I wanted to do a little thought exercise this morning. Let's presume that "What Was Written", the Pioneer Lite format on #MTGArena, becomes the fourth ranked Constructed format on Arena in a month or two, and they decide to use "Pioneer Anthology" releases to get us to Pioneer. What would these sorts of releases look like? I decided to concoct a hypothetical "first thirty cards" that could be released to bolster the format, as well as be added to Historic for use there. I'm going to try to keep a roughly even color distribution for "fairness".

Been a while, but incoming long thread: #mtgalchemy has been up for almost three months now and, seemingly, the launch of this new digital format has been a disaster. Facing a negative reaction from the community and a poor player base, I wanted to take today to talk about it. Note: This will not be a thread about the Magic Arena economy. I've done that thread, and said most of what I had to say on that subject already. This thread is about the other big challenges the Alchemy format is facing, and my own perspective on it's current state.

Incoming long thread: I've been putting this off for a few days, but I wanted to break down the current state of @MTG_Arena, and what issues the client faces. @CubeApril inspired me to finally talk about this with her tweet a day or two ago on Twitch numbers. #mtg #MTGNeon For starters, I will point out that the cloud of negativity surrounding both the client and the Alchemy format, which I mentioned last week, still lingers, and is driven by content creators and social media. This is not to say there isn't reason to be upset, but it exists.

Incoming long thread: In light of the SCG firings last night, I wanted to take a moment to talk about how we got here, and how I feel the direction #MTG is taking is the result of the community as a whole crafting somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy about the game "dying". I think there's blame for everyone here, myself included, but it has to start with the big content creators. For years now, prominent content creators have pushed several notions about the game that, to me, are nonsensical and/or damaging to the game of Magic.