Matt Rosenbloom

3-0 against not vivi 0-4 against vivi

Opponents were nicer than Hartford though I guess?

I’ll take what I can get lmao

Standard UB midrange deck laid out to spell “BAN VIVI!”

Won an 8-person RCQ with dimir very aggressively built to beat mono red and vivi after beating vivi twice (one prowess one cauldron) and mono red once.

Mainboard feels really, really good (against the decks it’s meant to beat), sideboard probably wants some tuning.

@fireshoes.bsky.social

It’s actually kinda incredible just how bad some of the cards in my deck were against you

Depends how bad the “it’s so over” moments are tbh

Won a 9-person RCQ with the cutters I refused to register in Hartford

Rd1 LWW Through the Breach
Rd2 WW Zoo
Rd3 LL UW Control
Rd4 WLW Broodscale
Rd5 WLW Titan

SF WW TTB rematch
F WLW Broodscale rematch

Very happy all the energy players went to Doomwake’s RCQ haha

This is the only time they’re allowing themselves to ban anything until early 2027 rotation (barring an “emergency” that would have to be worse than Nadu), normally I wouldn’t want them to ban aggressively but given that I think they kinda have to

There’s a Cloud promo for PT participants this month, I can’t imagine they want to double up.

It’s weird because Shoot (post-rotation) is probably gonna be one of the few most playable promos we’ve had?

Knowing this they’re gonna reprint GFTT or something in Edge and shoot won’t actually see play 😆

1-4 drop, drew poorly all day, should’ve played a real deck

Dimir tomorrow

Why am I like this

Never in doubt!

I know the feeling, thanks for fixing

Did the 4/1 and 4/2 modern challenges not fire, or did they just not get posted to the MTGO site for some reason? I don’t see them on there, not sure if it’s a bug or if they just didn’t fill.

@fireshoes.bsky.social

If I have to click on every event to see where it is and how far away it is, I’m going back to the official tool in a heartbeat

A list of events on Spicerack, which no longer shows the location or distance for each event

Can anyone explain why Spicerack decided to take store locations off their event listing page, making their website useless on mobile?

Won an rcq running back the same 75 as last weekend, deck is still cracked even when it doesn’t play against aggro 5 times lol

Rd1 WW Golgari
Rd2 WW UW control
Rd3 WLW Otters
Rd4 LL Mirror
Rd5 WW Pixie

SF homie scoop
F WLW Domain

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Bounced back from yesterday with a mincash in the standard 5k. Played the list @oafmcnamara.bsky.social posted a few days back, felt great especially with five rounds against aggro. Hoping I can get an invite with it one of these last two weekends.

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3-4 with energy in Charlotte. Not terribly upset with it considering I was going off incredibly few reps.

I may be the only person that feels this but the games were fun enough that I’m excited for rcq season (or at least will be post Breach ban)

Copied Scott’s two Fear of Infinity for today and then faced pixie zero times :)

(Also caught myself angleshooting in garbage time in the last round of swiss and have been feeling shitty about it)

Lost an RCQ final today still on UB Bounce

WW Oculus
WLW Pixie
LWL Pixie
WW BG Toxic
ID
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SF LWW Pixie
F LL Pixie (round 3 opp)

Pixie vs bounce matchup has such horrendous vibes, I want to figure out how to make it feel better

Won a four person “RCQ” (RCQ didn’t fire but we played single elim for the foil promo) with dimir bounce

WW Esper Pixie
WW Sultai Terror

Spell pierce incredibly good against pixie, slightly less good against terror. Pierce is gonna make the talent/nightmare mirrors really, really interesting…

Finally broke through and made an RCQ top cut for the first time since moving. Lost in semis but can’t be upset at all.

Played dimir pixie bounce enchantments nightmare w/e we’re calling it rn. Maindeck Tidebinder felt goooooood but maybe I should be playing a 25th land instead.

It’s not entirely clear how I went from going 5-10 at Boston area RCQs so far to finishing 10-5 at the “GP” this weekend for the foil Terror

Shoutout to game stores that actually tell people if there is a deadline to register for their events online

Did you miss Eclipse (or another 3 mana sweeper) at all? There’s enough cheap single target removal that maybe it’s fine not to have it, but still seems strange to me.

Tanked the first RCQ in Boston (2-4 on UB losing multiple games from not understanding how my own cards work and not having thought about playing or sideboarding going into the event), but the vibes of RCQing in the area were really good and figuring that out was kinda the goal today anyway

Man I couldn’t even convince myself to register this in *standard*

Might be time to start using this thing again…