Mr Pie Break
@piebreak.bsky.social
Used to do Magic podcasts and stuff, now I just tweet about it a lot
Recent reprints of cards with more general names like Reprieve make stuff like this a very soft reprint target imo
ManaDad@manadad.bsky.social · 3mo agoI could easily see this being a $50 card. Cheap passive ramp and color fixing in white + people love group hug
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.
Cal is Stitching & Cascading@caljones.com · 9mo agohey we noticed your lack of written content about loving magic the gathering from across the bar and
A lot of people are asking if the goblin is dead but it’s clear to me that he’s never been more alive
Cal is Stitching & Cascading@caljones.com · 9mo agohey we noticed your lack of written content about loving magic the gathering from across the bar and
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
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
Cal is Stitching & Cascading@caljones.com · 9mo agoI agree - additionally (as someone who was... in the middle of the community for like, 4 years) there are just way too many people who insist it be taken INCREDIBLY seriously AND that it has no problems when it is obviously silly & has a lot of problems & yet can be fun/interesting in spite of that
A lot of you would be radicalized by YouTuber Nahiri, I fear
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
One of God's mightiest creations was the idea that generated this set of functioning cards
Mr Pie Break@piebreak.bsky.social · last yr.I've pulled beauty from the jaws of creation and yet still you all forget my power
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
I've pulled beauty from the jaws of creation and yet still you all forget my power
Interesting MTG Art (scary version 💀)@interestingmtg.bsky.social · last yr.They're not brave enough yet to do Universes Beyond: Cigarettes
I do not think it’s smart for the long term to imply that being Pro UB is progressive and anti UB is exclusionary. Massive oversimplification of a complex issue and one that paves the way for people mistaking consumerism for political engagement
Designed my own Jaws because why not? "Shark smells blood" was a fine take but I wanted something that felt more evocative of the movie. Both an homage to the slow burn of the Jaws theme and a mechanical homage to the fact that everybody would've been fine if they just stayed out of the damn water
It's simple, just kill Alchemy, move its budget into digital universes within sets for each UB, eventually print a masters set of the big hits, effectively silence most of the loudest UB critics
The way my feelings on UB would change if we had more of these sets
Wobbles@wobbles.bsky.social · last yr.Unbelievably hyped for Through the Omenpaths weirdness
Product fatigue stuff doesn't really phase me and the scalping stuff doesn't effect me too much but I am genuinely sad at what's been done to Standard in all this
Kept EDH data for a year! Game count was 123, win count was 37! If I were doing this again, I'd track less info about opponents (largely useless) and more about turn count and stuff. Unfortunately I will not be doing this again as it feels like homework!!
