Anodyne Joe
@trasgomorph.bsky.social
shitpostmodernist. aspiring vermispex. writing at CASCADE CASCADE, Hipsters of the Coast, Cool Stuff Inc.
while y’all’re talking about “There Will Come Soft Rains,” I’m talking about Fromsoft’s Nightreign
I need another playmat like I need another hole in my head. Luckily, you actually need a bunch of holes in your head to sense things.
the next piece of CASCADE CASCADE merch is here: It's an incredibly sick playmat featuring the cover art for CASCADE CASCADE Issue 2 - Summer Break by Jeanne D'Angelo. We made about 50 of 'em. Ships quickly! Support the cause & get some slick swag too.
I could write 1,900 words on why this rocks, but it would all boil down to this: this is why I play and love Magic.
I included the amulet she gives to Yawgmoth to summon her as well. I designed that as an adornment on her forehead, to symbolically represent the vulnerability she has in giving it to him and trusting him. It sits in the very place that he wounds her in his brutal betrayal later in the book.
Not going to indulge in child related discourse just want to say this is a fucking incredible photo and i will be tactically deploying it when i want to insult someone's taste for the foreseeable future
is there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson
losing my mind over this particular Tim Burton concept sketch of Gurgi from The Black Cauldron
Hi I wrote names and flavor text for the new cards in Mystery Booster Commander, so I hope people enjoy them :3 I'm gonna drop thoughts on some of them below 🧵
H681.4.2 How deep is the sea? At first, knee-deep; further on, waist-deep, neck-deep; and beyond that over the head.
This is great work from Emma. If a card is exciting initially but makes your deck more predictable, effective, and time-consuming every time you draw it, what does that make the card?
As promised, here are my thoughts on Roaming Throne and why the card has been bugging me for a bit. To me, the card symbolizes a greater issue with modern-day Commander design (and makes games rather predictable as a result). RT's welcome! bit.ly/roaming-throne #MTGCommander
Issue Two is moving right along but Cal and I are sickos so we're already working on Issue Three. Now is a great time to get a submission in! If you're interested but don't know where to start, my DMs are open!
New submission guidelines just dropped :) Let us read your work :) :) :)
*aloud, shattering the dismal silence of the open plan office* you guys are all my muchachos
Considering driving 3 hours just to see this in the wild. What a joy it has been to see y’all embrace this project, which is why we do it.
Now in stock—Issue 1 of @cascadecascade.com! We’re happy to carry this magazine featuring some of the best long-form Magic the Gathering writing around, published by a small, independent group that just love the game. Swing by and pick up a copy today.
Feels incredible to be able to type this: Donny has a new Carl Critchlow piece on Hipsters of the Coast as a @magic.wizards.com Hobbit preview. Just bask in every noun in that sentence and know you’re in good hands.
An exclusive free preview on @hipstersofthecoast.com for #MTGxTheHobbit, it's Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin by Carl Critchlow! It's a privilege to show this on behalf of the artist, thanks for the free preview @magic.wizards.com! www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2026/07/witc...
Absolute mark for any and all Nekrataal variants. This guy, like Faller’s Faithful, is a great design.
I keep seeing "pencil slop" being said by AI people as rage bait, and I'm like damn even your insults are ungrounded shallow empty ripoffs of something that already existed.
recording a Kidz Bop version of CMAT called “take a special picture of me” and quitting my ninetafive
hahahaha GOT my ass and got my ass upgrading my BowBows for the second time
Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. You were killed by DARK WIZARD!
Really hoping there’s a “Rulebreaker—it takes 15 poison counters to kill you” Melira in those packs.
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
this popped into my head this week and I had to exorcise it by spreading the misery.
It's the CASCADE CASCADE mailbag! Issue 2 will have our first "Ask Editorial" column and we'd like to hear from you! Cal and Dan are really excited to call everybody "True Believers" and say stuff like "Excelsior!" until they get a cease and desist. Submit questions and comments now!
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Me learning that Psychatog, a card I saved up for in high school, is $10 a copy again:
Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.