Blake Rasmussen
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Communications guy at Wizards of the Coast, Value Khan, father of so many kids. Opinions are my own. Facts probably aren't.
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My biopsy came back totally benign, so I'm all in the clear! Still not sure why I've had swollen lymph nodes for 5 months, but my best guess is that my body is physically rejecting 2020.
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This is a swell time to post my most important mantra for being in the Magic community:
When people are upset about something in or around the game, it's because they love Magic. And that's really great common ground to start from.
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Do you enjoy announcing announcements? Come work for me! We're looking for two Communications Associates to help run things like preview planning, product announcements, and basically telling people what we're up to.
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REALLY good I came in last night. Babies are here! Lily and Isla are a bit early, but doing well. My wife is doing great and is a badass of another level. Happy Galentine’s Day indeed.
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Hey everyone, I’m going to be out of commission work/Twitter-wise for about a month, as my son was just born! Mom & baby are great! For questions you’d normally ask me, start with
@wizards_magic
& go from there. See you in a month!
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@TheManaSource
Tip: Complaining about not getting a card might get you passively on a list to maybe try to give a card in the future. Coming to me with a cool idea or pitch for what you’d do if you got one? Almost always gets you to the top of the (very long) list.
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Someone (me) neglected to remember to get the spiffy alternate version in our variants CIG () this morning. We'll get it added later, but in the meantime...
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Wizards gave me a new Core Set 2021 card to preview for my birthday! It might not look as powerful as some of the bombs already spoiled, but its one of the best ways to find lands and ramp into Ugin in the format, so you better believe its gonna see a lot of play :)
#coreset2021
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Hey content creators! I'm getting tons of "am I getting a GRN" preview card messages. Fear not! I'm still in the middle of sending out cards. Still have tons to send out b/c I'm sending to more creators than ever before. I'm working as fast as my mouse will let me.
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I'm hiring a Community Manager! Come manage communities, do awesome Magic stuff, and help serve as one of the conduits between
#WOTCstaff
and fans!
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My summary of tonight: for the first time, my not-yet-2 y.o. son pooped on the toilet without us even being around. Just went right up on the toilet and did it himself without even asking. That’s the most self-control I’ve seen out of a white male all evening.
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Yes, the Expedition Map box topper version has a rare symbol, but the main set version is common.
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Turn 3 with a missed land drop. Opponent scooping to Stomp on their Prospector. I think Shamans might be real.
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Heading in for surgery in the morning to get a lymph node removed. Fairly nervous about the procedure and the possible results. Not knowing what this is is the worst part, but a close second is the part where they cut open your body to look for the answer.
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This week marks 10 years (!) for me at Wizards of the Coast. My life is immeasurably better because I moved across the country for this adventure, and immeasurably better thanks to all of you!
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@hoza_121
@ShippingShield
@wizards_magic
We're aware and have handed it off to the appropriate teams.
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Might not have done well in the CanLander event today, but I did start down a different, longer road with piece
#1
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Surgery went well. My neck is comically swollen, but I’m up and headed home. Now we wait for results...
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My wife hasn’t quite gone into labor, but boy am I glad I came in to the hospital last night.
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Took me more than 20 years to get my first piece of power. Didn’t wait quite so long for my second.
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It doesn't have the pizzazz of some of the PAX previews, but this card just tickled me the right way. World, meet Old-Fashioned Vampire.
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Lily and Isla came home from the NICU tonight! So thankful everyone is healthy. And a bit gassy. Now if you’ll be excuse me, I’ll be off never sleeping again.
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Now that all
#MTGC19
cards/tokens are out, I'm curious what people thought of our new "full deck each day" format. Would love to hear feedback.
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Today marks the start of 5 weeks of paternity leave, so I'll be hanging out with Jace, but otherwise not available on here for work stuff. In the meantime, direct any questions to
@wizards_magic
. See you in April!
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Next week on Weekly MTG,
@GavinVerhey
and I will be going over the definitive, totally, 100% inarguably correct list of the Top 100 creatures of all time. What are 5 you think you belong? Not necessarily your Top 5, but just 5 you think belong in the conversation.
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Ahhhh! Jace took his first steps today at the ripe age of 9 1/2 months! We’re so screwed.
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Just in case anyone who follows me needs to see this: please do not inject yourself with disinfectant.
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Looks like we inadvertently left the new art off the Merfolk v. Goblins list. We'll get that fixed. Meanwhile...
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I do enjoy being wrong when I'm wrong in your favor. I misread some documentation ahead of the stream yesterday, and it turns out you CAN get foil retro frame rares and mythics in
#MTGDMR
Draft boosters. They are not exclusive to Collector Boosters.
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This. In the past we’ve been able to replace cards or give additional ones. That isn’t an option when every card is assigned.
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Reminder that this preview season, *every* card is someone’s preview card. If you leak something, someone else is getting screwed. There are no replacements this time around, even for commons/uncommons.
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Playing D&D for the first (!) time tomorrow. I’ve watched a few videos, but otherwise haven’t had time to prep much. What should I know?
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One question we didn't get to on stream was the MSRP on Guild Kits. They will be $19.99 for a 60-card deck, Guild Pin, Guild Sticker, Spindown, and, yes, tokens.
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That's a typo in the title. It's today, 8/3.
Looks like Pioneer and Standard will be formats again as of the 8th.
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Parents: It’s daylight savings tonight. That means an extra hour of sleep!
Kids: Wake up even earlier? Got it.
Parents: What? No. It’s a time for rest. Please.
Kids: See you at 5 am. Have breakfast ready.
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Also known as Taigam the traitor, Taigam the mean guy, and Taigam the no-longer-invited-to-office-parties.
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#MTGC17
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My love of Prismari Command grows every time I deck a Tainted Pact player with the Oracle trigger on the stack.
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No ado today, just some sweet, sweet preview card action featuring everyone's new favorite omni-lord.
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#mtgaer
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Good Dog Mowu is going to be watching Weekly MTG on at 2 p.m. PT today.
@maro254
will be there too. So will the new M19 Story author, new Standard Showdown basic lands, and a Beta booster pack. Will you?
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I know everyone is excited about
#MTGEldraine
, but I'm stoked to be interviewing the one and only
@SebMcKinnon
on in 2 hours. Come hang and ask him questions my non-artist brain can't fathom.
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On the last night of my vacation, I injured myself playing Ms. Pac-Man at a retro video game bar, which is basically the encapsulation of being a 36-year-old gamer.
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My 5-year old son made his first theme deck: Candy and Robots. The Balrog is also there, because it’s his favorite card, despite being neither candy nor a robot.
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Once I hit this final configuration of Doom Foretold, I only lost 3 matches between Gold 4 and Mythic. Deck is very good and at least a little different from other versions I played against along the way. Deck is like half
#MTGTheros
cards too.
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Welcome back, Hymn to Tourach. You are the anti-Mulldrifter.
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Magic Cons are physically draining and emotionally uplifting. Can't wait for my next one.
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Just got my first vaccine shot and I can’t drive because I’m legit crying happy tears. Wife got her first the other day too, so I’m feeling a relief that’s really hard to describe, but others getting the shot know how exactly what I mean.
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@SaffronOlive
Went from Gold 4 to Mythic losing only 3 matches with Esper Doom Fortold. It's a little tough to play, but I love it. (You can probably swap out the Kiora Bests the Sea God)
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Today marks 9 years (!) at Wizards of the Coast. Wild to think that I've worked here for nearly 1/4 of my entire life. Special thanks to
@TrickMTG
who got me out here, and to every one of you who help make this so much more than just a job.
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Announcing our announcement! Come revel in the announcement we just announced! See you in about 50 minutes!
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Today's Weekly MTG stream is going to be a fun one! Blake is joined by some special guests from the Magic design team to show us something new coming this summer! Don't miss it! Stream starts in two hours from this message at 2:00 PM PT on .
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Buckle up everyone. I just got done with rehearsal, and it's jam packed.
(For reference, most weeks we don't rehearse. As if that wasn't already obvious.)
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Heads up: Tomorrow's Weekly MTG stream is going to be legendary. We've got all kinds of news and reveals on at 2:30 PM Pacific May 6th.
Expect an article on Daily MTG to follow, but we have a feeling you'll want to check this one out live. See you there!
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Yeah, man, it's been a weird few weeks/months.
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Wizards of the Coast posting an official "STATEMENT ON SPACEGODZILLA" is honestly the start to April we all needed
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Say we were starting a podcast with the Magic story team after the
#mtgaer
story finishes: What topics would you want discussed?
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I love you all, but I love my wife more and I'll be on my honeymoon for the next two weeks, so I won't be responding much. Till then!
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@GavinVerhey
3RW
Bulldrifter
Creature - Elemental
I dunno, Doublestrike?
When this enters the battlefield, draw two cards.
Evoke - 2U (you heard me)
2/2
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I think I missed the actual date, but as of this week I've been
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for 5 years, by FAR the longest I've been with any one company. Here's to 5 more!
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Made Mythic about 20 days earlier than normal exclusively playing the 2020 event through Diamond. This list (or near approximations of it) went 28-6 to do the bulk of the work. Highly recommend.
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We've actually never done a live, public retrospective on a product before. We do them all the time internally, but cheers to Max and Zakeel for being willing to submit themselves to my whims, er, to open communication with our players.
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Tomorrow on WeeklyMTG we'll be chatting with product architects Max and Zakeel about what we've learned from
#MTGAftermath
Epilogue boosters. Check it out, and learn more about upcoming Beyond Boosters and Outlaws of Thunder Junction at 10 AM Pacific on
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I don’t know that I’ve ever played a deck you would call “R/W Midrange,” and that descriptor certainly doesn’t ever excite me. And yet, this deck from the Timeless subreddit (with small modifications) was the cleanest path I’ve maybe ever taken to Mythic.
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I love pineapple pizza!
If they do something crazy like ban Shuko I'm going to send a pizza to Wizards offices...but it's going to have pineapple on it.
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It's my birthday and I'll reveal cards if I want to.
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To see the contents of this year's Secret Lair Secretversary Superdrop 2021, as well as a few other surprises, watch Weekly MTG at 2:30pm Pacific (3 hrs from when this post goes live) on
The VOD will go up on our YouTube channel shortly after.
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I love that my preprerelease legacy is “that guy we compare all of the really long matches to.” My Magic tombstone will read “He Panharmoniconed with Cloudblazer, thus he lived well. It just took too long.”
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Ok, fine, I'll admit it. We changed the date because Nov. 18 is my birthday and I'd rather Mulldrifter not get banned on my special day. We all know it's coming.
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We previously announced the next B&R date as Nov. 18. After further reflection on the (very busy) competitive gaming schedule and discussion on implementation windows with our digital teams, we are shifting that next announcement to Oct. 21.
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I'll talk a bit about the leaks on stream today, too (and also play some Standard). Get both Blakes! See you in 75 minutes.
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By the way, we’ve broken down this week’s previews by one deck each day. The first round is all in the UR Saheeli deck!
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My streak of hitting double Mythic ends at 16 months. Turns out having 3 kids who are now all mobile is a bit of a time commitment.
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My son is way into Wilds of Eldraine and has decided he wants to learn how to play “real Magic.” I’ve never felt more prepared for parenthood.
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Heartened by how many content creators are reaching out asking to preview specific cards. Learning a lot from this season! Watch for emails from me today.
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While I enjoyed the memes as much as the next person, things don’t just land on the website straight from R&D’s brains. If they did, I’m not sure if that would make my job easier or harder.
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There are a lot of cards in
#MTGDOM
that take me back, but my preview card gets me every time I look at it. The name is perfect, the art is nostalgic, and the moment has enough weight (pun intended) that it could have been a story spotlight.
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I present, Weight of Memory
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The first Magic Story Episode from
@KateElliottSFF
is up and you do not want to miss this one:
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Jace (my son, not the Planeswalker) woke up early this morning. What does that mean for you? It means we pushed the full
#MTGIkoria
Card Image Gallery a little early. Enjoy :)
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I have a preview today! Sad to say, it is not Mulldrifter. It is, however, the next best thing. If we're going to bring a friend from Kaladesh, this would have been my first choice. And while there is no Panharmonicon, there are shenanigans to be had in Draft.
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#MTGM25
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Before the pandemic, I played soccer every year for 32 years, including college, only occasionally missing a season. Tonight is my first game in a year and I’ve never been more certain I was going to injure myself. “Father of 3 can’t hack it anymore” is just so cliche.
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For everyone commenting on the new DailyMTG, dear god no we aren't making the videos autoplay. I'm not a monster.
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Couldn't dodge it. Officially caught COVID. Mild symptoms so far. Family is doing fine. But certainly out of commission to start the week.
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As usual, we’ll be discussing the B&R announcement on WeeklyMTG tomorrow with
@Murk_Lurker
. If you have questions or thoughts, feel free to share them here!
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Ok, good, everyone is reacting to Assassin's Trophy the same way I did when I saw it. I actually messaged someone in R&D after seeing it and basically wrote "Wut!?!"
#MTGGRN
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Airport security guy sees my decks, asks about Vegas, then says, "Oh, yeah, we saw
@MelissaDeTora
earlier." You're famous!
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Raced home because our house alarm went off from an open door. Our cat found a way to open a door. On my wife's due date. If I were to fall dead of a heart attack today, I don't think anyone would be surprised.
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Now that all of
#MTGTSR
has been revealed, I can gush about how awesome the retro frames are, especially as someone who put together an all old bordered Commander deck purely for nostalgia before I knew we were doing this.
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Of all the songs I thought my 19-month old child might request on repeat, Tracy Chapman's Fast Car was not even remotely on the list.
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Answers to ?s I've been getting a lot lately:
-The full
#MTGRNA
set is up tomorrow
-Magic Story starts on 1/23
-I'm not announcing our next Announcement Day yet, despite how much we love announcing announcements.
A couple others will be answered on Weekly MTG today :)
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