Sam Black

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

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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.

This mostly represents positive changes in my life—I’ve found/built a network to spend almost all of my time doing things I like, and disrupting it to travel just doesn’t make as much sense as it used to.

When I used to travel all the time, I was always sad when someone else who used to travel a lot stopped traveling, but these days, I find myself less inclined to travel as the total value proposition (measuring only fun) isn’t great anymore.

These days I find that traveling for a weekend often takes two extra days while I’m traveling and don’t get to have much fun, and while I like the things I travel to, I’m always aware that I’m leaving my friends and missing out on things at home again.

As an adult, I found myself traveling a lot. My friends were meeting in places all over the world to play Magic and I wanted to be there. It was great that I could travel to do that.

As a kid I hated traveling. Time in transit was a lot less tolerable as a kid (I imagine phones and tablets help a lot with this these days), but more importantly, it meant going away from my friends.

I don’t think it’s fair to people supporting a limited podcast to suddenly cover premodern instead

Going to put stream and podcast on hiatus until there’s something worth talking about. My goal has always been to talk about the current format both for both paper and Arena and there is no such format.

No, I’m talking about language to discuss things

I don’t know why the link defaulted to 4 copies of the picture

Plagon, Lord of the Beach

cards.scryfall.io/large/front/... Do you have a way to refer to the kind of creatures this looks for? I use “small-bigs”

Rog/Thras

Finally got around to looking up your old list last night—the difference between your list and mine feels the same as the difference between Rich Shay’s and my premodern tax deck—I remove prison/ld elements for counters in both cases, also less focus on ending the game.

I almost always kill with triskelion. I can mind twist before playing it and protect it, but also it never gets exiled because it can ping itself and I can loop with twister+regrowth to present it again

Realized this should include a decklist photo

First Eternal Weekend event was the North American Old School Cup. I went 4-2 for top 16, but also won the spice award for spiciest deck—4 Hymns altered by the artist