Dominarian Plowshare
@mtgplowshare.bsky.social
Writing about Magic: The Gathering as art, story, and experience: https://open.substack.com/pub/dominarianplowshare?r=3ft3xu&utm
(PFP: Mark Tedin, “Swords to Plowshares”)
(PFP: Mark Tedin, “Swords to Plowshares”)
Minotaur, good, Scott M. Fischer great, must be a great and playable—
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Minotaur, good, Scott M. Fischer great, must be a great and playable—
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A brief exploration of romance within shortform poetry and Magic.
#Vorthos #Poetry #MTG open.substack.com/pub/mtgcriti...
#Vorthos #Poetry #MTG open.substack.com/pub/mtgcriti...
One Mana, Infinite Wonder
Atticus, Blue Magic, and the Poetry of "Cantrips"
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A brief exploration of romance within shortform poetry and Magic.
#Vorthos #Poetry #MTG open.substack.com/pub/mtgcriti...
#Vorthos #Poetry #MTG open.substack.com/pub/mtgcriti...
As promised! In today’s article, I write about contemporary culture’s interest in “civilizing” monsters, how Magic engages in this work, and whether the game’s narrative and mechanics might hardwire essentialism into its worldbuilding—give a read!
substack.com/@dominarianp...
substack.com/@dominarianp...
Depending on Their Circumstances: Relativity, Essentialism, and Magic's Monsters
On anthropological worldbuilding
substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As promised! In today’s article, I write about contemporary culture’s interest in “civilizing” monsters, how Magic engages in this work, and whether the game’s narrative and mechanics might hardwire essentialism into its worldbuilding—give a read!
substack.com/@dominarianp...
substack.com/@dominarianp...
new substack coming out this afternoon, inspired by del toro’s Frankenstein (derogatory)
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
new substack coming out this afternoon, inspired by del toro’s Frankenstein (derogatory)
eldrazi lame
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
eldrazi lame
im simple, just give me an illustration full of red, blue, and gold that pushes the boundaries of the human spirit
Forging the Anchor (The Brothers' War)
Artist: Liiga Smilshkalne
The metal turned and blossomed with Saheeli's will, each filigreed twist bringing the temporal anchor closer to completion.
#magicthegathering #mtg
Artist: Liiga Smilshkalne
The metal turned and blossomed with Saheeli's will, each filigreed twist bringing the temporal anchor closer to completion.
#magicthegathering #mtg
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
im simple, just give me an illustration full of red, blue, and gold that pushes the boundaries of the human spirit
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Working on a big end of year episode!
Send me your nominees for the Magic card (first printed in 2025) with the best art and the one with the best flavor text.
Send me your nominees for the Magic card (first printed in 2025) with the best art and the one with the best flavor text.
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Working on a big end of year episode!
Send me your nominees for the Magic card (first printed in 2025) with the best art and the one with the best flavor text.
Send me your nominees for the Magic card (first printed in 2025) with the best art and the one with the best flavor text.
we ride
Skeleton Ship (Masters Edition II)
Artist: Amy Weber & Tom Wänerstrand
"The sea gives up her dead as easily as the soil."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
#magicthegathering #mtg
Artist: Amy Weber & Tom Wänerstrand
"The sea gives up her dead as easily as the soil."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
#magicthegathering #mtg
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
we ride
realtime cultural decay, from pretending to be Superman to asking someone to call you Superman if you hypothetically aren’t Superman to admitting that you are not Superman
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
realtime cultural decay, from pretending to be Superman to asking someone to call you Superman if you hypothetically aren’t Superman to admitting that you are not Superman
stayin up reading Malazan again
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
stayin up reading Malazan again
I’ve posted a lot about this project but this is the culmination: the Through the Omenpaths Flavoring Project finished the very weekend of Avatar prerelease.
it’s really moving to see a Magic world emerge from the bottom up, not from the other way around.
www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena...
it’s really moving to see a Magic world emerge from the bottom up, not from the other way around.
www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena...
From the MagicArena community on Reddit: Through the Omenpaths Lost Flavortexts
Explore this post and more from the MagicArena community
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November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I’ve posted a lot about this project but this is the culmination: the Through the Omenpaths Flavoring Project finished the very weekend of Avatar prerelease.
it’s really moving to see a Magic world emerge from the bottom up, not from the other way around.
www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena...
it’s really moving to see a Magic world emerge from the bottom up, not from the other way around.
www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena...
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From the Archives
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2022 11 02-15
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Telesippa 2: helveticablanc.com/20221103-tel...
Inquirant 4: helveticablanc.com/20221108-inq...
Reliquary 2: helveticablanc.com/20221110-rel...
Insight 4: helveticablanc.com/20221115-ins...
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2022 11 02-15
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Telesippa 2: helveticablanc.com/20221103-tel...
Inquirant 4: helveticablanc.com/20221108-inq...
Reliquary 2: helveticablanc.com/20221110-rel...
Insight 4: helveticablanc.com/20221115-ins...
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
From the Archives
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2022 11 02-15
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Telesippa 2: helveticablanc.com/20221103-tel...
Inquirant 4: helveticablanc.com/20221108-inq...
Reliquary 2: helveticablanc.com/20221110-rel...
Insight 4: helveticablanc.com/20221115-ins...
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2022 11 02-15
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Telesippa 2: helveticablanc.com/20221103-tel...
Inquirant 4: helveticablanc.com/20221108-inq...
Reliquary 2: helveticablanc.com/20221110-rel...
Insight 4: helveticablanc.com/20221115-ins...
This amazing, amazing project is 10 cards away from finishing!! These are four of my own submissions—check out r/mtgvorthos for the dramatic conclusion
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This amazing, amazing project is 10 cards away from finishing!! These are four of my own submissions—check out r/mtgvorthos for the dramatic conclusion
Early friends on one channel, late family guy on the other, American empire in decay
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Early friends on one channel, late family guy on the other, American empire in decay
Not to glaze myself but I liked these lines
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Not to glaze myself but I liked these lines
For @hipstersofthecoast.com today I wrote about the experimental storytelling and artistic possibilities that might linger in one of the most infamously commodified Magic products: Secret Lairs. Give it a read!
www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/for-...
www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/for-...
For a Limited Time: Experimental Storytelling in Secret Lair Artist Series
Ryan examines the role Secret Lairs have as storytelling mediums, across several different artist spotlights.
www.hipstersofthecoast.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
For @hipstersofthecoast.com today I wrote about the experimental storytelling and artistic possibilities that might linger in one of the most infamously commodified Magic products: Secret Lairs. Give it a read!
www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/for-...
www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/11/for-...
:O
Let me post some art since I haven't done that in a while. 🫠 It's spooky season so how about an illustration of some cranky old lady ghosts?
Read the short story here; reactormag.com/also-the-cat...
Read the short story here; reactormag.com/also-the-cat...
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
:O
now that I’ve spent less than $20 buying 25/45 of the cards Kirschner illustrated, what other artists are worth collecting for visual alone??
Scott Kirschner’s art is full of quiet, primal horror. etchings on cave walls and potsherds, the hint of unimaginable monsters that human tools can barely capture and that human memory cannot recall
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
now that I’ve spent less than $20 buying 25/45 of the cards Kirschner illustrated, what other artists are worth collecting for visual alone??
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ROON
This is your last chance for romance to own one of @jimwoodring.bsky.social 's pieces for Magic, from his Dreaming Darkly Secret Lair
mtgart.auction/RoonSketch
This is your last chance for romance to own one of @jimwoodring.bsky.social 's pieces for Magic, from his Dreaming Darkly Secret Lair
mtgart.auction/RoonSketch
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
ROON
This is your last chance for romance to own one of @jimwoodring.bsky.social 's pieces for Magic, from his Dreaming Darkly Secret Lair
mtgart.auction/RoonSketch
This is your last chance for romance to own one of @jimwoodring.bsky.social 's pieces for Magic, from his Dreaming Darkly Secret Lair
mtgart.auction/RoonSketch
Underrateldy messed up art
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Underrateldy messed up art
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IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.
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oh no i thought of something and i had to make it 🤼
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
oh no i thought of something and i had to make it 🤼
My response to my first serious bout of 12-hour vertigo
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
My response to my first serious bout of 12-hour vertigo
are you glazing me zo-hran?
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
are you glazing me zo-hran?
Ready to choke on this
Sonic the Hedgehog Bubblegum (circa 1993-circa 1994): Little, collectible, plastic figurines of the iconic video game character, filled with tiny, crunchy, gravel-shaped chunks of red, purple, orange, pink, and yellow bubble gum pieces.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Ready to choke on this