I elected to fill out my Kadena commander deck; I'm in the throes of receiving PWEs with cards, but hopefully soon I'll get a chance to take it for a spin.

There were some sneak peeks at Tarkir: Dragonstorm cards, and I'm cautiously excited. Dragons are good, Tarkir is good, Wedge clans is good. Only downside is it looks like there isn't any face-down stuff to act as a smoother. I would be super excited to see a Tarkir D&D book, though it looks like the next one of that sort will be a Lorwyn/Shadowmoor one.

It occurred to me recently that the last time I participated in a prerelease at Backstage was when I helped man the KTK one, more than a decade ago. Seems appropriate to bookend that absence with another Tarkir set. I'm thinking about nabbing a full run of the prere kits so I can get one of each spindown.

The Monsterpocalypse Kickstarter was a dud and consequently a huge loss for me - I had gone in hard on that game. Privateer Press will be releasing STLs as an apology for Mythic's mismanagement, starting with neutral buildings, G.U.A.R.D., and Planet Eaters. Hopefully I can get my brother to print those in resin for me, and get a run of cards and a mat or two printed. I'm glad to at least see something come of that.

EX1 is finally here! I've been excited for this set for a long time. Looking forward to cracking this open and tweaking most of my decks. In particular Vee Jamming may get a solid once-over - I might switch it to a blue-green Imperialdramon build instead.

I recently got a gaming laptop. It's nice having something that can reliably run games. Gonna be on a 4x trip here soon with Endless Legend I think.

I also built a new deck in Arena. Neoform plus Sea Gate Stormcaller is a sweet combo.

I decided to buy into Ikoria. Once I've burned through the packs playing Winston and Sealed I'll be making a set-emulation cube, like my Khans cube.