Alex Ullman

Just start. Stick to a schedule. Hit your deadlines. Relentlessly self promote. Be kind.

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Counterpoint: when I have to take the subway to work it's my chance to get in the zone by zoning just a bit out.

I may not be the average viewer. I watched all the Turtles stuff (and enjoyed it).

But I did feel like it came way too quickly after Lorwyn Eclipsed (and that's out of your control).

Noem is out largely due to massive public activism, especially in MN, Democrats expressing increasing interest in impeachment and investigations, and resulting media coverage.

Keep pushing. These people are not invincible or immune from public opinion.

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

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Hell yeah

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Off the Table: The Gratuity of Magic’s Hidden Lore

@mtgplowshare.bsky.social interviews format Magic Narrative Designer, Miguel Lopez, about the huge amounts of worldbuilding that never make it onto cards or webfiction.

a free read (for now):
www.cascadecascade.com/magics-hidde...

Part of this is me wanting to build decks people don't hate playing against. This could be fun to pull off once...but the novelty could wear off quickly.

No the plan would be Rise of the Dark Realms.

This feels like something that would be fun to pull off once.

Skeleton Ship {3}{U}{B} Legendary Creature — Skeleton When you control no Islands, sacrifice Skeleton Ship. {T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. “The sea gives up her dead as easily as the soil.” —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer 0/3 Illustrated by Amy Weber & Tom Wänerstrand Part of the Reserved List

Nest of Scarabs {2}{B} Enchantment Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens. “They are small, but they always want more. Learn from them.” —Bontu, god of ambition Illustrated by Jason A. Engle

Intruder Alarm {2}{U} Enchantment Creatures don’t untap during their controllers’ untap steps. Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures. One footstep among many is silent. One footstep alone is deafening. Illustrated by Luca Zontini

Is this too mean?

By BEN LEFEBVRE 03/05/2026 05:00 AM EST f • • • President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations. The White House is "looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices," said one of the executives, who was granted anonymity to describe internal administration discussions.

I have an idea. Here’s my idea: We should have had this meeting last week before we started bombing Iran. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .

3 Ancient Den 1 Bojuka Bog 4 Cast Down 2 Darval, Whose Web Protects 1 Eviscerator's Insight 3 Fanatical Offering 4 Glint Hawk 2 Grim Bauble 4 Kor Skyfisher 4 Lembas 1 Omen of the Dead 3 Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising 2 Orzhov Basilica 3 Plains 1 Radiant Fountain 4 Refurbished Familiar 3 Scoured Barrens 1 Silverquill Campus 1 Suffocating Fumes 3 Swamp 1 Thorn of the Black Rose 2 Thraben Charm 3 Tithing Blade 4 Vault of Whispers 2 Arms of Hadar 2 Duress 4 Navigator's Compass 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi 2 Relic of Progenitus 3 Revoke Existence 1 Suffocating Fumes

3 Blood Fountain 1 Candy Trail 4 Drossforge Bridge 1 Eviscerator's Insight 4 Galvanic Blast 2 Great Furnace 1 Hunter's Blowgun 3 Ichor Wellspring 2 Krark-Clan Shaman 1 Makeshift Munitions 4 Mistvault Bridge 4 Myr Enforcer 1 Navigator's Compass 3 Nihil Spellbomb 4 Reckoner's Bargain 4 Refurbished Familiar 3 Seat of the Synod 3 Silverbluff Bridge 4 Thoughtcast 4 Utrom Monitor 4 Vault of Whispers Sideboard 1 Blue Elemental Blast 2 Gorilla Shaman 4 Hydroblast 1 Krark-Clan Shaman 4 Pyroblast 2 Turn Aside 1 Unexpected Fangs

More Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cards are hitting 5-0 in #MTGPauper.

Oroku Saki and Utrom Monitor got their trophies.

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

The Lorwyn Eclipsed Pauper Season Recap Want to learn more about the metrics I use in tracking the metagame? You can find an explainer here. The release cadence of 2026 means more season recaps than ever before. It also means that each s…

ICYMI: Yesterday I published my wrap on the Lorwyn Eclipsed tournament cycle for #MTGPauper:

nerdtothecore.com/2026/03/03/t...

Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist {B}{G}{U} Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Henry Wu and other Human creatures you control have exploit. (When a creature with exploit enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) Whenever a creature you control exploits a non-Human creature, draw a card. If the exploited creature had power 3 or greater, create a Treasure token. 1/4 Illustrated by Justin Cornell

Law and Order: SVU

BOOOOOOO

Unstoppable Plan {2}{U} Enchantment At the beginning of your end step, untap all nonland permanents you control. Jace knew that if he just had time to explain his plan, he would find support. Unfortunately, time was in short supply. DailyMTG Story Spotlight Illustrated by Borja Pindado

Gangs of New York

The more I think about it, the more I like it.

*Three toughness survives most sweepers
*Gingerbread Cabin and Ranger means a steady stream of cards
*Lys Alana Huntmaster makes a ton of material

It is kinda wild to me that in a format as powerful as #MTGPauper that all five of the original basic lands are key to the engines of different top decks.

Capenna Express {3}{G} Artifact — Vehicle Sacrifice a Treasure: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.) 6/6 Illustrated by Viko Menezes

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

4 Arbor Elf 3 Avenging Hunter 2 Birchlore Rangers 3 Elvish Mystic 11 Forest 4 Generous Ent 1 Gingerbread Cabin 3 Ice Cream Kitty 4 Lead the Stampede 1 Lys Alana Huntmaster 4 Masked Vandal 3 Nyxborn Hydra 4 Priest of Titania 4 Quirion Ranger 1 Snow-Covered Forest 4 Timberwatch Elf 4 Winding Way 1 Faerie Macabre 1 Gingerbread Cabin 3 Monstrous Emergence 2 Pulse of Murasa 1 Ram Through 2 Spinewoods Paladin 2 Viridian Longbow 3 Vitu-Ghazi Inspector

Ice Cream Kitty {1}{B/G} Artifact Creature — Food Cat Mutant {2}, Sacrifice another creature or token: Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life. “That’s not what they mean by ‘pet food,’ dude!” —Michelangelo 1/3 Illustrated by Maël Ollivier-Henry

We have out second TMNT card to trophy in #MTGPauper.
Ice Cream Kitty in Elves.

The Speaker of the House going off about a misguided religion rankles me something fierce.

Ask the Mendicant guy how their format is going.

3 Barrels of Blasting Jelly 3 Bramble Wurm 2 Breath Weapon 3 Candy Trail 3 Condescend 1 Conduit Pylons 2 Crop Rotation 4 Expedition Map 1 Haunted Fengraf 3 Impulse 3 Island 4 Maelstrom Colossus 2 Mystic Remora 3 Pinnacle Kill-Ship 2 Prohibit 3 Prophetic Prism 1 Pulse of Murasa 2 Relic of Progenitus 2 Rush of Knowledge 4 Urza's Mine 4 Urza's Power Plant 4 Urza's Tower 1 Whispersilk Cloak Sideboard 3 Blue Elemental Blast 2 Builder's Bane 1 Kaervek's Torch 2 Moment's Peace 2 Reap and Sow 2 Tethex, Gift of Malice 3 Weather the Storm

This "Blue" Tron deck is wild.

#MTGPauper

Happy belated to the world's best chaos greaser goblin (complimentary)

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