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James

@gamesfinkel.com

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🃏🎮 Game Designer, Tabletop Gamer (He/Him) ⚔️ (Sometimes) Masters in TFT Double Up 💍 @ravesinthesky.bsky.social

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 08/05/2025

A surprise 5/6 Time Walk? Yeah that’ll do.

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 30/01/2025

More cats. Thank you artists!!

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 30/01/2025

Lastly I wanted to shoutout all my opponents for this event who were super fun to play against (everybody was actually so nice) and for assisting with a special request. @ravesinthesky.bsky.social was unable to go so I had everyone make cat tokens for them! Here are just some of the ones I got.

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 30/01/2025

I did end up getting the 3-0 with UBR Breachmaster. I had some spicy games and Bowmaster looked phenomenal. Also shout out Waste Not because it played way better than I could've hoped. I did get (functionally) T1'd in the single game I lost by my opponent with an Urza+Gleaner to put me in check.

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 30/01/2025

I unfortunately ended 1-2 again, meaning top 8 was definitely cooked. I don't have my deck build picture, but I felt like I had the vehicles but just not enough ways to crew and interact profitably. I lost a match to my good friend Griff, who would go on to make top 8.

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 30/01/2025

I drafted a sweet WRG Winota deck that ended up 2-1. Some of my wins weren't very close, where I was just too fast for some decks, but my loss felt winnable with better play. Would definitely draft this again.

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 30/01/2025

I went 1-2 in Jund and I think I should've more highly prioritized fixing because by the end of the draft, I wish I could've been a consistent 3c deck over trying to focus 2 colors. After Jund, I got to eat some of the catered food and it was phenomenal. Juan sure knows good Philly food.

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 30/01/2025

After dinner we met up at Redcap's to cube/submit cubes before the event. I ended up getting to play @improphilo.bsky.social 's Cascade Cube for the first time. (cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...) I was in Boros Burn with some sweet pitch spells and was 2-0 before we decided to head back for some sleep.

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James @gamesfinkel.com · 30/01/2025

I drove in on Friday with Forrest, another Pittsburgh local, and got to grab dinner with a bunch of cube people at an Ethiopian restaurant called Abyssinia. It was delicious and I'd definitely go back the next time I am in town.