This week on CASCADE CASCADE: Krillin gets cut in half and our writers get pushed to a level of power previously thought impossible. Krillin does die though, no way around that.

White people really thought 'unc' was short for 'homunculus' 🤣🤣🤣

A flattering comparison!

user @trasgomorph, a fat bespectacled man with a beard, is standing in the bathroom at Craft &Draft. His skeleton t-shirt and fingernails are glowing in the dim light. He looks great

you really don’t realize how much glow-in-the-dark shit you have on until you go in the biergarten bathroom.

Literally. I remember turning to my girlfriend and going “oh, so 3-d is used to create a proscenium effect as a way to showcase the shot,” and then watching half a decade of “shit popping out at the camera.”

This was the first 3-d movie I ever saw, which set the medium up for an absurd expectation level for the next 3-7 years.

Big difference between “enthusiast” and “obsessive,” is my point.

Went to a Harry Potter trivia night with a bunch of elder millennials years ago, back when that was not a cultural skirmish, and thought we were going for a strong second. The questions were like “on the fourth page of Chapter One of ‘Chamber of Secrets,’ what’s the first question someone asks?”

Oh yeah, you have to make sure you’re getting recharge time for the things you love. Priorities shift, but we have to return to what made us!

Exactly the same here. I miss doing 14-hour prereleases with the homies terribly, but that’s a big ask with a toddler and a career.

100%, to get a group together in the same room speaking the same vernacular and sharing the same joys is hard when you’re forty and have demands, but to slip back into it for a few hours and slam some Moxen? It’s the best.

packing my bag the afternoon before an all-day Cube event like I’m going to summer camp, I will never fucken burn out my love for Magic

Literally just put in for time off this afternoon so I can give Sam’s latest the respect it deserves (and sleeve up a Cube)

The Baseman lands truly make this, Bonecrushing enabled by silly lil guys

Would you believe us if we said that a @vorthosjay.bsky.social piece on the history of Magic story publishing was already scheduled for today? You better, because it's true! Going live at 10am eastern, as always. :)

He really is a Magic player

Bumping this to add an additional, bolded Weirdos Welcome sign. Want to go through the con eating only hotdogs and explain what happened to your body? Want to try to fire a vintage cube on a casino floor at 3am? Talk to us.

king dedede... who named this guy, jeff mangum of neutral milk hotel?

This is an Opportunity, and if you love Magic, are hitting up Vegas, and have a unique voice and point of view, which everyone reading this does, it’s your opportunity.

We're issuing an open call for innovative approaches to con coverage for MC Vegas! If you're a writer with an interesting idea for relaying the experience of this event to readers, hit us up! We evaluate on the strength of the concept and quality of the work, no submission is too weird!!

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A framed painting of a fantasy creature. It looks sharp and mean.

A magazine being held in the air called the Duelist. It appears to be the August 1999 issue. It must be a magazine about magic the gathering and other collectible trading card games.

Magic the gathering

100%! Poetry as a communication tool, as a way to heal.

“Is Silverquill bourgeoisie,” the greatest thread in the history of Magic: The Gathering, locked after and so forth. (I should note here that I absolutely adore Abigale as a design and character concept)

They’re debate club nerds and I wanted poetry dorks!

It is, as you suggest, an impossible task after they nailed the Ravnican guilds. Really hard to match up against the opulence of the Orzhov, so I’m not saying I could do better, but there’s a reason I say Golgari and not Witherbloom 90% of the time.

I think about the Achewood axiom “a bidet is only as mean as the guy using it” about once to three times daily, and “you’re just old cum” is going to go right in there along with it. Branson’s the best at this.

Ryan does an incredible job here of studiously (unsurprisingly, as he’s Ryan) analyzing how Strixhaven blurs the line by dividing students by discipline & personality. I couldn’t explain why I, an English major and logophile, bounce off Silverquill until he did. Mandatory for yr Strixhaven syllabus!

Thanks, Jacob! Looking forward to it myself—and next issue should have something fun, too.

description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

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