SaffronOlive
@saffronolive.bsky.social
Content manager at www.mtggoldfish.com, purveyor of the finest jank in the world of Magic: the Gathering. Correct pronunciations optional.
Let's add a playset of beautiful mismatched Strip Mines to the pool!
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Splashing blue is one thing. Splashing blue in a 75 card deck with no sideboard just for Fog Bank, on the other hand, is some next level Platinum-Mythic Ranked Player deckbuilding.
One of the GOATs hanging up his brushes for health reasons.
With the number of legends in Universes Beyond sets I think Wizards needs to sunset "legendary matters" as as theme. It's a cool gimmick in a world where legends are scarce, but incredibly boring when we're getting like 150 legends a set.
Almost accidentally put a day/night card in my Commander Clash deck for this week. Thankfully I caught it before recording. I'm not tracking that...
I really like how Final Fantasy sort of feels like Time Spiral or a Horizons set in the sense that there's a ton of one-of mechanics.
Apparently Richard qualified for One Piece Nationals going 8-2 in a 1k player event yesterday.
Sorry everyone, no stream today. I'm still a bit under the weather and trying to catch up on Youtube stuff after being away last week for the wedding. We'll get back to normal next week.
Super random question: anyone know a good way to ship at PC tower? My new PC broke (probably the motherboard?!?) The good news is it's under warranty. The bad news is need to ship it to the company for them to fix it.
Leaving tomorrow night for Texas for my little brother's wedding. I got a bunch of stuff recorded ahead of time, but will probably end up missing one video, just as a heads up.
Going to battle against viewers for tomorrow's stream. If you want to get on the list send me your Arena info and the format you want to play (stream is roughly from 11am EST - 2pm EST). Can leave your info here if you want, or you can email it to me at SaffronOlive@MTGGoldfish.com
Monstrous Rage's weekend. 75% of T8 of 55 player MTGO challenge. 62.5% of T8 at Regional Champs 3. 62.5% of T8 of 66 player MTGO challenge. 25% of T8 of 32 player MTGO challenge. 0% of T8 of 88 player MTGO challenge. All in all that's 18 of 40 top eight slots, or 45%.
What's a word that you only know how to spell correctly because of Magic?
I'm going to have to play more Pauper. I forget how much I enjoyed complaining about Tron since it died off in Modern.
I swear that Wizards primary goal for Alchemy is to get me to play it at least once.
According to Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks Final Fantasy is already the best selling set of all time and it doesn't even release until June. www.polygon.com/tabletop-gam...
I'd really encourage people to skip the foil version of the new Chaos Vault Secret Lair if they don't want $60 foil drops to be the new normal. Seems like a test run to see if we're actually willing to pay an even higher premium for pringles.
I think some people misunderstand my feelings about stax and MLD in Commander. It's not that you can't build decks to beat those things, it's more that building decks to beat those things requires removing a lot of flavorful and fun cards, and Commander is a format I play for fun.
I feel like there might be a gap in the bracket system between brackets 3 and 4. Where does "play whatever you want, but don't stax me or blow up all of the lands" fit? Is it bracket 3 with a discussion about why you are playing more game changers? Is it bracket 4, but "be nice"? I'm not sure.
Both Richard and Crim are traveling today so I'm pulling in a special guest for the podcast. @covertgoblue.bsky.social will be joining me to talk Tarkir: Dragonstorm, bannings and more! Episode will be out later this afternoon.
It’s magical Christmas land, but technically a possible T1 win in standard yes? @theasianavenger.bsky.social @saffronolive.bsky.social @mtggoldfish.com
For other fans of @saffronolive.bsky.social's arena content here is my playlist. I just added the 13 or so most recent videos. Its at 133 videos. Seth is one of my favorite 60 card players and arena makes things not look like a spreadsheet. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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