Shivam, keeper of favorites @ghirapurigears Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

3 years

Here's a convenient linktree!

Elektrotal | Twitter | Linktree

Hi! I'm Shivam Bhatt and I like to talk about Magic Cards and Hinduism!

linktr.ee

10

5

94

Last Seen Profiles

@enbyoonji

@myghans_

@coachtrautwein

@RVicquery

@YeoRaymond1

@SK_StockGrowers

@wtf_a_psycho

@jikoaiiiFPS

@AliKara63237181

@TerrorCotidiano

@CCSoludo

@mistressisha

@indiasaidthatt

@AlphaEnaz

@tobxey

@AvaArleen

@yunnibunni_

@_TrueLeviathan_

@JDAgraria

@goldhuntgame

@_GaelleK

@CeO9ysyKph60912

@KitanaJanee

@MChaseRadio

@davey_perkins

@thunderjam134

@Mike_Vapes

@yoleelab

@ThermotronInd

@james_wilson06

@PGN_COL

@TomLuginbill

@Pravin_Japan

@arsene_japan

@radio_pichincha

@SV7_Official

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 month

you have got to be kidding me

140

753

6K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

what the *fuck* wotc

171

129

3K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

ok, @MTG_Arena , this made me cackle. also now i wanna see tappy cosplay this meme

31

214

3K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Showing Alesha as a trans elder is particularly meaningful.

34

199

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

If wotc were really committed to LGBT causes they'd print sensei's divining bottom in neo Kamigawa send tweet

37

263

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

5 months

I miss when Magic would just make cards and let you figure out what to do with them

106

84

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

11 months

ok, like representation is one thing, but this is literally me

111

45

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

4 months

Every time I say this control players get real mad, but Farewell is a stupid card that should not have been printed the way it was. "One or more" is egregious, and exile is backbreaking.

381

63

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

11 months

Sometimes, existing is enough.

59

121

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

i'm sorry, what??

60

51

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

holy shit

58

52

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

8 months

"In response i play misleading signpost and send your 51/51 trampling commander over to my dear friend, the lifegain deck." i freaking love this card. it feels like something out of a whimsical board game or multiplayer video game.

70

81

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

7 months

Thematic value or not, I hate Farewell as a card design. One of the worst things to happen to magic in a minute

232

55

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

oh my god

54

92

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Don't mind me, just drawing three cards

22

41

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Finally something for mtg twitter to celebrate- @Graham_LRR is cancer free!

39

82

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

4 years

"hey wotc, give me an awesome soldier commander!" The monkey's paw closes, leaving only the middle finger extended.

MTG Secret Lair

@MTGSecretLair

4 years

Howdy 🤠 Learn more at .

505

182

548

104

130

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

So you're telling me they made art of me and my son.

42

86

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Finally, the legit best white card draw has been revealed and I can talk about it. This card is an absolute house and probably my favorite card in the set

84

59

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

This account is not a safe space for transphobes. We protect and celebrate our siblings here, no matter what.

39

141

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

3 months

So I looked at this card and my first thought was, damn, that looks like Hilda. And then I looked up the artist, and promptly lost my mind. I will do whatever it takes to get one.

32

99

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

it has partner

78

91

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

uh, holy shit. this is the first card i've seen today that just made me gasp outright

90

57

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Dear wizards, I am once again asking you to please do something about the health of sixty card competitive formats. Commander cannot and should not be the only way to play magic anymore.

98

97

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

THE REAL ONE HAS FINALLY BEEN REVEALED AND HOLY SHIT I WANT IT

74

54

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

wow. this is about as top down the idea of 'wizard' as i can imagine.

56

52

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Friends, you're welcome.

52

44

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

man, this art by @rhineville looks like a renaissance painting

38

141

2K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

ok, wotc, fine, white is good now, please stop

129

35

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Teaching my son how to play magic and he wanted to use the blue black deck cause he likes octopi, and after a few turns I gotta say this is a messed up card.

69

36

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Both incredibly funny and incredibly annoying

143

45

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

3 years

THEY MADE A CASTLEVANIA SORIN

48

158

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

8 months

Today's #scryfallrandom is a three mana 7/6 with no downside

59

43

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Metal Gear tezzeret is pretty fucking perfect, no notes

32

111

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

i'm glad that more folks are starting to understand how good this card is

129

23

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Dear whoever just passed me a wurmcoil engine - I don't know what you took but it was the wrong choice.

36

18

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Wotc, please print these cycles into oblivion thanks

27

60

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

30 days

what the hell do you mean "that many"?! (this is a rhetorical question, i know what it means)

95

51

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

5 months

it just occured to me that all of modern magic is simply a way for someone to make a god tier Alexander Clamilton deck

29

81

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

3 months

My friend Toni just made 19,683 food, clue, and treasures with just the deep clue sea precon.

18

47

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

FUCK YES

50

39

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

This card has one of the biggest deltas between how unplayable it looks at first glance to a new or inexperienced player and how incredibly powerful it is when viewed with knowledge

93

33

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

can we pause for a second and talk about how messed up this card is, because it's real messed up

114

33

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Here we go again

41

64

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 month

This is a common??

103

34

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Remains the gayest art in magic, even counting the pride stuff

79

91

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

8 months

Look, I'm a diehard green player, but someone needs to tell me what happened inside wotc five years ago to turn green into the color with the best draw engines in the game set after set

88

31

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Printed in 2005, more relevant than ever today.

0

128

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

oh my god. this art is fantastic

29

64

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

3 months

Oh my god

76

40

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

So @lsv had a contest on his stream the other day sponsored by @eBay and I managed to get my name pulled out of the lotto, and then I forgot all about it because of Richmond and stuff. Well, it came today. Holy crap. I dropped the package in shock.

40

14

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

8 months

this card is absolutely ridiculous

95

37

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

5 months

I miss when magic was silly

19

95

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

4 years

what you don't know is that wotc has actually already banned uro like 4 or 5 times but the dude keeps escaping

21

87

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Today I was reminded that this fucking card is gonna exist come October

85

37

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

How are you gonna tell me they made a whole ass card for bears and left off the best bear in magic

51

60

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Ladies and gentlemen, the king has returned. ¡Seriously, Phil Fucking Foglio in the year of someone's lord 2022!

45

73

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

Yes.

67

52

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

ok, i need to know who at wotc keeps slipping Zetalpa into like every precon

119

33

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

4 months

You ever just reread a card and then go what the fucking hell

60

33

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Remember this innocuous artifact from modern horizons 1?

33

29

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

This art, though. THIS ART.

45

49

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

10 months

this is a lava axe appreciation post

93

45

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

3 years

It bothers me more than I care to admit that there is only one ingot in magic, and ingot chewer can't chew on it.

36

76

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

And this morning on the ride to school he's like "papa, can we go to the card store? I need an original Elish Norn and a white sun twilight. I love phyrexia stuff" and I damn near crashed the car. You monsters have corrupted my son, lol

42

12

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 month

This is super cool

20

81

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

5 months

I can't believe the mad lads actually did it (from the new secret lair drop)

41

107

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

10 months

Look, I'm not saying the wizards art department had me in mind for that farmer, but like, this was ten seconds of looking in my closet

35

27

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Can we talk for a moment about how absolutely beautiful the cityscapes in Mercadian Masques were?

53

57

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

No longer is it Punch the Bear. Now, we punch together.

48

78

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

dear WotC, i know this is old news, and that you've shunted off the responsibility of building and maintaining a card database to a volunteer and unpaid group of fans at scryfall, but seriously, fix gatherer. there's no reason every card should not be on your own site.

31

45

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

9 months

I'll be honest, they really can't reprint this card enough times. It's insanely expensive and incredibly popular and I want as many people as possible to get to play with it

Daniel Crabtree (DaCrabsMTG)

@DaCrabsMTG

9 months

Remember when they printed Doubling Season in an upcoming set and everyone got excited? Then before that set even came out they previewed that they are printing it again in the very next set? 😂 #magicthegathering #MTG #MTGEldraine

56

6

83

62

61

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

8 months

God bless you, Sheldon. May your soul find peace, and may the millions of people whose lives your brightened through the works you created be forever grateful for your time with us. I'm a better person for having known you, and Magic is better because of you.

6

78

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

3 years

oh, this is rad, my LGS is celebrating reopening by hosing 'Re-Prerealease' events for ZNR and Strix

25

15

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Kamigawa Neon Dynasty is the best set of the year and it's not close. Hell the best of the past three years.

95

30

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

11 months

The ring tempting you should have been an entire mechanic of things like demonic pact, that all end in "you lose the game"

56

30

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

I miss commander being a bulk rare format where things like eternal witness were actual problems to discuss. Of course, that was also several thousand cards and like fifteen years ago so I could probably also just say "I miss being younger".

65

17

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

21 days

I was so focused on this dude making deserts that I somehow missed that it is also a fucking chromatic lantern?

33

38

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

In response to your dockside I bounce everyone's rocks, rhystics, mystics, and fish sticks back to their hands.

31

40

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

11 months

What the

66

29

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

ok, jetmir, i'm picking up what you're putting down

100

27

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

ok, so like two days ago i was saying i wanted to upgrade my breya to full broken, but what's the point when wotc's just printing the most busted artifact deck ever as a precon

64

37

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

This is about as close to a perfect Magic card as they come.

56

26

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Respect

39

49

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

Starting a new daily thread called #shivamfaves to show off my favorite art from every single set in magic. One card per set which means a lot of hard choices ahead! We're gonna start at the peak with the best art from ABU, and imo the game, Sol Ring

43

19

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

5 months

Today's #scryfallrandom is using the secret lair art instead of the dissension original because it has the best flavor text/art match in magic

16

58

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

4 months

This is the first one of these that I wished was a real card and not just a lovely certificate of appreciation

Jacob Mooney

@JacobDMooney

4 months

The CPD Team designed (I think) all the Heroes of the Realm cards. I got assigned the card for the D&D Beyond team, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!

24

91

656

73

45

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

9 months

God, I don't ask for much, so please hear my prayer and allow the modern pro tour to be won by someone bowmastering their flumph for an hour

24

60

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

7 months

If you haven't aura swapped an Arcanum Wings for a collosification after blockers but before damage, have you truly lived?

37

44

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

I just got my first "papa, why can't I use every card, this limit is dumb". *sniff* they grow up so fast!

27

9

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

8 months

"hey shivam, we heard you love enchantress voltron so we made you a christmas tree to decorate"- wotc, probably

33

37

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

5 months

this card is so much better than it looks on the surface

91

18

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

1 year

man, imagine being compleated and awoken by Elesh Norn and going to her full of love and devotion and she's like "Grimothy, my dear sweet child, you are to be the lord of ticks and fleas and other assorted bedbugs"

73

67

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

10 months

This card is cracked. It is insanely good

58

18

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 years

people calling baldurs gate a weak set is so wild to me. it's not weak, it's that the last commander legends broke the entire fucking format in half. this is the power level it, and commander overall, should be at.

76

41

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

13 days

I just got through security at winnipeg airport, and the x ray dude was looking at my bag on the screen with a furrowed brow. I tell him they're magic cards. He chuckles and looks over at me, and suddenly starts. "Shivam?" And I'm like, uh, yes?

21

12

1K

Shivam, keeper of favorites

@ghirapurigears

2 months

Friends