iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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James Turner @james.loadingreadyrun.com · 22h

Did you know if you go to scryfall.com, scroll to the bottom, there’s a “Donate to Scryfall” link? Can’t think of a better way to show your support on their 10th anniversary. As both a player and creator I couldn’t imagine this game without this incredible resource.

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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · 02/10/2026

I'm announcing something I'm very excited and nervous about today: the 100th draft of 100 Ornithopters will be an invitational filmed for YouTube... and YOU can be one of the players if you win a digital qualifier tournament I'm running youtu.be/eh4S1E_Nd2o

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YOU could play in the 100th draft of 100 Ornithopters

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A complete guided tour of my entire Magic collection – ft. misprints, artist proofs, oddities, mementos, and gifts – is up on Patreon now. patreon.com/rhysticstudies

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A complete guided tour of my entire Magic collection – ft. misprints, artist proofs, oddities, mementos, and gifts – is up on Patreon now. patreon.com/rhysticstudies

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

five months in and every second with my son is the greatest moment of my life. i have never loved anyone more. i am bursting all the time.

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PREORDER CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 NOW! @cascadecascade.com · 30/09/2026

CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW! - All 24 articles from ISSUE 2 on CASCADECASCADE.com - A physical exclusive article from @rhysticstudies.bsky.social - a fun bonus or two. :) - 8 1/2"x11" magazine with THICC paper - $19.99 Read more: www.cascadecascade.com/cascade-casc...

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Logan @ Scryfall.com @logan.scryfall.com · 30/09/2026

Unknown Event cards for MagicCon Amsterdam 2026 and Gen Con 2026 are now up on @scryfall.com. They should be available to brew with on <insert your favorite deck building site here> soon™️!

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 30/09/2026

I deleted my old post by mistake because I’m not very smart - I made a video about the Zeta Set Secret Lair and what we as an artistic TCG community can learn from it:

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What we can learn from the Secret Lair Zeta Set

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

30 years ago, Barry Reich designed a visionary Magic set that Wizards purchased but never published. Spectral Chaos was a daydream about what a game could be, long before we knew what it would become. 🎥 youtu.be/gco_njeerfE

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Ryan Overturf @ryanoverdrive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember when the Spectral Chaos file was unearthed- it was cool, though challenging to chew through being both massive and antiquated. I'm grateful to Sam, Micah, and everyone involved in helping to give Barry Reich his well-earned flowers. Another masterpiece from @rhysticstudies.bsky.social.

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Paige, TheMaverickGirl @themaverickgirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Magic: The Gathering is the greatest game of all time and no set shows the wild creativity of the game's early days than Spectral Chaos. This shit is so awesome.

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Donny Caltrider @donnycaltrider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another set, another Basic Land by @florianherold.bsky.social, another absolute banger The original painting for his Plains from #MTGFRA is now available, offers being heard through Tuesday Post: mtgart.auction/PlainsFRA

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Florian Herold @florianherold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another Card for Reality Fracture, my second basic! oil on primed wood Artist Proofs available some time in October! Contact @donnycaltrider.bsky.social Magic the Gathering - Reality Fracture AD: @zackstella.bsky.social ©️ @magic.wizards.com

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 16/09/2026

The World Of Magic: The Gathering Card Alters: youtu.be/yJym3Kjsw60

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Florian Herold @florianherold.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My first Card for Reality Fracture, removal again! Love it! This one’s oil on primed wood. Artist Proofs available some time in October! Contact @donnycaltrider.bsky.social Magic the Gathering - Reality Fracture AD: @zackstella.bsky.social Thank you! ©️ @magic.wizards.com

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

psa: youtube views are inflated now because they changed how they account for metrics

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

we need to give BDM his flowers

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

every time I work with WotC on anything, there's always one dude in the comments ripping into me for promoting a game I love.

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Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"That's a nice argument, but I've already made a meme depicting you as the raging & unsteady Urborg Yargle & I as the stoic & stacked Otaria Yargle."

A blue Yargle card & black Yargle card from Reality Fracture. The former is the Echoverse version & the latter is the normal multiverse version. They have inverted power & toughnesses (3/9 & 9/3) & the former is bottom heavy whilst the latter is top heavy

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Roy Graham @grayhaem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And that’s a wrap on the story we started three years ago, with Wilds of Eldraine. This one had a special place in my heart—it’s the end of the first arc I had the honor of planning start to finish. So thanks, if you’ve been reading all this time (or even if you just came in at the end)

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

im gonna be insufferable with "izznt charm" in every cube henceforth

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

had a blast laughing at @grayhaem.bsky.social's endless zingers and campaigning for threshold.

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dusty cupboards @dustycupboards.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i've been on a real kick building terrible edh decks with weird themes but i'm over here trying to build a "strictly worse" deck where every card is a strictly worse version of another existing card... and my god this is not fun haha. just, absolute garbage.

kozilek's channeler is strictly better than sunastian falconer

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Parker LaMascus @parker.luckypaper.co · 08/09/2026

The Zeta Set is several firsts for Magic: the first SLD lootbox, the first use of public domain art, and… the first set that begs us to make it ourselves, but better. Have a party. Invite friends, plus Fiskar and Elmer. Let’s DIY this poser set already.

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PREORDER CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 NOW! @cascadecascade.com · 08/09/2026

MSCHF Said The Quiet Part Out Loud by @parker.luckypaper.co is live & FREE TO READ! now. Look on my works, ye mighty, and reuse freely without the need for attribution or royalties. www.cascadecascade.com/mschf-said-t...

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

bonesplitter appreciation post

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

my next vid should be done in a little over a week. it's taken way too damn long. it has lived with me like a squatter and grown sores.

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PREORDER CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 NOW! @cascadecascade.com · 04/09/2026

As we get close to the end of Issue 2, we wanted to update you all on a small change we're trying out for issue 3.

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Jay Annelli @vorthosjay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As of today, I've been Magic's Loremaster for 8 years! And as of this month, I've been writing about Magic lore for... god, 11 years!

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hard to describe the deep feelings of remorse i've been dealing with this year, but having a kid holds a mirror to your worst qualities and demands you reconcile with them.

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Marten @myreichow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ever wondered which words you only know because of Magic: The Gathering? "Merfolk" appears 8.4 million times more often in Magic card titles than in everyday English! "Samite", "archfiend" and "invoker" are equally MTG-specific vocab!

Dumbbell chart titled "Words You Only Know Because of Magic: The Gathering." Thirty rows list words from Magic card titles, ordered from least to most common in Magic (bottom to top). Each row has two dots connected by a horizontal line: a grey dot marking how often the word appears in everyday English, and a blue dot marking how often it appears in Magic card titles. Because all 30 words are vastly more common in Magic than in English, the grey dots cluster tightly near the left edge while the blue dots sit far to the right, creating a wide gap on every row. A multiplier label beside each blue dot quantifies the difference — values range from around 3 million times more common (words like "disputant" and "chainer") up to 8.5 million times more common ("samite" and "merfolk"). Words shown include merfolk, invoker, archfiend, pyromancer, samite, boggart, outrider, bloodletter, and others that are rarely or never encountered outside the game.

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

time to become a content destroyer

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the mschf project is unequivocally awesome, top to bottom. first time in a long time i'm amped about new (old) magic cards. complaints are infinite and granular and weird, but i especially cant tolerate the ire toward the booster packs. we're talking about magic, right? the booster pack game?

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

MSCHF are up to something again...

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Secret Lair @mtgsecretlair.com · 25/08/2026

We teamed up with MSCHF to take you back to 1992—when Magic was still a hand-edited, taped-together dream. Coming soon through the Chaos Vault.

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Parker LaMascus @parker.luckypaper.co · 24/08/2026

The new Darksteel Monolith in #mtgSLZ features a famous modernist photo as its art. Here’s a side-by-side with Charles Sheeler’s “Ford Plant, River Rouge, Blast Furnace and Dust Catcher.” 🧵

MSCHF’s lofi design for the Magic card Darksteel Monolith

Charles Sheeler’s Ford Plant Blast Furnace. NY MoMA

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

alright i'll bite – what is magic the gathering?

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Parker LaMascus @parker.luckypaper.co · 22/08/2026

Excited to reveal this never-before-seen cube list at @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com Obscura this weekend! (And also play some Magic, I guess.)

a cube longbox on an orange Obscura playmat. the box is labeled, “Ritual: we are the stories we repeat.”

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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · 22/08/2026

I am buzzing with excitement this morning. We're streaming the most interesting and experimental cube event ever run, Cube for a Cause: Obscura. The 17 cubes on offer were all designed in secret, specifically for this event, and none of the ~128 players have any idea what cards they contain.

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

one of the greatest to ever do it

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