Way back when, at the birdsite, is when I started doing the Big Ben thing; 10, 12 years, at least. I know I was doing it when I was running tournaments on #MTGO, so at least that long. I don't remember exactly.

I didn't add hashtags until soon after I got here (#HephalumpWorld), and didn't stop tagging Big Ben until just a few months ago.

Boosting the Big Ben post has always been a habit, to show what I'm responding to.

Habits can change.

#TheArtOfShitposting

In comparing how I can stretch an "almost €0" budget for Magic the Gathering and feel out how I enjoy playing the game I'm trying it's original cardboard format, MTG Online (the first digital adaptation with purchasable cards) and MTG Arena (the more recent one that unlike MTGO has mobile game design conventions as far as the eye can see).

The other obvious-to-try one would be proxies but I don't have a regular playgroup. No-go for now.

#MTG, #MTGO, #MTGA

If ya really want to deep dive, and I don't recommend it, I maintained a "poetry" and #MTGO blog that went to hell soon after the second deportation, and I migrated it to Twitter, where I honed my brevity.

This blog was/is called Read At Your Peril for a reason.

I'm not gonna just give it to you, I'ma make you work for it. Because I really want you to think about it. It's not pretty. Trust me.

In case you missed it, the following cards were banned in Standard (effective tomorrow on #MTGA and today on Tabletop and #MTGO):

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
Invoke Despair
Reckoner Bankbuster

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/may-29-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement

The article ends with: "We will have our first yearly banned and restricted announcement on August 7, 2023, ahead of Wilds of Eldraine previews."

In case you missed it, the following cards were banned in Standard (effective tomorrow on #MTGA and today on Tabletop and #MTGO):

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
Invoke Despair
Reckoner Bankbuster

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/may-29-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement

The article ends with: "We will have our first yearly banned and restricted announcement on August 7, 2023, ahead of Wilds of Eldraine previews."

Playing #pauper on #mtgo if anyone is interested in joining!

Twitch.tv/skofrec

#mtg #Twitch

Just went 2-1 in a phantom draft in #mtgo. It felt fantastic to finally see all the time I've invested into limited paying off finally.
#MTG #limited

I’m on the job hunt so stuff is rough, but I built a bunch of sweet micro scale #lego spaceships.
Then I got my second 5-0 in the #mtgo #magicthegathering pioneer league playing my own goblins brew.
Final thing, I went to play at the local weekend #rugby school with my son, who is 3 years old. He didn’t have a clue but we all had a good time.

So very thankful!

#magicthegathering #MTGO pioneer 5-0 league with Goblins. This deck is real, been grinding equal-to-positive all month now.
Matches
Greasefang 🐀 👹 👹
Greasefang 👹 🐀 👹
Greasefang 👹 🐀 👹
UW control 👹 👹
UR creativity 👹 🐛 👹

Ach! Hans, run!

The greatest flavor text of all time, IMO.

I'm long out of the MTG/O loop these days. Is the Modern format still a thing?
#Lhurgoyf #TRex #Tyrannosaurus #MagicTheGathering #MTG #MTGO

Magic The Gathering Online releases Phyrexia All Will Be One expansion, says there’s been no data breach https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/13/magic-the-gathering-online-releases-phyrexia-all-will-be-one-expansion-says-theres-been-no-data-breach #MTGO #MagicOnline

#MagicTheGathering #MTGO #MTGLimited

#MTGOne

Easily the most aggressive limited sealed deck I've ever run, with a great rare bomb, a near-bomb in venerated rotpriest, and some green mana fixing to let me play three colors comfortably. Cankerbloom and Annex Sentry are uncommons that play like rares.

This win was just brutal and felt like playing a constructed deck against a limited deck: https://www.17lands.com/history/10adc6629c4544419c435f14d10ec6eb/6/0

17lands deets here: https://www.17lands.com/details/10adc6629c4544419c435f14d10ec6eb

I find it funny that I’m playing more Standard on #MTGArena than I ever played in paper #MTG or #MTGO. Genuinely enjoying it, too.

@trabex
🤣 No, it's not "State TV." My German is simply not enough up to snuff to enjoy it.

We have Netflix. She watches it a lot. I don't. (because she's usually on it) Netflix does show us different stuff depending if we go in direct or VPN.

Also, there's only so much there that I have interest in.

I've been a pirate 🏴‍☠️ since long before you met me. (is #MTGO still a thing?) That's not gonna change just because I have Netflix.

When #WotC first came up with #SecretLair, bonuses would include redeemable codes for cards you could play in #MagicOnline and cosmetic codes for lands and sleeves for #MagicArena.

At some point they stopped with the #MTGO card codes and the Arena land codes and just gave you the codes for sleeves.

I was just on Arena to redeem my codes for a Lair that's on its way (I like to wait until they ship because once you redeem it could cause refund issues) and I saw them selling sleeves for the current Secret Lair and it doesn't look like you get them as a bonus when you buy the Lair itself.

Honestly, it bothered me more to lose the card redemptions. I have more sleeve styles than I need but it's still BS. I'm not normally on the "Wizards are greedy" bandwagon because I understand how the stock market and its hunger for eternal growth has broken the world, but this is greedy. I don't mind the sleeves being sold to people who didn't get the Secret Lairs, but making people pay separately now for what they once got as part of a purchase they were already making is just too much.

What Magic the Gathering related hashtags have you come across?

I've seen:

#magicthegathering
#mtgarena
#mtga
#mtg (I know...)
#mtglimited
#mtgdraft
#mtgedh

I have not seen:

#mtgo
#vrothos
#mtgcardalters
#mtgstandard
#mtgpioneer
#mtglegacy
#mtgvintage

But all seem like reasonable hashtags to use.

Did I miss anything? Any suggestions?

RT @HollyMacaroni01@twitter.com

Hace un mes llegó #DominariaUnited a #Pioneer y con ello, no ha cambiado... ¿nada?.

Resumen de los últimos 7 Challenges + 1 SPTQ de #Mtgo. Decks del Top32 y Top8

Listas y detalles más adelante en el hilo 👇👇👇

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HollyMacaroni01/status/1577965706402045955

RT @makuto86mtg@twitter.com

We continue deepening into Pioneer. Today we try the Mono W 75 from qbturtle15, trophy leader on MTGO Pioneer leagues.

Mono White Humans vs Izzet Murktide

https://youtu.be/8iixfJ9-j28

Sideboarding was challenging, we had some learnings, how'd you sideboard?

#pioneer #mtgo

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/makuto86mtg/status/1576931827096424451

RT @makuto86mtg@twitter.com

Gruul has entered with haste into Pioneer!

Join us challenging it piloting RB Midrange.

RB Midrange vs Gruul Aggro

https://youtu.be/HxFrsnN5zGs

Thanks @_mRichi_@twitter.com for the games!

#Pioneer #RBMidrange #GruulAggro #MTGO

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/makuto86mtg/status/1576628221843427328