Wobbles

Wobbles

@wobbles.bsky.social

Honk, Honk, why it’s Wobbles the goose!

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I've had this mechanical Sliver idea for awhile, but never had an angle for the flavor until Reality Fracture. So here's an echoverse Sliver Queen.

You’ll notice that there are several Star Trek cards have a “Discard from hand” ability, but they don’t use the ability word Channel. This is because the majority of Star Trek series were released via streaming or syndication and therefore had no Channel. Right @wotcmatt.bsky.social?

Fantastic design! Tasha was in the first 23 episodes, died, came back for one time travel cameo episode, died, which then set up the actress to be recast as a recurring villain

I really appreciate that instead of giving us legendary guest star characters like Tuvix and Moriarty, they’re using spells to highlight those episodes. That said, Impossible Choice should be called “Janeway killed Tuvix” and Adversary by Algorithm is clearly “Call of the Nerd”

That said, this card is mystifying to me. Why does a TOS monster of the week get a mythic design? This design would have been perfect for the Vidiians, a recurring Voyager villain

A fantastic commander for a Rebel deck, but somehow she’s not a Rebel??

MTGGoldfish@mtggoldfish.com

Turning all your creatures etb during combat, whether flash or tokens, into etb tapped and attacking! More previews at http://www.mtgpreviews.com/TRK Source: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/trekking-through-design

Fascinating! Lapsang souchong is not part of traditional earl grey at all, so researching the flavor text turned up that apparently Patrick Stewart had requested Picard’s tea of choice to be Lapsang, only to be told that it might confuse viewers by being too foreign. Great Easter Egg!

Zoe TunnHELL@zoewithasword.bsky.social

MTG nerds tell me if I'm reading this right: You can't cash in your Treasure Tokens while Quark is out so the game plan is to either sac him when you have a stock pile or have a blink effect that exiles/phases him out between your main and end step, yeah?

Really, it should be both singed and waterlogged

Mana Pool@manapool.com

I prefer my damaged Volcanic Islands to be singed (for flavor), but regardless, I give you the cheapest Volcanic currently on Mana Pool. manapool.com/card/3ed/291...

One of the reason I’m really looking forward to this set is because things like these really become a fun test of my Trek trivia!

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I'm amazed at how little detail was provided about the echoverse. Reality Fracture leans heavily on the concept for its web fiction, card designs, and card concepting. But in the end, it's very hand-wavy. Hexhaven is the most fleshed out part and it's shockingly shallow. Like there's almost nothing.

Lanterns was so good, I’d love to watch more super hero Kyle Chandler. Give me an Early Edition sequel series where he’s just desperately trying to find a person under fifty with a physical newspaper subscription to train as a protege

Really the God Pack card should just be a copy of the XKCD finally freeing you from the MindVirus of Magic

Bradley Rose@specialbeamcannon.bsky.social

Having a "YOU DID IT!" card is so corporate & patronizing. It's especially cringe if that "toploader" sentence is actually printed on it. I understand if there was a business requirement to meet ("make God Packs instantly recognizable to the casual opener"), but this card is like explaining a joke.

Fascinating update from l0gr1thm1k, who curates the Data Generated Vintage cube. Huge fall off of people actively updating their cubes on Cube Cobra. Magic will outlive Cube? #mtgcube

For Day 1 of #Moxtober, a Witch related puzzle: Which Witch card did this art crop come from?

Bradley Rose@specialbeamcannon.bsky.social

In 2017, I created Moxtober, a Magic version of Inktober. Create anything MTG-related (art, writing, etc) to fit daily prompts. Most popular w/ Magic design hobbyists! This is Year 10 of Moxtober. I'm 100% hands-off & the community still keeps it alive. 😭 Here's the 2026 prompt list they created.

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In 2017, I created Moxtober, a Magic version of Inktober. Create anything MTG-related (art, writing, etc) to fit daily prompts. Most popular w/ Magic design hobbyists! This is Year 10 of Moxtober. I'm 100% hands-off & the community still keeps it alive. 😭 Here's the 2026 prompt list they created.

Strictly better Magic card discussions

BEAT@beatskelton.bsky.social

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE HYPOTHETICAL THAT ONLY EXISTS SO BORED PEOPLE CAN ARGUE PASSIONATELY ABOUT NOTHING?

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just finished @adapalmer.bsky.social 's "Inventing the Renaissance" and it finishes with as resounding a pep-talk of optimism of humanity as I have heard anywhere. Beautiful stuff. Love it.

I listened to the entire podcast, but (besides an oblique reference to Jesper Myrfors) there was still no discussion of why they stopped printing Atogs. Wild #Conspir-atog

maro254.bsky.social@maro254.bsky.social

This week's second "Drive to Work" podcast is all about the history of design of one of my favorite creature types, Atogs: share.transistor.fm/s/323c38b0 audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

Wobbles@wobbles.bsky.social

My not so secret suspicion is that the reason why Magic can no longer create Atogs is because the IP belongs to Jesper Myrfors. I want him to be super well compensated, but watching how WotC has just pivoted away from that makes me doubt if it’s ever going to be the case.

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Today I decided to talk a little bit about the mirrored legends of FRA. These cards were very difficult to design and develop: They have loads of constraints and high expectations. We were up to the challenge though, and I think they turned out really sweet! 1/N

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This was a brief retelling of the tragic tale of 2023's March of the Machine: Aftermath product. Maro hits the points that matter to him and the business unit, but I think a player perspective would also be helpful. Here are even more things that were wrong with MAT.

maro254.bsky.social@maro254.bsky.social

This week's second "Drive to Work" podcast (#1382) is a new series called "What Went Wrong?" where I examine things that went poorly. I begin with March of the Machine Aftermath boosters: share.transistor.fm/s/fe03abb5 audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

“He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt him” Spoiler review in alt text

Interesting alternate history of Indian Independence. I really enjoyed the character work and the rebel organizing, but I really wanted more alternate history world building. Mostly the time shift seemed like a device to avoid the complications of the actual decolonization process

I continue to be amazed by the fact that they legalized 4 very strong cards with the Zeta downshifts and the format hasn’t budged

MTG Decks@mtgdecks.net

▶️ MTGO Pauper Challenge 16 #12854110 decklists | Sep 15 27 players #mtg #mtgPauper Winner: 🏆 boytriton with Mono Blue Terror All decklists: https://mtgdecks.net/events/view/270190

Woohoo! Way to go Jeremy. Goblin Artisan designers keep delivering the hits goblinartisans.blogspot.com/2021/10/five...

goblinartisans.blogspot.comFive Design Challenges for GDS4Starting November 1st, I'm joining Wizards of the Coast as a designer. As a parting gift to the wonderful Goblin Artisans community, I'm lea...
Jeremy Geist@jeremygeist.bsky.social

EMPOWER JACE IS HERE!! I consider it my finest professional accomplishment (so far). Look forward to me yapping about it at length once the full set is spoiled! #mtgfracture

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Sadly, I’ve been at the hospital for 6 weeks now. Isolated, had a bone marrow transplant, fighting. It hasn’t gone well, but the fight is still on. I have outs and I’m not conceding. That people still remember me warms my heart. Much love, all I can say is I’ll give it my all. ❤️💋🤘 everyone

Laoi Ó Murchú@johnnycroat.bsky.social

@h0lydiva.bsky.social Bilbao hosts a Regional Championship in February next year... not saying I'm making it, but it'd be amazing to see you there. Hope all is well and you're in as good health as is possible.

This popped up on my feed and at first glance it looked like more Zeta spoilers. On second glance you could definitely use this book to make an entire Zeta cube

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures