Luke Brandes

Baby's first PT!!!! Shout-out @nikroulah for card lending and emotional support, shout-out Haven for the energy talk before the event, third bombardment owned and fourth phlage won the mirrors #nobadmatchups

@UrzasMeine Sacred Foundry is really tempting - definitely my first thought. I think that the appeal to pitch casting solitude is too high for the failcase of pitch casting solitude and having all blue cards with no blue mana.

@LukeBrandes Steam Vents/Rag is what I’ve been thinking, but I’ve also been really considering Sacred Foundry/Rag on the play, also.

Jeskai Blink hand of the day. In the blind G1, what’s the ‘goldfish’ line/plan?

@UrzasMeine OTD it matters what our opponent does (if we're playing against tron/titan/etc I'll slam SV Rag) but I think I'll usually arena -> either dash rag or cast phelia off hallowed fountain

@UrzasMeine hm this one is really interesting. Tapped Arena is quite appealing though obviously Rag could solve our issues. I think otp I will play ragavan off Steam vents, expecting to use solitude to push through t2 riddler.

engagement bait

@havenmtg It's not too late to learn Golgari Yawgmoth (abzan samwise combo)

i hear they had to re-implement the wall of roots + chord bug to fix this

After a few failures to start, top 4d the late night Friday challenge with my dimir-cards-i-like brew!

Teferi mirror for the win in the challenge. Modern saved??? Played vs Eldrazi 5 times..

@fireshoes esper ninjas!

Izzet Lessons in 11th 👩‍🏫 Izzet Elementals takes 12th 🔥 Izzet Spellementals gets 13th 🦀 Esper Sneak finished 15th 🥷

Standard Challenge Top 8 decklists for Tuesday, March 3 (71 players) #mtg #mtgStandard Mono-White Momo Drum and Izzet Prowess split the finals! 🪘🥋🏆 Izzet Prowess also gets 3rd, 5th, and 7th 🥋🥋🥋 Mono-White Momo Drum also finished 4th and 8th 🪘🪘

@mosh_joscoe @jakoboffline @ParadoxEng1neer secret third option that i was stuck on: you can cast gsz for x=6 and get the card six, because you have whimsy in your heart

@jakoboffline @ParadoxEng1neer Six is a number, Six is also the name of a Magic the Gathering card. Hope that helps

@jkyu06 Generally RCs are behind a bit, the closed events are allowed to stretch the time to qualify to each PT

just looking at things, why does RC Turin qualify for PT Strixhaven while Spotlight Richmond qualify for PT Marvel? (They're the same weekend, lol)

CRUSHED my local RCQ tonight with @MrChecklistcard simic cub list! 3 PT players in the room and I beat 2 of them to get there, deck is BUSTED how have they not BANNED cub? MU’s below @fireshoes R1 (QF): vs Lessons 🐻☠️🐻 R2 (SF): Scoop @LukeBrandes R3 Finals: Scoop @selesneal

@Nick_Odenheimer @adamwasmo @fireshoes They don't tell you this but taiga is secretly the best vibes dual

Won a Taiga today playing Dimir Tempo in Legachi! Thanks @adamwasmo for telling me to just play the best deck, seems like a good strategy! @fireshoes Omni-Tell 🔥🔥 Mono Black Tempo 🔥❌🔥 Blue Post 🔥❌🔥 🤝🤝 Blue Post 🔥❌🔥 Grixis Control 🔥🔥 Cradle Control 🔥❌🔥

@caro_irl Playing “on the table”—narrow delta, average player does okay navigating public info esp compared to 20 yr ago Navigating hidden/implied information: wider delta Sideboarding: average player would win more either not bringing a sideboard at all or siding entirely at random

@arbitraryarmor @rcondon_ yeah there are potentially some exploits but it gives you and your opponent the same amount of time so eh

@LukeBrandes @rcondon_ Have to figure out how to balance minamo untapping itself haha

I would be super down for online magic with 10 minute time controls

@rcondon_ Adds up to 1 minute + 20-30s per turn cycle or for a 10 turn game you have about 1 + 5 minutes (so maybe 10m+1s -> 5 minutes per game plus 10 minutes overall for 15-25 minute clocks for each match)

@rcondon_ Essentially as every time that you need to click "pass prio" you get 1 second added to your clock but it starts much lower (think 1 minute start time plus 1 second increment) this means every turn cycle you get 20s (10 phases per turn) plus 1 for every action that used the stack.

@OndrejStrasky Just wanted to say that I've really loved these daily thoughts! They've been a great discussion starter for engaging with folks and are always super interesting to read

@EmmettNeyman prepping for your first PT is really tough, glad you got a couple wins and excited to see how your next one goes :)

I didn't post much about the Pro Tour because I did pretty poorly, finishing the main event at 2-6. I was feeling pretty low yesterday about it, but after a fun dinner with friends and taking it easy today, I'm feeling a lot better. I can't wait to re-qualify and play another one

@painterzservant Gotta play it out to maintain the elo for clout

My apologies, he played it out,✨ 2-6 ✨

Noah Rabin 3-5, no need to concede if you just lose dude 💀💀