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ClassicalMasque

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“I am very still / I take in all the angles of the room” DEATH IS NOT THE END // RE-ENTER THE LOOP, TRAVELLER

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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This can do so much work both as a way to win the game outright and a way to chip away at opponents on other folks’ combat steps.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s not always perfectly effective but I love it all the same. And it scales well later into games!
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Built Livio/Nadier recently and it is both very fun and absolutely filthy when it gets going. 10/10, would recommend.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If you’re trying to make Angelheart Vial work, might I suggest Sanguinary Priest? You can use the triggered ability flexibly to either ping your opponents/remove their creatures and gain life or ping yourself to add counters to the Vial. I’d pull the Vindictive Vampire for it.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
For me it’s gotta be Jaya Ballard in her gam gam era.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Bloomburrow is lovely and is a close runner-up for me, but I have to go with Alara. I love how unique the visual design was for each shard, and the game design for Alara block was excellent. And the original ultimatum cycle, as a big stinky sorcery enjoyer they are special to me.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
She’s a blind senior citizen so please show her some love.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Love it so much
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I just think she’s neat.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thank you for doing this! Gotta take care of the folks who need it the most.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
They’re beautiful tonight, even in the city.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I’m in a place right now where I think about this poem all the time. The wrath of it, and also the love that wrath demands. I hope everyone gets everything they deserve.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
My favorite deck I’ve built is Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist. Very customizable to your tastes and her ability is deceptively strong. Plus, y’know. Cat girl!
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Great idea, thanks for putting up to help others when it matters most.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I don’t know exactly how to use this effect productively but the art sure as hell is fun!
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This card is criminally underrated, especially in the current world where virtually every deck produces counters/tokens of some kind to generate advantage. It’s bizarre to me that it doesn’t see more play.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Despite being published in 1984, this poem speaks so powerfully to the dead-eyed, murderous nature of “AI“ as it relates to human creativity, lustiness, compassion, and art. We don’t have to hurt ourselves. Do not use AI, folks, it will break your brain first and then your spirit.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Going to just highlight this passage, because a lot of folks seem to have forgotten this little tidbit lately.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Truly a good wee lad
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I grew up with the Ron Spears art and it was one of those rares I pulled at the time that was *so* appealing. These days I prefer the flavor text of the Chippy printing: “Wrath is no vice when inflicted upon the deserving.” Feels appropriate for our current moment.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
It’s an oldie but a goodie. Welcome back, and glad you’re here!
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Slapped this together and maybe it’s not quite right but the point stands
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I would love it if we could go back, that whole block was fantastic. The art, the flavor. I remember at the time it went over like a bit of a lead balloon but I love it all the same. Like, this rk post art, c’mon now.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Sort of like Cleansing, which I wouldn’t consider MLD in casual commander. It’s more just a weird drain effect in white which I kind of love.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
For me, it’s gotta be the Decimator of Provinces. What a delightfully weird pig!
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Got this in my inbox this morning, I hadn’t read anything by Kuzmin before. Really lovely. It’s important to remember, now more than ever, that we’ve always been here. Always been loving and in love.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Still working on my list but, we do a little spell-slinging and some light extortion, as a treat #pendragonMTG
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Unfortunately I think you’re right. Future Sight is a great example of how flavor text can do work as a narrative device, but I doubt we’ll see anything like it again. I keep coming back to Keen Sense’s re-telling of Crovax and Mirri’s stories via the color shift. To me, it’s Magic at it’s best.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Am a fan of this MDFC, getting a protection spell that can be a land is something I will pretty much always play.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Not sure if this little fellow counts as a fungus but it’s some of my favorite art I’ve ever seen on a Magic card and I think it’s close enough to count. Just wonderful.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Grixis wizard kindred girlies my beloved
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Nobody sees it coming, and it’s worth the deck a lot for that alone.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I’m a big fan of Delirium as a way of dealing with voltron commanders or creatures being pumped up or given double strike for a turn.
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I’m a sinner, I’m a saint / I do not feel ashamed
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ClassicalMasque @classicalmasque.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I know it’s an old-timer thing but this will always have a very dear place in my heart
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