Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony
@lackingceremony.bsky.social
I'm a queer game designer hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
you guys, my opponent did it.
I conceded with a hand full of artifact mana, having taken zero game actions.
I conceded with a hand full of artifact mana, having taken zero game actions.
January 17, 2026 at 3:32 AM
you guys, my opponent did it.
I conceded with a hand full of artifact mana, having taken zero game actions.
I conceded with a hand full of artifact mana, having taken zero game actions.
you guys, I did it.
my opponent conceded having taken zero game actions.
my opponent conceded having taken zero game actions.
January 17, 2026 at 3:30 AM
you guys, I did it.
my opponent conceded having taken zero game actions.
my opponent conceded having taken zero game actions.
A small update to the production process for The Quiet Year - I've abandoned the hand-stamped box in favour of sticker labels. So much quicker and more consistent to assemble!
Non-US customers can pick up a copy now! (US customers: soon!) store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Non-US customers can pick up a copy now! (US customers: soon!) store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
A small update to the production process for The Quiet Year - I've abandoned the hand-stamped box in favour of sticker labels. So much quicker and more consistent to assemble!
Non-US customers can pick up a copy now! (US customers: soon!) store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Non-US customers can pick up a copy now! (US customers: soon!) store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Every time I remember this one, I feel delighted anew.
December 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Every time I remember this one, I feel delighted anew.
Draft Strip Mine, recursion, and acceleration. Trophy every time.
No Springheart Nantuko, no Fastbond/Zuran Orb, and some desperate filler cards... but otherwise this deck felt really good. I kicked a Sowing Mycospawn on turn two at one point!
No Springheart Nantuko, no Fastbond/Zuran Orb, and some desperate filler cards... but otherwise this deck felt really good. I kicked a Sowing Mycospawn on turn two at one point!
December 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Draft Strip Mine, recursion, and acceleration. Trophy every time.
No Springheart Nantuko, no Fastbond/Zuran Orb, and some desperate filler cards... but otherwise this deck felt really good. I kicked a Sowing Mycospawn on turn two at one point!
No Springheart Nantuko, no Fastbond/Zuran Orb, and some desperate filler cards... but otherwise this deck felt really good. I kicked a Sowing Mycospawn on turn two at one point!
Vintage Cube 🏆🏆🏆
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Vintage Cube 🏆🏆🏆
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there.
Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.
And while it's not particularly strong, my absolute favourite interaction with these decks is to animate a land with Badgermole Cub, bestow a Springheart Nantuko onto it, and then chain together land copy triggers. Each copy triggers landfall and pays half the cost of making another copy. Silly!
December 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
And while it's not particularly strong, my absolute favourite interaction with these decks is to animate a land with Badgermole Cub, bestow a Springheart Nantuko onto it, and then chain together land copy triggers. Each copy triggers landfall and pays half the cost of making another copy. Silly!
Another green land sacrifice deck, another easy trophy. Ancestral Recall and Time Walk didn't hurt, but honestly the all-stars of this league were Badgermole Cub, Sowing Mycospawn, and Titania.
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Another green land sacrifice deck, another easy trophy. Ancestral Recall and Time Walk didn't hurt, but honestly the all-stars of this league were Badgermole Cub, Sowing Mycospawn, and Titania.
Last cube season, Boros aggro was my pick for easiest trophy in the vintage cube. But this season, in both the regular vintage cube and the No Holds Barred version, it's been Gruul land destruction/recursion. The lane is always open and it can crater most decks that aren't already winning by turn 3.
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Last cube season, Boros aggro was my pick for easiest trophy in the vintage cube. But this season, in both the regular vintage cube and the No Holds Barred version, it's been Gruul land destruction/recursion. The lane is always open and it can crater most decks that aren't already winning by turn 3.
After numerous scrapped paint scheme ideas, I've finally committed to one I feel really excited about for my Drukhari army! Here's my test model - going for "scavenger pirates, far from home, flying through a world of dust and rust."
December 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
After numerous scrapped paint scheme ideas, I've finally committed to one I feel really excited about for my Drukhari army! Here's my test model - going for "scavenger pirates, far from home, flying through a world of dust and rust."
*firing up my first draft in the No Holds Barred Vintage Cube*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
*firing up my first draft in the No Holds Barred Vintage Cube*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken.
*assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*
Every time I read one of the emails from my MLA, I'm super impressed. She sends a detailed breakdown of what she does and doesn't like about Carney's proposed budget, the factors she's weighing in deciding how to vote, ends on a genuine ask for constituent feedback, then drops a classy post script.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Every time I read one of the emails from my MLA, I'm super impressed. She sends a detailed breakdown of what she does and doesn't like about Carney's proposed budget, the factors she's weighing in deciding how to vote, ends on a genuine ask for constituent feedback, then drops a classy post script.
Ending cube season with an easy trophy playing this very broken Grixis wheels deck. 🏆✨
Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo.
Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me).
Discard, removal, quality.
Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo.
Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me).
Discard, removal, quality.
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Ending cube season with an easy trophy playing this very broken Grixis wheels deck. 🏆✨
Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo.
Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me).
Discard, removal, quality.
Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo.
Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me).
Discard, removal, quality.
That feeling when you run back-to-back trophies. (Lurrus in the companion zone made this a silly deck.) 😎
October 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
That feeling when you run back-to-back trophies. (Lurrus in the companion zone made this a silly deck.) 😎
It turned out to be a very sweaty, nail-biting trophy run against Izzet tempo, Doomsday running double moxen and Jace Wielder, and fast discard combo-aggro.
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It turned out to be a very sweaty, nail-biting trophy run against Izzet tempo, Doomsday running double moxen and Jace Wielder, and fast discard combo-aggro.
Some drafts, you need to bounce around a bit before you find your lane. Other drafts, you accidentally put together Breach-LED-Brain Freeze plus power in your opening seven picks.
October 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Some drafts, you need to bounce around a bit before you find your lane. Other drafts, you accidentally put together Breach-LED-Brain Freeze plus power in your opening seven picks.
This orzhov pile felt like it had absolutely no business winning a trophy! But it turns out Phelia blinking Staff of the Storyteller is enough to carry a draft. 🐕✨
October 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This orzhov pile felt like it had absolutely no business winning a trophy! But it turns out Phelia blinking Staff of the Storyteller is enough to carry a draft. 🐕✨
This deck did not feel like it was supposed to trophy a vintage cube elimination draft. (I'm sitting at 68 QPs right now, making this my most winningest season ever.)
September 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This deck did not feel like it was supposed to trophy a vintage cube elimination draft. (I'm sitting at 68 QPs right now, making this my most winningest season ever.)
More highlights:
-A fantastic eight person game of Going For Broke which spawned the fantastic spinoff series title: "Hooked On Beth"
-Selling out of all the Dream Askew copies I brought, halfway through day two!
-A fantastic eight person game of Going For Broke which spawned the fantastic spinoff series title: "Hooked On Beth"
-Selling out of all the Dream Askew copies I brought, halfway through day two!
September 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
More highlights:
-A fantastic eight person game of Going For Broke which spawned the fantastic spinoff series title: "Hooked On Beth"
-Selling out of all the Dream Askew copies I brought, halfway through day two!
-A fantastic eight person game of Going For Broke which spawned the fantastic spinoff series title: "Hooked On Beth"
-Selling out of all the Dream Askew copies I brought, halfway through day two!
More highlights:
-A fantastic eight person game of Going For Broke which spawned the fantastic spinoff series title: "Hooked On Beth"
-Selling out of all the Dream Askew copies I brought, halfway through day two!
-A fantastic eight person game of Going For Broke which spawned the fantastic spinoff series title: "Hooked On Beth"
-Selling out of all the Dream Askew copies I brought, halfway through day two!
September 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
More highlights:
-A fantastic eight person game of Going For Broke which spawned the fantastic spinoff series title: "Hooked On Beth"
-Selling out of all the Dream Askew copies I brought, halfway through day two!
-A fantastic eight person game of Going For Broke which spawned the fantastic spinoff series title: "Hooked On Beth"
-Selling out of all the Dream Askew copies I brought, halfway through day two!
Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.
August 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.
Turn one, on the play: Blackcleave Cliffs, Black Lotus, Chain of Smog targeting myself, discarding Atraxa and Oliphant, Exhume the Atraxa, draw into Mox Jet and Reanimate, bring back the Oliphant, pass with thirteen power on board and Entomb + Death ready for turn two. This felt glorious.
August 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Turn one, on the play: Blackcleave Cliffs, Black Lotus, Chain of Smog targeting myself, discarding Atraxa and Oliphant, Exhume the Atraxa, draw into Mox Jet and Reanimate, bring back the Oliphant, pass with thirteen power on board and Entomb + Death ready for turn two. This felt glorious.
I trophied with Boros aggro, made those tweets, went to sleep, woke up, forced Boros aggro again, and immediately trophied again. This was a middling rendition of the archetype, but it had two of the cards I mentioned and also a piece of fast mana, and that's all it takes.
August 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I trophied with Boros aggro, made those tweets, went to sleep, woke up, forced Boros aggro again, and immediately trophied again. This was a middling rendition of the archetype, but it had two of the cards I mentioned and also a piece of fast mana, and that's all it takes.
My fingers hurt, but after about a dozen rejects and half a dozen methods attempted, I've got my process for hand-stamping the new Quiet Year boxes dialed in.
July 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
My fingers hurt, but after about a dozen rejects and half a dozen methods attempted, I've got my process for hand-stamping the new Quiet Year boxes dialed in.
I'm boothing this weekend!
YEG locals, come see me at RPG-A-Thon (outdoor market, both weekends).
Everyone else, any recommendations on my trial booth setup? (picture this centered under a 10x10 canopy tent, two friendly faces, cash and tap pad kept inside crate, transactions off side of table.)
YEG locals, come see me at RPG-A-Thon (outdoor market, both weekends).
Everyone else, any recommendations on my trial booth setup? (picture this centered under a 10x10 canopy tent, two friendly faces, cash and tap pad kept inside crate, transactions off side of table.)
July 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm boothing this weekend!
YEG locals, come see me at RPG-A-Thon (outdoor market, both weekends).
Everyone else, any recommendations on my trial booth setup? (picture this centered under a 10x10 canopy tent, two friendly faces, cash and tap pad kept inside crate, transactions off side of table.)
YEG locals, come see me at RPG-A-Thon (outdoor market, both weekends).
Everyone else, any recommendations on my trial booth setup? (picture this centered under a 10x10 canopy tent, two friendly faces, cash and tap pad kept inside crate, transactions off side of table.)