Bones (A Cube Judge)

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MtG judge and cube designer. I made the Amonkar Desert, Museum of Modern, Eiganjo Drift, Alara Reimagined, and Drake-Dráke. Cube links in 📌! Luckylooter on Discord he/him

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
A Naya deck with looots of Disenchant effects
Crying toddler with gun
Aethermancer screenshot showing a single attack preparing to take out almost half the boss's total health bar in its final phase.
"We know so much more than we understand... but we know so little"
Goku spirit bombing a heart emoji
Molecule Man: "Okay, then. If you both agree..." Doom: "Wait. No..."
Hades 2 screen with 106.9 hours of playtime and 50/50 achievements unlocked
Rakdos Charm
Bones giving a disapproving look
Masked Vandal (KHM)
Cube is good.
4 Jagged Barrens 4 Drossforge Bridge 4 Great Furnace 4 Vault of Whispers 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Mountain 1 Swamp 4 Voldaren Epicure 4 Kitchen Imp 4 Refurbished Familiar 4 Faithless Looting 4 Galvanic Blast 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Vampire's Kiss 4 Alms of the Vein 2 Toxin Analysis 2 Blood Fountain 4 Black Mage's Rod 1 Makeshift Munitions
Fae of Wishes (ELD)
Prior to this change, the only cards banned in Vintage are those that just don't work within the confines of how tournaments are played—ante cards and dexterity cards. The former, like Rebirth and Demonic Attorney, are a relic of how the game used to be played, a way of putting something on the line in the days before Organized Play was a big part of Magic. Along similar lines, the Organized Play department requested that Shahrazad be banned from tournament play for logistical reasons—it requires more time than can be allowed to play out. Not only does the card make you and your opponent play an entire "subgame" of Magic within the original game, but it also requires you to set aside the original game intact so that it can be returned to at a later time—a process that uses both time and space, resources valuable to tournament organizers and quantum physicians alike. Because of how much time Shahrazad can eat up, the card is ripe for abuse. The worst-case scenario involves a player winning the first game of a match and then sideboarding in some number of Shahrazads, launching subgames nested within subgames, each with copious and meticulous shuffling until time runs out. Or, faced with losing the first game or the match, a player could use a card like Burning Wish to fetch up a Shahrazad and attempt to stall the match into a draw right there. This behavior takes advantage of the structure of tournaments in a way that is both unfair and against the spirit of the game, so I have no problem endorsing the banning of the card. The questionable loophole involving Shahrazad and suspend was closed in the Tenth Edition comprehensive rules update, so I have a hard time imagining any real strategic value to playing the card other than as a pure time-wasting device; to that end I don't think we're taking anything away from the "Eternal" formats by not allowing the card. And if you enjoy playing the card casually, feel free to do so.
Goblin Mountaineer (Portal)
Latte Express
Smash
Sylvok Replica
Bones is afraid
Goku charging spirit bomb Heart emoji
ME POINTING AT THE CREATOR OF THE ORIGINAL DESERT CUBE
Lightning Bolt Goblin Gathering Siege-Gang Commander Astrid Peth Aether Vial Delney Unearth Bitterblossom Black Mage's Rod
More Sharpie tokens
Sharpie'd tokens
Bones dissociating
Braids Sicko YES HA HA HA YES!
My favorite video game of all time is Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (2008), for the DS. I had enjoyed Tactics Advance (2003) for the GBA, so I immediately bought the sequel on release with GameStop store credit, and soon became obsessed. In 2009 when I got a PSP, I grabbed Tactics: War of the Lions with much anticipation. My only memory of that play experience is after a routine fight against some enemies that happened to kill a party member, discovering I had lost them permanently. To which I reacted: “Well that wasn’t fun.” Since then, I’ve never returned to War of the Lions, or attempted to find a way to play the original on PS1, but for 20 years have been hearing rave reviews of the original’s story and gameplay, and critiques of the Advance and A2 games’ departures. When The Ivalice Chronicles was announced, a remade and updated version of said original, it went straight onto my Steam wishlist. And when I saw it go 20% off, despite my impression of the PSP version, I bought it and determined to finish the game this time. 35 grueling gameplay hours later, the credits rolled and I was relieved to be free. The critically-claimed origin of my favorite game being a total letdown couldn’t just be left behind without explanation, so here you have it: why Final Fantasy Tactics is the worst Final Fantasy Tactics game.
When Hama enters, target opponent mills three cards. Exile up to one noncreature, nonland card from that player’s graveyard. For as long as you control Hama, you may cast the exiled card during your turn by waterbending {X} rather than paying its mana cost, where X is its mana value. Create a token that’s a copy of target creature you control, except it’s not legendary and it’s a 4/4 Hero in addition to its other types.
A 5-color deck in 100 Ornithopters, with 2 Ornithopters.
A 1-creature UR Graveyard Spellslinger deck in The Drownyard.
A UB Faeries deck in Museum of Modern
A draft deck of the Ball Pit. Notably it features SEVEN Energy Chambers.
A chart showing all my cube drafts from 2025, with color pie breakdowns on the right.
Eshki Dragonclaw - Tran Nguyen
Glittering Massif Land — Mountain Plains ({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) Iridescent debris and chromatic chemical fires litter Kavaron with the beauty of destruction.
Jaws of Defeat TDC
Eshki Dragonclaw by Tran Nguyen
Scryfall screencap of TLE
Moon-Circuit Hacker (NEO)
The Scouring Stormsoul
Eshki Dragonclaw (TDM)
Subira
I'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion.
Brawl Bans
Arena Screenshot
My life total being exchanged, 29 with 4, by my opponent's topdeck. I had the win on-board.
Comet, Stellar Pup
UB Reanimator deck, p1p1 Goben // Fleem
Two Hero tokens with two Black Mage's Rods attached to each. The opponent is at 6 and conceded, I have 12 more damage worth of spells in hand.
Venser is in
De-Lurrus'd Vintage deck
A Vintage deck revolving around Painter's Servant + Grindstone, and Time Vault + Manifold Key. Uses Goblin Welder, Engineer, and Oswald Fiddlebender to assemble the combo out of fast mana.
A Gruul WOE draft deck
Some OM1 cards on a playmat
Characters born under the Great City sign can regenerate HP in bodegas but sometimes encounter hostile NPCs while fast traveling
@dinrovahorror
Ambush Viper (INN)
Evra, Halcyon Witness (DOM)
Drana, Liberator of Malakir (BFZ)