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Jacob

@jacobmauk.bsky.social
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My only Magic achievement is a 3-0 of the Artifact Cube at the inaugural Cincinnati Cube Club Con Magic player(Premodern, $30vintage), Mountain Gazette reader, other stuff too.

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
dont buy magic cards should be the slogan! magic cards are cigarettes that everyone thinks are apples.
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is the anniversary of the beginning of Mirrodin block! Mirrodin was released all the way back in 2003, and what an impact it continues to have to this day. Equipment! Affinity! Artifact Lands! From Pauper to Modern and beyond, this set continues to show up and show out.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Go Browns! Next year best year.
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Zendikar Field Guide @zendikarfieldguide.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
✨Bog is Beautiful✨ I recently had the chance to visit a wonderful bog, way farther south than it had any business being (in NE Ohio,USA) and it was much greener (and less haunted) than I expected! Sphagnum Moss (pictured below) is a wonderful wet mat that contributes to peat production.
Bog Wraith, a Magic card featuring a ghostly figure in a dismal dark bogA picture of a bog - the ferns are matted and low against the ground, the sky is blue peaking behind a scatter of white clouds.A bog, this time you can see the wet moist floor and a few less ferns covering the ground.Sphagnum Moss! An incredible wet green carpet of 4-8 inch long plants that end in a wet bulb. These continue to grow while their dead ends eventually break down into peat. Ask the Scots about that.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Huge news for everyone in the @acry.bsky.social fan club today.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I’m gonna be a lil’ CUTE with this one
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Magic Art appreciation post
Isperia the Inscrutable Magic the Gathering card. The art is a female sphinx on her hind legs, wings outstretched atop a building, light reflecting off of her metal helmet, with the spires of Ravnica in the background behind her. The whole piece is washed in a golden light, which pairs nicely with the gold of the card border.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
You may not trust his taste in pizza art, but you can never doubt his taste in sandwiches. This place is just what you need when you start 0-2. @caljones.com
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The best to ever do it. The German Juggernaut.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Snagged 10ea basic lands from Ice Age in preparation for Spotlight Toronto. Seemed appropriate for a Canadian Magic tourney in January!
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Being a Cleveland Browns fan and playing Burn are more alike than they are different. Maybe more like Legacy or Modern than Premodern Burn. But still, the feeling is there.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2026 - the year of filtering, distilling, and refining: the media I’m exposed to, the things I do in my spare time, the work that I do. Let’s make it a good one.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Finished logging my ‘owned but not read yet’ shelf…no new books or library books until these are read. 41 books to go O.O
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Another Annual Western Cincinnati Christmas Bird Count (AWCCBC if you’re cool) in the books.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Finally found Off Color in my corner of Ohio. Thanks for the rec @basiclandbin.bsky.social
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Happy Five-drop Friday everyone - Just here to remind you that Urza is an unforgivable villain in Magic story - he makes you learn Banding!
A magic card depicting a clanky wooden and metal war machine.
Urza's Engine
{5} Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
Trample
{3}: This creature gains banding until end of turn.
{3}: Attacking creatures banded with this creature gain trample until end of turn.

Banding works as follows:

702.22a Banding is a static ability that modifies the rules for combat.

702.22c As a player declares attackers, they may declare that one or more attacking creatures with banding and up to one attacking creature without banding (even if it has “bands with other”) are all in a “band.” They may also declare that one or more attacking [quality] creatures with “bands with other [quality]” and any number of other attacking [quality] creatures are all in a band. A player may declare as many attacking bands as they want, but each creature may be a member of only one of them. (Defending players can’t declare bands but may use banding in a different way; see rule 702.22j.)
702.22d All creatures in an attacking band must attack the same player, planeswalker, or battle.
702.22f An attacking creature that’s removed from combat is also removed from the band it was in.
702.22h If an attacking creature becomes blocked by a creature, each other creature in the same band as the attacking creature becomes blocked by that same blocking creature.
702.22i If one member of a band would become blocked due to an effect, the entire band becomes blocked.
702.22j During the combat damage step, if an attacking creature is being blocked by a creature with banding, or by both a [quality] creature with “bands with other [quality]” and another [quality] creature, the defending player (rather than the active player) chooses how the attacking creature’s damage is assigned. That player can divide that creature’s combat damage as they choose among any creatures blocking it. This is an exception to the procedure described in rule 510.1c.
702.22k During the combat damage step, if a blocking creature………
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The Walls of Ba Sing Se is an incredible defender, capable of blocking any #MTG creature. This makes sense, because ancient Chinese walls were DENSE. Linzi (859 BC) had walls averaging 80 feet thick which could easily stop cannon fire. In contrast, European walls were generally only 6 feet thick.
Remains of a defensive wall of Prince Qin Mansion, a citadel within Xi'an. It is easily 3 car lengths thick.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My first Artist Proof arrived today: Searslicer Goblin by Arif Wijaya. Great card, sick art, Magic is good.
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In #MTG, Mystic Forge is a 4 mana artifact that helps you win the 2025 NA Legacy Champs. We have Mystic Forges too - in Jingdezhen China, Feng Huo Hsien, or Genius of the Fire-Blast, is a man-turned-deity who sacrificed his body in the fires of a kiln to save his people from a horrible fate.
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Happy birthday to Mirrodin and to @rhysticstudies.bsky.social! Clockwork Condor is a 3/3 flyer that gets beat up everytime you use it. Machined birds have been flying since the early Greeks! Archytas of Tarentum (350BCE) is known for his flying doves powered by compressed air and pneumatics. #MTG
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Let’s celebrate #MTG HOTlanta with a little FIRE. Fireshrieker is an iconic Mirrodin card that turns any creature into a hot threat. 7c. Byzantines were masters of using fire for war: spraying a mix of petroleum and sticky resins out of a tube would coat enemy ships before lighting on fire.
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Slate of Ancestry, first printed in Onslaught, is a great way for creature-based decks to do some drawing. In our world, we do a lot of creature drawing too: the oldest known art, found on a South Indonesian island, depicts three human figures and a pig. This art is over 50,000 years old. #MTG
Slate of Ancestry: a 4 mana artifact from Onslaught, it depicts a cracked and weathered slab of stone with crude drawings of animals. It allows you to pay 4 and tap it to discard your hand and draw a card for each creature you control.This painting, the earliest known example of representational art, is of a wild pig and 3 human figures painted in red. It is weathered, but, then again, it’s 50,000 years old. These hand paintings, also found on the same island, were originally thought to be the oldest paintings, and are around 39,000 years old. It depicts a wall of a cave with the outlines of human hands, as if you were to lay your hand on a table, paint your hand messily, and then lift up your hand and see the outline on the table. It is incredible and haunting and says ‘We were here’.
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AffinityForArtifacts @affinitymtg.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Arcum’s Whistle is an artifact from Ice Age that forces a creature to attack or be destroyed. It looks remarkably similar to Peruvian whistle jars, where, through a series of water-filled chambers can actually mimic the howling of wolves or twittering of birds when air is blown through them. #MTG
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Kamigawa was the block that introduced me to Magic - some great artifacts in there.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Magic etymology is always a good time.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Thanks to @aaronbmiller.com for the artist proof! Safely packaged, killer stickers inside, and a signed and numbered lil Frilled Cave-Wurm? Incredible. I’ll get you to do some art on the back of this for sure! I’ll let you know!
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ceej @ceej.online · 30/08/2025
critically: it’s just as important to know a guy as it is to be a guy that someone else knows
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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thanks to @funnylittleguys.bsky.social for putting on an incredible, inaugural, Cincinnati Cube Club Con. Here’s to many more! #C4
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
@caljones.com Yo Cal, can you give me a 30 second elevator pitch on a @goldsabertooth.bsky.social microfiber playmat? Like similar to a microfiber towel or what we talkin here?
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Really enjoyed the article @gordymegroz.bsky.social, thank you for documenting this increasingly important problem!
An image showing the first spread of a magazine article. The left page has the text, and the right shows a clogged highway full of traffic, with the snowy peaks of Denver Colorado behind.
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hey @shivambhatt.bsky.social you’re a big fan of the Matt Jukes secret lair lands, yeah? How are the foils compared to the standard card, do you have a preference? Thanks in advance! Love what you do inside of Magic and out :)
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Tyler! 🐿️ 🔜 CUBE CON! @funnylittleguys.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I found some demonology etchings :^) please enjoy the art
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Nile (like the river) @nilejoan.com · 14/05/2025
I'm gonna make soup
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Tyler! 🐿️ 🔜 CUBE CON! @funnylittleguys.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Just little promo things for the Cubecon!
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
First FNM ever, playing Fish, results: 0-2 Cascade 2-0 Dimir Frogulus 2-1 Domain That is way better than MTGO. Gotta go to more in person events
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Tyler! 🐿️ 🔜 CUBE CON! @funnylittleguys.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Tickets for the Cincinnati Cube Club Con are live! July 19th at Mavericks in Mason OH $15 for a one-day event with two cubing sessions. 8-10 locally curated cubes. #mtgcube www.tixtree.com/e/cincinnati...
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Jacob @jacobmauk.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Aetherdrift prerelease - Lost in the finals, overall 7-3. Pulled a foil Riptide Gearhulk in my prize packs - could not be happier.
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