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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 2d

without me there would be no birds

Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 3d

I was pretty happy with 2022-2023 tbh (return of the PT and creation of RCs + sets stopped looking like Eldraine/Ikoria). But yeah it's been rough out there

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 4d

You just can't convince companies to do good things, they don't work that way

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 4d

Magic starting to make a lot of money was always a bad sign and I've lost hope that it will ever stop getting worse every year

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 4d

I don't really buy the zero sum comp/casual nonsense; the words written in the text boxes these days are completely fine.

Magic isn't worse because of Commander, it's worse because there are twice as many cards and they all cost twice as much and half of them are a shitty reference to a TV show.

Amy the Amazonian @amytheamazonian.bsky.social · 4d

Jake's post from Twitter is really good. You should read it.

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 4d

Here's what it looks like:

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, you load each deck and can play as both sides

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 5d

Cockatrice -> Start Local Game -> Change this to 2

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 5d

Here it is: 18K words on how to win with Sanctum Amulet at upcoming RCs.

It's the best deck to play in modern - even if you're just okay at it.

Put a ton of work into this one, so it's $15 or a $5 sub (comes with all my other articles).
@fireshoes.bsky.social

www.patreon.com/posts/140190...

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 7d

just open your treasure chests ez

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 7d

Does anyone know of any places to print custom playmats that AREN'T Inked? Trying to get some more of the Did You Have Fun mats but Inked turned to absolute shit since the last time I used them.

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Minh_Wins @minhwins.bsky.social · 8d

Atlanta photo dump with some goats @pg8.bsky.social @aje8.bsky.social @sanctumofall.bsky.social

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 9d

do it coward

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 9d

still hate this little shit btw

Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · Nov 28

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Nick Schirillo @bobinchese.bsky.social · 11d

Nah man a big part of why the UB stuff makes me sad is cause I know it's extremely popular so they're going to keep doing it despite it making the parts of the game I deeply care about worse. Like I know a bunch of people are going to buy the 6th marvel set but that doesn't make my FNM fire.

Jay Annelli @vorthosjay.bsky.social · 12d

Hearing the conversations around the con, I think heavily enfranchised online folks significantly overestimate how much their opinions on Universes Beyond are shared by the wider player base.

This is not a value judgment of any opinion in particular: just being reminded of that myself, too.

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 9d

yeah it's just given how reasonable the world is i am always gonna read "does, in a reasonable world" as "doesn't"

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 9d

"in a reasonable world" doing some heavy lifting here

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yoman5 @yoman5.bsky.social · 11d

Respectfully I think something that your argument and many like it miss is that zero sum or not:

The "soul" of the game that we so love is being eroded

Even if UB works out AND we get a competitive scene again as part of the result, a lot of the "magic" is lost