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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I QUALIFIED FOR THE ARENA CHAMPIONSHIP!! I've been on a break from Magic for a little while, but @huschenmtg.bsky.social gave me his list and it was so good that it got me the invite even though I had to play with no reps on the deck. Very grateful! moxfield.com/decks/kd6eCM...

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Lupi and I have been hard at work tuning Simic Cub. We decided that Wistfulness and Curator were the only tutor targets we have been consistently happy to draw so we just maximized them. Archdruid's Charm performs better than Formidable Speaker moxfield.com/decks/QLVpV9... @handshakemtg.com

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This is how I'd build GW Landfall after my weekend of RCQs. Decided to grow up and finally add the 27th land - the deck is built around hitting land drops, better make sure it happens! Deck is so fun, I'm looking forward to playing more standard this weekend in Lyon! 🤩 moxfield.com/decks/VWMD7r...

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Landfall is making waves in standard right now, so I wanted to post the list that I got to before the World Championship. Mightform Harmonizer is a great addition for explosive power and Promising Vein lets you curve Earthbenders while still getting to do the thing! moxfield.com/decks/YfPXBu...

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Standard Simic Ouroboid deck! I’ve been looking at some non-Vivi options for the Spotlight Series in Liverpool tomorrow. This is my take on Simic, a deck full of creatures that speak right to my soul 🥦🫐 Featuring new addition, Hemasymbic Mite! @handshakemtg.com @moxfield.com t.co/UP4KFVoXg9

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

LEYLINE RED Now with delirium! In my efforts to tune non-Vivi decks for the Spotlight in Liverpool, I looked at last weekend’s winner This version adds a delirium subtheme to access Violent Urge and FOMO which work so well with pumps! @handshakemtg.com @moxfield.com t.co/ALeTgqJ4i6

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Eldrazi Paradox! What if we played Mox Opal and Kozilek's Command in the same deck? Glaring Fleshraker acts as the mana engine for our Paradoxical Outcome combo deck. And Cryogen Relic helps make Outcome a good fair draw spell! moxfield.com/decks/Q1LWmx... @handshakemtg.com @moxfield.com

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Aftermath Analyst is back! It's Johnny Thursday, and I bring you a deck that has gone through more refinement than my last ideas - this one can actually win games! Rydia makes the deck go completely bananas. Eden enables an infinite loop. Turn 4 kill. You gotta check this out!!

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

All-nighter full of drafting and a morning flight is the best way to travel to the US. Hopefully I can get some sleep on my Vegas flight and be ready for the testing house with Team Handshake Moxfield 🫡

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

FaB Draft Guide for High Seas! This article covers 10 different archetypes in the set, giving some theoretical approaches to drafting and helps you develop depth in your deckbuilding. I worked on it for the last two weeks, and it contains basically everything I know about the format. Enjoy!

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Firion Storm! It's time for another Johnny Thursday, and today I present a crazy, dumb and decidedly non-competitive deck. Firions ability is kinda broken with For Mirrodin. But with the right equipment, you can actually storm off and draw your deck! @moxfield.com moxfield.com/decks/yjzv_F...

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

LSS gave me a sneak peak of the new Gem Packs at World Premiere Taipei, so I made a lil pack opening video for you when I got home! youtu.be/EhIHXSsAnIA?...

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I just realized that the Amulets in High Seas are all inspired by the Talents! From the top: - Shadow - Light - Chaos (affecting ALL heroes and allies) - Elemental - Ice - Lightning - Earth - Draconic - Mystic

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Trailblazer Combo! Inspired by an @inspiringtimmy.bsky.social Modern brew, this standard deck tries to get Temur Battlecrier and Outcaster Trailblazer in play together. This makes your clone effects cost 1 mana, so you can clone your Trailblazer for free, drawing so many cards! @moxfield.com

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

On my way home from Taipei now. These trips are giving me life!! Made Day 2 of the Calling, but went 2-4 in draft to finish outside of prizing. Still, always happy to day 2 these competitive draft is just so much fun 🤩

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I started playing a bit of Final Fantasy (IX) to see what the hype was about, and I have finally found a card game I can't beat 😡

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Logan // Seraph Six @seraphsix.com · 13/05/2025

It took three @scryfall.com team members, with breaks, about SEVEN (7) hours to enter all of the new FIC/FIN/FCA cards into the website. Just for transparency on the effort behind preview season. It was over 350 cards today, alone. This does not include time spent fixing typos or bulk tagging.

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I find it ironic that the worst sleeves I've ever tried are the ones we get at the exclusive Pro Tour. This is after 10-15 games playtesting with a proxy deck 🫠🫠

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

On Sunday I'll play Aurora at a Pro Quest in Copenhagen. To prepare, I went to an Aurora concert today!

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

In Bologna for the Magic Regionals! Where the pizzas are bigger than the plates 🤤

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Maybe Underworld Breach was just too slow all along! This is one of those ideas I had to bring into the world from my notepad. Does it function? Who knows! But now we have enough Moxes that Rona could act as support for the Riddlesmith + Ovalchase Daredevil engine. moxfield.com/decks/N9yxvK...

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

First time flying with Lufthansa, and first time I see someone board a plane the smart way! Window seats first 😱

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Today I finished a 4-year long campaign of Betrayal: Legacy! (Yes it's just 13 chapters, but getting people together is harrrd) I loved the last chapter, lots of cool mechanics. The creativity in this game is quite impressive 😁👻 And now that evil is defeated I can finally sleep well at night.

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Traveled to a Pro Quest to send Zen off Went 0-2 I think it will be a great thing for my winrate in this game that he will no longer be legal after this weekend 😂

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Night before Pro Tour London. I'm resleeving my Zen deck (turns out my sleeves were not opaque 😖 ) Happy to play my deck for one last go before he leaves the format. Not so happy that I got sick this week 😷

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Decided to register for the World Premiere in TaiPei just before going to bed and good thing I did because I got ONE OF THE LAST TWO TICKETS!!! 🤯🤯 Guess I'm going to a new country in May 😍

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Playing a Flesh and Blood Pro Quest at riding school in the Netherlands (Battle Hardened tomorrow) Feeling inspired by this mirror, I hope my horse is brave today!

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Team Handshake Moxfield @handshakemtg.com · 14/03/2025

Three members of Handshake @moxfield.com are in Utrecht for the Spotlight Series! casting 🎤: @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social @huschenmtg.bsky.social competing ⚔️: @stefanschuetzmtg.bsky.social Catch them all on the livestream this weekend www.twitch.tv/ultimateguar...

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Stefan Schütz @stefanschuetzmtg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Sadly went 6-0 into 6-3 (losing 3 win and ins in a row) in the recent Legacy Showcase Challenge with Mono U Painter. I'm not sure how good the deck is going to be going forward but it's quite powerful and gives you a way to play Stock Up in Legacy. moxfield.com/decks/pKq2ME...

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Did my Masterclass Improv Show yesterday! At some point we have a bit where new characters appear on stage with increasingly worse conditions. No arms etc. I decide to enter with no head, doing the thing where you pull up your sweater over your face Though I wasn't wearing a sweater The result 😆

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Rabin threat is entertaining and quite crazy, but this is the one that tops it for me. Not even about Magic, but a Warhammer 40K event, where he did the equivalent of handing in a clean crisp 45 card Mono Red deck hoping nobody would bother to count because it's a paper decklist 😳😳

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Team Handshake Moxfield @handshakemtg.com · 08/03/2025

Good luck to Handshakers Nathan Steuer and Zach Kiihne at the Charlotte RC today! They both registered Temur Breach. List by @nathansteuer.bsky.social below: moxfield.com/decks/ViUokD...

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 05/03/2025

Being anti-trans is really an elite phenomenon that elites are mistakenly convinced is widely shared.

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Nomad @nomad-mtg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If you haven't watched the @draftpunks.bsky.social interview with @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social about his Duskmourn Worlds draft... then block out 2 hours for some serious limited level ups. It really opened my eyes to some high-level drafting techniques. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtXo...

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SIMON NIELSEN CRUSHING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DRAFTS | Duskmourn Draft | Draft Punks

YouTube video by Draft Punks MTG

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

One exception - trans issues. We cannot let up even a little bit to protect our most vulnerable community, cause even those supposedly on our side will run right over our siblings if we let them.

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A key part of our testing experience for Pro Tour Aetherdrift was the Convoke mulligan meeting, facilitated by Moxfield. We opened a bunch of hands in the playtesting tool and discussed their merits under certain conditionals. I think this is easily the lost unituitive piece to playing Convoke!

Team Handshake looking at a screen with the Moxfield website, showing an opening hand for Convoke.

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Moxfield @moxfield.com · 23/02/2025

Good morning, Magic players! We uploaded the top 8 deck lists from the Pro Tour. You can view them here: moxfield.com/bookmarks/NA...

Pro Tour Aetherdrift image from magic.gg.

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Team Handshake Moxfield @handshakemtg.com · 23/02/2025

It was a great PT for the squad with everyone making day 2 and 12/13 requalifying for Vegas, but the highlight of the weekend is always team dinner!

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Team Handshake Moxfield @handshakemtg.com · 22/02/2025

Only bad matchup for us is FedEx!

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

3-0'ed my draft pod with this busted UW deck. Got passed so many mythics in pack 3! (2nd pic shows which cards I got in pack 3) Insanely lucky, like wtf 😵‍💫

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

PT time! Looking forward to playing with a bunch of rares in Draft and a bunch of commons/uncommons in standard 😄 #TeamHandshake #Moxfield

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Excited for 2025! PT decklist submission tomorrow

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've got my phone BACK after a full week here in Prague without it!

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

FaB spoiler season is weird for me right now. I care so disproportionally more about limited than CC that I brush over all these majestics, starving for the content that really interests me. And then @teaandtcg.bsky.social reveals Public Bounty, a simple common, and I get super hyped 😂

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Team Handshake Moxfield @handshakemtg.com · 14/01/2025

📜 📜 New article from @tangrams.bsky.social on the differences between open and closed decklist tournaments. This innocent-looking concept turns out to be crucial to success at the RC and Pro Tour level. Read the article on the Ultimate Guard blog to find out why! ultimateguard.com/en/blog/open...

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Open vs Closed Decklists: Finding Small Edges in Preparation - Magic: The Gathering | Ultimate Guard

David “tangrams” Inglis dives into the world of open and closed decklists and how it affects the games ► Read MTG stories now at Ultimate Guard!

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Team Handshake Moxfield @handshakemtg.com · 13/01/2025

Team Handshake UG kicks off the 2025 campaign with the MOCS this weekend. David and Karl are representing the squad in an 8-player field, battling Modern and Vintage Cube for $50,000 in prizes. Catch them Sunday, Jan 19 on the @magiconline.bsky.social stream!

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nicoletipple.bsky.social @nicoletipple.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

After many hours of writing (and teasing on stream) my Esper Pixie Deck guide is complete and available through my Patreon shop. If you are a subscriber to my Twitch please message me for a discounted price. Tagging @fireshoes for reach — its almost 8000 words 😅 t.co/oOMN2WxLwD

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Simon Nielsen @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Made crepes for breakfast and now I'm meeting up with 7 friends to draft two FaB sets I haven't gotten to try: Tales of Aria and Outsiders!

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