"When I was 36, all I thought about was money. Now, I'm an old man, and all I think about is a rent freeze"

This is what Gwen Stefani wrote Don’t Speak about

You mean it’s magical thinking all the way down?

These MTG homunculus names are getting out of control

Oh yeah, i can never have too many Terrors in any black deck in this set, artifact synergies or no. That card plays a lot better than I first expected

Haunt the Network is such a fun Magic card

AbunDANT growth

Not like anyone plays this card but Mana Severance has it in the name & exiling part of your library is very thematic for memory splitting

Always love to see Recoil in a cube list

I feel like Scooze is going to do work in this cube. Having it makes me feel better about passing loam / wasteland

A movie about what moving to Philly does to a mf

Oh yeah, it’s a mess! Was an interesting enough mess that I had to watch Vox Lux after & that was also a mess. Dude spends all his time making fancy title cards instead of figuring out how to write a second act

Glad the review acknowledges that SKWM were the greatest classic rock band of the 90s

This rocks so hard

- cube selection was great & i’m not just saying that bc my cube was in it. Very balanced mix of classic&strange, low&high-power creativity & careful design throughout

- @scottmirts.bsky.social @tarmogal.bsky.social @goblingathering.bsky.social & all other organizers / staff are national treasures

Overall C4AC thoughts:

- the 2/1+top8 split across days felt great, much less hectic than 3 drafts in one day (I feel like a doofus for voting for that last time)

- the venue was great, having coatracks & a PA for announcements was nice. Wish there’d been some way to fill water bottles inside

Left the event space & built a sealed deck of @goblingathering.bsky.social ‘s Alara Reimagined draft set / cube, featuring a mix of unchanged, rebalanced, and totally-new cards in a 3-color environment.

Won one match vs Bones’ Grixis deck with a mix of big creatures and exalted

Drafted some Jund BS in Kurt’s Double Masters-inspired cube post-event; each pack was seeded with 2 rares and a Cryptic Spires that could be exchanged for a shockland post-draft. 3 of each common

Took a bunch of gruul cards p1 then was passed bitterblossom p2p2. games were fun, went 1-1-1