Meet Shao. You'll be hearing her name a lot more around the Garden.

If you have been looking to get into @AzukiTCG but do not know how to begin or what the meta is or where to play, please join up in our community discord and look to play in our online newbie tournament! All are welcome but newbies have an advantage at some dope community donated prizing😉 Nows the time to jump in🔥 discord.gg/JAAwymdT

GameStop odds vs onchain platforms like @Beezie and @Collector_Crypt when chasing grails: $500 packs: Powerpacks: 0.1% chance to hit a $4k–$8k grail Beezie: 0.6% chance to hit a $5k–$12k grail $1000 packs: Powerpacks: 0.1% chance to hit a $8k–$16k grail Collector: 1% chance to hit a $8k–$20k grail Not only do Beezie and Collector offer more sought-after grails, your odds of hitting them are also 6–10x higher. And everything is fully verifiable onchain, while with GameStop you still have to trust that everything is fair behind the scenes. On top of that, they’re globally accessible, whereas Powerpacks seems to be limited to the US for now. As always, the more digital packs and tokenized collectibles find product market fit, the more traditional players and extractive models will try to get a piece of the pie. For now, I don’t see a single reason not to go onchain. Especially as a collector, you shouldn't trust but always verify. Collector and Beezie it is.

Mannerisms aside, this dude is explosive as fuck lmao 🤣

First time winning an @AzukiTCG locals tourney 🙏 Just the beginning, still lots to learn Shoutouts to everyone who gathered for @lchemist7’s birthday tonight at @g3nkitcg!

A Stanford study found that people who played Pokémon heavily as kids developed a small region of the brain that responds specifically to Pokémon characters. Researchers scanned adults who grew up playing on Game Boy and showed them images of Pokémon like Pikachu and Bulbasaur. Their brains lit up in the same exact spot, a consistent area in the visual cortex tied to recognizing specific categories of objects. The reason comes down to childhood. When you’re young, your brain is more flexible, and spending hours memorizing hundreds of similar-looking Pokémon essentially trained it to carve out space just for them. (via @Stanford)

Kevin O’Leary thinks the highest paying job right now is customer acquisition on social media “I used to pay those guys $48,000, now I’m paying them $250,000 because you can measure their work based on customer acquisition every week” “Most of them become contractors, they make half a million dollars a year because they know how to take content, turn it into a 59 second ad on social and acquire 200 customers” “Those people in their early 20’s are so valuable now. If you know how to use your phone, somebody wants to hire you”

Embrace the flames. tcg.azuki.com

A BTS look at the hand drawn art of the Matsuri IKZ promo card art - illustrated by Arnold Tsang (@steamboy33). Every card in the Azuki TCG is hand drawn by artists.

Art reveal - Sōryū no Rin promo card 🌊 Illustrated by Tomugi, this card will be added to every order once the final milestone is hit! tcg.azuki.com