Archive
128 pieces, 421,300 words.
2026
- Processing Time: PT Amsterdam Tournament Report(s)
- The Night Before PT Amsterdam
- Limited Fundamentals: Gameplay
- The Smartest Person in the World
- Spell it Out for Me: How to Show Opponents Your Elementals and Win at High Rates
- The Night before PT Secrets of Strixhaven
- Limited Fundamentals: Drafting
- Limited Fundamentals: Manabases & Deck Composition
- Jeskai Deck's Mid: A (late) PT ECL Deck Reflection
- Getting Good at Being Good
- Toronto Eclipsed: ECL Limited Primer
- The Night Before PT Richmond
- How to Build a Sealed Deck: The Sequel
2025
- Otters in 2026: An Updated Guide
- Failing at Worlds
- The Night Before Worlds (Running it Back Edition)
- The Case for Competitive Magic
- Amulet Mulligans Meeting
- The Value of Information Advantage in Competitive Magic
- What I Want New Sanctum Members to Know
- How to Play Amulet like an Amateur (& still go 7-3 at the PT)
- The Night Before PT Atlanta
- Being Right and Being Happy
- EOE Arena Open Day 1
- EOE First Impressions
- On Empathy as a Skill in High Level Magic
- Baby's First Amulet games
- Another Patreon Update
- How to *Actually* Play Izzet Prowess
- Pro Tour Final Fantasy Prep - Excerpts
- The Night Before PT FF
- Commons & Uncommons Limited set review coming out over the next 3 days!
- Gettin' Familiar with Pauper
- A Tournament Finally Went Badly!!!!!!
- How to play Izzet Prowess in Hartford
- Shoutouts were missed?!?!
- Some shoutouts are in order
- Oops, they broke standard
- Izzet Prowess Gamelog Review (with Avi Grinberg!)
- RC Minneapolis/Hartford testing (with Nicole Tipple!) - Prowess side
- RC Testing vs. Nicole Tipple - Otters side!
- Speaking Truth
- Chickens, Eggs, and Intuition
- TDM First Impressions
- Full TDM set review now live!
- TDM Set Review - Now on Spotify!
- TDM Limited Set Review with Nicole Tipple!!!
- Nail the First 4 Turns
- PAUL
- DFT Arena Open - Deep run!!
- I Want to Play a Fair Game
- How to Test Effectively
- PT Testing - 2v2 Esper Pixie Mirror
- Mono Red Guide: How to play the Best Deck from the PT
- Mono Red Mulligan Meeting pre-PT DFT
- Mono Red SB Mapping Meeting pre-PT DFT
- PT DFT Finish & content plan
- The Night before Pro Tour Aetherdrift
- DFT Set Review - Rares & Mythics
- DFT Limited Set Review
- Standard Challenge Quarterfinals Gamelog Review - Gruul vs. Golgari
- Axis Theory, Pt 2
- Some Structural Patreon Changes
- For folks who are interested in what actions they can take in response to the VML news
- WOTC has cancelled their support for VML
- Axis Theory
- GP Atlanta Tournament Report
- How to Succeed at Magic
- For folks wanting info on cft's Otters list
- CFT in top 8 with otters!!
- How to Play Gruul Aggro for Atlanta
2024
- Guest Gamelog Review: AvianScrolls
- Guest Gamelog Review: FDN Limited
- Habits of Highly Effective Magic Players
- Otters Mirror Gamelog Review
- Otters Mirror Gameplay
- Otters vs. Gruul gameplay with Autumn Burchett!
- Foundations Arena Open
- How to exist online (if you're you)
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Foundational Ottering
- Otters Gameplay vs. Boros Burn
- Why Team Sealed is the best MTG Format
- Otters Gameplay vs. Leyline Red
- The Journey to Worlds
- The Ultimate Otters Guide
- The Night Before Worlds
- Phoenixing through it all at the Regional Championship
- Post coming a little later this week
- Deck Selection
- Duskmourn First Impressions
- Stop Trying to Win
- What makes a good limited deck?
- First Bloomburrow Arena Open
- Vibes Draft
- Vintage cube 64-person Draft
- Breaks & Battle Boxing
- On Variance
- July MH3 Arena Open
- Bloomburrow Set Review - Rare & Mythic
- BLB Card ratings
- Bloomburrow Set Review - Commons
- Bloomburrow Set Review - Uncommons
- MORA WON VML!!!!!
- Pain and Magic and Me
- How to Communicate About Magic
- The One About Gameplay
- MH3 Arena Open
- Sweat the Small Things (How to evaluate cards better)
- How to Build a Sealed Deck
- How to learn a difficult constructed deck
- For the Love of the Game
- Arena Open Day 2 Draft 2
- Arena Open Draft #1 Breakdown (4-0)
- Announcement: Gyruda Quint guide is now public!
- How to Draft Flexibly
- More thoughts on slowing down, patience, and curiosity
- Surely Not
- Gyruda Quint: The Definitive Guide
- Magic is Very Hard
- AC5 Team Prep Recap (& Mulligan Guide)
- Sealed: The Draft Format (OTJ Early Thoughts)
- How to Learn any Limited Format (including OTJ!)
- You Have to Weigh It
- AC5 Testing Diary #2
- AC5 Testing Diary #3
- AC5 Testing Diary #4
- AC5 Testing Diary #1