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Brad Plays 43 Lands
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Huge MTG nerd! You can find my wife and me on Twitch jamming limited or EDH. I love talking about goofy brews and edge-case rules.

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Big news! SteelCityMTG is going to #MCVegas26!

Check for the ✨iconic✨ pink hoodie in Creator Central, the Gathering Grounds, or the Command Zone that weekend if you wanna get a game or two with @steelcitymtg.bsky.social .

You can pick up your tickets here!

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Find us at MagicCon Las Vegas May 1-3, 2026 We've enrolled in the gathering!
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Y'all, I did some CRIMES tonight in game 1.

Toph earthbends the barrels, I sac the barrels to kill a creature, Earthbending trigger returns the barrels to the battlefield. Repeat each turn.
Toph, the First Metalbender {1}{R}{G}{W} Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally Nontoken artifacts you control are lands in addition to their other types. (They don’t gain the ability to {T} for mana.) At the beginning of your end step, earthbend 2. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that’s still a land. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.) 3/3 Watermark: Earth Kingdom Illustrated by Eilene Cherie --------------------- Barrels of Blasting Jelly {1} Artifact {1}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 5 damage to target creature. Not to be confused with barrels of jelly candy. Illustrated by Salvatorre Zee Yazzie
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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But if we accept that as a given, then I'd have to go with Ragemonger. This cost reduction effect would be CRACKED if it were for almost any other creature type, but because it's minotaurs, it's just pretty good.
Ragemonger {1}{B}{R} Creature — Minotaur Shaman Minotaur spells you cast cost {B}{R} less to cast. This effect reduces only the amount of colored mana you pay. (For example, if you cast a Minotaur spell with mana cost {2}{R}, it costs {2} to cast.) 2/3 Illustrated by Karl Kopinski
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Mine has to be Sethron, without whom none of my minotaur shenanigans would be possible.
Sethron, Hurloon General {3}{R}{R} Legendary Creature — Minotaur Warrior Whenever Sethron or another nontoken Minotaur you control enters, create a 2/3 red Minotaur creature token. {2}{B/R}: Minotaurs you control get +1/+0 and gain menace and haste until end of turn. ({B/R} can be paid with either {B} or {R}.) 4/4 Illustrated by Fiona Hsieh
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Colorless decks don't HAVE to be eldrazi decks (but maybe it's better if they are)

moxfield.com/decks/RSZFUx...
When the clankers learn to drive... Brad's deck! Traxos can drive so many cars! Whenever you cast an artifact, Traxos untaps, which means he can behind the wheel of ANOTHER car! What could possibly go wrong?
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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When were y'all planning to tell me this dynamite printing of Taurean Mauler happened???
Taurean Mauler {2}{R} Creature — Shapeshifter Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. The bigger they are, the harder they drop beats. 2/2 Illustrated by Alex Negrea
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Just 4-0'd a Monday Night Prerelease event with some Fire Nation nonsense!

Turns out Sozin's Comet is REALLY good.
Decklist: 2 Fire Nation Cadets 1 Deserter's Disciple 1 Fire Sages 1 Pretending Poxbearers 1 Yuyan Archers 1 Boar-Q-Pine 1 Boiling Rock Rioter 1 Treetop Freedom Fighters 1 Tundra Tank 1 Wandering Musicians 1 Zuko, Exiles Prince 2 Cruel Administrator 1 Rough Rhino Cavalry 1 Cunning Maneuver 2 Lightning Strike 1 The Last Agni Kai 1 How to Start a Riot 1 Fire Nation Attacks 1 Sozin's Comet 1 Boiling Rock Prison 8 Swamp 8 Mountain
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Why, yes, of course my Sea Monsters deck with an equipment subtheme also has a Furby subtheme. Why wouldn't it?
A picture of cards recently added to my Wrexial, the Risen Deep commander deck; all from the various Furby Secret Lairs: - Phyrexian Arena - Command Tower - Read the Bones - Arcane Signet - Sol Ring - Hullbreaker Horror
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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I have not done a good job maintaining my cool around this guy. Number 1 bullshit guy, as far as I'm concerned.
Etali, Primal Conqueror {5}{R}{R} Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur Trample When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. {9}{G/P}: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery. 7/7 Etali, Primal Sickness Color Indicator: Red and GreenLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur Trample, indestructible Whenever Etali deals combat damage to a player, they get that many poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.) The contagion spreads and the Multiverse quakes. 11/11 Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Always watching....
Me squinting at Mr. Bevers through my phone.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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The "It ain't much but it's honest work" meme
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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And I'm not even necessarily relying on Mortal Combat to win; I've still got a solid combat damage strategy. It's more of a unifying theme, a better reason for me to be dumping a bunch of cards in the bin than just "I can kinda draw more cards" and I certainly don't need *another* reanimator deck.
Moonshaker Cavalry {5}{W}{W}{W} Creature — Spirit Knight Flying When this creature enters, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. High King Kenrith’s armies followed him into the afterlife, ready to charge at his command. 6/6 Illustrated by Aldo Domínguez Banner of Kinship {5} Artifact As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact. Illustrated by Olena Richards
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Which then led to other cards being added so I could fish it out of my graveyard if I mill it and miss my window to get it back with Ramirez. Cards which, I'm happy to report, are still on-theme for the spirits. 🙂
Ghostly Dancers {3}{W}{W} Creature — Spirit Flying When this creature enters, return an enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand or unlock a locked door of a Room you control. Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, create a 3/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. 2/5 Illustrated by Josh Newton Abuelo's Awakening {X}{3}{W} Sorcery Return target artifact or non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield with X additional +1/+1 counters on it. It’s a 1/1 Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types. Quintorius touched the old poncho he’d found. A rush of magic condensed into an Echo, and wise Abuelo stepped forth. DailyMTG Story Spotlight Illustrated by Eelis Kyttanen
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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...and, well, milling myself is kind of a liability cuz I could make myself lose if I'm not careful... Unless I turn it into a win condition?

And, no, I'm not thinking about THAT card. I've already got a deck with THAT card. Plus, it's not even a spirit! But I *could* hit 'em with one of these!
Mortal Combat {2}{B}{B} Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, if twenty or more creature cards are in your graveyard, you win the game. The crowd roared, the fighters bled, and the dead piled high in the pits. Only the Cabal could win. Illustrated by Mike Ploog
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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And then I thought: "Gee, maybe I should be looking at more self-mill cards. That would fill up my second hand so much faster than surveiling or looting ever would." So I started looking more into those cards...
Stillness in Motion {1}{U} Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, mill three cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, exile this enchantment and put five cards from your graveyard on top of your library in any order. “The Meditation Realm is a willful puzzle. Seek, and it will impede. Wait, and it will permit passage.” DailyMTG Story Spotlight Illustrated by Kai Carpenter Mesmeric Orb {2} Artifact Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent’s controller mills a card. A step in one direction is two steps away from another. Illustrated by David Martin
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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At first, I was just gonna put a bunch of loot and surveil effects as a means to get card advantage with the commanders, but after I had the deck together, I remembered Ripples of Undeath exists so that obviously had to go in.
Ripples of Undeath {1}{B} Enchantment At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand. As the monster lay dying, it stared into the eyes of the human who slew it. Decades later, it has yet to break its gaze. Illustrated by Ben Wootten
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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You ever get a whole decklist together, and then one card completely changes how you think about the whole deck so you completely rebuild it?

I'm working on an Esper Spirits decklist right now with these two at the helm (shout-out to @steelcitysteph.bsky.social for the inspiration). 🧵
Ghost of Ramirez DePietro {2}{U} Legendary Creature — Spirit Pirate Ghost of Ramirez DePietro can’t be blocked by creatures with toughness 3 or greater. Whenever Ghost of Ramirez DePietro deals combat damage to a player, choose up to one target card in a graveyard that was discarded or put there from a library this turn. Put that card into its owner’s hand. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.) 2/3 Illustrated by Grzegorz Rutkowski Ravos, Soultender {3}{W}{B} Legendary Creature — Human Cleric Flying Other creatures you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.) 2/2 Illustrated by Zezhou Chen
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Ah. There you are, old friend.

The sort of existential ennui that can only be brought about by grinding a Pokemon game for hours on end over several days + completing the Pokedex.
A screenshot from Pokemon Legends ZA showing a completed Pokedex
November 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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"I ever find another Ganondorf, I stg I'm gonna stop being so polite" - Link, probably.

Happy Halloween y'all!
My Halloween costume! I'm Link, from Legend of Zelda
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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A pelican is standing on a table with its face uncomfortably close to the person seated at the table. It says "What you did there... I see it"
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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THE MAD LADS ACTUALLY DID IT! THEY MADE SPELL QUELLER A LEGENDARY CREATURE!!!

Time to build another Azorius deck. 🤔
Aang, Swift Savior {1}{W}{U} Legendary Creature — Human Avatar Ally Flash Flying When Aang enters, airbend up to one other target creature or spell. (Exile it. While it’s exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.) Waterbend {8}: Transform Aang. With the death of the moon spirit, the Avatar’s tides of vengeance crashed over the Fire Nation fleet. 2/3 Aang and La, Ocean's Fury Legendary Creature — Avatar Spirit Ally Reach, trample Whenever Aang and La attack, put a +1/+1 counter on each tapped creature you control. 5/5 Watermark: Water Tribe Illustrated by Tetsuko
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"You wouldn't block a tunnel" in the style of the "you wouldn't download a car" meme
October 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Not to brag, but I've been Earthbending since 2015. It's NBD.
Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper {3}{W}{U} Legendary Creature — Merfolk Ally Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that’s still a land. After many years as a lullmage, Noyan Dar turned his talents from allaying Zendikar’s fury to the considerably easier task of rousing it. 4/4 Illustrated by Karl Kopinski
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This card has a lot of cool words and certainly will find it's home in myriad kindred decks. But for me (and probably @andyfloury.bsky.social), those first 5 words are the best 5 words in the whole set. #NoyanDarPosting

Also, I get to sing the card name, so that's nice for me (maybe not others 😅)
Secret Tunnel Land — Cave This land can’t be blocked. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Two target creatures you control that share a creature type can’t be blocked this turn. “I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes…‘Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel!” —Chong, nomad musician Illustrated by Alexander Forssberg
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Fair warning: tonight will not be a pink hoodie night.
A picture of me dressed as a zombie. Face paint, temp tattoos that look like wounds, fake blood, the whole nine yards
October 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM