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Announcing MoxMox

Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 -0400

I play a lot of magic online using spelltable and Moxfield’s playtester. This works fine for most magic formats but it doesn’t work at all for shared library games like Forgetful Fish and similar games.

I’m sure there are some ways to play online, but I am used to the simplicity of Moxfield’s playtester, so I wanted to see if I could make it work. Turns out - yes.

MoxMox is a browser extension that makes it possible to play shared deck games on Moxfield’s playtester.

Samut, Vizier of Naktamun: Gotta Go Fast

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0400

Gotta Go Fast!

This deck is a blast to play. You put down threats, they swing out immediately, and they generate card advantage. It almost feels like cheating.

Parts of the Deck

1 Mana Ramp

There’s a ton of 1 mana dorks plus wild growth and utopia sprawl in order to get Samut out and swinging on turn 2. You should probably mulligan if you don’t get a turn 2 Samut hand. This is how the deck really takes off in the early game. You need Samut to swing before people start dropping blockers.

Lego Sorting Tray

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0400

I saw a card sorting tray at my LGS and thought “That looks so much better than sorting into piles of cards that constantly get knocked over.”

And then I thought “I bet I could make one of one out of Lego” … so I did.

Colors just reflect lack of having enough slopes of the same color in our collection.

The base is a standard 48x48 stud baseplate. Learn from my mistake and instead of running 1x bricks around the outside edge, run 2x bricks around the outside instead, and it’ll fit perfectly on the baseplate.

Sasaya, Lost In the Woods

Mon, 05 May 2025 09:00:00 -0400

Self-Replacement

The key to being able to flip Sasaya as soon as possible is never to go down on cards in hand. If you start with 7 cards in hand, draw for turn, play a land and then play a spell – you just went from 7 cards in hand to 6. And you definitely can’t have 7 lands in hand if you don’t have 7 cards in hand.

That’s why this deck runs a million janky creatures that just replace themselves. [[Sylvan Ranger]] is a 2 mana body that is guaranteed to become a forest in hand when it ETBs. That’s fantastic in this deck. It could be a Rampant Growth that ramps me instead, but then I’d be down a card in hand… and I don’t really need extra lands in play, I need extra lands in hand. There’s a few “ETB: Draw a card” creatures as well, like [[Wall of Blossoms]]. Since the deck is 57% land and a lot of the non-lands also put lands in hand, this keeps your grip full, digs through the deck, and provides early blockers.

Ivy Gleeful Spellthief

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:00:00 -0400

Overview

Ivy is suuuper fun to play and plays differently than almost any other deck. Has similarities to [[Zada, Hedron Grinder]] and [[Feather, the Redeemed]].

Deck Building

Targets

The best cards for the deck (aside from auras and instants) are creatures that give you a benefit when you target them. Ivy wants you to target other creatures so she can copy those spells, so you might as well get double the benefit by choosing creatures that give you a benefit when they get targeted. [[Gnarlback Rhino]], [[Stormchaser Drake]], and [[Triton Fortune Hunter]] should be in every Ivy deck. Target the Drake with [[Cerulean Wisps]] when Ivy is on the board, and you have yourself an Ancestral Recall with other words on it. Heck, it’s even better than that, because an opponent can counter the Wisps, and you’ll still draw two cards (one for the Drake’s triggered ability and one for the copied Wisps targeting Ivy).

Magus Lucea Kane is a Timmy's Dream

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -0400

[[Magus Lucea Kane]] is a Timmy’s dream commander. Big mana, big creatures, big spells? Heck yeah. And any deck that begs me to put [[Dopplegang]] in it is one I need to try out.

I stumbled on Lucea via a random youtube video recently, and was intrigued not the least because I hadn’t found a Temur commander I really gelled with. Somehow I overlooked her when looking at the Warhmmer decks when they came out.