Abhi Vaidyanatha

Jace hand painted in the style of a Chuck Close's portrait.

I totally dominated you at the museum dude. Pondered every piece for a couple seconds longer. Scratched my chin with more curiosity.

@MeatMTG you only get a warning for missed detrimental trigger, otherwise it's no warning 🤓

BTW if you agree with this, you don't work on difficult enough problens

This art was simply amazing

the convex marketing team rules

happy national trading card day here is a stasis deck comprised of non-mtg cards

@Paul_ter_Laak let me know when the blog post is up and we'll repost it and send some swag your way :) cc @waynesutton

First article of blog series regarding my migration journey going up this monday at paulterlaak.dev

Production migration to @convex complete 🥳

FIH

I wrote an article on how we've developed our messaging at @convex, we've learned a lot over the last four years stack.convex.dev/marketing-jour…

Phoenix, by Katsushika Hokusai, mid-19th century

ZERO BOY POCKET - handheld console promotional graphic concept

constantly inspired by people like @Em_TeeGee and @GavinVerhey and hope to push for a standard scene that feels welcoming to new players

I wrote a blog post on the modified version of Standard that our store runs for our events. It's been an amazing journey and I hope more stores adopt this format to help with accessibility into Standard :) open.substack.com/pub/abhivaidya…

Bats in Japanese art

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A set of basics hand painted after landscapes found in 'The Witness' game. I strolled the open world and chose the locations myself.

@PEKatchouze ah sorry, i see! to your point, I do think that some decks are better at going 2-0 than others, which is interesting... sometimes stage selection and matchups determine game records.

@AVaidyanatha You’re right on the typo ! I’m familiar with the system coming from YGO/OP, but I kinda liked that you had to fight even for that 2-0 victory in Round 3 to maximize your chances 🤷🏻‍♂️🤝

Huge changes to the competitive system that we know 😵‍💫 ✅ Mixed languages available in decks is W imo, as long as you can pull out the card gallery to read cards. ✅ Primary tiebreaker going from your game win % to opponent’s game win % more or less feels like the same, even if I liked the idea of having to fight for every game to improve your breakers. ❓ Cut to top 8 in Premier events ? Not sure, this has too many implications regarding prizing, Swiss format (IDs?), Day 2 and more. Can’t really find a clear explanation on this so let’s wait for the update, but if it really is cut to top 8 in majors, feelsbad for non pro players that could dream of a top 64 as their TCG career highlight 🤷🏻‍♂️ Overall W tho, feels like quality of Life improvements so we take those 🤝

@jamwt yup, definitely time to update it again, probably also worth expanding on edge functions

@AVaidyanatha And someone recently pointed out we need to update it because supabase has fixed some of the gaps that were on there. We'll do that soon.

I remember spending time hand-writing our comparison page to be respectful of supabase and what they have done for the ecosystem, as I have watched their business since the early days and will always respect them I’m even more glad now that I took the time to do the right thing.