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JasonILTG @jasoniltg.bsky.social · 10h

I was bored so I wrote a thing. It's very stream of consciousness and maybe not that good content idk.

Also I'm having some technical difficulties updating my website so I instead copied it to a gdoc for now. Much jank, have fun.

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How to Play Chant Control vs Every Matchup

How to Play Chant Control vs Every Matchup 10/14/2025 JasonILTG I've been in a writing slump for the past 6 months or so, lacking the motivation to write articles even though I've had some ideas, so...

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 1d

it's rigged

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 1d

remember it's fine to make a total fool out of yourself

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 9d

without me there would be no birds

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 11d

Here's what it looks like:

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 13d

just open your treasure chests ez

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

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

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 16d

do it coward

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 16d

still hate this little shit btw

Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · Nov 28

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Nick Schirillo @bobinchese.bsky.social · 17d

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 · 18d

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 · 16d

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 · 16d

"in a reasonable world" doing some heavy lifting here

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yoman5 @yoman5.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 16d

Modern made me want to learn Pokemon TCG; the bar for any draft format is so low

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 17d

it was all a clever ruse

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 17d

well right now i still need to get out of bed

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Paul Green @pg8.bsky.social · 17d

if i ever get out of bed I'll hit you up

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