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🌲 Your friend in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 🚵 Riding bikes, casting spells, and writing about it. 🤓 Be yourself, always. he/him https://www.travisryannorman.com/
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Happy Indie Bookstore Day, everyone.

The papal conclave will be eight rounds of Swiss followed by a cut to Top Eight.

Final Four of the $100 Budget cEDH tournament at Iron Golem Games in Marquette, MI. Teval Control Plagon Stax Narset Taking Turns (winner) Ral Storm

yesterday forming packs for a friendly draft of my powered cube, one card was missing. had to audit the list. someone stole my foil Gaea's Cradle. happened some time after people were counted out, before shuffling and making packs.

Just got the news: my gallery proposal was accepted! It'll be in the Huron Mountain Club Gallery of the Peter White Public Library in Marquette, MI August-September of 2026

Sunday

Today we do a deep dive into the five types of card draw, and the only type of draw you should be playing to support the Commander game plan, and how many to play: youtu.be/TK35fgkHbEQ

I wrote about seeing Middle America from the ground, instead of from 30,000 feet. If you've never stood in The Great Plains before, I think you should. As always, thanks for reading. www.magellantv.com/articles/get...

Excited to finally share this new painting, 'Morgai Thorns' An in depth post with details and process during its creation is now live on the MuddyColors blog site. Morgai Thorns 32" x 24" Oil on Panel 2025 private collectionhttps://www.muddycolors.com/2025/04/journey-into-mordor-morgai-thorns/

If you're looking for Felothar ideas:

If you're building JundJund and can't decide on what cards to include, just watch Swampfest videos until your decision becomes clear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNR_...

Remember to get outside.

I could do 19 hours on bike racing, easy. - Gino Bartali's efforts for the Italian resistance in WWII. - Creation of mountain biking on Mt. Tamalpais. - Graeme Obree and the pursuit of The Hour record on a homemade bicycle. - The rise and fall of Lance Armstrong.

I joined my local store’s Tarkir: Dragonstorm box opening stream, and here’s some action from behind the scenes.

One of my favorite worldbuilding elements of Tarkir is how the water cycle is used to represent blue mana in the clans. Jeskai- clouds, storms, mountain runoff Temur- snowfall, glaciers, frozen waterfalls Sultai- bogs, lagoons, fog

Friends, if you want to level up your chili: Add a pinch of cinnamon, and a bit of chocolate.

If you’re kind enough to lend me a deck, you better believe I’m going to doodle you some tokens instead of trying to track what’s going on with the Hashaton player.