Bones (A Cube Judge)

Great read. I agree that "Regular+" leads to many fixes which feel inappropriate for CubeCon!

"Whenever this creature attacks, you may put a stun counter on it. If you do," is juicy design space

Yes lol

Many OldSchool and Vintage players describe Sol Ring as the tenth piece of power.

My answer and the consensus.

YESSS PAI GOW RULES!!

Here is a plot of all of the Premier expansions, by release date, and how many days had passed since the previous Premier expansion.

You're going to want to click on this one...

Thank you Zach! Looking forward to trying it out

@elflawyer.bsky.social

Chuck's Trading Post is the best breakfast I found in Baltimore, and I've tried a lot

I was just looking at the banlist and realizing Arena is a pretty different meta 😅

Two Hero tokens with two Black Mage's Rods attached to each. The opponent is at 6 and conceded, I have 12 more damage worth of spells in hand.

@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social Okay I am hooked on Black Mage's Rod in Pauper*

@nyc-mtg.com I'm gonna build this deck in paper in case Pauper events ever happen around me, but I'll def bring it with my to NYC next time.

Lorwyn-Shadowmoor approaches and will likely have a lot of hybrid

Should I have heard of Platner before today?

You've done it again.

THE DIFFERENCE IS
$50,000
cracked me UP

Congrats Shariq, loved watching the finals match!!

Yep came here to post this - it exists and I rely on it!

Oh I thought you were a Head Judge again!

Venser is in

😬

Yeah this is crazy, jobs use engineer and administrator REALLY loosely and sometimes interchangeably. Just depends on the company, hilarious to pretend there are hard rules.

Okay but what's Ribbons of Night doing here

I also plan on adding an Elegant Parlor in place of a Plateau, and The Stone Brain specifically to try and stop Oath.

The biggest surprise to me playing the event was just how little I care about Ouphe/Null Rod because they are symmetrical, and I can just Portable Hole them when it's time to combo.

De-Lurrus'd Vintage deck

After the event, some changes I've chosen to make:
+1 Basic for Initiative and Assassin's Trophy

-1 Lurrus, who was underwhelming, both because opponents could see it coming and because producing WW was awkward at times. This change unlocks Karn, Tezzeret, Emry, Ensnaring Bridge, and Cursed Mirror!

A Vintage deck revolving around Painter's Servant + Grindstone, and Time Vault + Manifold Key. Uses Goblin Welder, Engineer, and Oswald Fiddlebender to assemble the combo out of fast mana.

A print of Goblin Trailblazer by Josh Hass

Forgot to post this before, so: I'm part of a local Proxy Vintage League, and a few weeks ago, I did the best I ever have on a Welder deck with some spicy edits. (3rd out of 28. The top 2 were BOTH Oath and Tell, the menace of our meta)

I won a Josh Hass print with a super cool backstory!

No

Ah, but Hornet Sting deals 1 damage, and it needs to kill players to be more interesting than Aerial Volley, so an odd life total was necessary :)

HULLBREACHER + ECHO + CEPHALID BROKER???

This is sicker than my Minsc and Boo MB2 draft

A Gruul WOE draft deck

Agatha of the Vile Cauldron (WOE)

Went undefeated in a paper draft of Wilds of Eldraine! p1p1 Decadent Dragon, p1p2 Gruff Triplets (neighbor took a valuable WOT card over it)

I took a p2p1 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron optimistically, but didn't feel like it was better than any of these 24. Would you have run it? If so, over what?

a teenage mutant ninja turtle is standing in front of a sign that says perfecto Alt: a teenage mutant ninja turtle is standing in front of a sign that says perfecto

The newest one was sooo goood

My guess is Sabertooth Cobra

Some OM1 cards on a playmat

I got the Omenpaths versions printed for my cubes so at least they'd look like Magic