Maxtortion

Since I’ve been getting a lot of new followers, here’s some quick hits about me: - competitive legacy player - makes weekly YouTube vids, YT🔗 @maxtortionMTG - mechanical R&D engineer in medical devices - married to @manishaonline.bsky.social - got 2 great boys, 6 and 4 y/o - got 1 great cat, 6 y/o

6-2'd the Legacy Showcase Challenge with UB Tempo/Midrange for 20th place ✅ 2-1 Eldrazi ❌ 1-2 Mardu Energy ✅ 2-0 BW D&T ✅ 2-0 UB Tempo ❌ 0-2 UB Tempo ✅ 2-0 UB Tempo ✅ 2-1 Oops All Spells ✅ 2-1 UR Affinity

To celebrate the 8th night of Hanukkah, we adorned some homemade latkes with caviar, crème fraîche, and lox, and paired it with sparking rosé

1-6 in Premodern tonight. After years of basically just playing formats where I have expertise, it’s cool wading into a format where my lack of experience shows so clearly. I’m excited to keep learning the format and watch myself improve 💪

Premodern Is Coming To Magic Online Read More Here👉 www.mtgo.com/news/premode...

Some people use Magic Online to chase MOCS invites. Others use it for high-stakes testing. Some just want to play leagues in their underwear. I use it to set new personal records in Goatbots “suggested card swaps.”

🏆 Another one, so the deck gets a name: UB Tamishow (I put the decklist in the alt text this time)

Using the "Tempo Reanimator" deck building philosophy and instantly 5-0'd with this Tempo S&T deck. I don't think my exact card choices are optimal, but the archetype felt very good. You also get cute synergies of using Ancient Tomb to crack a Clue and stuff like that.

Riftbound seems interesting but I don’t even have the bandwidth to play Premodern, let alone learn and acquire cards for another game 😕

Split the finals of the Legacy Challenge with RG Eldrazi. This feels more in my happy place and where I want to be in Legacy right now. 2-0 Esper Vial 2-1 Affinity 1-2 Dimir Tempo 2-0 Dimir Tempo 2-1 Cradle Nadu 2-1 Affinity QF 2-1 UR Delver SF2-0 Loam Pox Finals 2-0 Dimir Tempo #mtgo #mtglegacy

Trophy #1 with GREEN MACHINE! 2-1 saga storm 2-1 nadu breakbast 2-1 lands 2-1 moon stompy 2-0 ub reanimator

Here are 4 standard-legal cards I think are neat and make me happy when I get to play with and against them in non-rotating formats. "Designing for Eternal" is broke. Let the cool Magic cards trickle down to their forever homes.

Format HEALTH CHECK after ETERNAL WEEKEND w/ Maxtortion youtu.be/_w4o680nbFk

I tried making an Eternal Weekend recap video but I'm too tired and keep stumbling over my words, so instead I'm just going to give you my sideboard guides for Vintage BUG Lurrus and Legacy UB Reanimator. Thank you to everyone for an amazing and unforgettable weekend ❤️

These are the decks I used to Top 4 Vintage Champs and Top 32 Legacy Champs at Eternal Weekend NA Vintage: BUG Lurrus Legacy: UB Reanimator Keep your eyes peeled for a video where I dive deep on these decks, how to approach expected matchups, and provide free sideboard guides

Another celebratory photo!

Top 4 in Vintage and Top 32 in Legacy! 💥 What an incredible weekend (and the results aren’t half bad either)

It felt wrong to have won and top 4’d consecutive Vintage Champs events without owning one of these, so I decided to rectify that issue 🪷

6-3 Day 1 of Legacy (5-2 in matches played due to Vintage top 8) Great opponents and great vibes. Excited to battle more tomorrow!

TOP 8 BABYYYYY Back 2 back 😎

It’s time for Vintage at Eternal Weekend!

I can't wait to battle, but more importantly, to see everyone 😊

At the risk of being controversial, I really like the new Taylor Swift album 🤷‍♂️

I can’t believe Eternal Weekend NA is less than 2 weeks away! Can’t wait to see everyone

Atraxa and Archon had both been exiled, so I decided to copy my opponent's win condition instead

It was a pleasure to be on the @eternalwitnesses.bsky.social podcast and talk about Eternal Weekend prep! We’re a few weeks away from EW NA and I can’t wait 🔥

Thank you to @eternalwitnesses.bsky.social for having me on! We had a blast and did good coverage on EW prep for legacy and vintage

Eternal Weekend Update 🚨 The high-stakes Legacy event has been moved from Sunday to Friday, now coinciding with the Vintage main event! Awesome news for the Legacy community. (For clarity, the Legacy main event is still Saturday & Sunday)

Full EW Schedule is up!!

The full 2025 NA #EternalWeekend event schedule will be posted tonight!

This Vintage Championship week on Magic Online is now live!! This is a great way to get some serious testing in for Eternal Weekend, and if your priorities are like mine, to try and win the Psychic Frog avatar 🌀🐸

In exactly one month, I’ll be trying to run it back as Vintage Champion at Eternal Weekend NA! So hyped 🔥

Eternal Weekend Badges and Main Event Entry are up!!

Eternal Weekend badges + main event tickets go on sale tomorrow!

Top 4'd the Friday Night Legacy Challenge with UB Reanimator! I can't keep getting away with this* *playing only 3 Thoughtseize

I recorded a 5-0 🏆 League with UB Reanimator! But a trophy isn't the same as perfect play... so I went full Tryhard Mode with @eureka22422.bsky.social to find every mistake. Eternal Weekend prep starts here 👇 youtu.be/Ue06xNpVb4g

🥈 Got 2nd place in the Friday Vintage Challenge with slightly teched Esper Lurrus Stony Silence over Null Rod because of Flame of Anor. Ironically lost the finals to a Flame of Anor deck while holding Stony Silence and missing white mana. So it goes 😬

You can’t spell Shake Shack without Kesha

I hope Secrets of Strixhaven next year has a Stone Rain with Learn called Turf Destruction as a nod to its legally-distinct IP influence.

ITS HAPPENINGGGGG

As we're ramping up for Eternal Weekend, it seems like a good time to get back into releasing Legacy and Vintage videos! Starting off with a classic, turbocharged by the new Tezzeret, we've got Bomberman! youtu.be/tTCNwoJcUdE

Purchased a playset of the new Tezzeret so I could try @dethfrmabove.bsky.social 's Tezz PO list, and it did not disappoint! Stock Up and Tezz give this deck a serious density of bangers 🔨

Happy August to all who celebrate 🗓️

🚨🚨New Episode Alert🚨🚨 open.spotify.com/episode/7t0E... This week, our hosts discuss a legacy 1k they played, give an update on Mark's Eldrazi deck, and dive into the new set (with a focus on Tezzeret, Cruel Captain)

It can sometimes be fun to be part of the problem 🧟

Happy 11th wedding anniversary to the light of my life @manishaonline.bsky.social ❤️

Despite accidentally playing 2 Islands instead of Island Swamp, I managed to Top 8'd the Vintage Challenge, and then scooped the QF to go to July 4th stuff with the kiddos. Unsure if the pair of Tamiyo is better or worse than the pair of Bowmasters I cut to make room. They performed well enough 🤷‍♂️