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islandponder.bsky.social
Magic Player (Cube, Premodern, Old School, Value Vintage) Snob (coffee, cigars, cocktails, spirits) Poly He/Him
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Discord: islandponder Might be back idk.

Life is so fucking good, hard to remember sometimes when I’m sad, but life is so fucking good.

Travis is one of my favorite writers, a person keeping Magic prose alive, a good photographer, and a great friend. Hats off to this banger format.

At this point my life is spending time with my wife, working a busy but good job, organizing and playing in magic tournaments, and smoking cigars. I think I’m peaking at 27.

a dark day for ska

let’s go back to two-set blocks and only have at most one UB per year please and thank you

Trying something weird.

Based.

I would really love to be able to filter out specific sets as a user setting on @scryfall.com , like we currently can with digital-only or silver-bordered cards. It's becoming increasingly difficult to sift through all the UB cards, and only getting worse from here on out :/

Top 8 Photo, 4/8 Mogg squad, 3/8 car. Good place to be.

PM hangs with the boys (gender inclusive) at the mana vault. 3/5 car peeps made top 8. Luke’s birthday was dope (their partner from Chicago surprised them with flowers), and now hangs at Sam’s.

search your name on Scryfall and post the first card image and realize “Noah” has no results so you try “noa” and get a washed, absolutely unplayable edh general.

Got 16 on a Thursday, fucking gas. Kyle not pictured. #mtgcube

I still hold that this manabase is bananas and absolutely untenable.

Credit: My wife. #mtgalter #magicthegathering #posca #onepiece

My wife started painting alters and deckboxes two days ago. She’s still very anxious about some of the details but I’m just blown away, she’s so talented.

*most addicted to weed girl you know voice* did you know weed actually isn't addictive? it's impossible to be addicted to weed because it's not addictive. did you know that?

Listening to reruns of BSB, heard DJ drop "Magic vending is carefully towing the line between coke dealer and therapist". I now have a better understanding of every LGS owner I'm friends with.

I’m gonna try and make it out to this, will bring some spice and/or dreadnought

I guess I get to announce that Esper Cube is featured at Boston cube party!

<comment about how my wife’s first alter is lowkey pretty dope>

CW: Feelings Post-con feels lead to wider thinking about Magic and the Gathering, and it's made me realize how emotional I feel about those I don't play with anymore. Playgroups change, people move into different parts of their life, including leaving MTG. It turns out I miss a lot of people.

We are the most back, can't get over how back. The more I change my relationship with the game, playing more in my home and in bars and at big events, detaching from "the LGS" as the central place where I play and the formats WOTC supports... this episode spoke to me. Cheers to @loadingreadyrun.com

Feeling so fulfilled after seeing all my friends. #gratitude

Day 3 of #MCChicago! Allison and I have been handing out our super secret project “Midwest: the Gathering” all weekend and I only have a couple complete sets left! If you want your shot at getting this #MCChicago exclusive, find me on the show floor today! 🎨: @avclub.bsky.social

My hobbies include Cubing, changing cards after the draft, and Cubing again.

So, is the anti-DEI crowd going to stop demanding “viewpoint diversity” privileging conservative and religious ideas in higher education or nah?

Getting actual nothing done at work today. I cannot wait to be in Chicago for MagicCon. I miss my friends so much. :)

Self-signal boost for friends coming to #MagicCon #MCChicago who would like to take the train direct from O’Hare into the city.

Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment

Recent maildays for the bluesky. :)

Hi friends! I’m still gonna be at MagicCon! Bringing my bourbon and Esper cubes, plus some premodern and 93/94 decks! Gonna be a great con. (Photo of the squad for vibes)

If you want to reach me, shoot me an email. Gonna slow down how fast I consume media. It’s [email protected] I’ll be shutting off most of my accounts elsewhere as well.

Starting to think all these Republicans advocating an unconstrained executive, trade restrictions, anti-intellectualism, and straight up crony capitalism were lying about reading Atlas Shrugged.

MBS #3 was gas. Announcing Mogg Squad Quarterly 1ks is big hype.