JakeBrowne
@jakebrowne.com
Denver’s side quest guy since '02. From pot critic to game show host to Chowdermeister. Now: Marketing Director at Gum Pop. XP in bad ideas that worked.
The best part is the data was uploaded to an all timer of a url okstupid.lol which, sadly, is now down.
January 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The best part is the data was uploaded to an all timer of a url okstupid.lol which, sadly, is now down.
Going to be even less active here as Lorwyn spoiler (read: preview) season starts, depending on how well these filters hold up. Opting out of previews has made it way more fun when I actually sit down with the cards for the first time. Feels like an old-school prerelease.
That’s all I can control.
That’s all I can control.
January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Going to be even less active here as Lorwyn spoiler (read: preview) season starts, depending on how well these filters hold up. Opting out of previews has made it way more fun when I actually sit down with the cards for the first time. Feels like an old-school prerelease.
That’s all I can control.
That’s all I can control.
Have struggled to meditate for a while. Trying to fix that. What's working this year:
Put in my good headphones
Lay down, no sitting
Close my eyes
Put on "It's Gonna Rain (1965)" by Steve Reich
Focus on my breathing
For whatever reason, my brain is eating it up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWN9...
Put in my good headphones
Lay down, no sitting
Close my eyes
Put on "It's Gonna Rain (1965)" by Steve Reich
Focus on my breathing
For whatever reason, my brain is eating it up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWN9...
It's Gonna Rain, Pt. I (1965)
YouTube video by Steve Reich - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Have struggled to meditate for a while. Trying to fix that. What's working this year:
Put in my good headphones
Lay down, no sitting
Close my eyes
Put on "It's Gonna Rain (1965)" by Steve Reich
Focus on my breathing
For whatever reason, my brain is eating it up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWN9...
Put in my good headphones
Lay down, no sitting
Close my eyes
Put on "It's Gonna Rain (1965)" by Steve Reich
Focus on my breathing
For whatever reason, my brain is eating it up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWN9...
Reposted by JakeBrowne
American Magic players: Mr. Menswear, how do I dress myself to play this card game?
European Magic players: This tournament requires a tailored suit or culturally meaningful attire and we play for expensive cutlery.
European Magic players: This tournament requires a tailored suit or culturally meaningful attire and we play for expensive cutlery.
January 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
American Magic players: Mr. Menswear, how do I dress myself to play this card game?
European Magic players: This tournament requires a tailored suit or culturally meaningful attire and we play for expensive cutlery.
European Magic players: This tournament requires a tailored suit or culturally meaningful attire and we play for expensive cutlery.
January 2nd and there's still no dates for Limited Championships
January 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
January 2nd and there's still no dates for Limited Championships
Reposted by JakeBrowne
Back in February, I was looking at some of the new Magic cards in Aetherdrift. I saw Whir of Invention and said, “oh, who did that? Brian Chippendale?"
Who is Brian Chippendale?
📽️: youtu.be/8S47ac9mKmc
Who is Brian Chippendale?
📽️: youtu.be/8S47ac9mKmc
December 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Back in February, I was looking at some of the new Magic cards in Aetherdrift. I saw Whir of Invention and said, “oh, who did that? Brian Chippendale?"
Who is Brian Chippendale?
📽️: youtu.be/8S47ac9mKmc
Who is Brian Chippendale?
📽️: youtu.be/8S47ac9mKmc
Out now on Substack. Hope you had a great year.
December 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Out now on Substack. Hope you had a great year.
Reposted by JakeBrowne
I don’t like directs as tournaments, but they’re a way to express skill at sealed and be materially rewarded, so I’ve been playing them more.
2025 results:
FIN: 15-6 (71.4%)
TLA: 104-53 (66.2%)
EOE: 180-99 (64.5%)
OTJ: 12-9 (57.1%)
NEO: 27-25 (51.9%)
Total: 352-204 (63.3%)
Thoughts below!
2025 results:
FIN: 15-6 (71.4%)
TLA: 104-53 (66.2%)
EOE: 180-99 (64.5%)
OTJ: 12-9 (57.1%)
NEO: 27-25 (51.9%)
Total: 352-204 (63.3%)
Thoughts below!
December 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I don’t like directs as tournaments, but they’re a way to express skill at sealed and be materially rewarded, so I’ve been playing them more.
2025 results:
FIN: 15-6 (71.4%)
TLA: 104-53 (66.2%)
EOE: 180-99 (64.5%)
OTJ: 12-9 (57.1%)
NEO: 27-25 (51.9%)
Total: 352-204 (63.3%)
Thoughts below!
2025 results:
FIN: 15-6 (71.4%)
TLA: 104-53 (66.2%)
EOE: 180-99 (64.5%)
OTJ: 12-9 (57.1%)
NEO: 27-25 (51.9%)
Total: 352-204 (63.3%)
Thoughts below!
Got a couple things before leaving for Japan (somehow the couch was more expensive than the box)
October 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Got a couple things before leaving for Japan (somehow the couch was more expensive than the box)
three head coaches in three years, 20m over the salary cap, and still haven't won a championship despite having great first round picks. joke of an organization if you ask me
antifa isn't a real organization
October 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
three head coaches in three years, 20m over the salary cap, and still haven't won a championship despite having great first round picks. joke of an organization if you ask me
I have very complicated feelings about some dork in a MAGA hat not getting to lose another tournament vs LibsOfTikTok making this a big deal and I'm sure I'm wrong so posting those feelings here will surely get me the answers I seek. Cunningham's Law in 3, 2, 1...
October 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I have very complicated feelings about some dork in a MAGA hat not getting to lose another tournament vs LibsOfTikTok making this a big deal and I'm sure I'm wrong so posting those feelings here will surely get me the answers I seek. Cunningham's Law in 3, 2, 1...
Revisited the data on Spiderman's disastrous Arena launch since tomorrow will mark two weeks since release.
Spoiler alert: it has NOT gotten better.
Whether it's pick 2/design/the Omenpaths of it all, this was massively rejected. Let's use the data to analyze player decay in limited on Arena:
Spoiler alert: it has NOT gotten better.
Whether it's pick 2/design/the Omenpaths of it all, this was massively rejected. Let's use the data to analyze player decay in limited on Arena:
October 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Revisited the data on Spiderman's disastrous Arena launch since tomorrow will mark two weeks since release.
Spoiler alert: it has NOT gotten better.
Whether it's pick 2/design/the Omenpaths of it all, this was massively rejected. Let's use the data to analyze player decay in limited on Arena:
Spoiler alert: it has NOT gotten better.
Whether it's pick 2/design/the Omenpaths of it all, this was massively rejected. Let's use the data to analyze player decay in limited on Arena:
Friendly reminder that this is a video from someone who is being paid by the casino to play a slot machine to show you how great slot machines are.
The problem is that by the time YOU play the slot machine, it'll be paying out quarters instead of dollars.
As a wise man once said, "Buy singles."
The problem is that by the time YOU play the slot machine, it'll be paying out quarters instead of dollars.
As a wise man once said, "Buy singles."
WHOOOIOAAAA BIG PULLS!!!
#MTGxFINALFANTASY collector boosters have WHAT in them?
Happy Pre Release day! I’ll be streaming live from my LGS, The Comic Book Store starting at 3pm EST! 2 events, lots of boosters to be opened!
#MTGAmbassador
Happy Pre Release day! I’ll be streaming live from my LGS, The Comic Book Store starting at 3pm EST! 2 events, lots of boosters to be opened!
#MTGAmbassador
June 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Friendly reminder that this is a video from someone who is being paid by the casino to play a slot machine to show you how great slot machines are.
The problem is that by the time YOU play the slot machine, it'll be paying out quarters instead of dollars.
As a wise man once said, "Buy singles."
The problem is that by the time YOU play the slot machine, it'll be paying out quarters instead of dollars.
As a wise man once said, "Buy singles."
Anyone have a clue what this backpack is called or what it might be worth? Acquired it with a collection and can't find it on the manufacturer's website
June 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Anyone have a clue what this backpack is called or what it might be worth? Acquired it with a collection and can't find it on the manufacturer's website
This Saturday. I'll be doing pack prizes for pod winners in the Command Zone (it's a single 8ft table) and will have light refreshments. Cash preferred.
April 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This Saturday. I'll be doing pack prizes for pod winners in the Command Zone (it's a single 8ft table) and will have light refreshments. Cash preferred.
My final Mana Club for the foreseeable future is up.
I talk about looking for things in the Magic community I desperately needed to fix in myself.
Thank you to everyone who sat through the constant reinvention and need for validation. I'll see ya when I see ya. ❤️
I talk about looking for things in the Magic community I desperately needed to fix in myself.
Thank you to everyone who sat through the constant reinvention and need for validation. I'll see ya when I see ya. ❤️
April 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My final Mana Club for the foreseeable future is up.
I talk about looking for things in the Magic community I desperately needed to fix in myself.
Thank you to everyone who sat through the constant reinvention and need for validation. I'll see ya when I see ya. ❤️
I talk about looking for things in the Magic community I desperately needed to fix in myself.
Thank you to everyone who sat through the constant reinvention and need for validation. I'll see ya when I see ya. ❤️
PSA: Please, don't attack your X/1's into open blue mana
April 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
PSA: Please, don't attack your X/1's into open blue mana
I remember a time when someone would see someone else had an original idea years earlier and decided against trampling over them to produce derivative content for a channel that already has a million 'contents' going.
Am I the sinkhole?! 🙃
Am I the sinkhole?! 🙃
Something new for TTC. Perhaps your familiar with r/AmITheAsshole, and if not, I'll explain.
Have you found yourself in situation playing Magic where folks are angry, upset, or frustrated with you? Do you feel you were in the right? Tell us about it, and we'll let you know! This is r/AmITheSinkhole
Have you found yourself in situation playing Magic where folks are angry, upset, or frustrated with you? Do you feel you were in the right? Tell us about it, and we'll let you know! This is r/AmITheSinkhole
April 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I remember a time when someone would see someone else had an original idea years earlier and decided against trampling over them to produce derivative content for a channel that already has a million 'contents' going.
Am I the sinkhole?! 🙃
Am I the sinkhole?! 🙃
There's a tension between Ambassador product serving as soft pay for creators and what it COULD do in communities. No judgement if people need to crack it and sell singles but I'm here to applaud this ⬇️
The teacher next door to me just started playing Magic yesterday. He has NO IDEA to extent to which I am about to hook him up. Being an #MTGAmbassador is great, as I can really give back to the community and help new players. #MTGTarkir
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
There's a tension between Ambassador product serving as soft pay for creators and what it COULD do in communities. No judgement if people need to crack it and sell singles but I'm here to applaud this ⬇️
Reposted by JakeBrowne
My 2022 album Tales of Etherspace is still a decent intro to my work. Its 16 tracks cover both my accessible, "musical" side but also my weirder, abrasive "experimental" side --all in tight timeframes (longest track is just 4 min!).
etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
Headphones recommended!
etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
Headphones recommended!
Tales of Etherspace, by Ether Diver
16 track album
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My 2022 album Tales of Etherspace is still a decent intro to my work. Its 16 tracks cover both my accessible, "musical" side but also my weirder, abrasive "experimental" side --all in tight timeframes (longest track is just 4 min!).
etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
Headphones recommended!
etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...
Headphones recommended!
Genuinely grateful for the people who keep sharing this work. Mike is a real one. Someone trick him into coming to Denver.
I love reading @jakebrowne.com because I'm about the farthest from knowing anything about the nuances of pro tour Magic. Hard to ignore a phenomenal storyteller though:
manaclub.substack.com/p/33-greatness
manaclub.substack.com/p/33-greatness
#33 - Greatness
Featuring a look at the greatest speech ever recorded at a Magic Hall of Fame induction, why no one talks about the Hall anymore, and a question for you, the dear reader.
manaclub.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Genuinely grateful for the people who keep sharing this work. Mike is a real one. Someone trick him into coming to Denver.
Reposted by JakeBrowne
I love reading @jakebrowne.com because I'm about the farthest from knowing anything about the nuances of pro tour Magic. Hard to ignore a phenomenal storyteller though:
manaclub.substack.com/p/33-greatness
manaclub.substack.com/p/33-greatness
#33 - Greatness
Featuring a look at the greatest speech ever recorded at a Magic Hall of Fame induction, why no one talks about the Hall anymore, and a question for you, the dear reader.
manaclub.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I love reading @jakebrowne.com because I'm about the farthest from knowing anything about the nuances of pro tour Magic. Hard to ignore a phenomenal storyteller though:
manaclub.substack.com/p/33-greatness
manaclub.substack.com/p/33-greatness
Reddit really failed this person. "Yes, you can play Pauper!"
No, you can't. Not with random bulk commons. Pauper Commander? With whom?
Becoming annoyed with the community being 'technically correct' over actual helping people. Help new players. They don't know what they don't know.
No, you can't. Not with random bulk commons. Pauper Commander? With whom?
Becoming annoyed with the community being 'technically correct' over actual helping people. Help new players. They don't know what they don't know.
March 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Reddit really failed this person. "Yes, you can play Pauper!"
No, you can't. Not with random bulk commons. Pauper Commander? With whom?
Becoming annoyed with the community being 'technically correct' over actual helping people. Help new players. They don't know what they don't know.
No, you can't. Not with random bulk commons. Pauper Commander? With whom?
Becoming annoyed with the community being 'technically correct' over actual helping people. Help new players. They don't know what they don't know.
Had to peace out in the finals of a 64 but I think I was cooked against a very good Nadu deck regardless. No one wanted to draft artifacts today. Moved off a P1P1 Reanimate in draft one, draft two was a blur because I was writing. Good to be back in these after a break.
March 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Had to peace out in the finals of a 64 but I think I was cooked against a very good Nadu deck regardless. No one wanted to draft artifacts today. Moved off a P1P1 Reanimate in draft one, draft two was a blur because I was writing. Good to be back in these after a break.