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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New article out today and it's a little different from the usual fare! I recently completed BlueDot Impact's biosecurity course, and wrote about what I learned in it! rcmtg.com/p/we-can-pre... Does @fireshoes.bsky.social like fighting pandemics? 🤔

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We Can Prevent the Next Pandemic — Ryan C’s MTG

Table of Contents Intro The Scary Part Defenses in Depth Preventing Pathogen Development Pathogen Detection Blocking Transmission Vaccines = Good Conclusion / What YOU Can Do! Intro This is going to b...

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Because she’s got such a height discrepancy the official’s gotta find a happy medium” what the ACTUAL FUCK do you mean?!?!? Throw it up fair ?!?! If someone’s too small she’s too small shut the fuck up it’s the playoffs? What the actual fuck are you talking about

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Last draft & first trophy of early access!

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man the Liberty really fucking don’t have it this year

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is really sad, it looks like Ninja Theory, the studio behind one of my all time favorite stories, Hellblade:Senua’s Saga, is being shut down by its parent company. I made a presentation about why you should play the game: docs.google.com/presentation...

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Hellblade Presentation

Why You Should Play By Ryan

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wait Sam Kerr plays for Gotham? I thought she was like a star for Chelsea lol is she old now

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Re: Rationalists. I think someone who says that they are able to perceive a God of everlasting cruelty and that you should also perceive this God lest you be punished should be met with extreme suspicion.

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Very Special POTG, Episode 38: How to Get a Card Banned in 2 Days!! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7y8y... Apple: open.spotify.com/episode/7y8y... YouTube: youtu.be/KYU86tBBaE0 @fireshoes.bsky.social (is there a Riftbound Fireshoes? Someone tag them!)

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POTG Episode 38: How to Get a Card Banned in 2 Days

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Very Special Episode of POTG will be slightly delayed this week ;)

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Magic writers: Remember how we tried to rip off baby yoda a few years ago? Well now he’s the child in the basement from Ursula K Le Guin’s brilliant sci fi short story “don’t create an otherwise perfect world that relies on a child locked up in a basement”

New Loot card Loot, the Anomaly depicting Loot locked away in Jace’s new multiverse

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It really does make sense that France is starting to dominate in basketball, the game for dramatic, swaggy cowards

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Does anyone else ever hit that point of being sick where you take 5 showers in a single day

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Magic is cool because when you're really good at it you look at a 4 mana 15/15 and think "hm, might be playable in certain contexts but has a pretty clear power level cap" and then you look at an ETB tapped land that loots when it enters and think holy fuck that's gotta be broken

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

POTG Episode 37: Vampiric Math Lessons (a cube spot from @nicoledubin.bsky.social !) Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3LMSOfE... YouTube: youtu.be/vXRm1nlDQN0?... @fireshoes.bsky.social

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POTG Episode 37: Vampiric Math Lessons

Podcast Episode · Play of the Game · September 9 · 55m

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Many days I stress that, for all the sociological upheaval, for all my complaining, I still am not against the machines' mathematical abilities, which are a good thing to have exist. True though that may be, today is not the day I stress it.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/03/2026

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

From Note G, p. 722

It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exag-
gerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Ana-
lytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is
frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be
already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort
of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case,
when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those
that were really tenable.

‘The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to

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originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to
order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no
power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its
province is to assist us in making available what we are al-
ready acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect pri-
marily and chiefly of course, through its executive
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distributing and combining the truths and the formula of
analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly |
amenable to the mechanical combinations of the engine,
the relations and the nature of many subjects in that sci-
ence are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more pro- |
foundly investigated. This is a decidedly indirect, and a
somewhat speculative, consequence of such an invention. |
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in |
devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to |
record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are |
likely to be induced, which should again react on the more |
theoretical phase of the subject. There are in all exten- |
sions of human power, or additions to human knowledge, |
various collateral influences, beside the main and primary |
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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Putting the call out for good gameplay spots, Jason & I would like to do something non-HOB when we record on Monday but have mostly been playing HOB

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news and TWO new articles to celebrate! I’m writing on my own website now at rcmtg.com! (linkable with folks’ existing Patreon subs) Trans People Are Who They Say They Are (free) Limited Fundamentals: Sideboarding (paid) Links & Previews below @fireshoes.bsky.social

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Ryan C’s MTG

Writing on competitive Magic, decision-making, and getting better at hard things.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For my part, I find it comforting that these complicated, contradictory, flawed and fallible people made so much progress in the past, if for no other reason than because that’s the only kind of people we have available now.

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harmony woods @harmonyjwoods.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I WON THE LEGACY CHALLENGE list is exact same as in my free guide in the quoted tweet which details my sideboard plans, deck philosophy, and more. the deck is incredible and I think is the best choice for Eternal Weekend. matchups in reply. @fireshoes.bsky.social

4 Force of Will
3 Thoughtseize
1 Swamp
3 Flow State
3 Fatal Push
4 Nethergoyf
4 Brainstorm
1 Undercity Sewers
4 Moonshadow
4 Polluted Delta
2 Verdant Catacombs
3 Mishra's Bauble
4 Ponder
4 Daze
2 Snuff Out
4 Wasteland
4 Underground Sea
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Island
3 Bilbo, Thief in the Night

2 Barrowgoyf
1 Brazen Borrower
2 Orcish Bowmasters
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Force of Negation
2 Hydroblast
2 Consign to Memory
2 Bloodchief's Thirst

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NYC underscore MTG (Chris) || 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @nyc-mtg.com · 01/09/2026

hire me to do coverage for your events, i am only getting better with each event i do. nycmtgbusiness@gmail.com

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Casual Magic is back from summer break with a fascinating chat featuring @nicoledubin.bsky.social and her quest to find a balance between a healthy life and competitive magic. youtu.be/U6f98ePvOWQ?...

youtu.be

The Kicker Cost of Pro Tour Success with Nicole Dubin | Casual Magic Ep. 340

YouTube video by Casual Magic with Shivam Bhatt

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh uh if anyone happens to have any extremely well documented/recollected spots from cubecon, Jason & I would love to do a cube episode or two on Play of the Game! @fireshoes.bsky.social

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve been about this just saying

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We are pretty much at the infancy of what Magic's game engine can do, Mora's my GOAT, etc

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Worldwaker2 @worldwaker2.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Having a blast at @cubecon.org this weekend! Figured since I have a moment I'll start up a deck thread.

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Respectfully, why are the Liberty being held up by Pauline Astier

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

POTG Episode 35: Two Bofur or not to Bofur? YouTube: youtu.be/VID3sz9r2Sg?... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3LMSOfE... @fireshoes.bsky.social

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you’re still on this website I love you and you’re gonna make it btw Not sure about the other guys

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Marisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it’s never been about protecting women’s sports.

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This, To Me, is the most beautiful Magic format one can create. @worldwaker2.bsky.social who is responsible for this so I can praise them

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Given that Spellementals seems like a top 3 deck in standard right now and the lists are almost the same as the one I played at PT SOS, I thought I'd remind everyone that I have the best Spellementals guide: www.patreon.com/ryancmtg/pos...

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Valerie | Evariel @atsevariel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

coincidently this is also a format tier list

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