snow-covered aylin

belatedly releasing an article i wrote about my experience going 11-4 at Regional Championship Las Vegas 2025. ended up being a more personal/creative work but there's still some magic stuff in there. link below:

r1 esper lurrus 🐈🐈 r2 lurrus breach 🐈🧐🐈 r3 esper lurrus 🐈🧐🐈 r4 sphere shops 🐈🧐🐈 r5 monowhite init 🐈🧐🐈 r6 lurrus breach 🧐🧐 r7 mirror 🧐🐈🧐 r8 mirror 🧐🐈🐈 qf lurrus breach 🧐🐈🧐

TOP 8ed the vintage showcase with lurrus PO! never played the format before; i played a single league match of the mirror, realized squelcher was broken, and tried to add 2 to my sb (mtgo glitch stopped me tho). this is my new favorite format tbh. mus below ->

qualified for the Arena Limited Champs due to masterful limited gameplay and no other reasons (didn't take a screenshot out of shame so i have included an artist's rendition of my draft 2 screen)

@EdlerJeremy @Stifle421 @marceliiiiiine @FrowningTable @fireshoes i would strongly recommend against playing this deck rn, it's really weak into reanimator/scam and doesn't have many good matchups. i'd cut ral for 4th monument (better into the fast mus), play a 5th shock in the sb for the cub decks, and put an iroh's somewhere into my 75.

@wolfwillowhaven @Stifle421 @marceliiiiiine @FrowningTable @fireshoes Would you play it in Milwaukee? Anything you would change? Congratulations on the great weekend

I QUALIFIED FOR THE PRO TOUR WITH stock lessons! the deck was shit but tsa was nice (i was 12 total steps ahead over the weekend--shoutout to @Stifle421 for convincing me to play it), and also huge thanks to @marceliiiiiine, @FrowningTable, and the rest of team Ready to Rumble

matchups: Pixie 🎓🎓 Reani 💉🎓🎓 UG boid 🎓💉🎓 Dimir 🎓💉💉 Dimir 🎓🎓 UG boid 💉💉 UR portal 🎓🎓 Jeskai 🎓💉🎓 Allies 🎓💉🎓 Airbending 💉💉 MonoW 🎓🎓 Airbending 🎓🎓 Scam 💉💉 Landfall 🎓🎓 UR Elementals 💉🎓🎓

@marceliiiiiine @jakeformayor taking rat feels a little too rakdospilled ngl

@jakeformayor take rat be sad

I have a 65% WR in DSK right now and I have no clue what this pick is.

@BomattCourier @ksmac31 @MTGOsalt be the change you want to see in the world matt

@wolfwillowhaven @ksmac31 @MTGOsalt keep this up and SOMEONE is going to write a fanfic

paired into the same person twice in a row @MTGOsalt

@Nicole_Dubin @ksmac31 @MTGOsalt yes? 😇

@ksmac31 @MTGOsalt i did this instead

@wolfwillowhaven @MTGOsalt Should’ve just barked at em

@Nicole_Dubin @MTGOsalt honestly it's kinda fun being constantly degraded in mtgo chat

@Nicole_Dubin in my defense the round ended earlier than i expected

on my grind

@rcondon17 @yoman_5 @BomattCourier @Nicole_Dubin @haha_Toast @masoneclark @NileJoanRivers @JasonILTG @SkyBSween @RuneclawBarich @BeccaAndSix

@wolfwillowhaven @yoman_5 @BomattCourier @Nicole_Dubin @haha_Toast @masoneclark @NileJoanRivers @JasonILTG @SkyBSween @RuneclawBarich @BeccaAndSix This Patriot was Marked SAFE from the Yoman Covid Scare of Late 2024 (Fr tho)

using the mtgo chat function as god intended

@BomattCourier them: you didn’t draw all your cards though, i countered two of your treasure cruises me: *pointing at the empty space where my library should be* empirical evidence suggests otherwise

@wolfwillowhaven No SHOT

shoutout to my opponent at the RC who complained about me having drawn all 4 copies of arclight phoenix when there were zero cards remaining in my library