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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 1d

If this set doesn't give us a Vanilla Ice card I'm boycotting.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 1d

Ngl it's pretty funny how the artist here actively seems angry at the very concept of pizza.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure I've ever played against a five color deck that wasn't just an effortless slop value pile, and with Michaelangelo ensures that trend will continue.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 1d

"It must be hard when brewing to have access to every legal card in the format. We probably should make this commander really strong to make up for it." WotC design, probably.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so tired of them putting really strong abilities on five-color commanders because they're "hard" to cast, soemthing that hasn't been true in like a decade, while also making sure they're not hard to cast.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 2d

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Archidekt @archidekt.com · 2d

You could tell Nicol Bolas was going to be one of Magic's premiere villains from the jump due to him resting in a big chair and reading. [email protected] has the most viewed Bolas list, an old school old-frame deck leaning into cards as old as the Meditation Realm.

archidekt.com/decks/67471/...

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Levi Stevenson @levirstev.bsky.social · 2d

A new episode of Fair Magic is up on YouTube! Luke and I sat down with @danaroach.bsky.social to talk about the state of Magic: the Gathering in the Universes Beyond era, and how established players can stay engaged with the game over the long run.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9osU...

The State of Magic: the Gathering with Dana Roach | Navigating the Game in the Universes Beyond Era

YouTube video by Fair Magic MTG

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller's statements always lose something when you don't read them in the original German.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller is trying to sell this, which means Stephen miller has someone he needs to sell this to.

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Andy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 3d

There are many reasons to dislike James Comey. But what this administration is doing to him is a travesty of justice and un-American.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 3d

I love my co-workers, but I can't imagine a situation where one of them tried to murder someone just because they could, and my only response is to ask them how I can help cover it up.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 3d

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Archidekt @archidekt.com · 3d

Archidekt user ProfessorNox has the most viewed Angus Mackenzie deck on the site, a group hug list that leans heavily into control and effects that reward the whole table.

Check out the list: archidekt.com/decks/175637...

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 4d

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Archidekt @archidekt.com · 4d

Legends is the first set in Magic's history to feature legends. The original Dakkon Blackblade is the most frequently brewed cmdr from the set, and the most viewed Dakkon deck on Archidekt comes from @alsonamedjosh.bsky.social of CommandZone.

Check out Murph's list here:

Murph's Dakkon Blackblade | Extra Turns #06 • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

Dakkon Blackblade - Commander deck (1) Commander • (1) Counters • (10) Draw • (1) Evasion • (1) Infect • (40) Land • (2) Landfall • (2) Lifegain • (5) Protection • (1) Pump • (18) Ramp • (4)…

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 5d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7d

The United States has never needed to be "controlled" to do genocide.

The United States isn't an uwu smol bean empire with an uwu smol bean Pentagon and uwu smol bean world's largest carceral state. We're directly responsible for genocides against multiple Indigenous nations,

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EDHREC @edhrec.com · 7d

EDHREC writers you should follow, part 3/3:
@caljones.com
@danaroach.bsky.social
@nbenstead.bsky.social
@chrisguest.bsky.social
@d-amico.bsky.social
@gamesfreaksa.bsky.social

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 8d

Cast iron pizza for dinner

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 8d

I added Glimpse the Core into a few decks when it was released as a bad Rampant Growth, and ignored the second mode as I didn't think I ran any caves. It was this weekend that I noticed that, as the name implies, Urza's Cave is in fact a cave.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 10d

MagicCon Atlanta is over and the badge is added to the wall.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 11d

Sending out a few @cardsphere.com orders

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 11d

Season of Growth remains the most consistently underplayed cards in green aura/enchantress decks. My guess is folks just miss it if they're doing a search for keywords like 'aura' or 'enchantment'. In an aura-heavy enchantress list it's 2/3 of a Enchantress's Presence that has a scry trigger.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 11d

The cruelty is the point; this is all because Trump voters revel in the misery and suffering of those that are different than them. They’d rather see an immigrant or trans person hurt than see their own kids get health care, and I don’t know how we fix that.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11d

This passage nearly broke me.

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 11d

The amount of people who will tho k it was a cool to see an Emrakul or Ezuri cast against them is near zero. If you want to do degen stuff there’s so many ways to do it that I struggle to care about changing the rules to allow three more degenerate things.

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