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Aspiring magic pro. Bad at walking. Good at eating.

Joined February 2019
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forbes.com/sites/laurenorsin… Lands are bad. Shuffler is rigged. Games are decided by luck. Nah. You are just BAD, amigo. Some time ago, you would have become a judge. Vai, good luck trying to win at your next TCG.
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For those keeping score at home, the Top 8 includes 2024 EW NA Legacy champ (just won again) 2022 EW NA Legacy champ (+ 2023 finalist) MOCS champ + one of the best Legacy players in the world Elite online Doomsday ringer They probably just drew the right number of lands idk
We started with 1059 players in the North American Eternal Weekend Legacy Champs and now we are down to Just 8! Watch Top 8 Live with @Zapgaze and @ReidDuke in the booth! twitch.tv/pastimesonline
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Its funny that usually the people that are assholes like this are the most medium players in the room.
I went to a large-ish Magic event when I was in high school. I asked my round 1 opponent if I could read a card he played. He replied "Don't touch my cards! If you don't already know that card you should just leave now, because you have no chance of winning this tournament."
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"Can't change anything with tournaments going on, who could have foreseen this hmm really nothing to be done" -the people that schedule the tournaments and the ban updates
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Top 8 of RC LA 🥳 R1 Brood 🐷🐷 R2 Jesk En 🥓🥓 R3 ketra 🐷🐷 R4 Mirror 🥓🐷🐷 R5 BR Aggro 🥓🐷🥓 R6 Brood 🐷🐷 R7 Uwr chant 🐷🐷 R8 Trudge 🐷 🥓 🐷 R9 Titan 🐷🥓🐷 R10 Zoo 🐷🐷 R11 Titan 🐷🥓🐷 R12 Brood 🥓🐷🐷 R13 Brood 🐷🥓🐷 R14 Draw R15 UW chant 🐷🐷 T8 Uw chant 🥓🐷🥓
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Here is my list. Seemed pretty important to load up on brood hate so I went with consign AND Charmaw. Plan worked as I went 4-0 against it. Boomerang basics was fantastic. Dont play pompous battle mage. Your goal is to kill them not "trigger cutter by itself"
🏆Congratulations to our own @Oinkmage who made Top 8 of today's Regional Championship Los Angeles! He also earned his Pro Tour Detroit qualification. Gabe is also the first player to Top 8 three RC's! Great job Gabe!
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I told him to take it down and he did 🥳 powerful wizard. Congratulations buddy.
Congratulations to Nate Green, the winner of the Regional Championship for the United States at #SCGLA! He bested a field of more than 1,200 competitors with Azorius Control!
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Lost to the goat @toothymtg1 in top 8 of #RCLA. Super excited to be back on the PT and get another RC top 8!! Played prowess at the advice of @sixmp5. Changed a few cards but the deck carried. On to the next! 🐖
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Gabriel Nicholas is a veteran of the competitive circuit, and he's got another big finish this weekend as he makes the Top 8 of #SCGLA with Izzet Prowess!
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Congrats to the Top 8 at #SCGLA! Jacob Milchman (Broodscale) Henry Romero (UW Control) Daniel Keener (Boros Energy) Anderson LeClair (Prowess) Nate Green (UW) Gabriel Nicholas (Prowess) Chris Wamsley (Zoo) Zimo Yang (UW)
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Need 5 for the modern challenge
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I play a weird sub game in my head if I play revealed. Should I still hold up spell snare if my opponent knows about it etc. Maybe sub optimal but I stop playing while my opponent is writing down my hand. I become frozen in time.
Your opponent Thoughtseizes you, thinks, and picks a card. They then ask you if you mind playing with the revealed cards face up to avoid wasting time writing them down. Do you:
63%Play revealed
37%Make them write it down
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I love when this happens. It's the funniest thing ever. They want that thing gone YESTERDAY.
I hate when I play a creature without an enters effect and my opponent goes “in response I kill it”. And I hate how they look at me blankly when I tell them they are not allowed to do that
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Top 8 in Modern Challenge with UR Murktide 🔥 I just wanted to have some fun with an old deck I really enjoyed playing a few years ago, and somehow it performed way better than expected Always nice to bring an old favorite back @fireshoes
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Very proud of our team @TeamMainPhase for having the top 4 win % decks as our top picks going into the event. Modern is actually pretty sweet right now.
#SpotlightTheHobbit Notable caveat: I didn't exclude mirrors so the data will be closer to 50%. If a deck has a 54% winrate, add half a percentage. 46% might be closer to 45.5% Dimir was insane, Broodscale and Devoted were very strong, Blink did super well, Trudge did very poor
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Team Main Phase is local to the regional, and the team both turned out in force and has done very well so far at #SpotlightTheHobbit! The 9-2 Doug Bailey, who featured in pre-show coverage, said the work is not done: "The Pro Tour is the goal."
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Drew into top 8 w/ @Aspiringspike at Spotlight The Hobbit Back on the Pro tour!!! 🐸🤠🐸🤠
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