Meet at the Clubhouse — Mudwater Season, Chapters Forming Live on Stage

Baron opened with the week's board: a 1/1 found, a serialized card pulled, Dr. Dave grabbing a grail, and a New York Mudwater event on deck. Makaveli set the tone a minute earlier — OGs buying back their apes, Mudwater boxes turning into mutants — with a cheerful "what a time to be alive."

Asked for the proper etiquette, Grateful Ape kept it simple: DM him, or comment under his GM if you're not mutuals. He misses things on the timeline, so if you're cooking, say so. illa immediately suggested opening every DM with "orange is the best background," which Spen noted is an excellent way to get put at the bottom of the list 7:11.

Beyond Friday's tournament, the big items were an FAQ ("my last post around some questions made it known to me that there's some clarity that needs to be put out there") and a deck builder for the demo site so people can curate decks and get a feel for play before the more competitive side of Mudwater rolls out.

Instrumental in the first ApeFest, now running one of the first IRL Mudwater gatherings. His card is in the PSA system — likely one of the first times graders have seen a Mudwater card. The NY plan: learn to play, bring duplicates and commons to swap, then the speakeasy. Pink slips and ante are explicitly a later-stage activity, once everyone's actually good 11:23.

GreenVisorGang.eth came off a birthday weekend with New York apes at Jed's, where a few packs got him hooked — his first foil was Curtis walking on water. Binder and sleeves acquired, he planned to sit down with his girls and rip. Spen's response: the best part has been turning apes who weren't TCG people into TCG people, and "I always say it's the next pack that has the hit" 13:38.

MBA Memo, now described as the club's new wheeler-dealer, put out a very specific want ad: a tequila ape, cowboy hat, zombie eyes, zombie fur. TheHodlrCollective pulled it up on the spot — exactly one exists, the owner also holds two CryptoPunks and a Mega Mutant, which illa translated as "code for he's not even answering your DMs" 21:30. Memo also shouted out OTC for matching Dr. Dave with the orange-background lab coat ape he'd listed a day or two earlier.

ProfitsOverWages arrived mid-scroll, admitted she still hasn't opened anything ("I have an issue. Like, I have a problem" 24:47), and made the case that the club's real distinction is people who tried other communities first, got burned, and found this one before they quit crypto entirely. At 28:32 she doubled back for the actually urgent thing: it was Election Day, polls open till 7 ET, and the Stand With Crypto voter hub lists where candidates stand.

Recovered from the ApeFest virus (new policy: dapping only, no hugs — a crown and coke was shared, and he has regrets), Hype reported a 24-hour Mudwater stream with ~30,000 total views and ~8,000 persistent, pitched local West Coast shops on BAYC, and planned to walk into a weekend card show with his cards to show people what a Mudwater enthusiast looks like.

TheHodlrCollective: 100+ profiles already created, and the dev shipped a job/listing board on top of it — need a dev or an artist, post it; want work, apply. Dupes later took public credit for feeding in the idea, which Lost accepted with grace and a promise to do it again 55:14.

Burningbush came up assuming he was Kentucky's only ape and would have to join North Carolina by proxy. Within four minutes, Gm had revealed a year of quiet chapter-organizing with KewlChick, a Churchill Downs meetup invite that got exactly one reply, and the discovery that she and Burningbush live close enough to fix that. illa, watching it happen: "Right now, the Kentucky chapter is forming on the stage."