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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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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 · 07/07/2026

Appreciate the kind words. I have to imagine Murdock's Crusade went through a few different iterations because of that very fact. Chrysalis' daily peak was just under 67%. Devastating for a common but Hero in Training has never posted under 60% which is wild.

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

3. It's so splashable. Common duals + landcyclers means that the best color (white) gets an opportunity to throw it in for damn near no cost. This really needed a second red pip in it. At 2WRR (or 1WWRR), I think it's still a very busted card, but one that can really Dream Trawler a draft.

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

2. It nearly guarantees your Mutiny effect has targets. Clash can be a wild blowout or a total whiff depending on their board. Now, as long as you've stolen a minimum of one thing and they haven't totally abdicated their role of playing the game, you're getting a fight.

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

Why is it so miserable? 1. Threaten effects are pretty unpopular with players. Consider how much the card file has changed: what used to be a staple for red at common. It hasn't been printed below uncommon since 2024. Designers don't want it to be your whole thing.

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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

WU is just busted when it comes together, though, and this two rare version without a hero in training exemplifies it. Jane is great (and with a T4 John, devastating) but the deck is built on the strength of the lower rarity cards.

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

Another case where most of the time, I wanted to spend T2 cycling for a land. One of those times where opening two rare lands isn't the feelsbad it usually is. The pool: sealeddeck.tech/17lands/deck...

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

Really wanted a little interaction in this, so Frozen in Ice felt fairly free, although I think I had initially built this mana base to try to get Loki in here, too. The pool: sealeddeck.tech/17lands/deck...

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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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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

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

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 · 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 · 27/05/2026

Appreciate the response! Should Scryfall change cleavage on tagger or is this simply male cleavage?

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

Aww THANK YOU! I really have some work ahead to dial this in but I am wildly excited about where I can go from here as I continue to develop the style. Plus, you just find a ton of great stuff in these older mags. Like this real ad for sugar:

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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 · 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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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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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 27/04/2026

wait this is amazing how did I not know about this?

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 27/04/2026

The real problem with cheap interaction is it invalidates old answers. Leyline, in the not so distant past, used to be a pretty sick play. When 3/4 top Izzet decks have an answer for it that costs U? Less so.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 24/04/2026

Deciding on Vegas basics. Don't worry about the nine unlimited islands, never a problem in Strixhaven

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 24/04/2026

Heads up that if you were looking for one of those great DanDan playmats that sold out instantly, Kelogsloops has them back in stock and despite the backorder tag, they're shipping.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 22/04/2026

Good way to start the day 🧛

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 20/04/2026

There are currently 10 cards banned in paper Standard. Four of them are red. Two of them are blue. One is both. Izzet makes up 70% of the ban list and 100% of these trophies.

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 17/04/2026

Trying to be better about posting here. Anyway, news:

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Jake Browne @brownefordenver.com · 08/04/2026

#1 in the world? Well, that goes to a card that isn't even legal yet: Erode, a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Over 500k in the metro area. Thanks, Strixhaven.

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