April King @CubeApril Twitter profile

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April King

7 years

IF YOU'RE A MAGIC PLAYER AND NOT FOLLOWING ME YET you probably use Twitter at work or in public in which case kudos for your good judgment.

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April King

@CubeApril

7 years

We use our giant Snorlax bean bag chair as a baby gate. Hopefully our daughter never finds the Poké Flute.

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@CubeApril

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@wizards_magic there was a long period of about a decade where every piece of posted art had an artist credit on it, might not be a bad idea to return to that system.

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@CubeApril

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 2023 Wizards of the Coast CEO Cynthia Williams today announced that, starting in 2024, paper Magic players will be subject to a “nominal” fee of 20¢ every time they draw a card “except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps.”

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April King

@CubeApril

5 years

My brother got me this bizarre No Face bank for my birthday, and it terrifies my children.

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

turns out you don’t have to swear on a bible or even a book, so the judge let us swear on our doggy for the wedding tonight 😂

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

Really wish that wizards would start including these in all their Commander decks, like they do with Command Tower and Sol Ring. They're only playable in EDH, are in crazy high demand, and they're pretty darned expensive.

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

The Collectors' Edition of Magic: The Gathering was released in late 1993. It contained 363 cards, including one of each of the 302 different cards of Beta, with multiple lands. Each set sold in a collector's box and retailed for $49.95, about $100 when adjusted for inflation.

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April King

@CubeApril

3 years

My girlfriend @tinyatoxin casually collects these name poetry mugs from the 80’s, whenever she finds them at antique stores. This morning while camping at her favorite campsite, on our secret clifftop outcropping, I asked her to marry me with a special mug. She said yes. :)

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

@MythicMeebo @Twitch , when will you be banning every fighting game ever made?

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April King

@CubeApril

5 years

My boy is practicing looking fierce as @DreamWorksSheRa for Halloween. 😍😍😍

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April King

@CubeApril

1 year

@CertifiedLeggi tl;dw: a ton of drivers ignoring multiple signs to slow down and instead driving 45mph when they should be going 25

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

Hedge fund: We want to separate WotC from Hasbro. Players: Hooray! Free WotC from the yolk of Hasbro's tyranny! Hedge fund: Because we believe an independent WotC can squeeze even more money from players. Players: Wait, what?

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

the corporate owner of my hobby is so embarrassing sometimes

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

why you hurt me, sparky? 🥺

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April King

@CubeApril

1 year

I am just SO ANGRY to see this place crumbling. I don’t want to only hang out with a tiny group of tech obsessed nerds on Mastodon, I want to get OUTSIDE MY BUBBLE and meet WEIRD PEOPLE who talk about COOL SHIT I’ve never heard of or seen before.

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

it truly cannot be overstated how big of a gap there was between my original assessment of this card and how absurdly powerful it actually is

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

getting legally married in about three hours please send pictures of female link for good luck

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

Regardless of how you feel about Hasbro and WotC, an activist hedge fund is not your friend and you should not trust them when they claim that their interests are aligned with your own.

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

MTG players breathe a collective sigh of relief

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

I don't want to burn bridges, as I really value my friendships with Wizards. But these are tiny, performative changes that affect cards nobody plays. It's been six months since the Chandra/Nissa thing with no substantive changes, so please tell me why I should believe this.

Magic: The Gathering

@wizards_magic

4 years

There is no place for racism in our game, nor anywhere else. For Magic, our first step will be to start with this change today. There's much more work to be done. Read here:

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@CubeApril

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

Dockside Extortionist being printed as a mythic in a draft-focused set with the flavor “it’s just business” is a bit on the nose. 😑

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April King

@CubeApril

3 years

I tried to sell my @GameStop stock at $350, but they told me the best they could give me was $7.50 or $10 towards the purchase of another stock.

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

Casually lighting on fire a decades' worth of work connecting to your diverse fanbase.

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

If I could just go a single calendar year without discovering that one of my favorite artists is a terrible person, that would be great.

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@CubeApril

1 year

it occurs to me that as I first posted this many years ago, that there are likely quite a lot of you never seen this art piece by the absurdly talented @andrewkmar

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April King

@CubeApril

6 years

“Oh yeah, I still have all my old Magic cards,” my ex-coworker said, adding, “I'll bring the shoebox with me to happy hour.” “I’ll bring some sleeves,” I responded. “What are sleeves?”

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

sometimes it’s hard to believe that this decision happened in the same universe I am currently inhabiting

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April King

@CubeApril

10 months

I'm willing to eat crow and admit that it was a mistake to call for banning Oko. I was wrong, I know that now. That said, in my defense, I had not realized that he was preemptively printed as an answer to The One Ring.

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

Few things bring me as much joy as the art of @andrewkmar , so when I saw he was Kickstarting a book I knew I had to ask him to customize a copy. I was absolutely shaken by what I received. Words cannot possibly express my feelings. (P.S. Buy his book: )

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April King

@CubeApril

8 months

does this combo work the way I think it does?

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

Aaron: Magic is two things: a rules system and a set of intellectual property. Me: Magic is three things: rules, intellectual property, and the community who loves it.

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April King

@CubeApril

1 year

haven’t seen this anywhere on twitter, so wanted to make sure everyone saw this amazing elesh norn piece by arcadechan:

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

Food $400 Data $150 Rent $1,500 Magic: The Gathering 30th Anniversary Edition $6,000 Utility $350 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

Last night, Uncle Hugo’s bookstore was burned down. It was the oldest surviving independent science fiction and fantasy bookstore in the United States, and its collection of books is irreplaceable. No place is worth a life, but as far as places goes this really hurts a lot.

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April King

@CubeApril

7 months

at some point keeping up with magic no longer remained an exciting thing where I would open up reddit first thing every morning during spoiler season. love this game so very much but somehow they made it into a chore instead of an experience.

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If you include all the variants, there are over 1100 cards in the Doctor Who set. This is madness.

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

Hey, @SaffronOlive ?

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April King

@CubeApril

3 months

@benjithebrewer here u go

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

The coronavirus has people talking about: • Universal basic income • Universal healthcare • Guaranteed paid sick leave • Food assistance • Immediate (and better) unemployment benefits • Workplace safety Apparently its platform is more liberal than the Democratic Party’s.

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April King

@CubeApril

5 years

I think a lot about what Magic would be like if we stopped handling planeswalkers with kids gloves by no longer making them exempt from huge swathes of removal.

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

during your end step, tap my winter orb. untap my lands, main phase tap my howling mine for green…

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April King

@CubeApril

9 months

due to its effectiveness against aggro, creature-based ramp, and control decks, many magic players are struggling to find a good answer to orcish bowmasters. but fear not, I have scoured all 26,000+ magic cards and found the perfect answer to bowmaster to slot into your decks.

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

URZA WAS NEVER A HERO, HE USED PEOPLE FOR HIS OWN ENDS AND NEVER ONCE FELT REMORSE FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS. IT WILL BE A LOT MORE CLEAR IF I EXPLAIN EVERYTHING FROM THE BEGINNING SO PICTURE URZA AND MISHRA, UNDER THE APPRENTICESHIP OF TOCASIA AND STUMBLING THROUGH THE CAVES OF KOIL

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

SPAM 🍑 THIS 🍑 PEACH 🍑 TO 🍑 return Standard to having balanced card designs where not everything generates immediate value or cheats on mana.

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

at my son’s pokémon-themed 10th birthday party, and several of the children are in a deeply involved discussion about how mewtwo is a “they/them pokémon”

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April King

@CubeApril

3 years

For those who missed it the first time around, this Gruulfriends illustration by @andrewkmar remains one of my most beloved possessions. I can't help but feel bittersweet every time I look at it. And happy #pride , everyone. :)

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April King

@CubeApril

2 years

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS 18+. Please do not read the next post in this thread unless you are absolutely okay with that.

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April King

@CubeApril

3 years

Not gonna lie, I kinda miss what Commander was like before “commander” or “command zone” were ever printed on a Magic card. It felt like a puzzle to figure out which decks cards fit into. I sometimes wish they would all go away. Except for maybe Command Tower. It can stay.

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@CubeApril

2 years

*hyperventilates in Braids*

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

Whew, just put in my three-week-notice at my current job. Starting in mid-November, I'll be working at Twitter, a company whose products I have never used and know essentially nothing about. I am very excited.

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@CubeApril

4 years

I meant it as a joke, but now I've created him and I love him so much. I desperately need this little guy in my life. #CustomMTG #CustomMagic

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

It's probably pretty clear by now that I'm no big fan of the Walking Dead Secret Lair series. But I do have to admire the AMC executive who likely got paid to turn a game with 27 years of painstakingly cultivated in-house lore into a cheap advertisement for their franchise.

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

The double-bitted axe (labrys) is a symbol that has been used since the 1970s by lesbian feminist organizations. As far as we know, there is no historical evidence that Vikings ever used them. Ergo, Kaldheim will be the land of butch flannel-clad lesbians. I am very excited.

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

FIRE has turned Magic into a game that is not fun.

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April King

@CubeApril

5 years

I've never met Richard Garfield, but he seems like a great guy to me.

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April King

@CubeApril

3 years

“Magic has been going downhill ever since Hasbro got involved,” complains local Twitter user, unaware that they bought Wizards of the Coast in 1999.

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

The fact that the majority of Magic players still think Urza was a hero tells me everything I need to know about what happens when you try to tell the story exclusively through the cards.

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@CubeApril

2 years

Haven’t talked to my parents in 20 years, after years of trying to make it work. The last straw was my mother calling me on my birthday to tell me that my being queer was immoral and ruining her life and her chances at grandchildren. They don’t even know I have kids.

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Every client I've seen exit relationships with their parents EVERY. ONE. Genuinely 100% tried to make these relationships work for YEARS, to no avail.

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@CubeApril

7 months

“magic as garfield intended,” and yet there’s somehow not a single card that kills mondays or features lasagne

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

My girlfriend has an extremely keen sense of houseplant whimsy.

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April King

@CubeApril

4 years

Link is the personification of the Hero of Hyrule, and there have been many different Links over the years. There is no reason why we’ve gone 32 years without a female Link, other than tradition. It is time to break from that tradition.

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@Thafnine

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your most controversial video game opinion, go

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@CubeApril

4 years

“VIP Edition” is one of the most tone-deaf names for a product I have seen in my entire life. Is WotC not aware of what “VIP” stands for, or are they trying to send us all a message that rich people are their very important people?

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@CubeApril

2 years

Oooooo first wedding photos coming in. How did I manage to marry such a pretty lady?? 😍

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@CubeApril

5 years

Every single card this #MTGWAR season has been assigned to someone to preview. There are no unassigned cards, there are no open slots. Every leak takes away from a content creator who may have had the high point of their Magic life stolen away. Fuck leaks.

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@CubeApril

4 years

A mono-white hero wielding a shadowy weapon for a noble purpose is exactly the sort of twist I did not expect to see… less than a year after another set featuring a mono-white hero wielding a shadowy weapon for a noble purpose.

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@CubeApril

5 years

Does anyone know where I parked my car? I can’t seem to find it.

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@CubeApril

4 years

I am a HUGE fan of Magic art, with over two dozen originals hanging up in my house. But looking at M21 so far, <15% of the art is by women. PoC, even lower. They have access to a worldwide talent pool, and have had three black artists in 27 years. This is extremely frustrating.

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@CubeApril

4 years

I don’t envy @wizards_magic ’s task of trying to untangle the mess that Narset, Oko, Teferi, Nissa, and W6 have caused in formats all across the game. My suggestion is to ban every planeswalker that says “™ & © 2019 Wizards of the Coast” on the bottom of the card.

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@CubeApril

4 years

It’s a girl

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@CubeApril

10 months

a woman on the train just complimented my shoes with the “rainbows on the insides and pastels on the outsides”

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@CubeApril

4 years

One time, @wizards_magic . All I ask is that you leave off “nonland” just one time.

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@CubeApril

8 months

so, like… if this happens, I don’t know if I’ll be able to use twitter anymore. I have tens of thousands of users on my block list, not just to protect myself but to also protect those who follow me. without blocking, the amount of harassment is insanely high.

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@CubeApril

4 years

Not many people know this about me, but I used to be a L2 Magic judge. I left the program because I was the target repeated sexual harassment, as were many of the other female judge friends that I had. So my apologies if I’m short on patience for harassers and their defenders.

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@CubeApril

4 years

I don't understand why people put Sol Ring in their Commander decks when they could instead play Null Rod and get to listen to the entire table bitch about you for the next half-hour.

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@CubeApril

4 years

“It's a card game. Can we stop making everything about diversity and just play the game,” asked the person who is represented by every character in the game.

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@CubeApril

2 years

me: years of pleading wizards for a card of an extremely minor bit character who once bragged about how great the suffering of smallpox is wizards: breaks down sobbing, desperately prints it to make me go away

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@CubeApril

4 years

The year is 2020, and Nintendo has released a brand new video game series called “Metroid”. Despite critical acclaim, it has come under heavy fire by angry gamers across the internet who felt bamboozled by the end-game revelation that Samus Aran was a woman.

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@CubeApril

5 years

I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I've been real bummed out by the direction of Arena lately, when six months ago I could barely suppress my excitement. Arena seems hyper-focused on monetization: • Card styles • Card sleeves • Avatars • Pets • Mastery Tree • Daily XP 1/3

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@CubeApril

5 years

I’m sorry to be the one to have to break this to you @wizards_magic , but Robin Hood was a Fox Archer Rogue.

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@CubeApril

5 years

I just had the divorce talk with the kids. I feel like the worst mom in the whole world. I don’t think they understood and I have no idea how to prepare them for the sad and complicated months ahead. 😕

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@CubeApril

5 years

@WIRED Other great new @facebook features include: • Voting from 1-10 in how attractive your friends are • Sorting friends by breast size (either bra size or volume) • Automatic parental notification every time the @facebook app overhears you masturbating

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@CubeApril

2 years

Can someone help me understand how Konami can drop a new Yu-Gi-Oh game with 10,000 working cards? Are the cards considerably less complex? Was it built on top of a previous existing game? Pioneer has 8,700 and seems impossibly far away, so feel like I must be missing something.

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@CubeApril

3 years

A++++++ design

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@CubeApril

1 year

phyrexia is leaking onto my discords now

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@CubeApril

2 years

brian dared me to post it

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@CubeApril

2 years

@wizards_magic and to think that this non-apology could have been zero tweets long

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@CubeApril

3 years

I can’t wait for White’s card in this powerhouse cycle to make it so that if your opponent would gain life, you gain that much life instead.

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@CubeApril

2 years

first of many finished sessions in my Hollow Knight tattoo

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@CubeApril

2 years

Run into @TolarianCollege while playing Mega Man Star Force 3.

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@CubeApril

3 years

This image by @juangarcia202 really made me think about the thing that frustrates me the most about Wizards: their inability to understand or care about the network effects of software. By being strongly not invented here, they have badly stunted the Magic ecosystem. 👇 1/7

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@CubeApril

5 years

Somebody on Reddit wrote a computer program to swap languages on paper cards and then tested it out on the anime planeswalkers. And, well, wow.

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@CubeApril

2 years

a bit sad I didn't get to preview Braids, but it's totally made up by the fact that her card design is sooooooo good 👀

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@CubeApril

4 years

This is less than two weeks old. Two weeks. Less than a thousand employees and still it’s like nobody talks to each other. I would not wish this aspect of Maro’s job on even my worst enemies.

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@CubeApril

3 years

the only acceptable NFT

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@CubeApril

2 years

Plot prediction: The Brothers’ War will unveil some heretofore unmentioned artifact of Urza’s that is able to undo Phyresis, and it will be used restore some half-dozen or so planeswalkers that will be compleated over the next year or two.

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@CubeApril

2 years

My son has just informed me that, since he has turned 10, that he “understands my jokes but no longer finds them funny.”

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@CubeApril

3 years

I have done literally nothing to deserve this.

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@CubeApril

2 years

it should be illegal to use the Ajani avatar with the USA sleeves

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@CubeApril

4 years

If you are ever asked to review an employee, there are only two scores: • 1/5, they literally murdered my dog, or • 5/5, exemplary work, give them a huge fucking raise Don't be a class traitor, the scores of 2-4 do not exist.

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