Mike "MTGJedi" Lanigan | The Sandbox.Space Weekly #118 (September 2nd, 2026)
We had a really cool conversation with the MTGJedi about finding stable income and community while going through the daily grind of rearranging one's life around game development.
Mike "MTGJedi" Lanigan is a man of many talents. Former math teacher turned YouTuber (https://www.youtube.com/MtgJedi), streamer (https://www.twitch.tv/mtgjedi), and board game dev, he successfully kickstarted (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alariaquest/alaria-quest-the-goblin-kings-dungeon) his first published tabletop card game "Alaria Quest: The Goblin King's Dungeon", a fast-paced dungeon crawl that sees 1-4 players using a poker deck in brand-new ways, and is bringing it to GDEX. You can find out more about him and his welcoming community of game enthusiasts, The Jedi Academy, through https://mtgjedi.com/
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Music generously provided by Sean Beeson (https://www.seanbeeson.com)
