realized I had no desire to make that experience my own. Your article put words to that feeling.

Flavor AND function!

WotC, please! I beg! I'm still trying to finish my Jurassic Park stuff. You just released Final Fantasy. You can't be hitting all of my hyper-obsessions this quickly!