musician, technician, & cardboard magician🔥played 2 PTs🎵 | co-host of Common Ground MtG |
@AFlightGaming
team member | he/him | thomasgunnmusic at gmail . com
#SCGCIN
Y’all DQd my sweet boi in Top 8 WTF 🤬 Incredibly pissed at whatever scumbag sold him fakes, he had an incredible run this weekend in his first 20k and to have it cut short like this is absolutely heartbreaking 💔
0-5 and dead at the PT 🤷♀️
Mediocre draft + worst two matchups = Sunday PTQ 🫡
Appreciate all the love and support fam! Still love the game and the gathering 🔥♥️
Also want to be clear: Judges are awesome! They’re just following policy here and I’m not blaming anyone on staff. Would love to know if there’s a way to adjust policy for people who’ve been scammed
Waking up after a wild wild tournament and so many people to thank for their help and support ♥️
my Nashville team (Team Tilt) and my sponsor TNLG,
@BLJ_94
@DisgruntledElk
@lordtupperware
family and friends blowing up my phone, and my amazing partner Hana ♥️♥️♥️ THANK YOU ALL
11-3 and good for 12th at
@DreamHackMagic
!!! UW Spirits is cracked. Lost my win-and-in to Top 8 but couldn’t be more ecstatic with this finish!! So many people to thank in replies:
Born during a blizzard. Raised in poverty. Eldest to 6 incredible siblings. Performed on so many stages. Circled the country. Lover, fighter, friend. I’m so grateful for this life and unbelievably excited to have reached my 30s ♥️🔥
Although the Pro Tour finals featured Rakdos Evoke vs. Mono-Green Tron, various other decks (like Merfolk and Hammer Time) overperformed during the Modern rounds.
#PTLOTR
1-4 and out of the RC. Lost the matchup lottery today and didn’t play BR/Phx/Amalia at all but UW Lotus twice 🙃 Only slightly tilted though, friends are crushing it and I still have the PT to look forward to, good vibes all around! 🔥
Train is delayed so here’s a fun moment from the PT:
-Against Coffers, Opp plays Karn, passes with Field of Ruin mana up.
-I attack with Paladin, Construct, and Nexus holding Hammer.
-They Field Nexus, I Solitude Nexus leaving them tapped out. Flash in lethal Hammer
🔨🔨🔨
@scarce_phoenix
From my friends who were on the ground: Judge was doing a routine marked card check after my buddy saw all 4 Ragavans in G1 of Top 8, judge checks card with vendor, turns out all the monkeys and a couple other cards are fakes 😭
0-5 and dead at the PT 🤷♀️
Mediocre draft + worst two matchups = Sunday PTQ 🫡
Appreciate all the love and support fam! Still love the game and the gathering 🔥♥️
Yesterday was so dope! Won an RCQ with UW Hammer and had a blast 🥳
Matchups and results in replies ⬇
Thank you to TNLG for running a great event, to
@DisgruntledElk
for the sweet Patreon tech, to my partner for support, and HUGE thanks to
@trumpetman1124
for cards and help!
Omw back to Nashville, taking back roads for a change of pace.
Takeaway from the weekend is that hangs with friends and good vibes are better than most things.
Takeaway from the PT was that I did not in fact meet my goal of being as prepared as I wanted to be. Food for thought ♥️
Atlanta/RC/DH was awesome! It truly is all about the Gathering. Met a bunch of online peeps IRL, cheered on the fam, and got to see my brother in action working on DH stuff (designed the BYOC minecraft server!) Even if the RC didn’t go my way, I had a blast. Thanks fam! 🔥♥️
had my first pre-PT anxiety dream (probably cuz I’m actually sleeping unlike Barcelona 😅) where I missed too many rounds and was about to be dropped from the event and woke up in a panic but it’s not even today 🥵
I tilted pretty hard after my second loss yesterday and it was a great learning moment.
Lost the Hammer mirror to a player that was obviously very new to the deck, which was understandably frustrating, but that’s the cool thing about magic. Sometimes you just lose. 1/
Punted against Lotus, an ironic end to this PT chapter 😅 List felt great though and I’m excited to chill and cube and get home to my boo tomorrow.
Thanks again for all the support fam!! Proud of myself and excited to get back to the grind 🔥
Practically I definitely learned that I need to narrow my range of hands to keep in game 1 on the draw, otherwise this was a good lesson of just letting it go, not invalidating my opponent’s win, and to not assume I have an edge just because of archetype experience. Next time 🔨
OK APPARENTLY last night counted as day 7 SO WE DID IT!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Celebration stream tonight!! Magic + Music + Emote planning + general shenanigans. Thank you fam!! 💜
A good friend reminded me that not every player is as invested in this game or in competitive play as I am and in the grand scheme of things a local RCQ kinda matters more to people who aren’t already Qd for a PT. Obvs it still matters to me, but perspective is huge here 2/
A new cycle of free spells in
#MTGMH3
, starting with the green one! Rather than paid for by discarding, these require a sacrifice of a non-token creature of the spell's color.
Teammates lost their RCQ semifinals yesterday 😭 I only have a couple more shots at Denver because I do a lot, feeling so fired up to show up and crush next time 🔥
I’m still growing my magic platform so I’ll plant my flag early: if any of my peeps have a problem with this sort of thing then y’all can kindly GTFO 😘
Figured that I should bump this after proving I'm really good at limited - I offer coaching for limited!
TL;DR: Rate is $30/hour, or $20/hour for anyone who isn't a cis white man because holy shit competitive magic needs more diversity.
Finally got there this RCQ season!! Won Pioneer with UW Spirits, deck felt great and I had a blast 🔥
R1 UW Spirits 👻🚫👻
R2 RG Werewolves 👻👻
R3 BR Midrange 🚫🚫
R4 RG Vehicles 👻👻
R5 ID
QF BG Sac 👻🚫👻
SF Neoform Atraxa 👻👻
F W Humans 👻👻
SO hyped!! I'm planning on submitting the Red Cube this year, some work still to go to fine tune it! Whether it gets picked or not though I'm going and couldn't be more excited to play an actual factual Cube tournament 🔥💜
#CUBECON
2023 Updates 👀
1. It's on! Oct. 19-22 in Madison, WI.
2. Gamehole Con's housing portal opens on Jan. 31
3. Cube submission will be in the spring!
4. Follow us here and join our Discord for all the latest!
CUBE! ❤️
Been enjoying some much needed reset time in VT with the fam the last couple weeks. The rest of the siblings and Hana arrive tomorrow/Friday for the weekend’s main event, our parents’ vow renewal/family reunion 🥳
Saved
@benton_madsen
‘s life,
@MTGRich
was excited to meet me, and got my European street smarts dunked on by
@MartinJuza
, last night was dope and I can’t believe it’s Pro Tour time already 🔥🔥🔥
Gonna wrap up my part in this.
TL;DR:
Friend got scammed on FB marketplace.
Judges couldn’t determine intent with absolute certainty.
Unfortunate ending, but he still had an amazing tournament and played great magic 🔥
I hope that will be the focus moving forward ♥️
#TeamTilt
#SCGCIN
Y’all DQd my sweet boi in Top 8 WTF 🤬 Incredibly pissed at whatever scumbag sold him fakes, he had an incredible run this weekend in his first 20k and to have it cut short like this is absolutely heartbreaking 💔
Buddy took down the Super with the tweaks we made to Hammer today!!! It kicked him out before we grabbed a shot of the standings. Matchups in thread.
#Hammer
#MTG
#Modern
Woke up still tilted. Losing to your own mistakes + a very good opponent, and then not recovering for the next game's mulligan decisions is absolutely brutal. Part of me feels like I can't complain/be sad about an RCQ top8 cuz I'm Qd for the PT, but goddamn this shit stings
Can’t be too upset about today, got very lucky in some spots to Top 8 at all. R3G3 blind Needled Flooded Strand and they were the only lands oppo had 😎
Fam! My friends Cameron,
@Hippo_1124
, and I started a Pauper podcast! In the 1st Ep we discuss the meta and the results from the Nov 1st God of Pauper tournament in Tokyo. Link in replies, excited for this new project! 🔥🥳
Rotisserie drafted my peasant cube as a send-off before I use a bunch of it in my new cube project! Lost the trophy match to
@CamPlaysMagic
‘s busted aggro deck, everyone’s decks were sweeeeet
2nd place in the Trash Cube! Big ups to
@Garbage_Andy
and the mod team for cultivating a chill competitive event focused on community and shitty cards 🤘🥳
Showtime tonight! Gonna be a chill vibe with some fun tunes, old and new, plus some piano and perhaps a guest appearance from the incredible Hana Kahn 🥳