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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Phillies manage to not collapse. Phew.

Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A bit tighter than you would like, but a win is a win. Eagles interior offensive line looks pretty bad to me, but I liked how Hurts and Smith looked.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Updated my Boros Control guide. I don't really recommend it with Mono Green Broodscale as popular as it is, but I think it is pretty good against most other decks. metafy.gg/guides/view/...

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Modern Boros Control

Guide for playing Boros Control in Modern. Learn how to win games by killing every permanent your opponents plays, including their lands.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sixers should be fun to follow this year with LeBron and Brown. Hoping they win multiple playoff series for the first time in forever this year.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

5-0 with the Zevin Faust Boros Control build in a Modern LCQ. Played this because I thought it lined up better into a field with Trudge in it than Boros Energy. Did beat Trudge, so worked out. @fireshoes.bsky.social

3 Avengers Disassembled
1 Castle Ardenvale
4 Cleansing Wildfire
4 Cori Mountain Monastery
4 Demolition Field
4 Erode
4 Field of Ruin
3 Galvanic Discharge
3 High Noon
2 Mountain
4 Path to Exile
4 Plains
4 Price of Freedom
3 Sacred Foundry
4 Solitude
4 Sunken Citadel
1 The Legend of Roku
4 Wrath of the Skies

1 Avengers Disassembled
1 High Noon
1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
2 Orim's Chant
3 Rest in Peace
1 Surgical Extraction
1 The Legend of Roku
1 Vexing Bauble
3 Wear/Tear
1 Wrath of God

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Finished 8-8, ran pretty cold at the end of the PT. Still made worlds, so not bad.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Registered Boros for PT Amsterdam. Not thrilled with it, but it has good plans against Combo, and seemed reasonable in general.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

5-2 in the challenge with Boros Energy. Deck is very mediocre, but it seems all of modern is.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Love the Brown trade. Should be a real improvement, and the cost is acceptable. Think he will play well with Maxey and VJ in particular.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

4-3 in a challenge with Mono Green Landfall. Deck wasn't overly impressive to me, but also isn't playable online. There is a Quirion Ranger+Ashaya infinite landfall loop in the deck, but it is too time consuming to execute. My guess is it is okay if you want to have fun in Modern.

1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
4 Badgermole Cub
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
4 Delighted Halfling
2 Dryad Arbor
3 Earthbender Ascension
6 Forest
2 Ghost Quarter
4 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
4 Icetill Explorer
1 Mightform Harmonizer
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Nature's Rhythm
1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
1 Ouroboroid
1 Overgrown Tomb
2 Quirion Ranger
2 Sazh's Chocobo
1 Shifting Woodland
4 Springheart Nantuko
1 Underground Mortuary
3 Verdant Catacombs
2 Windswept Heath
3 Wooded Foothills
1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

1 Chomping Changeling
1 Collector Ouphe
2 Damping Sphere
1 Dryad Militant
2 Endurance
2 Force of Vigor
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Trinisphere
2 Vexing Bauble
1 Witherbloom Charm

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Got Top 8 of the Modern Super Qualifier with Boros Control. Deck crushes the fair matchups mostly, even if you basically can't win a couple matchups. Still figuring out the right threat package, but pretty happy with the rest of the deck. Viable for RCQs for sure. @fireshoes.bsky.social

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Lost in Semis of the Limited Championship Qualifier yesterday. Event takes forever, ended up leaving the event hall around 9 pm. For this sort of event I think the current end of round procedures are insufficient. You need rounds to get turned around faster on Sunday.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Top 4 of a Modern Challenge with Gruul Broodscale. Needed to mulligan to Temple alot, but deck was pretty powerful when you do. Haven't played this in a while, so just copied a SB from a challenge list. Liked the deck overall, might play it more. @fireshoes.bsky.social

3 Ancient Stirrings
4 Basking Broodscale
4 Blade of the Bloodchief
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Commercial District
4 Eldrazi Temple
2 Emrakul, the Promised End
2 Forest
4 Glaring Fleshraker
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Haywire Mite
4 Kozilek's Command
4 Malevolent Rumble
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Springleaf Drum
2 Stomping Ground
2 Unholy Heat
4 Urza's Saga
3 Vexing Bauble
2 Walking Ballista
1 Wooded Foothills
3 Writhing Chrysalis

3 Nature's Claim
1 Pithing Needle
2 Pyroclasm
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
2 Soulless Jailer
2 Thief of Existence
1 Unholy Heat
2 Veil of Summer
1 Vexing Bauble

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

4-3 in the challenge with Boros Control. Ran a bit cold on pairings, Mono Red burn with infinite basics is not a good matchup. Forgot to take out Elspeth, she has been pretty bad.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

5-2 in yet another challenge with Boros Control. Teched for UW Chant, and Burn since they were on an upswing. Faced both of them, so it worked out. I think I like the counter magic, since it helps some of the trickier matchups significantly. Still think this is a reasonable deck to play right now.

4 Cleansing Wildfire
4 Cori Mountain Monastery
4 Erode
1 Mountain
4 Galvanic Discharge
3 Reprieve
5 Plains
4 Path to Exile
4 Price of Freedom
4 Solitude
1 Castle Ardenvale
4 Field of Ruin
1 The Legend of Roku
3 Mana Tithe
4 Wrath of the Skies
2 Sacred Foundry
3 Sunken Citadel
4 Demolition Field
1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer

2 High Noon
2 Orim's Chant
2 Celestial Purge
3 Kor Firewalker
2 Wear // Tear
3 Rest in Peace
1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Made a Boros Control Guide. I am not sure exactly how good the deck is, but have Top 16d twice, and Top 8d the three challenges I played with it. I also think it is quite fun, like playing Pauper in Modern. metafy.gg/guides/view/...

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Modern Boros Control

Guide for playing Boros Control in Modern. Learn how to win games by killing every permanent your opponents plays, including their lands.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Top 8d a Modern Challenge with Boros Control. Decided to try out the Kaheera build. Knight was difficult to cast, so this seems plausibly better. Trying out playing countermagic too, not sure on it yet, but they do work well with the main gameplan. @fireshoes.bsky.social

4 Cleansing Wildfire
4 Cori Mountain Monastery
4 Erode
1 Mountain
4 Galvanic Discharge
4 Reprieve
5 Plains
4 Path to Exile
4 Price of Freedom
4 Solitude
1 Sunbillow Verge
4 Field of Ruin
1 The Legend of Roku
2 Mana Tithe
4 Wrath of the Skies
3 Sacred Foundry
2 Sunken Citadel
4 Demolition Field
1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer

2 High Noon
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Orim's Chant
2 Celestial Purge
1 Vexing Bauble
2 Wear // Tear
3 Rest in Peace
1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

5-2 in the Modern Challenge with Boros Control. Losing Phlage I think isn't a huge deal for the deck, it didn't interact with the main game plan. Probably a bit light on the White cards here, considering options for win cons that aren't Roku.

4 Cleansing Wildfire
4 Cori Mountain Monastery
4 Erode
1 Mountain
4 Galvanic Discharge
2 March of Otherworldly Light
5 Plains
4 Path to Exile
4 Price of Freedom
4 Solitude
1 Sunbillow Verge
4 Field of Ruin
2 The Legend of Roku
4 White Orchid Phantom
4 Wrath of the Skies
3 Sacred Foundry
2 Sunken Citadel
4 Demolition Field

2 High Noon
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Orim's Chant
2 Celestial Purge
2 Vexing Bauble
2 Wear // Tear
3 Rest in Peace

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Happy to see Lotus Field banned. Really did not want to deal with keeping track of opponents doing the Analyst loop in paper. Hope the Outburst unban doesn't immediately backfire.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

4-2 in the Standard Challenge with Mardu Discard. Tried out Hired Claw in the flex slot since it costs 1, not 2. I liked it, Curving 1 into CBR is a big deal. Deck seems reasonable if Control is on the uptick, still on my radar for DC.

1 Blazemire Verge
4 Sacred Foundry
1 Mountain
4 Moonshadow
1 Desecrex, Gift of Servitude
2 Inspiring Vantage
4 Cool but Rude
1 Erode
1 Godless Shrine
4 Hardened Academic
4 Concealed Courtyard
4 Iron-Shield Elf
4 Marauding Mako
3 Burst Lightning
4 Bloodghast
1 Multiversal Passage
4 Practiced Offense
1 Requiting Hex
4 Blood Crypt
4 Starting Town
3 Tersa Lightshatter
1 Hired Claw

2 Case of the Crimson Pulse
2 Pyroclasm
1 Erode
1 Seam Rip
1 Shoot the Sheriff
3 Strategic Betrayal
3 Voice of Victory
2 Duress

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Went 3-3 with Valakut in the Challenge. Pretty sure I am off it as a serious contender, but it is fun to play at the very least. I really like Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, even won a game where it bolted my opponent through a Dress Down.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

5-2 in the Modern Challenge, trying out the Valakut list that Top 8d yesterday. I rolled all the fair decks, and lost to the two combo decks I faced. Not sure king of the fair decks is a viable place to be in Modern. I do think it is fine to play if you want to play the card Valakut.

4 Arboreal Grazer
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
3 Commercial District
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
3 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Icetill Explorer
3 Lightning Bolt
4 Malevolent Rumble
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
2 Prismatic Omen
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Shifting Woodland
2 Stomping Ground
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
2 Vexing Bauble
4 Vibrance
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Wrenn and Six

1 Collector Ouphe
3 Damping Sphere
1 Fade from History
3 Force of Vigor
1 Meltdown
3 Pyroclasm
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Vexing Bauble

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

5-2 in the Modern Challenge with Boros Control. Deck seems pretty solid to me, though I faced Gr Eldrazi Ramp and that didn't seem like a winnable matchup. However it seems playable into Affinity and Boros Energy, so I might try it some more.

4 Cleansing Wildfire
4 Cori Mountain Monastery
4 Demolition Field
4 Erode
4 Field of Ruin
4 Galvanic Discharge
2 March of Otherworldly Light
1 Mountain
4 Path to Exile
2 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
5 Plains
4 Price of Freedom
3 Sacred Foundry
3 Solitude
1 Sunbillow Verge
2 Sunken Citadel
1 The Legend of Roku
4 White Orchid Phantom
4 Wrath of the Skies

2 Celestial Purge
2 High Noon
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Orim's Chant
3 Rest in Peace
2 Vexing Bauble
2 Wear/Tear

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Lost in Top 4 of the Standard Challenge with Mardu Discard. Deck is way better than iterations were pre Strixhaven, Offense is a huge add. Need to play more to know what I like in terms of SB plans, but liking the deck so far.

1 Blazemire Verge
4 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodghast
3 Burst Lightning
1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
4 Concealed Courtyard
4 Cool but Rude
1 Erode
1 Godless Shrine
4 Hardened Academic
2 Inspiring Vantage
1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
4 Iron-Shield Elf
4 Marauding Mako
4 Moonshadow
1 Mountain
1 Multiversal Passage
4 Practiced Offense
1 Requiting Hex
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Starting Town
3 Tersa Lightshatter

2 Case of the Crimson Pulse
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pyroclasm
1 Seam Rip
1 Shoot the Sheriff
2 Strategic Betrayal
3 Voice of Victory

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It is time for Josh Harris to sell. Sixers need to actually go into the Tax to add depth, and him refusing to do so is holding the team too far back.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

5-0 and 4-1 in a league with Six Control. Copied the list from a challenge, and it is built exactly how I want lands to be built. Ancient Tomb and fair creatures is so much better than 20/20s. Might have found a good new deck for me to play.

4 Ancient Tomb
4 Boseiju, Who Endures
3 Disruptor Flute
2 Expedition Map
4 Exploration
1 Forest
2 Ghost Quarter
2 Icetill Explorer
1 Karakas
4 Life from the Loam
4 Malevolent Rumble
2 Maze of Ith
4 Mox Diamond
4 Once Upon a Time
1 Pithing Needle
1 Shadowspear
3 Six
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Urza's Saga
4 Wasteland
4 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

2 Damping Sphere
2 Dismember
1 Disruptor Flute
1 Endurance
3 Faerie Macabre
2 Force of Vigor
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Thrun, the Last Troll

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Went 11-4 across three leagues, 0-2 in one challenge, with Steel Cutter variants. Unclear to me the best way to build the deck, the Talents are useful for clocking opposing decks, but you are giving up cards that do more on their own. Also tried the Erayo build, it is pretty easy to flip.

4 Scalding Tarn
4 Cori-Steel Cutter
4 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
1 Fiery Islet
2 Island
4 Metallic Rebuke
2 Unholy Heat
3 Mox Amber
4 Stormchaser's Talent
1 Otawara, Soaring City
3 Preordain
4 Mox Opal
4 Mishra's Bauble
1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Tormod's Crypt
4 Urza's Saga
3 Spirebluff Canal
2 Steam Vents
4 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
1 Sink into Stupor
4 Boomerang Basics

2 Consign to Memory
3 Pyroclasm
1 Force of Negation
2 Vandalblast
3 Harbinger of the Seas
1 Vexing Bauble
1 Pithing Needle
2 Invasive Surgery

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

9-7 into the double PT invite, plus the Sixers finally beat Boston. Great day.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Registered Mono Green for the PT. Boring, but I think it is fine.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Terrible game for the Sixers, couldn't should or keep on to the ball. On the other hand this Boston team seems pretty bad to me. Sixers without Embiid is clearly worse, but I doubt their give up open threes defense will work against most teams.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hope Embiid is doing well, Appendicitis is unpleasant. Still extremely annoying the Sixers can never be healthy.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Good to see Maxey close to a return. Also wondering if the Sixers run Embiid, PG, Maxey, VJ, Oubre, Barlow, Grimes, Bona and Watford or Edwards as the 9th guy. I would much rather have Edwards, think the spacing and defense is more valuable than Watford's playmaking.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Nice to see the Sixers with Embiid and PG back. Unsurprisingly they look so much better with them both.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Sixers win again, thanks to rebounding. Not a great game, but every win you take when you are this short on guys. Hope Barlow is alright.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Sixers audio is so far ahead of the video. I keep hearing a whistle, and having to wait a couple seconds to see for what.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Good Sixers win. All you can really ask for right now is that they beat the bad teams, and they are doing that. Especially nice to see it come off the backs of young guys like VJ and Justin.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Great Sixers Win tonight. Any win with all these guys out is good, but the Sixers played well the entire game. Grimes is playing great, and nice to see Justin Edwards step up with this late season opportunity.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

10-5 at Spotlight Richmond with Prowess. Deck seemed reasonable, mulliganed a bunch too often.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

9-0 into split the finals of the Standard Challenge with Prowess. Deck did well this past weekend, so gave it a spin. Copied the second place Arena Championship list. Think it has game against Lessons and Landfall, so a pretty solid choice right now.

4 Boomerang Basics
1 Bounce Off
4 Burst Lightning
4 Elusive Otter
2 Into the Flood Maw
6 Island
3 Multiversal Passage
4 Opt
4 Riverpyre Verge
2 Secret Identity
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Slickshot Show-Off
4 Spirebluff Canal
4 Steam Vents
4 Stock Up
4 Stormchaser's Talent
2 Wild Ride

2 Drake Hatcher
3 Ral, Crackling Wit
2 Sear
3 Soul-Guide Lantern
2 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare
1 Torch the Tower

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Split the top 4 of Pauperpocalypse with Mono Red Madness. I wanted to play a different deck, but after testing a Madness Shell seemed like the right call. Mono Red is smoother than RB, and it played out that way in the tournament. Fun deck if you want to play Pauper.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

5-2 in the standard challenge with GR Landfall. Lost two mirrors, happens. This feels like the best deck for the current meta to me, recommend it for anyone going to Milwaukee.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Top 4 of the Standard Challenge with Gruul Landfall. Full Bore was fantastic, makes it tough for opponents to ever tap out, and Pyroclasm covers alot of bases. Unsure on the Vibrance, they were okay, but that maybe isn't enough. Divide Guide is because of Pyroclasm, probably worse than cub.

2 Ba Sing Se
4 Great Divide Guide
4 Escape Tunnel
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Fecund Greenshell
4 Icetill Explorer
3 Full Bore
10 Forest
4 Fabled Passage
3 Sapling Nursery
3 Shared Roots
4 Earthbender Ascension
2 Vibrance
4 Mightform Harmonizer
2 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground

3 Origin of Metalbending
2 Torpor Orb
2 Sear
3 Soul-Guide Lantern
3 Pyroclasm
2 Vivien Reid

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Top 8d the Standard Challenge. Playing a stock deck, but it feels pretty good.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Looking for a PT team for Las Vegas. Previous one was shut down by the sponsor. I have over 10 PTs under my belt, and have won 57.8% of my professional matches. Generally pretty good at figuring out draft formats, helped my last team to a positive limited record as the Limited Lead.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Don't like trading McCain to the Thunder, even if the return isn't actually awful. I get he had limited opportunities here with VJ, but still thought he had high potential.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Read Seasons Volume Two by Remender, Azaceta, and Lopes. Comic does a great job of conveying motion, the action sequences are consistently fun and exciting. The story I find engaging, though it is a bit mystery box. I recommend it so far.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

10-6 at the PT. Cub went 7-3 for me, so I am happy with the result. Now I get to play Vegas.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

6-2 day one of the PT. Ran hot, played bad. Cub feels good, definitely not the right deck for the Tourney. But free Draft tomorrow.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Playing UG Cub in the PT today. Planning on going 3-5, pretty sure I am washed.

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Kellen Pastore @kellenpastore.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Registered UG Cub for the PT. Boring list, plan on going 3-5.

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