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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 28/09/2026

An update on our little revolutionary campaign. If you live in Denver, $5 turns into $50 until midnight tomorrow. But I'd rather come see you.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 17/08/2026

$10,000 feels like a lot to plant a tree. Can anyone beat the price?

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 03/08/2026

City council just put a new Xcel contract on your ballot this November: 20 years, no exit dates. A gym membership Denver can't cancel until 2046. What's your bill at now? The average was $90.90 a month in 2022. Our house hit $309 in July.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 29/07/2026

If you live in Denver and need something fixed in your neighborhood, my campaign will do it, find someone who can, or make sure the city knows about it. Today, we requested two RRFBs in Barnum. What's an RRFB? Well, you'd probably know one if you heard it:

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 28/07/2026

If you ever see my face in your mailbox, someone else paid to put it there. In '23, Denver candidates spent $1.5M on mail & lit. Taxpayers covered ~80% of what they spent. I'm putting campaign money back into the city: clinics, crews, and hiring Denver people, not consultants.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 18/07/2026

In April of last year, I wrote a few thousand words on the Magic Hall of Fame. There's some HoF trivia, my favorite speech, and I make a case for Sheldon Menery, @bdm.bsky.social, and @tolariancommunitycollege.com as contributors. It's one of my favorite Mana Club editions and, IMO, worth a read.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 15/07/2026

My theory: Commander is weed. It's not collapsing; it's the single most popular format in a game that made 1.7b last year. Legal weed did 29b. Both are initially novel, but the hedonic treadmill kicks in. Then we expect there to be something MORE. There isn't. This is, more or less, it.

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm not part of your target demo but you should know Secrets of Strixhaven just about convinced me to start playing Arena again but then Marvel Superheroes dropped and so did my interest level. Let Magic be Magic ffs.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 07/07/2026

We walked down the aisle to our friends playing The Avett Brothers. This weekend, we get to see them for the first time live. Reminding myself of this on a Tuesday because the rest of the day and week will be brutal.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 06/07/2026

This card was a mistake. For historical context, only three of the 3,156 non-alchemy rares on Arena have EVER had a 70+% GIH win rate through the first two weeks of a format. The Super Hero Civil War is one of them.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 06/07/2026

Took home five boxes from the Arena Direct this weekend. MSH is a complex sealed format and I think a lot of people are doing it wrong. Obviously had some busted Azorius builds, but landcyclers enable greedy decks and most of the time, you should be splashing. Here are a few of mine:

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 24/06/2026

Me: look at all of these hoops you have to jump through to get a free mana each turn 33 people: Bookmarked!

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Cal is Stitching & Cascading @caljones.com · 16/06/2026

hey guys just thought I would get my 4 minute video in explaining how *i* think that being a sex pest is bad, just so you know (I'm mad it only gets 6,000 views)

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Miabyte 🎙️ — People Over Profit, Always. @miabyte.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's not my place to get involved with sexual abuse allegations. All I can say is believe / signal boost the victims of such heinous acts. Some of y'all aren't doing that though. This isn't "content" or an opportunity to get clicks. There is a line between supporting victims & clout chasing.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 14/06/2026

After six years of my old Corsair I decided to update and I can't believe how gd nice it is to type on this beast.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 14/06/2026

Just havin' a nice little day organizing my office and listening to the Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack. That is all.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 14/06/2026

Happy first birthday to this little guy

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 12/06/2026

Gotta stop shitposting, a little part of me dies every time someone agrees with it

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 08/06/2026

It was a rough weekend, but like my buddy Cal says, I am the tree that loves the axe. See you in the Arena Limited Championship, friends.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 02/06/2026

Still thinking about @improphilo.bsky.social's article RE: Powered Cube and the per pack power limit 1. Game designers avoid creating loss aversion 2. Almost all players make the "right" decision 3. A few outliers make choices we don't get 4. Due to outlier behavior, people can feel bad? ???

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 02/06/2026

Forgot how much I love an old school tournament report on a Blogspot

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 02/06/2026

If Shatner is going to talk shit about his Captain Kirk Magic card we need @pattonoswalt.bsky.social to weigh in on M.O.D.O.K.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 01/06/2026

Can easily see these going to $45/50 by December, would recommend getting at least a playset so you're covered

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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 01/06/2026

CASCADE CASCADE - THE MAGAZINE (ISSUE 1) is real. Available for preorder for $14.99. >60 magazine sized pages with every article from ISSUE 1 plus a bonus print exclusive from editor Dan Sheehan. Read more: www.cascadecascade.com/cascade-casc...

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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 28/05/2026

If you can believe it, we just successfully published dozens of pieces of high quality Magic writing over the course of three months, all without compromising on quality or pay! Thank you to everyone who made this possible and to our writers who have trusted us to put their work out into the world

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😈Am I The Bolcast?😈 @amithebolcast.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If you listen to the Bolcast, that’s cool and nice, thank you so much

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The Red Deck Wins Playmat ⚡ Preorder now: stitcherssupply.com/products/red... More info: rhysticstudies.substack.com/p/the-red-de...

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 27/05/2026

Went to a wedding, have had this stuck in my head for days, now it's your turn

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 26/05/2026

This has sparked a raging debate over whether this is a belly or not and @thephilfoglio.bsky.social is the only one who can settle it at this point

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 26/05/2026

Seeing just the back, how would you grade it?

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 19/05/2026

In the last 24 hours, people have tweeted at WotC hundreds of times about Secret Lair and the B&R announcement. Only a handful of times about their failure to recognize @uwotc-official.bsky.social. People talk about not recognizing the game now. That's increasingly how I feel about the community.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 14/05/2026

Really fun episode but drove home how constant releases make it so even the people who are paid to brew professionally can't keep up. It's no longer, "There's an obscure card from 2007 that would go so hard in this" but rather, "In a FIN holiday gift pack there's a common you missed."

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 14/05/2026

DTF St Louis is the most fascinating show of the year and I have no one to talk about it with because it has the single worst name of a show released this year.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 13/05/2026

for people who have a strong fruit snack game (or kids) what's the closest thing to shark bites on the market currently?

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It's a small drop in an ocean of creative industry nightmares but Cascade Cascade is paying all of its writers best-in-space rates for their writing because of the simple idea that a thing made by all of us should pay all of us. Feels good!

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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 12/05/2026

ur support matters xoxo

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 12/05/2026

Holy smokes @cascadecascade.com is about to pay me more for my first article than anything I ever wrote for pulitzer prize winning major daily newspaper @denverpost.com. Thank you to everyone who is supporting fair compensation for Magic writers, indie projects are the future (and present).

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 11/05/2026

My self-destructive Magic trait is keeping terrible opening hands in draft because somewhere deep down I think I should punish myself for making bad deckbuilding decisions

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 10/05/2026

First test (almost) in the books. Been experimenting with a different type of alter and digging the results. Initially I thought I would be working with animals I found in vintage Nat Geos, but there are so many weirdos in here that I'm falling in love with. Last step: matte.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 07/05/2026

Total unique printings of Magic cards in the first twenty five years of the game: 35,656 In the last five years: 42,065

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 06/05/2026

Vegas, you are my favorite event of the year in my least favorite place on earth. If MagicCon never went back, I'd dance on your grave remotely. Thank you to all the people who made it tolerable.

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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I bought a subscription to @cascadecascade.com so I could read Rob Bockman's articles and everything else is just a nice add-on.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 28/04/2026

Cal and Stitcher's Supply were kind enough to send me to Vegas with an extra Dandan mat to give out. Here's the deal: the first people I see playing Dandan in Vegas get to play for it. That's it. Don't forget to bring a deck

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 28/04/2026

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 28/04/2026

Waiting for Tangle Wires to show up but deeply grateful to see this list on Twitter. Stompy brings back a flood of memories from being a kid and actually enjoying this game. Probably not a great deck. Probably not the greatest build. But I cannot wait to shuffle it up.

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big tiddy Rebell @rebell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Omg Jacob Wysocki!!!!!!

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