There's a reason Rob's one of the greats. His work closes the gap between our hobbies and our "real" lives, lending gravitas to the time we spend on the things we love and helping us make sense of ourselves. Also he started this piece with a David Berman quote so he had me at hello here.
If you like both Magic and David Berman you have an incredible few minutes ahead of you
“The suns of Mirrodin have shone upon perfection only once.” –Mox Opal (2010–)
What is the perfect card?
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Dropping to my knees and cursing the heavens
I just think the amount of time per year my hobby spends going Funko Mode is getting a little untenable for me personally
Lemme tell ya right now, if you've been looking for a lil publication that puts out best-in-class Magic writing with the same level of reverence as good sports or pop culture outlets, you are going to have a very exciting late February and March.
A lot of people are asking if the goblin is dead but it’s clear to me that he’s never been more alive
I would never want to do that
Defeating a moogle though...
This is sorta what people are talking about when they say you can't really opt out of UB lol
Feel genuinely bad for my opponent, who pulled off Bitterblossom Bearer/Mirrorweave Crown at the exact moment that it would kill him
Like I'm sorry that wizards didn't take the 12 hour games and constant apology.doc format into account when designing their card game
Also a very myopic format, some of cEDH's most vocal boosters seem to truly believe it's larger and more relevant to players than regular Commander and treat every card designed and format decision made as though it's a poorly made cEDH decision rather than a decision made without considering them
A lot of you would be radicalized by YouTuber Nahiri, I fear
Like I get that it was a mid pandemic set so a lot of us memory holed people went nuts for Strixhaven one!
Strixhaven is interesting because I feel like before it was released, everybody rolled their eyes and thought it'd be dollar store Harry Potter, then it came out and everyone loved it, huge hit with fans, then as time passed people started dismissing it again as dollar store harry potter
Is there a way to like...get a refund for this? Dude's just sitting on every pack but releasing them just in time to not get sent into autodraft
Loving the idea of a Phyrexian stumbling into shadowmoor and just acting normal
will they finish this cycle
One of God's mightiest creations was the idea that generated this set of functioning cards
Playing against the dominant deck in standard means getting slow punched by a grandma from a Nickelodeon cartoon while your opponent draws twenty cards and if this were a hypothetical someone made up for why they didn't like Universes Beyond I'd tell them to tone it down a little bit
I don't want to hear one peep about the mole until we get ancestral recall out of standard again
People will always be like “lmao they actually blocked me” yeah man I pressed two buttons to get rid of a weird guy and I’ll do it again
time will tell
What's his deal I wonder
How do you like them?? I’ve thought about getting some
If I were tweaking these, I'd make mode 1 of lighting a cig one discard, one draw and I'd make both Joes a little more costed
This has never been a game to me
