Sam Black

Yeah, that sucks. I know the feeling

There are many events where an answer is wanted. Obviously there are some where no isn’t needed, but one possible answer is that the person responding is bad at identifying which is which or habitually answers without thinking about which it is

I don’t think it was needed or wrong. It’s something the community has been split on for a long time and either answer was fine.

Like, there was a ban after it hit Mtgo, but it explicitly wasn’t because of that and, having played premodern on Mtgo then and watched results, that also just isn’t what happened. There wasn’t a related collapse of the Mtgo metagame

What I’m saying is that your perception of what happened with premodern is incorrect

You’re way off base in this thread

Premodern just out here clowning on the entire concept that static card pools get solved

Unfortunately as far as I’ve been able to tell all but one episode are just gone

Was recently on @samuelhblack.bsky.social’s podcast talking about community building!

open.spotify.com/episode/31vT...

They made the correct decision. You might be playing a tempo deck, but if a random viewer copies this list, they’re probably playing a control deck.

I suspect a lot of this is just skill dif in black v red

Tymna is a very strong card, second or third strongest commander after Rog

@sarahf.bsky.social hey, it turns out I’m not sure how to contact you

My absolute favorite podcast

Having written a lot with a word minimum, I always feel weird about releasing short episodes, but I think length is mostly something the creator thinks about. As a listener, I’ll just listen to something else when it’s over. I don’t care how long it is as long as it’s interesting

Technically already exists on island/snow covered island and Serendib/Ifh-Bif Efreet

Genius grift I guess

And yeah, now that you mention it I really like the idea of setting expectations there, if you see a common, you know there are two more etc (provided drafters know commonality, which is a stretch, but w/e), also somewhat complicated with the expansions that “don’t have rares”

Exactly

Open to the idea that rarity shouldn’t be a factor, but it feels appropriate for my particular nostalgia for the era, where availability definite mattered

I think I’d be inclined to do one of each rare (exception for duals) and maybe 3 of each common

Most fun cube of the weekend? If different, cube that most exceeded your expectations?

Me, painted in fire colors and with a bunch of horns glued to my head

Me, painted in fire colors and with a bunch of horns glued to my head

Me, painted in fire colors and with a bunch of horns glued to my head

Showed up to a friend’s hobbit party as Smaug, surprising absolutely nobody

Yes, working on it

Thanks!

So You're New to cEDH

The first episode of Sam’s Table, my new podcast, is up on Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/7e4o...

Always great to get to draft @aquaone.bsky.social’s cube, even if I only had time to play one match (accidental hidden card is Loran)

So, like, rather than claiming it doesn’t make sense, you can just Google “tempting wurm decklist” to find out where it’s being used. I assume this strategy would work in general. (I did have to scroll to the 5th link for a useful answer)

All of this is to say, among other things, that I looked at flights to Portland for the RC, where I could also visit friends in Seattle, but decided it wasn’t worth traveling.

Some part of it is that I used to be working toward building a Hall of Fame resume in Magic, and that motivated me to try as hard as I could to attend events, and now I have no real ambitions, but that might be for the best in terms of letting me maximize my time.