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A photo taken in the middle of a game of Magic: The Gathering. There are four play mats sitting on a dining table with cards all over them.

A photo of my torso, wearing a black t-shirt with artwork of a quite worn stone head on it where the eyes have been dug, and it's not entirely clear if it was originally human or not. Underneath the head it says "Be'lakor" all in capitals with a bunch of extra lines coming out from the "A" and flowing through and around the rest of the letters. Next to the t-shirt I'm holding up the Magic: The Gathering card "Be'lakor, the Dark Master" which has artwork of a demon with horns and massive red wings in mid-flight, holding a massive sword.

Went over to a friend's house tonight for some Magic: The Gathering! This was the 100-card singleton format Commander which I just do not have the mental capacity to make decks for, so I just borrowed decks rather than bringing my own. The first was a zombie deck that had a bunch of my favourite cards from my own regular 60-card strictly-Innistrad-block zombie deck and it was very close in the end, I ended up coming second.

The second game I used one of the very flavourful Warhammer 40,000 crossover decks, the Chaos one which I hadn't played before, and completely coincidentally the commander I used was Be'lakor and I happened to be wearing a t-shirt from the metal band Be'lakor. 😂 (Yes, the band is named after the Warhammer demon, haha.) I also ended up coming second this game, and mostly due to a misplay on my part which let another friend pull out a win.

Posted on 28 February 2026, 23:25

A photo of a round table with Magic the Gathering cards all over it (it's a four-player game).

A photo of a bowl of chilli con carne with rice, veggies, and a big dollop of sour cream.

I'm in the office today for ALL OF THE THINGS. First up, playing Magic the Gathering at lunch with the usual pre-COVID crew. 😁

They changed caterers for the hot food a few months ago and man, they're doing a bang-up job. Day was chilli con carne and it was delicious.

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Posted on 24 October 2024, 13:07

A photo taken of a table in the middle of a Magic: The Gathering game with cards everywhere, plus snacks and cups in scattered around. There were six people but the table is large enough that only four people's worth of cards in play fit into the photo.

Tonight I went over to a friend's place for some birthday nerding for him and another friend (both of them born on the same day, just a year apart). We got two six-player games of Magic in, and then probably like an hour of a very silly card game called Muffin Time before the game essentially got reset and we decided to leave it there, haha. I won the first game of Magic, and one of the birthday boys won the second one.

This was "Commander" format Magic where you can only have one single copy of a given card, and the decks are larger (100 cards vs. 60 in a normal deck), and I absolutely cannot brain sufficiently to figure out synergies between that many individual cards to make a Commander deck so I just played with other people's decks rather than my own regular format ones.

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Posted on 29 June 2024, 23:32

A photo of four 1v1 games of Magic The Gathering going on on a big dining table, with lots of cards laid out everywhere.

Yiewwwww, we had a Magic The Gathering draft of Innistrad at a friend's place tonight, and it was an absolute blast. There were eight of us and we got through three rounds, and I won overall with 2:1 wins for each round. 💪🏻

The setting for Innistrad is a gothic horror one, and it is ABSOLUTELY by far and away my favourite block, so everyone agreed it was fitting that I won, haha. It came out in 2011 and to this day all of my casual constructed decks are from the original three sets, plus the second one that came out a few years later. The flavour levels of all of the cards are just off the charts.

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Posted on 9 December 2023, 23:59

A photo of a white conference room table with a four-player game of Magic in-progress on it, with lots of cards spread out everywhere.

Aww yeah, in the office today to play Magic after work! We only got one game in, mostly because it was very much more of a relaxed affair than usual. My decks consisted of three of the four of them, all of them did well and I ended up winning. 😁

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Posted on 16 November 2023, 19:30

A photo taken from above the table of a three-player game of Magic: The Gathering, with lots of cards everywhere.

Tonight was Magic at @littleal@mastodon.au's! It was Commander format which I'm not the most fond of, but the first deck I played was a Zombie deck which had quite a few cards I was familiar with from the Innistrad block that my own (non-Commander) Zombie deck comes from, and I smashed it. 😁 ZOMBIES FOR DAYS. (It helped that I had an amazing starting hand.)

Second game was a win from @littleal@mastodon.au, and third was our other friend so it was nice and even!

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Posted on 8 September 2023, 23:10

A photo of an in-progress five player game of Magic the Gathering, with cards all over a table.

Yesssss, first multiplayer game since COVID hit!

I brought my decks in, and although I only won one of the three games myself, my decks won all three. 💪🏻

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Posted on 21 March 2023, 20:15

A photo of the four Magic the Gathering/Warhammer 40,000 cross-over decks, plus a 2TB Xbox Series X expansion card, a box of Space Marine Reivers, and a small pot of bright green paint.

It's a pre-Christmas package bonanza!

(I should clarify that none of these are actually Christmas presents... I ordered the Xbox expansion card on the 23rd of November, got a notification on the 7th of December that it'd shipped and would arrive on the 14th, and it only just arrived today. And the Magic decks were ordered when they were up for pre-order back in like JULY and were meant to ship in October but there were stock issues from supplier, and I'd ordered the miniatures and paint in the same order so it all got held up.)

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Posted on 22 December 2022, 11:27

A photo of a game of Magic: The Gathering at its final conclusion: me having attacked with 20 2/1 creature tokens (14 of which have Vigilance) and a 3/4 Lifelink and my 3/3 commander, and him with a single 2/2 creature.

We went over to a friend's house tonight to play the new Magic/Warhammer 40,000 cross-over decks that Wizards of the Coast released and man they're fun. (The fun levels were definitely increased by me absolutely stomping him on three occasions, though the fourth game was a lot less one-sided).

They did such a good job of combining the two, and the artwork on all the cards is magnificent and extremely 40K.

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Posted on 19 October 2022, 23:32

This was definitely one of the more ridiculous games of lunchtime Magic we’ve had. (We ended up calling it a draw).

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Posted on 19 December 2017, 13:23