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Aragon & Arwen edition
>Bans (new)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted- february-9-2026
>News
The 2025 Magic Con and Pro Tour Schedule:
https://www.magic.gg/news/the-2025-magiccon-and-pro-tour-schedule
>Metagame Mentor: The Winners and Losers from Standard's 2025 Rotation
https://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from- standards-2025-rotation
>Spoilers
http://www.magicspoiler.com/
https://mythicspoiler.com/
CONSTRUCTED RESOURCES
>Current meta, complete with deck lists
https://www.mtgtop8.com/
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/
>Build and share casual decks
https://deckstats.net/
https://tappedout.net/
CUBE RESOURCES
>Build and share Cubes
https://cubecobra.com/landing
CARD RESOURCES
>Search engines
https://scryfall.com/
https://mtg.wtf/
>Proxy a deck or a cube for cheap
https://www.makeplayingcards.com/
https://pastebin.com/9Xj1xLdM
>Play online for free
https://untap.in/
https://dr4ft.info/
>What is EDH?
https://vocaroo.com/1ihc21gJLBh1
>The Slop is for the Pigs. Pigs eat Slop.
https://x.com/RealPokemoki/status/1972817965847617963
>WotC's War Crimes
https://pastebin.com/JRYDiAjq (OLD)
https://pastebin.com/nEcKGAys (NEW)
>Previously
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>TQ
Fave gold card?
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>>97609496
Opps
>Previously
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There you go.
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Anything new, my piggas?
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Play pauper
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I was roleplaying that I still play this game, I was looking into the idea of making a new Brawl deck with a Commander from the new set, and I saw there are 72 different TMNT Commanders. My god.
If you put a gun to my head and say I have to make a new Brawl deck with a TMNT commander... my first choice is Splinter, Radical Rat, and my second choice is Mona Lisa, Science Geek (only because I think she cute).
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Tap this
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>>97609511
Burning it all
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My bros are hounding me to play modern with them, i can't decide for life of me what fucking deck to play. I narrowed it down to Esper Phelia, Monoblack Necrodominance and Simic Oculus. Throw me some opinions fampais.
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>hates everthing about modern magic
>still has to put a happy spin at the end of every rant
Why does he do this? How long until he breaks?
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>>97611485
>Why does he do this?
Sunk cost + financial dependency + peer pressure from gay globalist + withering spirit + allowed the game to become part of his ego + anxiety about his own inadequacy trapping him in the status quo
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>>97611377
Slivers. Do an infinite combo with intruder alarm if you're feeling like brewing
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mogged
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>>97609511
No but we will have it good with TMNT and StarTrek
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>>97611768
Pathetic
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>>97611485
Combination of him letting MtG become part of his identity as a person, and the fact that MtG has one of the worst fanbases on the planet where you're just not allowed to say anything negative about the game (this was true even pre-2011).
Victim of toxic positivity.
The most ironic thing is he's now blacklisted ny WotC because he says anything negative AT ALL. He has no financial incentive to remain positive. He just does it because he's indoctrinated by the playerbase into believing you can't say anything negative without a disclaimer that you could be ruining the fun for some hypothetical retard out there that thinks printing 20 The One Rings every set would somehow improve the game.
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From 0 to 10 where 0 is "Fuck WotC and Hasbro should burn in hell" and 10 is a "Will go to my LGS prerelease, consume this product, buy several boxes/packs and enjoy it"
What's your final opinion on TMNT
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>>97611804
I won't buy any sealed product or draft, but there's a ton of singles I'm going to pick up to play with. I don't give a shit about flavor and the mechanics design of the set is pushed as hell. What does that make me? an 8?
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>>97611804
0. this is literally spiderslop all over again, wotc threatening content creators will stop such negative reception because not a lot of them will be able to say how garbage this is, but it is an absolute and utter shit every single card of it.
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>>97611789
What did you sell??
>>97611377
Something like this. Need mana, haste and draw sliver along with intruder alarm. Then you play your deck. Mill out if you can't hit for lethal, Sprout swarm gives you infinite etb triggers.
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Why don't you have an Olympic gold medalist gf to open packs with, anon?
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>>97611804
3/10
I am an Arena only player, and I engage as a 'free-to-play' player. I will play a draft or two and add some cards to my brawl deck, but that's it. I am personally more excited for Shadowverse WB's new set, Apocalypse Pact, than I am for the TMNT set.
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>>97611885
Started in original Theros and up until about a year ago I would do draft/sealed every Wednesday and Friday. Just sold off all the expensive stuff I had sitting around and all but a couple kitchen table decks that I liked to play with my friends. There's a new store near me buying up collections for 60%, I negotiated them up to 65%.
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>>97611932
>Olympic gold medalist gf
I bet she used lots of condoms with other medalists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYOJVXb8EwM
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>Happy Tree Friends
not old enough for wotc to have member berries for it.
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>>97611885
Dregscape sliver for getting effects and etbs out of the grave yard. Looting sliver for getting rid of extra lands in hand. Homing sliver for tutoring dormant sliver. Pick some 1 cmc slivers as filler. Phantasmal image is boring but an option.
White's sliver are combat oriented and not good outside of aggro.
>>97611977
$30K is an insane amount so spend on cardboard, even if it was expendable money. That's like 230 booster boxes, 575 pounds of cards. I've spent less the $3k in over two decades on TCGs
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>>97612034
I think I've bought maybe 5 or 6 boxes in 10 years playing Magic. Most of what I spent was just 40 or 50 dollars per week drafting. The most I ever spent on a single card was like 100$. Plus I went through about a 4 year period where I could never actually draft because I was working nights. Still a lot of money looking back, but 50 dollars per week isn't budget breaking.
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>>97610191
Premodern is the only good format now. Limited is gay because the new sets are gay, every other format has been riddled with faggot shit.
>>97611485
Well, it's his job now and I doubt he'd want to give up his cushy position of making a living off of talking about cards.
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>>97612060
That adds up. I play constructed so I know how much each card approximately cost. Most I spent on singular cards were $45 fetch lands
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>>97612164
Are you insane, man? EDH hasn't been good for about 12 years. All of the garbage they've printed explicitly for EDH has completely ruined it. The format was fun when people were building their decks by combing through the 50 cent box.
>commander ninjutsu
>eminence
>etc., etc., etc.
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I play CIA glowniggers, targeting your dog with their enter the battlefield ability 'Colt M4 Carbine'.
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>>97611485
It's called acting. He portrays the opinion of grumpy old man. While getting paid to hang out with trannies and play magic. Backstage they call him The Prober.
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>>97612225
What happened to all the people sperging out about guns in Magic? What happened to all the people crying about Duskmourn being anachronistic? Did they all start playing Yu Gi Oh? Did they finally transition?
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>>97612492
Friendly reminder the Golden Age of Magic is coming and all because of one UB set that turn this dying game into something actually great.
All Hail Captain Jean Luc Picard!
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>>97612107
>every other format has been riddled with faggot shit.
Name one thing wrong with pauper.
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>>97612663
>he doesnt have decently sized friend group to play homebew decks with custom deck restrictions (like for example: no sets made after 2022)
I am impressed you found courage to answer me on 4chan, social outcast.
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Fun fact: Phyrexia is fucking gay and the Mirrans should have won.
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>>97611804
>What's your final opinion on TMNT
About a negative 6 for me.
I would have been happy giving it a 3 or 4 but just about every fucking aspect of it that could be fucked up, they did fuck up. Over-saturated with legendaries. Pizza as the primary set theme for some fucking reason. Hideous art. A UB set is bad enough, but a terrible one is a special kind of bad.
It has all the same problems as Spiderman, but every one of them is worse.
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>>97612794
Just like they rigged Ixalan poll. It was a marketing ploy that showed WOTC how out of touch with their audience they are.
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How the fuck do you talk about Standard without knowing the recent "boom in Nebraska" meme? Especially in light of the player number reporting getting revealed as fake even more recently?
Or, as we used to say back in the day
>lurk moar, newfag
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>>97612819
>Just like they rigged Ixalan poll. It was a marketing ploy that showed WOTC how out of touch with their audience they are.
Facts. You'd figure if you're going to rig a poll, you'd just rig it in the direction everyone was voting for to begin with.
WotC is as talentless as it is completely incompetent.
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>First TMNT garbage
>Then Pic related
>Ultimately Trek Shit
Fuck man this year is depressing, what to do?
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>>97612752
Fun Fact: Phyrexia is MtGs version of the Borg, so Trek is in fact appropriate as a plane
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>>97612872
>I will never forgive them. I hope that Reality Fracture will at least give us a peek into the better timeline where the phyrexians were squashed.
In Jace Beleren's Darkplace, Elesh Norn was a competent antagonist who didn't build interplanar infrastructure for her enemies before eliminating herself along with her entire civilization.
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>>97612871
>This Sci-fi trash has robots
>If you think very hard Phyrexians can be count as robots too
>Therefore this Sci-fi fits perfectly in my fantasy card game!!! Alongise spaceships and laser guns!!!
Go to hell.
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>>97612830
>WotC is as talentless as it is completely incompetent.
No, they just set an agenda and force their audience to follow, then get surprised by pushback. There's an image of a magazine FAQ from 2003 about the card frame change where point 4 or something is "there's nothing you can do about this." Even though I personally quit competitive Magic then, things worked out just fine for WOTC financially. It wasn't until Time Spiral block that they saw feedback affecting their bottom line. Commander is the result of that.
>>97612826
Don't you know that everyone who posts on 4chan is the same person, anon? You are me and I am him and he is (You).
>>97612871
The reason nu-nu-Phyrexia has lost both the aesthetic and the fear is because the people who wrote the Borg experienced existential dread over the Cold War. The next generation of writers wrote what they felt the Borg should be, rather than going to the source, and each successive iteration diluted the essence. Same can be said about post-LOTR fantasy and post-TSR D&D: instead of dipping into the source's inspirations, later authors dip into the source itself, and their successors don't even go that far.
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>>97612940
Lets put it worse.
THIS is still legal in Pioneer.
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>>97612803
All of you are retards. Watch this
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>Loot just goes after asses instead
It's over.
Loot and Negaloot are going to combine forces to turn every woman in the multi-multiverse into Plank.
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Embrace tradition.
Come back to Premodern, /tg/.
Come back home.
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AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
IT IS I, TOOL
AND I'VE COME FROM JACE BELEREN'S DARKPLACE TO STRIP THE COSMOS OF BOOTY!!!!
NO ASS IS SAFE.
NO BEHIND WON'T BE MINE.
NO RUMP WILL STAY PLUMP.
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>>97613162
>So is it Lool or Toot that travels the multiverse giving women larger breasts?
Lool enhances boobs.
Toot enhances butts.
Obviously.
You know? I'm starting to think that MTG worldbuilding is actually decent after all!
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>>97611804
Right this second about a 3. We'll see what it looks like when I open the door to the LGS by rote habit and smell the room. Probably going to go to a 2.
>>97612184
Sometimes I wonder what an actual EDH format existed. Like only cards from before the first direct-to-Commander product was printed. A pre-modern for EDH if you will.
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How long until we get a variant of Disguise where the Ward cost is Blight?
How many Matryoshka mechanical layers can we go before the game starts to collapse?
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>>97613273
That exists and is called PreDH and people do brew it but I do not know if anyone actually plays it. The cut off is New Phyrexia because the first product released after that was the og batch of cummander decks.
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Mono White did nothing wrong. Free Palestine.
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>>97613273
Dual Commander decks go back to 2009 in mtgtop8. Rhys the Redeemed is the only deck running mass land destruction.
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>>97612871
The Weatherlight saga is heavily inspired by both Star Trek and Lord of the Ring but it doesn't mean they are a perfect fit in mtg. (although from all UB we had lord of the rings fit really well and star trek could be good)
>>97612907
It is not a simple Borg are Robots and Phyrexian are Robots.
It is a "the phyrexians act like the borg on assimilating other characters and giving new identities in the ""hive mind"" and craving to assimilate all life into their perfected life form".
If you look back you can see clear references of OG star trek in the weatherlight saga.
>>97612911
Yep. New writers are also talentless hacks who doesn't deserve to be paid as much as they get working at wotc.
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>bone shards
>dark betrayal
>Vendetta
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Anyone else feel like the mtg economy bubble will pop soon? We've already seen the second largest tcg (yugioh) experience this due to player resentment; mtg is also experiencing record high player resentment with every social page and content creator openly talking about how shit the game is right now. Numerous reports of tmnt pre release/draft being canceled at LGS's, mine are included in that. So many people openly using fake/proxy cards that LGS's cant turn them away. If you were using fakes in early 2000s you got effectively blackballed from the magic community...
I dunno, but for the first time in two decades of people saying "magic is dying!!!" This is the first time I've felt like thats true. I'm feeling really inclined to dump my reserve list/chase cards. If consumer confidence/player sentiment drops further I think the game will retract heavily. I dont think the game will ever truly "die" outright but I can forsee its popularity and ubiquitous nature fading, and the prices along with it ala ygo and so many sports cards lines.
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>>97613573
When WotC does the inevitable Mega Man crossover in about 3-5 years, I hope that Due Vendetta is a card.
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>>97613642
>Anyone else feel like the mtg economy bubble will pop soon?
The problem is, we live in an era where most financiers and accountants know how to both fudge numbers to prevent collapse, cheat numbers to prevent panic, and spread cashflow thin to sustain dying business. This has been baked into the discipline since the 2008 collapse.
Bubbles don't pop anymore. They whimper and die, persisting for decades entirely on the momentum of fiscal lies and pretend hype.
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>>97613668
Acoording to which data, Mark? Because i think your Kike surveys are not reflecting the actual reality of this community lmao, day of the rope for your and your team seems near than ever disingenuous faggot.
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Buy an ad. You post this identical ad every thread.
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ebin
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>>97613886
It's just so tiresome seeing people constantly shilling. Its not discussion or giving resources like a pastebin about the format. It's just the same regurgitated shit every time that clogs up the thread with garbage spam.
>But you can just buy proxies
Yeah, I'm sure the fact all the staples have skyrocketed in price has nothing to do with the spam here and everywhere else. Complete coincidence and nobody made a bucket load of money from this shit.
>But it's a fan format
So was EDH once. Doesn't mean shit when once it gets popular.
>But you just want people to play UB/standard
No, that's ad hominem, untrue, and has nothing to do with spamming the thread with shill posts. If I was spamming Play...Standard you'd have an argument but you have nothing.
Fuck off.
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4 Mox Diamond
4 Anvil of Bogardan
4 Ensnaring Bridge
4 The Rack
1 Cursed Scroll
1 Nether Spirit
3 Megrim
4 Bottomless Pit
4 Diabolic Edict
4 Dark Ritual
13 Swamp
3 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Factory
3 Cabal Pit
4 Duress
could this work in premodern?
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imagine
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>>97614107
God, I believe it. The Scars book was so bad I, previously a religious novel-buyer, stopped following the fluff entirely. Not that it matters much I guess since I'm pretty sure they stopped doing a novel for every new set shortly after that and mostly moved to vomitous blog blurbs instead.
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>>97614107
Can we starting campaigning for better design under the banner of the Mirrans?
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>>97614172
I always play with my hand sitting facedown on the table when its not my turn and think flicking your cards and constant shuffling is retarded. But how would you even enforce that? What constitutes illegal hand shuffling?
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>>97613524
Toxic deluge is basically a wrath version of that.
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1v1 EDH with a very extended banlist would be the best MTG experience
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>>97614202
To be fair there are lots of cool and interesting cards that could be playable in other standard eras of mtg but because we are in FIRE era they are by default garbage. Standard has turn 3 decks and lots of turn 4 decks.
(pic is not one of those, but I was looking at foundations cards (for the first time) and saw this pearl )
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It's sad that the AI-generated version of this card to be more lore accurate to a book description looks legitimately better. Maybe too pale? It still has the huge fundamental problem of looking vaguely science fiction or too high fantasy. If you told me this was FF16 or FF14 character art, I would believe it. Just doesn't look like LOTR.
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>>97614421
Here's the spiderman Ai guy's Aragon
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>>97614202
Looking through the list of cards in FDN is always funny because it's a nonstop "Wait, that's in Standard right now?" experience.
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>>97614269
Yes, the proxy answer is a defense. But there is no posting of details for how to get them, no information about where to play the game, no talking about different match ups. It's just spamming to play premodern in an attempt to pump the prices. And always near identical spam too, so clearly it's ritual posting or more likely someone sitting around with boxes full of old cards wanting to sell them.
My friend was banned from my LGS for using proxies. I can't just show up to an LGS and slap down my proxied deck no matter what faggots on here say.
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>Hasn't been able to do FNM since ECL because of my new job
I'm gonna be really pissed if I never get to run standard with these guys as my wincons before they rotate.
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>>97614252
we have that
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/duel_commander#paper
https://mtgtop8.com/format?f=EDH
the extensive banlist helps a lot but there's only so much you can do when they release like 5000 commander products every month, each of them having at least one to two payables
the format has macro archetype variety but the vast majority of decks are defined by EDH cards released in the last 2 years or so
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>>97614503
Once more, are you retarded? Everyone has access to any search engine. Beyond that, a piece of paper you write on slipped into a sleeve with a basic land is perfectly acceptable. It's an unsanctioned format. If you want to start running events, talk with your LGS owner and run the proxy thing by them. Beyond that, just get in touch with the local community. Every tournament I've played in so far has been in either a cafe or pub. Again, you sound retarded putting forth the idea that anyone is trying to use reverse psychology to sell collections. Use your brain, dickhead. It's the best format in magic right now by far since it hasn't been raped to death by powercreep and hasn't been faggified with UB or woke bullshit. It's the game we love from when we were kids, it's just a good time. I'd love if people here were to start discussing it.
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>>97614535
You sound very defensive. Is me calling you out causing you that much of an issue? An LGS makes money from selling cards. If you start using proxies they get shitty with you, that has always been my experience.
>Every tournament I've played in so far has been in either a cafe or pub
Lol, lmao even. I can just imagine a bunch of smelly sweaty nerds getting together in a nice cafe or pub. Their retarded loud laughter, their unkempt appearance. Sounds completely plausible lmao. Now you're just making shit up. Pics or it didn't happen you autist.
>t's the best format in magic right now by far since it hasn't been raped to death by powercreep and hasn't been faggified with UB or woke bullshit
There are plenty of ways to play magic without it being the modern shit heap. Premodern is far from the best format because everything is being pumped so hard. Play cube, play block constructed, play kitchen table magic with an agreement to not make OP bullshit.
You are part of the problem, not the solution. You're clearly trying to use the right's hatred of woke shit to con them into buying overpriced cards. You disgust me.
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>>97614585
Alright, confirmed tard.
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>>97614515
NGL 2 headed giant commander is probably the most fun Ive had playing MTG recently.
Its the fun deck building of commander but without the autistic politics and instead whispering silently and sharing hands with a teammate. Itsfun
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Mark has seen all episodes of Hazbin Hotel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XioQwxQQSjA
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Any of you play Vintage?
I'm kind of jealous of all the sweet cards Vintage players get to cast, but at the same time I know I'd be raging uncontrollably whenever I lose my League entry fee to opponents drawing those broken cards.
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>Oops all Kaitos
Redditors really think Standard died because of UB and not because the OTJ/BLB/DSK shitfecta turned the format with the worst interaction into a turn 3 format. They're even still clinging to the 2 year rotation cope, adorable.
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I remember when each of those sets came out people talked about them not being powerful. Aside from duskmourn. I just think it's funny how people say "this new standard set has a lower power level" about every busted set on release
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Planar Standard sounds like it would be good as fuck if WotC hadn't printed OTJ and DSK.
Even in that case, I fully support it. But remember, players looking for a non-UB format is NOT AN INDICATOR THAT PLAYERS WANT SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE UB
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Hey guys, I'm new to Magic: The Gathering and was looking for some advice. My usual D&D group invited me to play with them and I need some help building a deck. They said I'm going to need a commander to build around and I was wondering if there were any "noob friendly" options for me that aren't too hard to pick up. Also I was wondering how competitive a budget deck can be. I'm wondering there's any budget alternatives to the must-includes like Black Lotus.
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>>97615063
>Hey guys, I'm new to Magic: The Gathering and was looking for some advice.
Quit. Immediately.
Of all the shit games in the world, MTG is by far the shittest. MTG is not worth your money. It is not worth your time. It isn't even worth your attention.
Your friends are all idiots for getting suckered into playing the shittest game to ever disgrace the gaming market since the invention of mancala.
Slap all your friends for being so stupid. They deserve it.
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>>97611485
>modern audiences are insanely effeminated faggots who will have a nervous breakdown if the thing they build their entire identity and social circle around is ever criticized
>content creator guy has to repeat two positive messages every half sentence to not getting autistic cattle uppity
You can see this with any content shitter that tries to not glaze something.
On one hand, it is pretty fucking pathetic, on the other it is understandable that he has to slop out content to pander to literal pigs that will murder you for saying words they dont like.
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Black lotus is banned in commander. It’s a multiplayer game so literally any decent deck is fine. Yes even budget ones. Listen to the vocaroo in the OP for more details.
>It is not worth your time. It isn't even worth your attention.
I’m not here to defend modern mtg but if it’s not even worth your attention why are you posting in the mtg general?
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>Innit
>innit?
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>decided to check two "latest" TMNT movies because of new set
>its actually not horrible
Peak Megan Fox was great as April
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Please please please tell me I'm not the only one that used to watch Evan Irwin do the Magic Show on youtube back in the day.
I miss Evan and Brad doing the complete set reviews.
https://youtu.be/95ahNQRVSXk?si=y_z4PPAsGRTyMR7r
https://youtu.be/10piG3HW788?si=QASRdxM3Ba0n7qzS&t=3173
>three dudes.....seriously?
>magical christmas land
>trading post
>can't have good cards without bad cards
>limited ALLstar
>Pie bet?
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Too bad he does the most boring content while the game is at the height of its popularity.
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>real job
wasn't he a literal professor of English at a junior college?
I remember when he made card sleeve review and deck box reviews back in the early 2010's.
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>Any of you play Vintage?
I do, mostly dredge and MWI
>at the same time I know I'd be raging uncontrollably whenever I lose my League entry fee to opponents drawing those broken cards.
this is the first thing you get used to once you start to get familiar with the format, don't worry too much about it
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Yeah, he has a degree in creative writing or some shit (literally worthless, pun intended)
but youtube probably pays the bills and some more
As i said, it's understandable why he does it like he does because if you want to big money in any entertainment industry, you have to gobble up corporate dick and pander to the worst abominations of people which are modern consumers.
You'd have to swallow any self-respect to do content, which you can clearly see on his face.
I mean, he seems like a chill nerd unc.
Shit like this is exactly why i only tell my worst enemies to go into content creation.
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>>97615666
God this picture encapsulates all that is wrong with this fucking game in the lsst years... Why? Why corpos think crossovers are needed?
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>>97615755
Anon, the three best-selling sets of all time (according to wotc themselves, at least) are UB, and you're asking why corporations, entities who solely exists to make as much money and create as much shareholder value as possible, want to do crossovers?
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>>97614252
Duel commander is like that, canlander is the same but no commander and no banlist (it uses a point system instead).
The Duel commander creator is making a new Duel format with points, after everyone else left because they were whiny babies.
Sadly all those formats are just tasteless goodstuff piles.
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>>97615762
Yes because it's worked so well in the past...
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>I play sonic the haghog
>fluttershy says that when creature with haste or flash enters the battlefield I can create friendship token
>recycling ("sacrificing" Is problematic word, bigot) friendship token with Optimus prime allows me to search 4 permanents with 4 different names from my deck and put them on playtable (battlefield is too aggressive word, chud)
>I search my deck for Tinky Winky, Po, Laa-Laa, and Dipsy
>"Teletubbies assemble" XD
>if I control 4 teletubies with 4 different names I am allowed to get the card I own from outside of game and play it without paying its manacost
>I play Jesus of Nazareth and copy his triggered ability "when Jesus of Nazareth enters the playtable all your opponents can't play cards("I am glad wotc changed "cast spells" wording, like why are creatures = spells" XD) for the rest of the game winning this game"
>"friendship is magic" xd
>next game I will show you my "hawk tuah, queen of saliva deck"
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>The Duel commander creator
he's not the creator, he's literally the website/social media tech guy
>after everyone else left because they were whiny babies.
they didn't leave, he pushed everyone out of the website + social media, even if they wanted to talk about it they had no way of reaching him anymore, he cut all contact
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>>97614896
>turned the format with the worst interaction into a turn 3 format.
Cool, so show me the turn 3 mono white deck. Oh wait it never exists since kikes hate White.
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>>97615179
I used these guys as shockland proxies. Just added a pay 2 life clause with sharpie. Tap lands are a massive tempo loss to the point they are putting upsides on tapped duals
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>>97616197
I stomp the turty
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>>97616197
>"I'm so excited about the new Turtles!"
Said no one ever, Crystal, at least be less obvious with your shitty lies, you can't start like this.
You deliver a huge garbage to every single Magic player, hipe you are proud and sleep well at night.
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>>97616449
Click on her first. She is here for the turtles. You can't make her be negative about the thing she was hired to do. I bet she likes turtles, unironically.
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>>97616508
Being hired was a mistake in the first place and seeing this whole set quality i have all the right to dump my negativity on her.
Pizzas, turtles, mutants and robots. Mediocre when not awful art, shit cards and obnoxious designs like Nu-Ninjutsu. Crystal, as TMNT set, was a mistake if you prefer.
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>>97616508
>that description
>invasive species
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>>97616568
The Turtle set's art is good compared to Lorwyn Eclipsed. She will probably get more work at wotc
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nta but i find lorwyn art ugly and straight up repulsive, so any art > lorwyn art for me
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>>97616886
This one is kinda meh
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This one is great though
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>>97617111
>ha! look! there's one or two dubiously ugly card arts so therefore you have to think all the rest of it is ugly even though its not!
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I bet you think this is an ugly card.
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>>97617195
>ha! look! there's one or two dubiously ugly card arts so therefore you have to think all the rest of it is ugly even though its not!
>he says as he posts ugly and repulsive art
You are cattle you have no own taste. bunch of pretentious artfags started "lorwyn art is so great" train and you jumped on it like a retarded uneducated swine you are
Pic related, this is how good mtg art looks
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>>97617205
Anon, I love furry babes more than you possibly ever could. And even though there's no furry babes in ECL you have to admit that the art is good, especially as a furry appreciator.
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>>97617276
You lost this battle, grandpa
3 most popular mtg sets are all UB sets, StarTrek will break it and make it 4. Nobody cares about
>muuuuuuuuuuuh mirrodin
>muuuuuuuuuuuh zendikar
>muuuuuuuuuuuh return to return to ravnica
MTG is now ACTUAL magical place now without cringe tryhard fantasy.hope were gonna get full fortnite set soon so people like you would just hang themselves.
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Patrick Sullivan
>Why are we doing all of these pushed stone rains?
>When I was working on WoW TCG...
Hair status: thinning faster than a starving African child
Patrick Chapin
>Do you actually have a problem with Armageddon if it just costs 5?
>I'm a Repulse truther!
Hair status: making 80s rockers jealous
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>>97617315
You are right pigg... I mean fellow Magic enthusiast!!! Now everything is possible!!! We can all enjoy a setting with Superheroes,Hot Dog Carts, Phasers aaaand PIZZA!!!
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>>97617382
keep being ironic
MTG is literally at peak of its popularity and UB is leading that peak.
What is your problem even? Whats the difference between me playing Spider Ham with X effect or some fucking "Karluga, Relentless Boar"(og donut still) with same X effect?
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I was skeptical about Avatar, but it proved to be a genuinely well put together set (even then it had an annoying amount of Legendary cards). TMNT looks like liquid shit from top to bottom, just like Spiderman and likely Marvel. I shan't be buying anything related to those products.
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>be the outcast of the group because i didnt like lorwyn eclipse at all
>two months of limited later and they all turned around
no you fucks. you dont get to join my side now. you will eat your shitty nostalgia pilled turd of a set and you will love every second of it.
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>nuLorwyn
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>>97617562
Mine has 13 on saturday and they are luring people in with "every participant gets 2 free packs"I unironically might go because i like turtles
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Lot more players = bigger sales, its that simple
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Well the bright side about flopped UBs is that if you happen to be one of the few people that's actually a huge fan of the IP you will be able to pick up as much product as you please, maybe even at a discount.
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>you have to admit that the art is good,
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and let me make this clear,
MAO.
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>>97617481
>no you fucks. you dont get to join my side now. you will eat your shitty nostalgia pilled turd of a set and you will love every second of it.
One of the craziest things of this kind of dynamic is how, even after they align their opinions to reality, people like this will both never admit they were wrong ("It was good on first impression!" / "It's still a great set, I'm just bored of it." etc.) AND never admit they were wrong for trying to ostracize you.
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>you have to admit that the art is good
Do I, anon?
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>Man who doesn't know anything about art attempts to claim that a middling piece is good.
Sorry, my friend. You are a layman. You are NOT coming out on top here.
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hating mkm and dft is reddit
>detectives in ravnica!
>they put a highway through amonkhet!
shut the fuck up, stop pretending like you care about the lore and clutching at pearls when WOTC writes something retarded, which they have done consistently since day 1 of this fucking game
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>When is art considered good?
>Well rendered with precise technique
>Accuracy of perspective, light and shadow
>Curated and thoughtful color palette
>Well-composed (Adhering to proper ratios, directs focus without being garish, fills the frame without overwhelming it etc.)
>Expressive without verging on kitsch or melodrama
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>>97617903
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>>97617895
Maybe 10 years ago it could have. But Star Trek Academy this year is doing abysmally after years of complete shit from kurtzman trek. Any momentum is gone, just like with capeshit, star wars, and everything else the woke mind virus has infected.
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>Do continue.
Sure bud.
>Full use of value range, or at least well-selected value range for the piece's expressive intent.
>Identifiable texture, ideally with a variety thereof.
>Readability of its visual story.
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It's a fairly static piece, lacking story but rendered well. Since the story is a commissioned "Depict this creature" we can largely forgive that.
The textures appear well-rendered, though it looks more like stone than unpolished platinum so I'd take away points for that, knowing the intent.
The harsh black-to-white gradient leaves the focal point feeling a little forced, but it works. Good use of leading lines between the wings, sword, legs and shield.
The color isn't so thrilling, but it works. I'm not fond of the "horizon line" that the dark mountain creates, it's distracting in a way that doesn't create interest.
It's alright. Certainly competent, a few failings but overall fully competent.
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very good art, Brom knows how to use a brush and canvas.
any modern "artist" that only does it digitally and calls himself an artist is the same as some vidya gaymer saying hes a real car racer because hes great at need for speed.
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If someone brought that piece to me as a study, I'd recommend softening the gradient slightly and adjusting the line created by the mountains to fit the overall eye lines better.
Other than a full repaint to render the platinum more accurately, there really aren't many improvements to make.
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Couldn't help it it, the topic was brought up and this type of thing is always fine practice.
Smooth the gradient out and bring it to more places so it feels more like part of the composition, less like you're trying to force a focal point. Selective use of this also gives more places for the eye to be drawn to, and a greater variety of value levels, rather than the entire angel being a flat, beige mass cutting almost directly to black.
Darken the wings so they match the background's luminance, but still remain part of the composition.
Not knocking Brom's work at all, he's a legend in his style and Platinum Angel's art is very good. Just experimenting, because I can.
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>would be nicer if it was more like chrome/shiny steel.
>put in the effort anon, show us how its done
Simple edits take 5 minutes. Something like that, as much as I'd love to, isn't worth the effort. Maybe I will later, if I end up doing some materials studies.
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I remember the ED page for magic having his name as a hyperlink, and when clicked it lead to the page on numales. he's made his entire career on courting troons and faggots, so it's only natural he try to play nice for them lest they turn on him and ruin him.
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troons are consoomers, so they're a demographic a lot of companies want to appease. it's a lot like the interracial couples in commercials with the mulatto baby: they put this image of a family on display, but they don't necessarily agree with it. it's just to appease blacks, mudsharks and progressives.
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Interesting stuff. I do not have much of an active perception when it comes to art I suppose.
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>I do not have much of an active perception when it comes to art I suppose.
It's a skill and a knowledge st. You can develop it if you want.
Brom is very strong in terms of style and a great sense for value. Too many of his pieces rely on the same color palette (Burgundy, beige, black. "Rust tones" basically. Something can be said about color as part of style, but still worth critiquing.)
He's very good though. None of my critiques of his art would I consider serious failures.
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For reference, my favorite Brom piece is "Grave Expectations"
It's a piece that screams right into your face with its striking composition, and does it without coming across as overwhelming.
His subjects usually lack body tension or expressiveness, appearing more like they're posing for a painting than actually part of the painting's world, and that's no different in this piece. I'd say how he fails to connect the emotions of his subjects to the story/world of his paintings the flaw of his that I'd want improved most.
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>I will not hear slander against my goat Ron Spencer
Ron is a total genius, I'm not slandering him as an artist at large. Entropic Specter is one of my favorite pieces ever done for MTG.
That work, however, and much of his recent work honestly, is not his best.
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>That work, however, and much of his recent work honestly, is not his best.
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>Agreed, sadly.
Ron's at his best when he reigns in his outlandish sensibilities. At his worst, he tends toward over-saturated colors and an excess of detail, leading to works that strain the eyes. Shinestriker is a perfect example of all his worst qualities, no doubt doubled over by ECL's god-awful color vomit art direction encouraging him to embrace said worst qualities.
Lightning Dragon is also phenomenal though, a great pick.
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>Megan Fox as April
White washing !!!!
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>https://youtu.be/95ahNQRVSXk?si=y_z4PPAsGRTyMR7r
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>>97616449
She only wrote about the 4 turtles and this thing. Clearly this is what she wanted to talk about. Mark said people don't have to do articles about UB and must do it in their free time.
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