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Dominarian Plowshare
@mtgplowshare.bsky.social
Writing about Magic: The Gathering as art, story, and experience: https://open.substack.com/pub/dominarianplowshare?r=3ft3xu&utm

(PFP: Mark Tedin, “Swords to Plowshares”)
realtime cultural decay, from pretending to be Superman to asking someone to call you Superman if you hypothetically aren’t Superman to admitting that you are not Superman
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This amazing, amazing project is 10 cards away from finishing!! These are four of my own submissions—check out r/mtgvorthos for the dramatic conclusion
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Not to glaze myself but I liked these lines
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Scott Kirschner’s art is full of quiet, primal horror. etchings on cave walls and potsherds, the hint of unimaginable monsters that human tools can barely capture and that human memory cannot recall
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Underrateldy messed up art
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My response to my first serious bout of 12-hour vertigo
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
why do we think counterspells should be all blasts of energy or mind wipes when then should really just be nasty stanks
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Lord of the Pit’s PR team is great at contracting artists
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Modifier subject verb object
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
to….the…..tune of……hnh
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
to the tune of Dream Weaver
October 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
to the tune of Dream Weaver
October 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
These essays are a little experimental in their scope, much looser than what I usually write, and a bit ~cosmic~ in their scope. but it was all worth it to find this illustration

give it a read!
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Sword of Hearth and Home in my Syr Vondam blink deck—protection, a free land, and a free kill ability when the sword flickers him?? Sure why not
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
thick ass wrist
October 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
As always, thanks to Rich and @donnycaltrider.bsky.social and @travisnorman.bsky.social.

Here are some of my favorite reflavored cards (including, selfishly, Belion, which I wrote):
October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
decided that my new hobby is collecting/repurposing/creating Virtuous Role tokens (left is Rovina Cai’s official version, right is Ken Meyer Jr.’s Energy token, center is a homemade gouache Virtuous Role)
October 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
me slowly calculating the set breakdown as I read livetweets about the panel
September 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here’s my top four
September 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This article allowed me to do possibly my best work
September 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
well……
September 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Haven’t seen enough discourse about how hilarious this guy is
September 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Wanted to select some of my favorite first-impressions Through the Omenpaths art and literally picked 47 in my second pass
September 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Possibly I have some kind of brain parasite making me see a higher realm of thought
September 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM