🇵🇸 connor

🇵🇸 connor

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5-2 at Buckeye Brawl II (125 players) with Factory Shrimp feat. sideboard Retromancer!! 🟢R1—No Show WW 🟢R2—Terrageddon WLW 🔴R3—Oath Ponza LWL 🟢R4—The Rock LWW 🔴R5—Sligh WLL 🟢R6—The Solution WW 🟢R7—Terrageddon WW Such an awesome weekend of community magic!!

Ran it back with Shrimp for BCDL Sunday Premodern today (64 players). Flipped my 2-4 from last weekend into 4-2 and a Top 16 finish! 🟢 Goblins 🍤🍤 🟢 Shrimp Mirror 🍤🍤 🔴 GW Mad Dawgs ❌❌ 🟢 Stasis 🍤❌🍤 🔴 Goblins 🍤❌❌ 🟢 Goblins 🍤❌🍤

The Motor City Metalworkers put on an awesome weekend of events this weekend for PEACE! Premodern community events are the heart and soul of Magic for me these days. The Gathering remains undefeated

Path to PEACE (37 players) 👹Playing Mono-Red Goblins👹 🟢UW Shrimp LWW 🔴Sui Black LL 🟢Elves LWW 🟢GW Mad Dogs LWW PEACE (61 players) 🍤Playing Stiflenought🍤 🟢Goblins WW 🔴Landstill WLL 🔴Iggy Pop LL 🔴Lace Prison WLL 🟢Shrimp Mirror WW 🔴The Rock LL

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When bouba and kiki enter you must choose to either enter the magnificent bilfunal divide or stretch the globrius portal based on the pilferal teachings. When you do either one or half of the other, non-borg creatures you control get +2/-2 until the beginning of the next end step (just poking fun)

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Had 36 players for the August Retromancers monthly premodern event. The top 8 prizes picked by the winners. #mtg #mtgpermodern #premodern #mtgalter #retromancers

I made the finals out of 21 players at the Excalibur Premodern “5k” with Mono U Shrimp! R1 vs Gamekeeper Rock ❌🍤⏰ R2 vs Stasis ❌🍤🍤 R3 vs Terrageddon 🍤❌❌ R4 vs Goblins 🍤🍤 R5 vs Terrageddon ❌🍤🍤 QF vs Shrimp 🍤❌🍤 SF vs Replenish 🍤❌🍤 F vs Terrageddon 🍤❌❌

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Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

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My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

3-0 Strixhaven draft playing 5 Color Soup. The Dellian Fel card might be actually, factually unbeatable. Very fun deck to play with great mana, plenty of removal, and seeing all kinds of cards. What’s not to love?

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Retromancers monthly premodern event for April. The top 8 prizes picked by the winners. #mtg #mtgpermodern #premodern #mtgalter #retromancers

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This is why I don't use this stuff at all, it ruins your ability to think, and that's the one thing I think we should refuse to give up for anything.

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Could not be prouder of our first major Premodern event and all the money raised for the MOFC. #mtg #premodern #mtgpremodern

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Retromancers monthly premodern event for February. The top 4 prizes picked by the winners. #mtg #mtgpermodern #premodern #mtgalter #retromancers

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Played Lands in the Buckeye Brawl this weekend and finished 13th of 90. Deck felt cracked, but unfortunately did not show up for my two win-and-in rounds in R5 and R6. #MTG #MTGPremodern

I brawled to a 5-2 finish with my big, bad shrimp at the first Buckeye Brawl. Good for 18th. Biggest win of the day were the sick new Islands from the charity raffle! R1—Moneyball LWL R2—Moneyball WW R3—Counter Rebels WW R4—RG Oath Ponza WW R5—Angry Hermit LL R6—Enchantress LWW R7—Gro-a-Tog WW

90 Players entered and one Red Mage emerged victorious at the inaugural Premodern Buckeye Brawl! Congrats to our champion Evan Smith! And a huge thanks to all for a wonderful day of Magic The Gathering is undefeated #Premodern #MtG #Retromancers

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Watching people use ChatGPT in public feels like environmental storytelling for a sci-fi horror movie. Like seeing extras drinking a new soda that will be revealed to contain a zombie virus at the end of Act 1.

Shrimpin’ it up at this weekend’s Full Grip Games #Premodern Quarterly in Akron. Nearly got there in the tournament. But the Gathering is undefeated as always R1 vs Sligh WLW R2 vs Stasis LWW R3 vs UW Control WLW R4 🤝 R5 🤝 QF vs UG Madness WW SF vs Enchantress WWL (homie scoop) F vs Goblin LWL

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i wish they would just show every match that they're gonna show, in their entirety, at 1x speed it's the top 8. it's the last day of coverage. coming into a QF match 2 games in is fucking wild

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Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

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one of the biggest things i learned from 2020 is that times of great upheaval present brief moments where anything appears possible. as soon as those moment appear, opportunist centrists will immediately begin to dilute the movement’s demands to pablum. this is that moment

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Had 29 for the last Retromancer Tuesday event of 2025. Everyone got a holiday promo for playing. Top 4 got to pick additional alters from the prize binder. Ohio loves #premodern #mtgpremodern #mtg

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AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling

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not the main point but it should be illegal to interview someone more than 3 times for the same position

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

Top 8 at the first Full Grip Games #Premodern Quarterly with RB Goblins. 24 players was a great showing, can’t wait to see everyone at the next one! R1: WLW vs The Solution R2: LL vs UW TideStill R3: WW vs Jund Wurm R4: LWW vs RG Goblins R5: WLW vs Moneyball Black QF: LL vs UW TideStill rematch

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Nah man a big part of why the UB stuff makes me sad is cause I know it's extremely popular so they're going to keep doing it despite it making the parts of the game I deeply care about worse. Like I know a bunch of people are going to buy the 6th marvel set but that doesn't make my FNM fire.

Jay Annelli@vorthosjay.bsky.social

Hearing the conversations around the con, I think heavily enfranchised online folks significantly overestimate how much their opinions on Universes Beyond are shared by the wider player base. This is not a value judgment of any opinion in particular: just being reminded of that myself, too.