Ben Weitz
Senior Game Designer at Wizards of the Coast. Former ML Engineer at Pinterest, Ph.D. in TCS. Ask me about designing Magic Cards! Or my monored cube! Or math! Or board games!
- Lost in top 8 sadly. Wasn’t meant to be. But I’m happy to have made a deep run with a self-made brew. Jeweled Colossus is the truth, just some nice chonk for the pump spells. Decklist here:
- Top 8 the Riftbound 10k at @scgcon.bsky.social with Ahri. Aiming for that trophy and to properly represent my midlane one-trick!
- Top 8 the Riftbound 10k at @scgcon.bsky.social with Ahri. Aiming for that trophy and to properly represent my midlane one-trick!
- Won our #wotcstaff Avatar Limited tournament today. I won the Spider-Man one too a few months ago! Perhaps only mostly washed :)
- My favorite adds to monored cube from Lorwyn Eclipsed! #wotcstaff
- Brion Stoutarm is my forever-favorite commander. I've had my Brion deck for 15+ years. I was super happy the ECL set team asked me to design a new member of the Stoutarm family. Bre is great in my Brion deck, but with her own buildaround power for any new fans. #wotcstaff
- Just updated my cube overviews to be a little more sales pitchy for the next CubeCon. Now that I've played in one, I understand the mechanics of how people choose the cubes to play (it is quite an overwhelming process). And advertising that I'm #wotcstaff probably doesn't hurt :)
- 2025 was an incredible year for me and has brought me a lot of happiness. I met my wonderful girlfriend, I saw the successful release of several work projects I put a lot of effort into, and I found a new card game to compete in. Really excited for 2026!
- My favorite card of the year is Teval, arbiter of virtue. The text never changed in from my brain to print, just the mana cost and power toughness. I think it’s super fun, you can get big pop off turns but it’s risky and you’re often balanced on a knife’s edge. The art is also incredible. #wotcstaff
- New upgrades to the monored cube! I’m in love with the nevys disk
- Ordered Chinese takeout, now have a fire roaring making s’mores for a 5 year old while listening to Bob Dylan. Merry Christmas from an American Jew everybody!
- Doing some coloring and wood puzzles with my niece this fine Christmas Eve
- Doing some nice calm model building with my mom for her birthday. We’ve got the train car done but the surrounding setting to go!
- Played a full box sealed grab bag at work today and went 3-0 with this nice crime mill deck. Shoutout to Unlicensed Hearse for the DSK matchups and Dave Humpherys for making the 1B vampire mill target player.
- Have had some banger monored cube drafts recently. Been trying to add cards to laser-focus buff some strategies and it seems to have worked. Combo cube has also improved after cutting half the under supported stuff to properly support the other half. Feeling proud of my work.
- Heading to dinner with some PT winners
- Ended up 5-4, at least I have my “better-than-50%” pride. Lost to kaisa more than I was hoping to, I thought my list was at least reasonable against it though not favored. I should have played 3 jeweled colossus.
- Three rounds in and I’m 2-1 at Riftbound Houston. My loss was super close too, this game is really fun! Charm and Thousand-Tailed Watcher please take me home. #ahribestgirl
