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New York, NY
Joined October 2008
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I’m just going to leave this right here for no reason at all.
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9 years
For those who have been asking, my winning #RPTQ deck. More later friends! :) http://t.co/mdNDmaLueN
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6 years
Calling for bans on Lantern at this point is asinine. It was a known deck; it is a fine deck; presence of a Prison-style combo control deck in a format as fast as Modern is awesome not awful. Oh yeah congrats to Luis also #PTRIX
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Michael Flores
6 years
No one has the Constitutional Right to membership in our community. For example, few non-gamers are active participants. Ideally, all are welcome! But if you consistently scream to everyone I DON'T WANT TO BE A MEMBER you can't be surprised when the tribe obliges your request.
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3 years
Made Mythic on MTGArena with this today. Basically ran all the way through Diamond in less than 24 hours once I wild carded Wrenn and Seven. Big thanks to @covertgoblue for inspiration and CC to my good buddies at @ArenaDecklists
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4 years
Presented without comment #PTQ
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2 years
Found this still together sorting my collection this morning
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2 months
This take couldn't be more correct. The existence of manascrew is a feature that allows any Small ChildTM to beat @Jonnymagic00 ... Sometimes. Its very existence gives rise to creative approaches to deck design from the Sligh mana curve to the Comer Xerox.
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Getting mana screwed is a feature of Magic, not a bug and trying to hard to eliminate mana screw/flood has potential to be more harmful to the game than the occasional non-game due to mana issues.
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RCQ winner #AMA
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Michael Flores
1 year
The ⁦ @marvelsnap deck that⁩ @drewlevin ⁩ posted is indeed bonkers. I’m not sure about 90% win rate but 75% easy. ⁦Subtle, but absolutely breaks the energy balance of the game
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6 months
If you’re consistently getting topdecked the turn before you’re about to win, the likelihood is not that you’re getting unlucky. More likely you’re missing points early and giving your opponents those topdecks that they neither earned nor deserved.
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Michael Flores
3 months
This is a friendly #premodern meetup but if this were a tournament you’re getting an unsportsmanlike conduct call for this
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4 months
Heroes won the $1k #premodern Challenge today in Queens, NYC Huge props to @David_H_Kaplan for running the event at a volleyball court!🔥🏐 All respect to @Caffeinated_22 for making the deck, always 🙏
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Michael Flores
1 year
Certain People: Here is my 37-page sideboard guide for 15 sideboard cards. Certain PT Champs: Yeah by the Top 4 I just stopped siding these cards in because they’re bad. Whatever. Deck’s fine.
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Michael Flores
7 months
Split in the Top 4 of The Bearded Dragon #premodern $1,000 tournament with the @fpawluszmtg "Oath Paloosh" special Complained all morning, plot armor, probably next Spike Colony ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Michael Flores
7 months
The original Top 8 Magic! @MattWang97 @Top8Games
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Michael Flores
3 months
I don’t think either of my parents has read Who’s the Beatdown?.
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8 years
Got there! #pptq winner / #rptq Dublin here I come 😀 Thanks @BasicMountain
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Michael Flores
2 years
Dunno who needs to hear this but @Mengu09 's YouTube channel is an absolute joy to watch. He mostly plays great (not surprising) but I love when he starts [presumably?] cursing in Italian when a bad beat or something unexpected happens
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Michael Flores
2 years
So… prepped semi seriously for this weekend’s Premodern Championship in Boston since at least January. Last minute audible to a deck I have zero practical reps with AND refuse to play stock lists Paper Magic has returned
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Michael Flores
9 years
Don't know where it originated. Do know that it should be taped to your office door / cubicle wall (ESPECIALLY @lsv ) http://t.co/EEZS3OHKNA
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Michael Flores
1 year
Will do the actual writeup later. Gambled on 19 lands and it paid off!
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Michael Flores
2 years
Only the best opening line of any song ever. ONLY. @jennylewis
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2 years
There's blood in my mouth 'cause i've been biting my tongue all week.
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6 months
Innumerable Opponents: I thought Burn cut Eidolon. YT: Can you beat it? IOs: Well, no. I’m just saying I thought they cut it. Why DID they cut it? YT: No idea. Take two, though.
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Michael Flores
5 months
Heroes got the last #premodern meetup of 2023 with our favorite deck of all time (minus, admittedly, three spicy Furnaces) Fuck it, we BALL (lightning)
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Michael Flores
2 years
All you old grinders who used to think Legacy was the best format? I’d like to welcome you to the ACTUAL best format: #premodern
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Michael Flores
4 years
Dear @ArenaDecklists Pretty effortless climb to #mythic this month. Exclusively Historic; never changed a single card in the 75
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Michael Flores
2 years
How YOU doing today? #premodern #premodernmagic
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2 years
I know y’all here for the #premodern content but sometimes I also play this game called Magic: The Gathering Pioneer #FNM let’s go!
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Michael Flores
2 years
So my second round opponent ALSO did not show 🤷‍♂️ 2-0 at #scgcon Philadelphia
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Michael Flores
9 years
Got there! 11-5 should qualify me for the next Pro Tour. So much gratitude to @TeamUltraPRO
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Michael Flores
5 years
Did @elonmusk just Tweet out Progenitus???
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Elon Musk
5 years
Only a matter of time
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Michael Flores
1 year
The Absorb and Meddling Mages are kind of an embarrassment but I was so able to win tonight’s #premodern meetup! 4-0 Main is 59/60 @i_b_TRUE with sideboard consultation from @SamuelHBlack
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Michael Flores
2 years
Anyone else remember Vs. System?
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Michael Flores
2 years
Back in the day @Top8Games used to just hand these out like toilet paper or 1990s tech stocks for making Top 8 of a $1,000 tournament. ... Only to be rediscovered at the bottom of a box 20 years later apparently
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Michael Flores
2 years
Guess this play set goes from long box to binder. Who even knew I owned these, LOL
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Michael Flores
2 years
Can we stop talking about how great #premodernmagic is because of the nostalgia? You don't need to be a 90s kid to like it! How about we like #premodern because the game play is so good? I literally have no emotional attachment to the cards Hypnox or Phyrexian Devourer, thanks
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Michael Flores
1 year
With the great @MTGPhD visiting, it was a great time to begin the Astral Slide redemption arc! We won last night’s #premodern meetup 3-0-1 with only an unintentional draw in the mirror. Look for all the deets on @CoolStuffInc next week. #premodernmagic
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4 months
🌶️ ACTUAL last #premodern deck pic of 2023! Gonna do ⁦ @landho ⁩ proud!
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Michael Flores
6 months
For the “Mike hasn’t changed his deck in three years” crowd. BTW it’s been six. Also scoreboard.
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Michael Flores
9 months
For anyone who is feeling a little bruised about whatever ambassadors or universes beyond this one. Just choose Door Number Three #premodern #premodernmagic We won’t even make you play with or against Land Tax any more
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Michael Flores
1 year
Don't bother saying anything (unless it's about two of those Baloths, I know, I know)... No one would believe you anyway. 96% credit to @LannynynyMTG with DNA credit to @targetplayer #premodern #premodernmagic
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Michael Flores
1 year
I posted on the blog for the first time in 10 years! Would love it if you checked out my new Standard video on YouTube or the blog. Huge thanks to @LannynynyMTG @SamuelHBlack and @covertgoblue for their help. LOVE MIKE
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Michael Flores
2 years
My 2d Place UG Control deck that @mtgbanding alluded to last week (I think of it as a UW Control variant more than an Oath deck). Actually have some changes in mind that the nice people at @CoolStuffInc will let me write about 😀 Thanks to @zdch and @KcirtapOHG for testing help
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Michael Flores
2 years
Taylor Swift has literally 5x hours played of my next most listened to artist in 2021, but LOL at my top 10 most played songs in 2019 🤣 @jennylewis @taylorswift13
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Michael Flores
3 years
I honestly don't understand the "Paul stuck it out" tweets. Mayweather isn't a big punch guy. He only won about half by KO. He let MacGregor swing and miss all night last time. Giving the opponent a false sense of possibility is his MO
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Michael Flores
1 year
I feel like this is the best article I’ve done in many years. It’s part story time, lots practical, and about a format people care about playing. Needless to say, I hope you like it!
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Michael Flores
5 years
What have you disgusting people done to me? #CMDR
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Michael Flores
2 years
Decided I love this take. I think my initial gut reaction was that I wouldn’t be in the market at that price point; and misread that as no one would be. Maybe this is the first big step to meaningful product line differentiation
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Brian Kibler
2 years
I think this 30th anniversary edition is the exact kind of thing WotC *should* make. It doesn’t gatekeep actual game pieces from people behind high prices and allows them to target collectors directly, like with Secret Lairs. I’d much rather this than even more sets all the time.
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Michael Flores
8 months
What we do to get good #premodern deck pics… 📸: @Llano_world
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Michael Flores
2 months
Won the RCQ - uw Control @roman_fusco 32/33 spells @mattccosta 26/27 mana base My sideboard Updates soonish! <3 Tired now
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Michael Flores
4 months
Does anyone love the contemporary formats the way the #premodern community loves the best one? Been playing Magic for 30 years and I’ve never felt anything like this. I started 0-2, came back, won Top 8 from 8th, always on the draw. Exhausted. Just want to play more Premodern.
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Michael Flores
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I love everything about this deck except how I played it. Okay @landho was right: Cataclysm is not good in this deck, but it’s a great addition to the #premodern format. LOVE MIKE
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Michael Flores
9 months
No @osypl ? No problem! Heroes won the first Brooklyn Strategist meetup last night 4-0 with u-r 12/12. R1: Bye (in triumphant @SamuelHBlack fashion) R2: Lucky win over Goblins WW R3: Medium v. Madness LWW R4: Tough win over @Markues1775 G/W Geddon WLW #premodern #premodernmagic
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Michael Flores
11 months
I’d say “No one would believe you” but there is not only photographic but video evidence 🤷 “Lanny Rock” by @LannynynyMTG and @fpawluszmtg Second place at the Saturday #premodernmagic event at the North American #premodern Championship
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Michael Flores
1 year
In the 90s we got a blue ENVELOPE ;)
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Heroes managed to dodge Goblins to win the Brooklyn meetup 4-0 / 8-1 with the most expensive deck in #premodern 2-1 Mono-G Oath 2-0 B/R Oath 2-0 u/G/W Enchantress 2-0 B/G Classic Rock
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Michael Flores
1 year
Magic as Garfield intended ⁦ @AdrianLSullivan ⁩ ⁦ @CloudgoatRanger ⁩ ⁦ @bkowal23
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Michael Flores
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Is it Round One of #premodern or the Top 8 of a Grand Prix in 2001?
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Michael Flores
3 years
All the deets RE: my Golgari Snow deck from last week. Also please do me a solid and check out the audio version I included. You know, for those who miss my dulcet tones
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Blood Money decks performed well in Standard 2022, and with the release of Midnight Hunt, Golgari Snow has risen to the top! @fivewithflores breaks down the deck! #MTG 🔔
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Michael Flores
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Brief foray into the best deck in #premodern Went… 1-2 :/ Still probably the best thing to do on a random Thursday night!
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Michael Flores
8 months
Won last night’s Brooklyn Strategist #premodern meetup with Ducette Goblins. 4-0 feels like 8-0 when you 2-0 ⁦ @LannynynyMTG ⁩ though
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Michael Flores
2 years
Only 11th today. Still a sweet format and a joyous Red Deck to play. Urza’s Baubles signed by the one and only Olle Rade! #premodern
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Michael Flores
10 months
July NYC #premodern meetup is in the books! Our Hero went a lowly 3-1 with a loss to stupid Lanny Rock (who would ever play that?) The winner was @OsypL ... again! Any guesses who the last em effer to win two or more meetups in a row is? Osyp's deck:
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Michael Flores
11 months
So @MTGPhD is moving for a repeat at the North American #premodern championships. WITH NO SLEEVES 😻
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Michael Flores
1 year
Why would you ban Fable or Bankbuster? Because they're popular? I'd much rather play in a world that rewards development and consistency than many previous iterations (e.g. Winota; riding randomness and draw dependency)
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Michael Flores
2 years
So I spent days and days sorting my Magic collection and now I just want to make it into Premodern decks. How did I not know this was a thing?
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Brian Kowal
2 years
@fivewithflores Relatedly, I think I am probably going to this.
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Michael Flores
11 months
So @bkowal23 is having a giant #Premodern tournament next month, and a lot of assassins are rumored to be flying in to challenge @SamuelHBlack . LIKE if you are cheering for someone to take Sam's reigning Misty title RT if you're coming for Sam yourself (sorry Sam)
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Michael Flores
3 years
Everyone should go ahead and pin this
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Omar H gaming 🔜?
3 years
Get it?
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Michael Flores
8 months
#premodern Turbo Lands by ⁦ @CloudgoatRanger ⁩ (for no reason at all)
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Michael Flores
2 years
Probably the only deck from last weekend's #Premodern European Championship we need to talk about (but boy is there a lot to talk about) David Fischer - Top 8 #PremodernMagic
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Michael Flores
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Old Tribe, new tricks… still doesn’t COME CLOSE to beating #premodern Goblins But! If you have an extra $3,000 lying around? You can buy half an Elves deck 🧝‍♀️🧝🧝‍♂️
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Michael Flores
2 years
Just picked up my first Play-In Point! If everyone is goofing around with new three-color cards, I think the early edge is just being the bigger asshole. Only minor changes from Kamigawa Standard; Maestros Theater was a noticeable over-performer.
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Michael Flores
2 years
I’m really happy with how this turned out (the article, not the tournament — but that was okay too 😀) I’d ❤️ if you gave it a read (or a listen), especially all y’all #premodern folks
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CoolStuffInc
2 years
🗣️ @fivewithflores breaks down his first Premodern tournament and how he reached an impressive 3rd place!
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Michael Flores
1 year
Back in 2004 or so Brian told me he was going to skip the Pro Tour to cosplay a lyger off in the woods somewhere. So I flew myself to Columbus and asked @rbuehler if I could have his Sunday spot in the booth. THAT’S how heroes eventually called the $16,000 Lightning Helix
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Brian Kibler
1 year
No stream today - off to LARP this weekend
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Michael Flores
2 years
Regeneration was one of my favorite art pieces from early Magic; and still holds a very dear place in my heart. I love the subtlety of this work, and how it tells a story. Quinton Hoover will probably always be my Number One Magic artist. Loved networking with him years later
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Michael Flores
4 years
The Catch and Kill Podcast is a continual delight that builds on the book with new interviews and information. For instance in Ep. 5 I learned Pulitzer-winning journalist @RonanFarrow 1) eats Panda Express, and 2) can't get his order right 🤣 A+ cast
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Michael Flores
11 months
What an INSANELY GOOD ad. This is She-Hulk levels of self-aware wall-breaking while simultaneously kicking semi-illiterate hyper-impulsive keyboard jockeys down the back stairs.
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Magic: The Gathering
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The book is the true source. Any interpretations are only interpretations. Like the Tales of Middle-earth Magic set. #MTGxLOTR
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It’s Magical Christmas Land Death! by @fpawluszmtg #premodern
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Michael Flores
3 years
In 1979 I left my Chewbacca in a hotel in Niagra Falls and my parents wouldn't turn around to get it. I yelled at my mom just now on account of it being worth $2,899 today.
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Michael Flores
5 years
Congratulations on finding the winning lottery ticket in the couch cushions
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Travis Pendleton
5 years
I've had booster boxes of shadowmoor commons for years that I've never looked through until today... 😬
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This card implied to me that there were cheat codes to and secret doors in this game, like in video games; it ignited the passion for deck design in me that kept me playing for my first couple of, you know, decades.
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Todd Anderson
3 years
What's the first Magic card you remember owning? That one badass thing that kept you coming back for more? I'll start:
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Michael Flores
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Cold blooded asks to take a picture and then brains me the next round with a theoretically “good” matchup
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2-0ed scales and got @fivewithflores to do a “waifu” with me
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Michael Flores
10 months
Are you a child? If you don’t want to see a movie about a little girl’s doll… Don’t? No one needs to hear your opinion about something you didn’t want to see in the first place. Whereas I have to see this flaming garbage heap of a take just by not following you on Twitter
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Ben Shapiro
10 months
My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’ and it was one of the most woke movies I have ever seen. My full review of this flaming garbage heap of a film will be out on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 10am ET.
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Narrowly got the Brewery #premodern meetup with Magical Christmas Land Death v 1.3 at 3-1. Really impressed with @fpawluszmtg seemingly minor innovations with this build.
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Michael Flores
2 years
Dear #Premodern nerds / beatdown enthusiasts: @misterorange was super nice and let me write another Premodern-based article because the last one did well. Let's make sure he is happy with that decision! Please click in, read, enjoy, listen, share etc :)
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Michael Flores
5 months
In what universe do advertisers owe an obligation to keep afloat a private, multibillion-dollar tech enterprise?
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Michael Flores
3 years
People are likelearning Legacy is so difficult and decision-intensive but I'm like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what's so hard about floating RR before sacrificing your Mountains?
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Michael Flores
9 months
Yo @wizards_magic might want to look into this. They’re promoted as “proxy cards” but their ad makes me want to 🤮
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Michael Flores
8 years
Side door at my office
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Michael Flores
1 year
You heard — or are about to hear — right! @Top8Games and I bring back my first Top 8 Magic in over three years!
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Michael Flores
3 years
Honest question: When people (usually "conservatives") rail against cancel culture, are they saying the cancelled party didn't do anything wrong, or there just shouldn't be consequences for doing something wrong?
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Rep. Matt Gaetz
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Impeachment is the zenith of cancel culture.
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Star City Games
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Show how long you've been playing MTG by sharing a rule that no longer exists.
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Michael Flores
2 years
The dichotomy of these two cards I needed for my Rich Shay Oath deck can’t really be exaggerated
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Michael Flores
6 years
@misterorange I also watched @G3RRYT storm back from 0-2 in a turn 4 kill format with subtle card draws and an extraordinarily keen ability to build small advantages. I also have seen 100 rush kills. This displays the range of the format and THAT /IS/ good Magic
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Michael Flores
2 years
This past weekend was chock full of Pro Tour Champions! @OlleRade ⁩ probably signed more Sylvan Safekeepers, but I’ll now always cherish my set of Urza’s Baubles. “Remember Columbus”
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