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EDH enthusiast and recovering PhD. Decks: https://www.moxfield.com/users/IvoryTower

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Because so many CEDH effects make you discard, GG turns them into profit. If you check out the latest PTW, Dylan recounts a hand that had a Lion’s Eye Diamond and an Ad Naus. Cracking the LED to pitch everything created enough mana to run out GG on turn 1, and to then immediately Ad Naus. It’s nuts!

12.10.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Based on Spider-Man having no story arc whatsoever, and Marvel being β€œRandom Heroes,” I’d hazard that their license extends to character concepts and core themes only, meaning that yeah, those more recent storytelling arcs are likely off limits.

11.10.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the prevalence of live action Marvel (and the fact that I see Tom Holland dancing online like once a week) has overshadowed the animated version for many. Though you’re right: if they ever did Batman but limited it to The Animated Series, I’d guess that the response would be near euphoric.

11.10.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It also, as here, allows for applications outside of creature activations. You can β€œsneak” in an attack, but I’m not sure what it would mean to β€œninjitsu” a technique. Partly it’s just better to have a verb version than a noun when it comes to actions.

10.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you can’t wait til February to get started, however, The Brothers’ War is the best intro to the original frame story. Guildpact, Outlaw: Champions of Kamigawa, and The Gathering Dark are all compelling intros to trilogies in three distinct worlds.

09.10.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Arguably this one? There’s connective tissue between Magic’s stories and worlds, but whereas the game and meta narrative is centered around powerful magic users with the ability to pass between planes, the fictional narratives tend to be grounded in the lives of the people who live there.

09.10.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

From my own lived experience, I bet that I can guess that precise point.

09.10.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can anyone explain why the third image needed to include an unhelpful annotation of the content, superimposed on the image in a script-like font? Who is this helping? And do we not realize that credibility is lost every time something like this circulates?

08.10.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heavy Metal (Golbez EDH) - Commander (Golbez, Crystal Collector) A deck created using Moxfield.

An incredibly unassuming commander made magnificent by 1) the fact that artifacts are broken; 2) rendering most removal moot by just recurring anything worth killing; 3) a low CMC and a big butt.

moxfield.com/decks/0iHmXL...

07.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WHO'S READY TO BREAK IT DOWN!

Benji's Breakdown returns with an all-star banger pod! @bobbiechristine.bsky.social @jenfilthymtgcasual.bsky.social AND @donifmtgc.bsky.social all are coming for the BREAKDOWN. You should absolutely be here for this!!

Tonight at 9pm est

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06.10.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

While I have no idea how it was first meant to fit in, The Big Score has some interesting designs, and is potentially more coherent than Thunder Junction itself since it isn’t built around β€œwhat if Gitrog was a horse you can ride?” Maybe that would’ve been a better on (or off) ramp to the plane.

06.10.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Over the weekend, someone somewhere noted that some of the UB problems actually feel like Aftermath problems, and it occurs to me that if they’d tinkered with the Aftermath formula a bit, we might’ve had a way to extend the life of our time on a plane.

06.10.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you count story content as completing the little fireside relationship building chats with everyone, there’s a fair bit, but you could waltz right into the end battles right now if you wanted. (And frankly I might recommend doing so, because it’s easy to overlevel by accident.)

05.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to see you back over in these parts either way, and glad things are going well!

05.10.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t disagree per se, but I’d hazard that this is what the push towards collectibles and Secret Lairs is designed to offset. Value gets redistributed to a smaller number of chase printings, and further drives FOMO. Syr Konrad is a 60 cent card, but $60 if you got in at precisely the right moment.

04.10.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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elmo is surrounded by flames and the words one of us are above him ALT: elmo is surrounded by flames and the words one of us are above him
04.10.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon drawing of a man with a beard and a crown . Alt: Ariel’s dad from The Little Mermaid

You’re telling me that THIS GUY was an effective CEO of the sea??

04.10.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely appreciated!

02.10.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Head across the street and be seen! (This will likely seem menacingly cryptic, but you know the deal.)

02.10.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Understandable! No promises, but I’ve seen more Wick the Whorled Mind than Kefka β€” it’s hard to do Grixis goodstuff when the goodstuff is badstuff. Vivi meanwhile doesn’t have most of his enablers and cheap spells, etc etc.

02.10.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Taking the lead from @amytheamazonian.bsky.social, I actually recently switched to Standard Brawl and it’s been wonderful. Beyond having a less insane queue, a smaller card pool creates the same sense of discovery you get from Premodern or something, where weird jank has a home.

02.10.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Some version of the removal thing is clearly still in effect, but I’d rather queue into Vivi, Rofellos, and someone’s removal heavy Frodo deck or whatever than just the worst versions of recent nightmares.

02.10.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They actually updated this system after the accidental expose, but the concept is clearly the same, and if anything it’s now more broken. Amy’s assessment is now that newer commanders (including Rofellos) all get queued together, which makes things 100% worse.

02.10.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My real shock here was discovering that shark pirates released in the last year had increased the total pool of printed sharks by like 33%.

01.10.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s good to hear: but aren’t con attendees also definitionally highly enfranchised? I’m not sure what the profile or preferences of your average β€œlow information voter” (in the political sense) would be, but I doubt they’re flying to Atlanta.

27.09.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I felt the same way, and the best I can manage is that it’s meant to mimic Abby going from being a villain to to being a protagonist. But you’ve got me on making infected.

27.09.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I feel like the biggest parallel for what’s happening with Magic is LEGO. In the 90’s LEGO was entirely original themes but in 1999 the company announced a partnership with Lucasfilm and it paid off big. LEGO is dominated by licenses today and is doing better than ever. 🧡

27.09.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

But honestly the worst part of all of this (/gestures broadly) is that I somehow feel compelled to argue for the ongoing cultural relevance of The Last of Us vs The Office vs Doctor Who, and honestly I’d just rather not.

26.09.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ehhh I mean, Uncharted ran from 2007 until 2017, and still showed up in pop culture as recently as the movie in 2022. The Last of Us started in 2013, so we’re roughly within the same window.

26.09.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a reminder that the first game absolutely murdered the sensitivity of my Switch joysticks, oof.

25.09.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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