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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

he's the goat. his art for the OG mystical archive cards was a big factor in me sticking to the game for so long. and he's a super nice guy too! always super pleasant at events/signings. i would highly recommend checking out his patreon. his series of tokens keep getting better every drop.

A monarch token depicting a skeletal figure with butterfly wings holding a pair of swords in a symmetrical fashion.

a cat token featuring a white tiger surrounded by a cherry blossom with a japanese temple in the background

a lander token that is reminiscent of Giger art, complete with a really dark scene in this alien hangar or workshop where a small faraway figure stands underneath a colossal biomechanical vessel

an elf warrior token where the warrior depicted is wearing these regal, almost ceremonial robes over their armor and have been given this slight corona around their head. in their left hand they are holding a single spear-like weapon and in the other they are holding their winged helmet at their side

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

4-2 in the limited qualifier over the weekend. very happy with my pool overall. could have played cleaner maybe but its sealed so its wtv i think. felt amazing into white aggro decks but i paired into so many jeskai control decks the games i played in were really close

1 Inkling Mascot
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Last Gasp
1 Interjection
1 Pursue the Past
1 Cost of Brilliance
1 Elite Interceptor
1 Burrog Banemaker
1 Postmortem Professor
1 Rapier Wit
1 Stirring Hopesinger
1 Imperious Inkmage
1 Unsubtle Mockery
1 Honorbound Page
1 Eternal Student
1 Garrison Excavator
1 Scathing Shadelock
1 Lorehold, the Historian
1 Ajani's Response
1 Forum Necroscribe
2 Colossus of the Blood Age
1 Adventurous Eater
7 Plains
6 Swamp
3 Mountain
1 Fields of Strife

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

technically two separate lists! i played a version with eldritch evolution + atraxa on the sat and a more stock list on the sunday. i placed about the same in both events (3-1-1) but the event on the saturday had a few no-shows so we only had a top 4 cut 🥀 matchups for both days below 👇

1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
1 Boggart Trawler
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Breeding Pool
1 Disciple of Freyalise
2 Eldritch Evolution
3 Endurance
4 Force of Negation
3 Formidable Speaker
3 Generous Ent
1 Halo Forager
1 Hedge Maze
1 Island
3 Living End
1 Mistrise Village
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Overlord of the Balemurk
1 Polluted Delta
4 Shardless Agent
1 Sink into Stupor
1 Snow-Covered Forest
4 Street Wraith
4 Subtlety
2 Troll of Khazad-dûm
1 Undercity Sewers
1 Watery Grave
4 Wistfulness

SIDEBOARD:
1 Culling Ritual
1 Damping Sphere
2 Eldritch Evolution
2 Foundation Breaker
2 Fulminator Mage
1 Harvester of Misery
2 Inevitable Betrayal
1 Mai, Scornful Striker
2 Mystical Dispute
1 Mystical Dispute

1 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Breeding Pool
1 Colossal Skyturtle
2 Curator of Mysteries
1 Deceit
4 Endurance
4 Force of Negation
1 Forest
3 Formidable Speaker
3 Generous Ent
1 Halo Forager
1 Hedge Maze
1 Island
3 Living End
1 Mistrise Village
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Overlord of the Balemurk
1 Polluted Delta
4 Shardless Agent
2 Sink into Stupor
2 Street Wraith
4 Subtlety
2 Troll of Khazad-dûm
1 Undercity Sewers
1 Underground Mortuary
1 Watery Grave
4 Wistfulness

SIDEBOARD:
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
1 Culling Ritual
1 Damping Sphere
2 Foundation Breaker
2 Fulminator Mage
2 Harvester of Misery
2 Inevitable Betrayal
1 Mai, Scornful Striker
3 Mystical Dispute

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

probably cope in living end but i really really wanna try it so my force of negations make me feel something 🤤

quandrix, the proof

legendary creature - elder dragon

flying, trample, 6/6

cascade

instants and sorcery spells you cast from your hand have cascade

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

i can definitely recommend it! it was really fun playing this at a big proxy-friendly legacy event the weekend before b&r (strong too, was undefeated in swiss). i was happy to play the villain bc i assumed the deck was going to be banned into oblivion then, was kind of disappointed it wasn't ☹️

4 Agadeem's Awakening
4 Balustrade Spy
4 Boggart Trawler
1 Bridge from Below
3 Cabal Ritual
2 Cabal Therapy
4 Lotus Petal
4 Dark Ritual
1 Dread Return
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Fell the Profane
2 Jack-o'-Lantern
1 Memory's Journey
3 Narcomoeba
4 Pact of Negation
2 Poxwalkers
1 Reanimate
4 Simian Spirit Guide
1 Thassa's Oracle
4 Thoughtseize
4 Undercity Informer

SIDEBOARD (not pictured):
4 Force of Vigor
4 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Unmask
4 Wear Down

4 chaos emeralds (lotus petals) each in the colors of the deck

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

won a smaller RCQ with mono red aggro. its been a while since i felt like i could play this deck again after the nemesis ban so im happy that the first time i do i end up winning the event after months of trying to qualify. obligatory @fireshoes.bsky.social 🫡 matchups below 👇

4 Burnout Bashtronaut
4 Burst Lightning
3 Full Bore
4 Hired Claw
20 Mountain
4 Nova Hellkite
1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might
2 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
4 Razorkin Needlehead
1 Rockface Village
2 Sear
2 Shock
3 Soulstone Sanctuary
3 Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos
3 Zhao, the Moon Slayer

SIDEBOARD:
2 Hexing Squelcher
3 Magebane Lizard
2 Pyroclasm
1 Sear
1 Slagstorm
2 Soul-Guide Lantern
1 The Legend of Roku
1 Torpor Orb
2 Twisted Fealty

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

im not ready for the type of person i will become when this set hits shelves. i dont think anybody is

Strixhaven Mystical Archive Stock Up illustrated by Dominik Mayer

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"Knowledge is infinite, but life is not. Use your time wisely." — The Biblioplex: An Introduction.

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

ran the new Alien RPG scenario rapture protocol last night. but despite being very out of sorts since new years and it being my first time actually running the game it was a super smooth and engaging experience. the quality of the handouts and stress mechanics were the biggest highlights for sure 🔥🚀

haul pic of some Alien RPG Evolved Edition gear: GM screen, custom dice set, starter kit, core rules and the rapture protocol scenario, as well as assorted accessories from the Kickstarter

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

back from my much deserved break from standard to say that anyone running more than one copy of this card in their simic jackal deck have no clue what they're doing

Repulsive Mutation
{X}{G}{U}
Instant

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Then counter up to one target spell unless its controller pays mana equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

“Remind me to send the biomancer team a gift basket.”
—Olana, Simic field researcher

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

borrowed affinity for the sunday event (little better going 4-3 drop). one of my opponents was on ritual but this time teching for affinity with 3x culling ritual 2x FoV but he still lost post board after answering turn 1 emissary but died to emry plus emissary num 2 plus rebuke protection 🤷‍♂️

1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Arcbound Ravager
1 Claws of Gix
1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Fiery Islet
2 Island
4 Kappa Cannoneer
1 Lavaspur Boots
4 Memnite
3 Metallic Rebuke
4 Mishra's Bauble
4 Mox Opal
4 Pinnacle Emissary
1 Shadowspear
3 Sink into Stupor
4 Spirebluff Canal
1 Springleaf Drum
4 Thoughtcast
3 Tormod's Crypt
4 Urza's Saga
3 Weapons Manufacturing

SIDEBOARD:
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
2 Blood Moon
2 Consign to Memory
1 Damping Sphere
1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
2 Force of Negation
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Pithing Needle
1 Vandalblast
2 Whipflare

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

this birthing ritual deck is hot garbage tbh played out of my mind in antwerp after teching for prowess and ended up still only getting 2-3 in the main event with a 0-2 start. lost to prowess in 5th round bc even after endurancing him 3 times he still had the nut draw of double cutter for lethal 😂

4 Abhorrent Oculus
4 Birthing Ritual
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Breeding Pool
4 Coiling Oracle
2 Dismember
2 Endurance
4 Flare of Denial
1 Flooded Strand
2 Force of Negation
2 Harbinger of the Seas
2 Hedge Maze
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Otawara, Soaring City
4 Shardless Agent
4 Sink into Stupor
2 Snow-Covered Forest
2 Snow-Covered Island
3 Subtlety
2 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
3 Windswept Heath

SIDEBOARD:
3 Consign to Memory
2 Endurance
2 Force of Negation
2 Force of Vigor
3 Mystical Dispute
1 Reclamation Sage
2 Unable to Scream

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

in a world where you can still combo off and win on turn 4 with battlecrier, kona or mono red, im genuinely of the mindset that bans like beans, abuelos or this town aint big enough were largely reductive and buy-in-large a net negative for the format

Add to Deck
Up the Beanstalk
{1}{G}
Enchantment

When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

This Town Ain't Big Enough
{4}{U}
Instant

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a permanent you control.

Return up to two target nonland permanents to their owners’ hands.

Abuelo's Awakening
{X}{3}{W}
Sorcery

Return target artifact or non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield with X additional +1/+1 counters on it. It’s a 1/1 Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types.

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"there are no issues with standard's mana"

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

the solution to all of standards problems right now (copium)

a picture of the Magic: the Gathering card sorcerous spyglass. its in german retro frame bc i think it looks cooler 🙂

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doctor freak PHD @guzzmle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

took down a 16-person RCQ with bant living end. Had some ring rust after playing mice in standard so i (((shamelessly))) netdecked from SodekMTG's guide ❤️ honestly wasn't expecting much from the deck but seeing nothing but creature piles at the top tables had me in my happy place 🧘‍♂️

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Name living end

Deck
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Breeding Pool
1 Colossal Skyturtle
4 Curator of Mysteries
4 Endurance
1 Flare of Denial
2 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
4 Generous Ent
1 Hallowed Fountain
2 Hedge Maze
1 Island
1 Meticulous Archive
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Sink into Stupor
4 Subtlety
1 Temple Garden
3 Waker of Waves
3 Windcaller Aven
3 Living End

Sideboard
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
2 Clarion Conqueror
2 Force of Vigor
1 High Noon
3 Mystical Dispute
2 Teferi, Time Raveler

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