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#UnofficialMTGAmbassador Writing professionally about Magic: the Gathering since 1999 ✏️ 2.7 MILLION WORDS. Literally wrote the book 📘 on Commander. He/Him

Virginia, USA

https://t.co/alQ0olFLKw

Joined January 2008

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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4 years

I believe: Black Lives Matter LGBTQ+ Rights Are Human Rights We Should All Be Feminists There Can Be No Peace Without Justice ❤️Love Thy Neighbor❤️ Action Speaks Louder Than Words Build Bridges Being Neutral Sides With Oppressors Apathy is Privilege COWARDS CAN'T BLOCK WARRIORS

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6 months

Who's building a Felix Five-Boots deck that has a mini-quest to equip with all five Boots?

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2 years

I suppose Yasharn just craps all over New Capenna cards LOL

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3 years

A fun thing about the Stranger Things Mind Flayer is that it’s actually printed upside down 😊👍

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1 year

OMG was watching a Standard video with a deck that combos with these 2 cards. Tamiyo makes a token copy of 3 Blind Mice, and then 3 Blind Mice's II and III abilities can copy itself, creating an ever growing army of Mice 🤣 Link to the video in the replies:

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2 years

Why we can't have nice things...

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5 years

Look. Your Local Game Store isn’t trying to gouge you. They aren’t lying to you. They’re trying to stay in business making razor thin margins and meanwhile offering you a space to gather and play Magic. Demand sets prices and whatever profit they can scrounge keeps the lights on

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8 months

Popped up on my FB memories from 5 years ago 😂

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2 years

I fully accept this era of “not everything is for you” with a firehose of Magic releases that almost no one can or should keep up with. But as someone who’s collected Magic for nearly 30 yrs, I’m particularly sad a “30th Anniversary Edition” is so clearly not for me or most of us

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3 years

Dear WotC: can we please get a 2/5 creature with protection from blue and flash that says "if an opponent would take an extra turn, you take an extra turn instead." Thanks, love you!

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3 years

Can I say I just love that this card has "and so forth" in the text box.

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3 years

I live this every day 😆

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7 months

It's wild how quickly I turned away from Voja. I wrote about it, ordered a few cards for it, built the deck in paper & for Brawl. But having a Commander that rewards you this hard for just playing Magic is so incredibly uninteresting to me. 1/2

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The goad persists on the Birds even if Rendmaw gets removed right?

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3 months

Ok here are the 1st of my decks that I am looking to sell, lovingly crafted by me from my personal collection. Please retweet for visibility, and let me know which you might have an interest in purchasing. I will start posting decklists of the ones y’all have interest in below.

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3 years

You know what might be nostalgic fun? If Wizards did modern day versions of the vanilla legends from Legends with cool abilities for Commander.

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2 years

I've been slotting Whiptongue Hydra in a bunch of decks lately. Y'all've gotten way out of hand with Dragons and Angels these days ;)

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2 years

You know where all this Treasure stuff is leading us don't you?

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2 years

This design has so many drawbacks it reminds me of legendary creatures from the 1990s🤣

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4 years

PSA: If you build a #CMDR deck with Kinnan as the commander, it is NOT a casual deck.

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3 years

It's a little mind boggling these are still out there for less than 5 bucks

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2 years

JUDGE! If I've got one other creature out, spend 2 mana on Soulbright Flamekin's ability targeting Agrus Kos and activate Agrus's ability, will I get the seven red mana?

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4 years

❤️ 🥳To celebrate crossing 2,500 followers I’m having a 🎁giveaway🎁 to say thank you! ❤️ I’ll randomly pick the winners Sunday!

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1 year

This sticker is HI-larious 😂

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5 months

With all the new annihilator cards in #mh3 I think it’s time to dust off an old favorite

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3 years

My son is moving into his own place with friends and they plan on regularly playing D&D so for his birthday I included a selection of my old D&D dice in a Crown Royale bag 🎲 🐉❤️

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2 years

As someone who’s played Magic since 1994 I appreciate the old school Magic logo on the side of the box 😍

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2 years

Glad that Phyrexian Arena is getting a reprint and should be the cheapest it's been in years. Do y'all still play this in your #CMDR decks these days? I do!

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Is anyone else running this in any of their #CMDR decks?

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2 years

Did nobody buy boxes of Jumpstart 2022? I can't find any copies of the buy-a-box version of Kibo for sale

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2 years

Soooo... we've got another Magic 30 celebration product and it's... a $1,000 beanbag? 😕

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2 years

A combo deck that flips Xenagod + a ginormous green Wurm onto the battlefield for the win takes down the Pro Tour? Cool!

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2 years

There's only two Locus lands currently (Cloudpost, Glimmerpost), I wonder if this is a hint that next set will have Locus lands?

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3 years

Ran across this gorgeous Island in an old box of random cards!

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3 years

Who have you partnered with good boy?

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2 years

People talk about adding a win-con to their CMDR deck and I'm like...

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3 years

In Target yesterday we ran across Timeless Wisdom for $42. Sold! $35 for Fierce Guardianship and $7 for everything else LOL

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5 years

My 2020 Commander Wishlist 🙏🧙‍♂️ 1. More powerful, niche commanders 2. Less generically good commanders 2. Wedge panoramas 3. Enemy "battlebond" duals 4. More flexible color-fixing like Path of Ancestry 5. More non-green ramp 6. More non-green, non-blue "card draw" 7. REPRINTS!

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4 years

Ugh, why do people have to be such assholes? I'm glad Shivam's taking a break from being a very public face of the most popular Magic format, & I certainly hope he returns refreshed & ready to kick ass! Along with very generous helpings of muting/blocking people who don't matter.

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3 years

So there’s now 8 versions of the OG Thalia

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I’m just gonna keep these two cards together until they find a home 😉

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3 years

To celebrate passing 3,000 followers 5 winners will get this Bennie CMDR Survival Pack. One grand prize winner will get… some more goodies! I’ll reveal that and the giveaway rules tomorrow!

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4 years

For me, the best games of Commander involve a lot of swings in the fortunes of each of the players. They rise, they fall, there's a decent amount of interaction, they get to have their deck "do the thing" so even if they don't "win" they still win. 1/

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7 months

Anyone building a #CMDR deck with all seven Bobbleheads? #MTGxFallout

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5 years

A list of commanders I won't personally build to play myself because I feel they aren't fun to play against: Muldrotha Atraxa Meren Godo Yarok Nekusar Chulane Najeela All the Slivers Mairsil Shattergang Bros Uril Derevi OG Kaalia Grand Arbiter Aug IV OG Jhoira Savra #CMDR

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1 year

I'm curious why the new Nissa is popping off in price? Is it blowing up in Legacy or something?

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2 years

OH SNAP GRANDMA SENGIR CONFIRMED!!

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2 years

Ooooo! I wonder what legend from Homelands will be making an appearance? Autumn Willow? Soraya the Falconer? GRANDMOTHER SENGIR?!?

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4 years

I love that Wizards has made 3 versions of Radha representing 3 different ages, and all of them are badass. I played a D&D character based on Radha who was an Elf sorcerer/barbarian, and she took nobody's nonsense, kicked all sorts of ass and was a favorite at my gaming table.

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3 years

Got my Yedora deck sleeved up in style. I figure if some number of my creatures are gonna be face down Forests they might as well be John Avon Unhinged Forests! 🌳

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2 years

A reminder: Battle for Baldur's Gate DID have some awesome reprints, namely Reflecting Pool and the Battlebond lands such as Spire Garden. These CMDR staples are the cheapest they've been in a long while, get 'em if you need 'em!

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2 years

Regarding my attendance at CommandFest Richmond 😞

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5 years

#CMDR So much me 😂

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4 years

Dang this was a pretty good Commander Legends pack!

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3 years

LOVE IT! Just need a frame and I’ll put it on my wall 😍

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4 years

PSA: Sen Triplets as commander, Underground Sea, Tundra, Vamp Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Drannith Magistrate, Rising Waters, didn't exactly feel like a "level 6" game. Weeee, CommandFest Online...

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6 years

Play testing my Bolas Brawl deck last night, Fiona crawled up onto my shoulder and gave me some great advice. And I WON! #CatWisdom

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3 years

LOL, the hoops that modern day Oracle text has to jump through to cover what Johan's printed text says

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1 month

Whelp, 25 years writing for SCG has come to a close! If there are any particular articles of mine that meant a lot to you, or any face to face conversations with me you enjoyed, please let me know. Not gonna lie, feeling a bit misty-eyed y'all... 😢

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The End Of An Era: 25 Years With SCG Comes To A Close

Bennie Smith looks back on 25 years of Magic: The Gathering writing with Star City Games.

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4 years

In at least one recent CMDR game, a player said something like "wow, I can't even remember the last time I died to commander damage." Which made me sad. People dying from commander damage are exactly the sort of CMDR games I wanna be playing.

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9 months

Whoever designed Pantlaza didn't learn enough lessons from Chulane.

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3 years

I thought it would be fun to compare some of the “Monster Manual style” cards to their actual entries in the AD&D MM… 1/

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2 years

You know, turn 3 Descent ramps right into turn 4 Fiery Emancipation...

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2 years

Who knew a Dragon could use a valet? I shall call mine Mr. Bates

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5 years

1 CommandFests were a HUGE hit in 2019, even with little advance notice. 2 We're now ~TWO months away from the release of Ikoria, & more importantly 5 new #CMDR decks! 3 Soooo... wouldn't it make sense to have CommandFests then? 4 w/lead time to make them even bigger hits?? 5 ???

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Was not expecting asking a question to make sure I was correct in how this works would lead to rude answers from strangers that I ended up muting or blocking but I guess that’s the world we live in now. Thanks to everyone who confirmed in a friendly way it does work! 😎👍

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The goad persists on the Birds even if Rendmaw gets removed right?

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3 years

Finally got to play Eloise today, cast Spell Swindle with Academy Manufactor on the battlefield & felt like I'd already "done the Thing" with my deck getting 5 Treasures, Clues, & Food tokens. My deck was like "hang on, we're not done, here's Rise and Shine off the top deck."

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2 years

Both of these are best in class ways to protect a key permanent from removal. Do you run them in your non-spellslinger decks?

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3 years

I think my search for an Orzhov commander has come to an end

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3 years

We know Sword of H&H is a good sword equipment, the land ramp is solid & the blink effect is quite nice with a lot of value creatures. However read closely -- you may, like me, not have noticed you blink a creature you OWN. So this is good protection from steal effects too! 👍

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1 year

Is this Garruk?!?!

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1 year

My last one for this set "Shrouded Shepherd" For Magic the Gathering: Wilds of Eldraine #MTGWOE #MagicTheGathering

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3 years

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3 years

HOLY PLANESWALKER HOSER! This is probably the best hoser for that category of card ever printed. And it has cycling to boot! F off Karn! F off Liliana! F off Chandra! (Though for flavor, I wish this said non-Chandra planeswalker) #MTG #MTGMH2

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2 years

People stealing your commander got you down? I'm here to help

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3 years

Culling Ritual is awesome, and I like that it pushes back on the trend towards hyper-efficiency in CMDR. It also subtly makes 3-mana rocks better.

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3 years

It's sad that they keep taking things from green and making them better and giving them to other colors (*ducks*) 😉

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1 year

For me personally, a huge Magic fan who's played for 29 of its 30 years, the Magic30 celebration has been a huge bust. So much of the promotional stuff has either been way too expensive, or just not available to me. It's really mind boggling how big a miss its been, for me. ☹️

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3 years

I remember being so in awe of these cards back in 1994, they seemed insane!

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5 years

When you’ve been playing Magic since 1994 and you find a pile of random Magic cards in the bottom of a junk box, you AWAYS go through each card because you just never know what you’ll run across...

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3 years

Sifting thru all my closet boxes & binders of rando Magic cards is nearly complete. I suppose all those Chronicles packs I bought in 1995 paid off 😂

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4 years

I’m excited that it looks like we’re getting 5 new two-color Elder Dragons! 🐉

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3 years

Supporting my local game store, Collector’s Heaven in Richmond, VA!

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We got 2 prerelease kits and 4 prize boosters. We opened FIVE copies of Eater of Virtue, which is 4-5 more than I ever wanted to own LOL

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2 years

Seeing pictures from the Magic Summit, I was alarmed the vast majority of people were not wearing masks. It saddens me to realize I may never get to go to another big Magic event if everyone is just shrugging at COVID risks now. They were so much fun!

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3 years

I see that you can buy Scroll Rack, a damn fine CMDR card, for ~$13 these days!!

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8 months

It's important to remember a few things about Sheldon's Spellbook. 1) Sheldon was actively involved in this project. 2) 50% of each SL goes to the ACS, which means very little if any profit is being made of it. This is a loving tribute to a man who made all our lives better.

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5 years

The rules of Commander are designed so that *strangers* can sit down together and everyone have an enjoyable game. If you wanna play Stax, fast combos, 100% optimized decks and unban broken engines, you're free to find a playgroup who enjoys that too and have at it, right?

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4 years

PSA: if you're playing an equipment heavy deck, consider adding Inspiring Statuary to your deck! :)

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2 years

Is Phyrexian Dreadnought why Mycosynth Gardens is still north of $8? Or is there some other interaction that's bonkers?

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3 years

Dockside Extortionist had an unfortunate accident with a penis enlarger. Dicksize Contortionist

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3 years

Not too shabby as a prerelease foil 😊👍

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Is it me, or does it seem that 2021 cards aimed for CMDR lean more towards niche use rather than generically powerful in the format? If so, I'm pretty stoked about that development and hope it continues!

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So my first reaction was to be bummed that two slots in Commander Collection: Green would be "wasted" on Command Tower & Sol Ring, but now that I think on it, I think it's cool that you can "greenify" those two staples in your deck. Personalization is pretty sweet!

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2 years

It's been a while, but an upcoming Secret Lair has my attention...

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3 years

Welcome to the fam monowhite Narset monks! Every spell in the 99 can be cast with white mana. I know people hate the typical Narset deck. Would you still hard target me if I played this in your pod?

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OMG I am in love 😍 with these gorgeous module land proxies by @AltersAlk ! Go check out his page and patreon!!

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5 years

Very cool wall with EVERY COMMANDER on it! Stamped Feldon and Teshar so far!! #CommanderCelebration #SCGCON

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Wow, I'd consider playing this in monogreen even at sorcery speed but dang-- instant speed with super-trample makes it EXTRA WOWSA!

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Bene Supremo! Gorgeous! Cheers my friend @SheldonMenery ❤️👊

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3 years

I’m all over this picture

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