Brian David-Marshall
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Brian David-Marshall — Game designer / comic book writer / worldbuilder / food and drink enthusiast / MTG Pro Tour Historian Emeritus . He/him
New York -ish
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@AttackCowboy
7 cups Golden Grahams, 12 oz jumbo marshmallows, 6 oz butter. 2/3 bag of mini chocolate bars.
Buttered pan. Buttered bowl with cereal.
Toast marshmallows under broiler. Slowly heat butter and melt. Add toasted marshmallow. Stir until combined.
Pour over cereal. (Cont)
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Taking on an exciting new job which means that I am making
#2019MC1
my last event as an active member of the coverage family. Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way and I will absolutely miss the hell out of it.
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These “Universes Beyond Secret Lair” drops are really getting wild.
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Wizards of the Coast,
I implore you to not discard the game’s history. Please tell me you are taking steps to preserve our match histories and our journey with the game.
RT if this matters to you.
@ElaineChase
@mtgaaron
@maro254
Adapting our technology to best serve a modern framework mean some software and services must change. On May 27, 2020 we will be sunsetting Planeswalker Points and removing access to the Planeswalker Points website.
Read on to learn more:
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This tree is Gruul af.
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Going through airport security:
TSA: Sir! Are these your things?
Me: *sigh* Yup.
TSA: *squints at me*
TSA: *squints at screen*
TSA: *squints at my
#MTG
hoodie*
TSA: *squints back at screen*
TSA: “Commander decks sir?”
Me: “A few of them, yeah!”
TSA: “We’re good here!”
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23 years ago I chose to judge rather than play in the very first Pro Tour and have always wondered about what could have been. Excited and terrified to play in this first new kind of Magic event all these years later.
Owen Turtenwald will not be participating in the Mythic Invitational and we are replacing him with Brian David-Marshall.
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Rest peacefully and proudly
@SheldonMenery
— you left an indelible mark on the game we all love and an even bigger one on everyone who loved you.
I count myself lucky that you pulled me into that great big group hug that you called friends. Love you and I will miss you dearly.
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My baby brother is in the hospital again. I am scared and sad and angry. My family (thankfully barely on Twitter) is not good at being communicative which does not help anything for anyone right now. I just want him to be okay. Good vibes welcome.
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Gonna tell my niecelet and nephling that this was the first Universes Beyond card.
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New drinking game:
Whenever it’s 2020 take a drink.
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Earlier today we moved my baby brother Michael from life support to hospice care. He was ready to go and it was quick and peaceful.
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Crazy idea for
@wizards_magic
since if they don’t do something a lot of LGS will go out of business in the next 6 months.
Let players register their WPN location on Arena or MTGO and when they spend all that extra money, since they are housebound, ship some to those stores.
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This is my semiannual plea to kill prerelease weekend and just turn them into straight-up release weekends. I think they are actively bad for stores, players and Wizards at this point. Let people buy and play with cards at the height of their excitement.
As a store owner it is very awkard to explain my customers that I cant sell boosters/singles to them, cant have drafts, and they cant use the cards they opened at the pre release this week. Meanwhile, they can buy these on Arena and MTGO and even play a PTQ w/ the new cards there
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I have been utterly destroyed by my 11 year old niece.
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Commander is a better format without any Commander product in it.
@ChannelFireball
What's the MTG-related hill you're prepared to die on?
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I usually haaate photos of myself but I kinda love this one from the Commander and Cocktails event.
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I remember waking up on November 4th 2016 to find my wife was still awake and crying.
Just walked upstairs to find her crying in a completely different context.
History.
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Going through security at the airport after a glorious weekend at
#CommandFestDC
and an agent is standing over the bin with my deck boxes in it.
“Sir? I would like to ask you a question about these.”
“They are Magic —“
“Oh I know! I just want some good ideas for my Korvold.”
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"Hi, I would like to see the doctor"
"Do you have insurance?"
"I do in the the US but nothing in Spain."
"Ah! Without insurance your visit will be very expensive. It comes to [cost of co-pay for doctor's visit with insurance at home]"
#cough
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Wizards has posted the video of my interview with Sheldon Menery that we presented on Sunday at
#MCVegas
It was probably the hardest thing I have had to do during my time with Magic and my greatest honor to do so.
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“I am going to give away these 2.5 lb weights.”
“Don’t do that. I need those.”
“Why would you need 2.5 lb weights?”
“…”
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Going to be rooting extra hard for
@leearson
during
#mythicchampionshipV
and hope he is given the platform to say whatever he wants if he wins.
Update: Hearthstone player blitzchung has now been banned by Blizzard for voicing support for the Hong Kong protests, but tells IGN he has doesn't regret his actions.
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Sorry friends! Thought my Arena quests lined up with my Gruul and Esper decks but it was a quick 0-2 from the
#MythicInvitational
for me. Good news is that I get to draft all weekend now. And can keep my phone on. Thanks for all the support.
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Morning!!! Looking forward to some good games today... and some coffee. Definitely gonna need some coffee.
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Out of all the possible things that could ever make you feel something; where does “letting your opponent tick Lilliana, Dreadhorde General up to 9 loyalty because you are holding Zealous Conscripts” rank?
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The local community is taking a pretty strong stand against playing RPGs with geese.
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There are now TEN cards banned in Standard at the same time (more if you count Companions nerfing). The last time this many cards were banned at the same time was 1999 during Urza's block Standard.
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A Thread:
The phrase “Magic as Richard Garfield intended” gets thrown around quite a bit and when it does it is almost always being used to ironically describe some bad game experience or boar state.
Unironically:
#CMDR
is Magic as Richard Garfield intended.
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Hard to believe that next year will mark 30 years since I ran my first Magic event. I feel like I will need to do something special to commemorate it.
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Magic; The Gathering — Waking my ass up way earlier than I want on a Saturday since 1994.
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Sitting in a cat emergency room with this sweet girl. Send some good vibes.
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Am I the only person looking at this card and thinking about making a pizza?
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It does not seem possible that this was 25 years ago.
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Over my years of working at Pro Tours I made a habit, whenever possible, of being somewhere visible as players made their way to the venue on Thursday for registration.
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Wizards should do a set that is all reprints of oversized Magic cards and call it Venti Masters.
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This is insane and — as an outside observer — kind of awesome. Eve Online basically just Borg’d the fuck out of their player base.
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Went to my local pharmacy today to pick up my insulin. The girl behind the counter was masked, gloved, fully six feet away, and clearly terrified.
“I just want to say I am grateful to you for you showing up and helping to take care of us. Thank you!”
She burst into tears.
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Walmart can fuck the fuck off.
Walmart has decided to stop running violent video game ads in their stores but will continue to sell guns.
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We are just crushed.
It looked we had gotten her stabilized and had a plan going forward but she left us this morning.
We have had her for 3 of her 8 years and are grateful for that time but it was not nearly enough. We thought we would have much more.
Hug your pets.
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Open letter to anyone responsible for making Shivam decide to leave Twitter,
Please take a giant fucking leap up your own asshole and invert yourself. What the fuck is wrong with you; you miserable people?
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Thinking about today’s tweets about the future of competitive Magic and feeling sad and nostalgic. I remember hearing Skaff talk about running Magic players through a gauntlet of intellectual sport that would eventually become the Pro Tour. 1/X
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Dear companies that have made post-pandemic ads about how we are all in it together while talking about car payments/credit card interest rates/filing online taxes/whatever,
Fuck off.
Sincerely,
Everyone.
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I have never been smarter than I was 27 years ago today.
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It is just wild to me that there are multiple waves of promo card art and Secret Lairs that stand on the shoulders of alters done by Eric Klug over the years but he has not been called upon to do any of them.
I honestly assumed he had done this the first few times I saw it.
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Getting the band back together on the main stage today. One night only!
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Holy cow! Jessica from
@InklinCustoms
made hand drawn tokens for the coverage team and she managed to make us adorable. She is amazingly talented!!!
#2019MC1
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The news about Kai has me gutted. It really puts into perspective what this game, and community that animates it, means for him to be here while in the midst of this fight.
Everything
@HueyJensen
said was pitch perfect and well done by Wizards to honor Kai in this fashion.
In honor of one of Magic's iconic competitive players, the trophy awarded for Players of the Year has been named for Kai Budde.
Hear from Billy Jensen about Kai's impact as one of the true Magic greats:
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For the cost of THREE vials of insulin with insurance — WITH INSURANCE!! — I can fly to Montreal, spend two nights in a decent hotel AND buy twice as many vials without insurance.
#Insulin4all
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Have won multiple matches with a turn 3 Jasper Flint and I know why he is laughing now. Because he is on the comedy side of the "Did you have fun?" masks when the game ends.
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Since "Mythic Championship Historian" just doesn't have the same ring to it I am going to request that my title be switched to "Old Man Yells at Cloud Djinn".
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Trans rights are absolutely, 100%, without any room for equivocation, essential human rights.
I also don’t think WotC has any problem with those words being on camera. My guess is that the problem was scratching out the artist name and by extension perceived name calling.
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Going to be elevating my ice sphere game this weekend. Thanks
@MTGProShop
for something that combines my two hobbies over the last two years — drinking and thinking about when I used to play Magic socially.
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You: “High roll?”
Me: “Nah!”
You: “Even/Odd?”
Me: “Nope!”
You: “...”
Me: *Reach across the table, cut your deck and reveal bottom card of the cut to both of us. Gesture to my deck for you to do the same.*
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Talking about members of Congress who cashed in on early info about the impending impact of Covid-19.
“Don’t you think they should face some sort of ramifications?”
“I think they should be tried as traitors.”
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Talking to my mom yesterday about when she was growing up in Brooklyn:
"There was a family down the block from us that had a pet lion."
"What...?"
"Yeah the Gallos. They would walk it around the neighborhood."
"THE GALLO CRIME FAMILY?!?"
"We just called them the Gallos."
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I 👏 hate 👏 this 👏card 👏so 👏much 👏it 👏made 👏me 👏use 👏👏👏emojis 👏
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Trying very hard to remove "you guys", as a non-gendered term, from my vocabulary and not doing a great job of it. Not quite there yet but might institute a swear jar soon.
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I knew the
#MythicInvitational
was going to be a tough tournament but nothing could have prepared me for not being allowed to check social media for almost 45 minutes at a time. How do the pros do it?
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With so many celebrity Magic players I would love to see a charity tournament with all the proceeds going to support local game stores and other small businesses impacted by the past year.
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A mere 25 years and seven weeks ago was our second ever
#MTG
tournament. More than 750 players showed up.
*I do not believe the “internet email” address still works.
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I am now the proud owner of 15 push-ups. This may not sound like many but it is infinity more than I could do a few weeks ago.
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I really need to stop watching movies on planes. Just cried my way cross country watching SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE for the first time. (Yes, I know!)
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I keep seeing folks raving about how good Standard is right now.
What is everyone loving about it?
(I am not refuting this; just honestly curious about what has people hyped.)
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I felt very seen this whole weekend and that decisions I made about how I wanted to talk about the game and the players who compete at the highest levels mattered. It was moving to hear from players, fans & especially parents that choices I made were noticed and appreciated. 2/2
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Is there a term to describe the experience of being at 1 life, your opponent at 20+, when you are starting to turn the tide and they concede without you having any wincon in sight?
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So I was pulling together a random “booster pack” out of a box of cards. Completely uncurated and I was going to call it a Magic Blob (as opposed to a a Cube) and...ummm...I found this.
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"People insist on calling it luck."
I will agree that we were lucky to find each other but you don't get to 25 years of marriage without working at it together. Would not have it any other way. Love you Karla and happy anniversary.
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If you aren’t repelled by Trump’s refusal to denounce white supremacists then you might be a...well, you know...
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It is absolutely fucking insane that the same vial of insulin can cost in excess of $300 here in the States and only $30 in Canada. There is some cartel-level, pay-or-die pricing going on here.
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With a Top Finish at:
-PT London ‘99
-3 Top 8 in ‘03 (with a win)
-Top 8s in ‘14, ‘17, & ‘19 (including Worlds win)
-And his finals finish at
#PTPhoenix
this past weekend in 2020
@HueyJensen
becomes the first
#MTG
competitor with Top 8s in FOUR different decades.
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The Elder Dragon — a Sheldon bar pantry-inspired Old Fashioned with Angel’s Envy Rye, St. Germaine, a bar spoon of Amarena cherry syrup, Angostura bitters and a splash of preserved lemon brine.
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So imo THE BATMAN had best Batman, best batmobile, best Gotham, first credibly terrifying portrayal of the Riddler, best Catwoman (they let Zoe be a movie star in this), photo finish for best Gordon and best Falcone. Incredibly well-made film all around. No real quibbles.
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Wow! Everyone seems to be talking about the
#MythicInvitational
Multiple experts on ESPN this morning kept saying that they thought Duke would win their bracket. Exciting times :)
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Please make sure you are registered to vote or that your voter registration info is up to date. Please please please. I can’t take four more years of this. /send tweet /mute thread.
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My name is Brian David-Marshall and I am a social Magic player.
/end thread.
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Okay, now I am crying in a restaurant. Believe me
@mariahelenadamo
it was my great pleasure. Thank you so much for sharing this with me.
@Top8Games
14 years ago a commentator of the wizard paid attention to a young player coming from a country without expression in the Magic. This player was the PV. This was important for him. Mothers do not forget. Thank you very much! ❤️Good luck in the new job.
Sorry for any english error
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Some thoughts:
- I love
@zbeg
and I know how painful this was to write. Thank you for making everyone take a cold hard look.
- WotC has always been VERY white and needs to do better in all areas.
- They are terrible at delivering messages in anything other than CYA language.
Wizards of the Coast purports to be inclusive and diverse when in reality they have a long history of racially discriminatory behavior, avoiding accountability through a culture of secrecy and fear.
They are an unequivocally racist company:
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I don’t know about any of you but I had tears in my eyes when
@leearson
won that match. To play at this high a level while dealing with everything going on for him back in Hong Kong is one of the truly amazing performances in this game. ❤️❤️
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“Honey do you think I should reply to my brother’s friend’s post?”
“What are you going to say?”
“Anyone who says “fake news” at this point and time is snorting lines of Fox News powdered kool aid off of Alex Jones’ hairy tits.”
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This is Chatty. She was urgently in need of a new home and we are hoping she will want to stay with us. Right now she just seems a little sad and overwhelmed.
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We are heartbroken but we also know he is at peace after struggling with his health for such a long time.
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My friend Angela just opened her first ever Magic booster. How’d she do?
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