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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 10h

He had rebuke in hand. That wrath getting countered was instant loss. He untapped and warps emissary putting kappa to 8 which is why I was terrified of shocking because it put me to 9. I had solitude to kappa and that left his board at just 1 land. Just bopped him with clarion from there.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 11h

Took down affinity to end the day 7-2! They were nail biters. Wrecked game 1. I went seize into wop wop game 2 and he was on 1 basic and couldn’t draw out of it. Then game 3 turn two high noon slowed him to a crawl and I learned after I won because I shocked at a very hard time to wrath with 3 up.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 12h

Lost round 8 to prowess. I took good hands both game and they had slow hands with turn 2 Cori no trigger. But the deck just sent me air after opener. Never saw an overlord. Riddler rotting in my hand probably killed me game 1.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 13h

Round 7 Titan again. Game 2 got to wisp end step ephem wisp to knock them down to 3 mana for pact. Game 3 I slapped ashiok down and watched the light drain from their eyes.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 13h

Got titan round 6. Game two I felt bad because I missed an interaction that needed a judge call and they made a decision on it that probably lost them the game. They upkeep surveiled lotus field to yard then cast Titan with exact mana using dryad arbor. Problem is I had clarion out.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 16h

4-1s will continue until morale improves…

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 16h

Picked up my first loss against through the breach eldrazi. Just an atrocious matchup for me. Need to slow down because I also tried to use Teferi with clarion out because I felt the game was over.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 17h

Took down zoo playing phelia riddler. Player I’ve been running into a lot and we both are sure we’ve met before. We had a great fun match and chatted a good bit after.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 19h

Got Jeskai blink in 2. He took a triple rag hand game 2 and I took one hit off the third and otherwise killed all of them. Drew triple overlord. Solitudes every riddler before the trigger except the last one when I had bowmasters out.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 20h

Got titan in both post board games round 2. Was one turn slow on the draw. Clarion and ashiok locked games 2 and 3.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 22h

My round 1 opponent just wanted the promo and instantly dropped. We take those. He was on a spicy living end build with goblin dark dwellers.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 1d

My final list for the RC. Feeling pretty good on my choices right now even if a few of them are against the stock builds. May the matchup gods be in my favor.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 3d

Broooo. That’s huge.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 4d

That’s a lot less than I expected so it’s not impacting the numbers in that significant a way. Thanks!

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 4d

Any chance you could try and split Esper Blink into Solitude and Subtlety variants? They're practically different decks most of the time. Although dingo is complicating it a bit.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 9d

Very excited for you to get all the vivi for the first time.

JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 9d

Matchups were:
Goryos WW
RG Eldrazi LWW
UG Ritual LWW
BG Broodscale Yawg LWW
Prowess LWL
Esper Blink (solitude) LWL
Boros LWW

JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 9d

Had been feeling really stressed about deck choice for houston then a friend smacked me and said just play the best deck you have reps on. Registered with 1 second to spare for the challenge today, bubbled to 12th on breakers at 5-2. my round 4, 5, and 6 opponents all made top 8.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 15d

I want to watch this at some point, but something I’ve felt strongly about is that a huge number of the issues we are having right now have almost nothing to do with UB, and everything to do with aftermath super bombing. And probably also a little with MH3 blowing up modern.

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Hobbes (like the Heathen) Q (like the letter) @hobbesq.bolasgang.com · 15d

This is the fucking problem with dehumanizing people. I get people are angry, and expressing anger can be healthy.

When it's done in a way that targets people there are going to be consequences and that is a problem

Miabyte🎙️— 🎃 Spooky Villain Hero 👻 @miabyte.bsky.social · 16d

This is why I was concerned about that original post.

I worry that the worst kinds of people will latch onto the 'pigs and slop' language to harass both Wizards & players.

I've seen it before. I worry that this is how a fandom splinters. Usually the next step is bad actors monopolising on it.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 18d

Between there only being a single modern spotlight series I believe, the modern pro tour being top 8 draft, and only one modern rcq season, I’m fairly annoyed. I also expected more spotlight series events in a hope they’d work back towards old GP frequency but not quite that many.

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 19d

Do you have an email we can send to? I’m stuck in Ohio and I refuse to do the age certification that gets me access to dms. Thanks!

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JJ @jjmoffitt.net · 20d

As far as I can tell it comes down to quality of execution almost every time. If Spider-Man had been built as a normal set from the beginning and was done well I think it would have been far better received. 40k commander decks vs doctor who as other examples both successful and not.

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