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Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, Marvel SNAP, DBZ CCG | game design | QA | created the Magic/game design podcast Beacon of Creation | bylines: Card Kingdom | Twitch: bradleyrose | [email protected] | CODA, he/him
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Cards like Moonrager's Slash can be confusing to the newer player that has learned just enough about Magic to be aware that joke sets like Unfinity reference IRL conditions but not enough to be aware that the daybound/nightbound mechanic(s) exist.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Time to dust off the Bolin cosplay for a future Magic x Avatar: The Last Airbender event 😄 Pics from over 7 years ago! 🪨

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Choose your fighter.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know? In order for a creature to have 10,000+ power (without using other cards), it needs to have hollow, circle eyes. 😱

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Currently thinking about Akira Toriyama's frogs and their whiskers/antennae on their face or around their head. Is this just a stylistic choice or is there a shared inspiration between Chrono Trigger's Frog and the Namekian frog that Captain Ginyu gets transformed into?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Met up with a friend who was in town at Mox Boarding House. We played Jumpstart! Who would win in a fight: A Well-Read Doctor or some Well-Read Vampires?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Currently appreciating that the Darkness reprint's art is by Daarken.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Biggest incentive to attend MagicCon Chicago?: You will forever have the ability to get the windy city's blessing.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Fave Aetherdrift moment today: I got 2 Vehicles. Opp. has 3 creatures. I cast Explosive Getaway. I blink Skycycle, so it can buff my other Vehicle upon return. Opp. responds w/ spell destroying Skycycle. Due to MTG rules, if all of spell's targets are illegal, spell countered. Wow! Was avoidable!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Cards for Your "A Link to the Past" EDH Deck: Link's Uncle

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know? Unfinity's Far Out benefits Unstable's Oddly Uneven but doesn't synergize with Unfinity's own similar board wipe, Main Event Horizon.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever I play Prowcatcher Specialist, I think fondly of Goblin Chariot.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

When my phone alarm goes off, I get two options: "snooze" and "stop." This morning, the alarm was playing DBZ Kai's opening theme "Dragon Soul." Just as I hit "stop," the lyrics were saying: "Don't stop, don't sto-" 🤣

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know? Syphon Fuel fulfills the hidden theme of the Princess Lucrezia Commander deck.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I see the Marvel Snap loading screen, I keep thinking Cap's got pointy ears.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Marvel Snap's Welcome Back Package as compensation for U.S. folks is great. But I wish the 8 Conquest Tickets wasn't gifted toward season's end. Unused tickets as next season starts are auto-converted. Suggestion for next time (lol): Either delay tickets to next season or block auto-conversion. 👍

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Throwback to when I wrote a devlog entry in 2019 while designing a Magic set that takes place in a world in which there are racing vehicles: medium.com/millingfor53... I never finished this fan set. Finishing it now would mean having to work around Aetherdrift's existence in similar design space.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

@maro254.bsky.social Great to see you here, Mark! 👍🏻

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