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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
>>97603261
There you go.
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Anything new, my piggas?
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>>97609511
Playing some Marvel Rivals.
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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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>>97609511
>>97610191
Tap this
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>>97609511
Burning it all
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>>97610191
You should clean up your house before you invite people over to play
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>>97610191
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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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>>97610340
>RED SUN
>RED SUN OVER PARADISE
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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
this troon loving niggerfaggot is already broken
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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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>>97609496
>Fave gold card?
Babe Ruth 1994 24k gold plated premium collector's edition.

And yes, gold plated cards ARE coming to MTG collector boosters soon.
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>>97611377
Slivers. Do an infinite combo with intruder alarm if you're feeling like brewing
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>>97611297
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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Just sold most of my collection to an LGS for 18k.
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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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>>97611786
We were talking pauper, dipshit
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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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Yuckin' on my yum
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>>97611804
I'm buying 20 collector booster boxes
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>>97609496
mystic snake
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>>97611789
An LGS had 18k just sitting around?

Oh wait, rupees?
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>>97611804
1. The only way I'd buy anything is if any of my friends who play Magic wanted to do two headed giant prerelease. But they don't, so I won't be buying anything.
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>>97611826
You sure do think about Indians a lot, anon.
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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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>>97611804
all the cheese on these pizzas just looks like jizz
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>>97611485
the money presumably helps
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>>97611804
1. But only because I genuinely believe that wotc can and will go lower.
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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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>>97611804
5/10
I will acquire Leonardo for pauper and Bebop/Rocksteady just to have them
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Why don't you have an Olympic gold medalist gf to open packs with, anon?
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>>97611932
>an foid
yuck
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>>97611932
Olympics is just 1 big Luciferian advertisement ritual. Imagine watching that shit.
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>>97611932
medals in judged sports don't count
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>>97611951
The curling was fun this year, at least
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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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when Happy Tree Friends UB? I'd accept Homestar Runner too
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>>97611990
Not enough brown people in these, sorry
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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

>>97611990
>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 $3k in over two decades on TCGs
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>>97611932
>Olympic gold medalist gf
I'm not a billionaire sex tourist
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>>97612024
Strongbad is mexican and Coach Z is spiritually black
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>>97612034
I think I've bought maybe 5 or 6 boxes in 10 years playing Magic. Most of what I spent was just 40 or 50 dollars per week drafting. The most I ever spent on a single card was like 100$. 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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>>97612107
>Premodern is the only good format now.
Weird way of spelling EDH
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Premodern bros, our response?
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>>97612164
>EDH
>Magic
LOL.
LMAO even.
Get the hell out of here.
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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 don’t even want to tell you how much I’ve spent on my old border cube. But it’s worth the moments I get to share with my bros.
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Did they make a mistake and print the Wind Avatar cycle into the wrong set? The art looks like they could be from an actual Magic set.
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>>97611377
Necro is super fun, play that
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I play CIA glowniggers, targeting your dog with their enter the battlefield ability 'Colt M4 Carbine'.
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>>97611804
Looks as bad as spiderman.
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>>97611485
>Why does he do this?
So he doesn't have to get a real job

>How long until he breaks?
Until retards stop giving him money
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If we cant evade UB garbage can we at least get something thats popular like Frieren?
Who the fuck cares now about ancient shit like TMNT or StarTrek.
Also
>marvel
lol
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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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>>97612534
*Rotates Vintage with Wesley Crusher*
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>>97612534
set phasers to virgin
lmao
because ST nerds cant get laid
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>>97611932
Imagine if she ripped open a TMNT pack instead and get people questioning
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I'm actually okay with Star Trek UB. Hobbit will be cool too.
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can we shoot all the ub enjoyers?
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can we shoot all flavorfags?
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just shoot me so I can be free of this game
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What is easiest way for me to acquire this cards:
https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&extras=true&lang=any&order=name&q=f%C3%BChrer&unique=cards
in german language?
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>>97612107
>every other format has been riddled with faggot shit.
Name one thing wrong with pauper.
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>>97612602
>pauper.
Most boring format in the world, even fucking Legends of Runeterra was more fun
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>>97611977
>casually losing out on $12k because you were too lazy to sell online
will never be me
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>>97612107
> Premodern is the only good format now
It’s now too expensive and was obviously shilled to hell and back. Buy an ad
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>>97612608
>noooooo i need FIRE slop!
>souful magic that plays the way garfield intended it is too good for me!
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>>97612638
>It’s now too expensive
proxies are almost free
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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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>>97612638
How about you buy an ad? Not going to touch dogshit standard. Play premodern.
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>>97612521
>What happened to all the people sperging out about guns in Magic?
Simple. UB is not Magic.
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>>97612705
its not? In this case, why are my opponent allowed to play spiderman, avatar and final fantasy cards in standard?
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>>97612724
>in standard?
Because you live in Nebraska.
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Fun fact: Phyrexia is fucking gay and the Mirrans should have won.
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>>97612737
Is there an imaginary boogieman in these threads that supposedly lives in Nebraska or something? This is like the third time I've seen this said in the last couple of threads.
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>>97612602
Pauper isn't free of UB and it's been powercrept to hell. Aggro dominates the meta. Hasn't been great since 2014. Premodern and kitchen table are the way to go.
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>>97612752
>Fun fact: Phyrexia is fucking gay and the Mirrans should have won.
WotC never intended to do a Mirrodin set and the people voted for Mirrodin but they rigged the vote.
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>>97612638
Are you retarded? It's a fan supported format. You don't have to play original printings, which makes it very cheap and everyone is fine with proxies, even in tournaments. Enjoy your turtles, nigger.
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>>97612534
>All Hail Captain Jean Luc Picard!
Set Phasers to FUN!!!
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>>97612759
You are just too new to know but still the fact you somehow brag about Standard already shows the kind of fag you are.
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>>97612803
>everybody I talk to is the same person
Take your meds.
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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.

>>97612759
>>97612812
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
I'm not the same person you were talking to about standard, you schizophrenic faggot.
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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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>>97612794
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.
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>>97612850
does anyone even give a fuck about capeshit nowadays? i thought all recent marvel movies bombed
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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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>>97612872
Just for Hexhaven im all in for RF, fuck Trannyhaven.
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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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Treasure Cruise is STILL legal in Pioneer.
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>>97612940
Lets put it worse.
THIS is still legal in Pioneer.
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>>97612952
>They both are
>In the same deck
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>>97612759
>>97612819
>>97612803
All of you are retards. Watch this
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>>97613041
Synchronicity is crazy.
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>>97612892
Do you have any other predictions for Jace Beleren's Darkplace?
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>>97613079
>Do you have any other predictions for Jace Beleren's Darkplace?
In Jace Beleren's Darkplace, Loot is a plastic surgeon specializing in breast augmentation.
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>>97613103
I have seen the future, and I can tell you that's wrong. Loot just goes after asses instead
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>>97613129
>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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>>97613159
So is it Lool or Toot that travels the multiverse giving women larger breasts?
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>>97613162
That would be Lool. Lool and Loot are opposing forces, as are Tool and Toot.
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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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>>97613159
Tool and Loot...
A pair made in California.
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Loot and Tool, the thieves of breast and booty, are unironically the most evil BBEGs that I have ever heard of in my life.

Jfc what absolute unforgivable monsters.
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play

premodern
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play

pauper
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leave

the game
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play

edh
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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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>>97613159
H-He doesn't go after the male asses... right?
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>>97613306
>H-He doesn't go after the male asses... right?
That's correct. This is the gay SoCal cosmos, so male butts are safe.
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Mono White did nothing wrong. Free Palestine.
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>>97613347
Don't worry, pauper now gets Leonardo, a strong white card!
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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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>B
>Instant
>Destroy target creature. You lose life equal to its power.

Is this too much to ask?
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dont play

mtg
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>>97613529
BASED.
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>>97613524
black has like 10 of those
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>>97613536
Name two.
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>>97613536
Name one (1).
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>>97613545
Tragic Slip
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>>97613553
Not what I asked for. Try again.
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>>97613546
>>97613545
>bone shards
>dark betrayal
>Vendetta
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>>97613573
Those don't do what I asked for. Try again.
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>>97613141
Already there, brother. Been playing BG Infestation Madness for a while now, and thinking about building either mono W clerics or soldiers.
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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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>>97613642
magic is at its most popular in the history of the game
it could retract 90% and probably just drop down to 2019 levels of popularity
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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
Has it really grown that much since 2019? The scene feels only a little bigger here now than then.
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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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>>97613737
what evidence do YOU have to sat it isnt at its most popular
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>>97613227
>>97613141
Buy an ad. You post this identical ad every thread.
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>>97613869
play pauper
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mD7qGQVho
new aids just dropped
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>>97613999
Buy an ad.
Also checked fine I'll watch your slop this once.
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>>97613711
The LGS scene will die off, the only things getting actual prints will be Secret Lairs and serialized cards, you will own nothing and you will like it.
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>>97611804
6/10 I don't care for it.
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>>97613999
wtf I was gonna post that
fuck you
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>>97613999
I dont like this guy
His rant videos are great but his play videos are imposible to follow due to how fast they are.
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>>97613999
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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>>97614030
imagine
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>>97612794
There never was a vote you idiot.
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>>97612871
The oil was inspired by the X-files. Original Phyrexia was hell for artifacts.
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>>97614059
Yes there was. I voted in it.
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>>97613999
Every time I see nuMagic Modern gameplay, I am just reminded how fucking shit Modern has become.
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New aids and it is beautiful !
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>>97614059
>we have posters so young they weren't around for nuPhyrexia's debut
God help us
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>>97614030
He's about the only Youtuber I DON'T have to put on 2x speed.
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Mirrodin won the vote and the timeline split when WotC forced nuPhyrexia on the world.
We're living in the bad timeline.

In the Mirrodin Won timeline, MTG is still good.
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>>97614050
keep calling things "shilling" like a retard who only knows five words
and ill keep telling you to
play
pauper
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>>97613999
Is this guy just role playing as a gay magic player?
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>>97614115
No, as Squidward.
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>>97614049
I can smell the BRness from here
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>>97614067
It wasn't a vote to have which side win but an allocation of decks.
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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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>>97614108
Better than only knowing two words...
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>>97614107
That explains everything... We failed but there is a timeline where everything is right and Magic keeps shining without the Corpo chains...
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>>97614107
Can we starting campaigning for better design under the banner of the Mirrans?
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>>97614155
>Can we starting campaigning for better design under the banner of the Mirrans?
Yes, we can do that.
Restart MTG from where nuPhyrexia ruined it.
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Let's start:
Phyrexian Mana and Infect are the abominations nuPhyrexia brought into this world.

What are the core mechanics Mirrodin Pure that don't suck ass and ruin everything?
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Bandai games banned hand shuffling and card snapping. If only this kike infested game could do the same.
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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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>>97614155
This card is in Standard and it's unplayble.
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PRE

MODERN
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>>97613577
I looked them up. The first two seem like an AI wrote the post because they're nothing like what you wanted. The last one fits okay though.
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1v1 EDH with a very extended banlist would be the best MTG experience
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>>97614172
>Scamdai did something retarded
I am now firmly in favor of hand shuffling and card snapping. Fuck those slant eyed scamsters.
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>>97614050
>proxies are encouraged, go for it
>y-you're trying to make money, you're obviously a card dealer!
Fucking retard.
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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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>>97614252
What if you just played 1v1 100 card singleton without a commander instead because it's more fun?
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>>97614302
Also fine with that. 1v1 100 card commons only. There I saved MTG
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>>97614306
I will build a monowhite deck for this format posthaste. I assume UB sets are excluded. Let me know what the banlist is asap.
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>>97609496
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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1v1 singleton UNCOMMONS only.
There I actually saved Magic.
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>>97614321
I dont even think pauper 100 card singleton would need a banlist. Most of the problem cards are probably fine as a 1 include.
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>>97609496
Nah, now he's too white. He should look at least a bit "foreign" since the Numenoreans are an ethnic group from a different continent. There's a happy medium somewhere.
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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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>>97614052
Sure.
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PRE
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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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MODERN
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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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>>97614603
I accept your concession
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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. Its fun
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Mark has seen all episodes of Hazbin Hotel.
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>>97614656
the numbers mason
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>>97614656
>from a brony
lmao
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>>97614663
It's a 1-10 scale multiplied by 100.
The actual numbers are
Hazbin Hotel - 8.9
Helluva Boss - 1
Don Bluth -4.6
Ratchet & Clank - 2.1
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>>97614675
>It's a 1-10 scale multiplied by 100.
but why
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>>97614680
Mark was feeling quirky and hated how his other scales were constantly taken out of context so he made it obtuse on purpose.
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>>97614656
What language is this?
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>>97614693
There are 6 unique english words so probably Indian english.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XioQwxQQSjA
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>>97614759
He pumps.
But he rarely dumps.
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The piggas are rebelling again!
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>>97614834
>Not exclusively playing vetted cubes
He's still half pig
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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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>>97614834
>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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>>97614834
If they won’t ban UB the players will have to. It was inevitable. The new within universe sets aren’t much better for power creep etc but fucked as they are at least they’re not funko pop shite.
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>>97614834
Nice I would play this immediately this is great
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>>97614896
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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>>97614998
A lot of powers in recent sets shifted from inner set synergy to inter set synergy, so accessing sets by their cards is meaningless now.
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>>97614834
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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>>97614881
>I'm kind of jealous of all the sweet cards Vintage players get to cast,
Ay yes, sweet cards like.......
Lurrus and... Lurrus....
and Lurrus..... and.... White Plume Adventurer...

and Lurrus!
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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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>>97615063
>commander
/edhg/ is the dedicated thread for commander magic
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>>97615009
nah I just think Bazaar and Workshop decks are cool as fuck
also whatever green creature shitbrews that the best MTGO player somehow wins challenges with
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>>97615093
>nah I just think Bazaar and Workshop decks are cool as fuck
got bad news for you, buddy...
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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.

also i like this post, well said>>97611799
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>>97615063
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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>>97615148
>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?
Every disaster needs its caution tape.
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could this be cool for a custom set/block or is that just too much mana fixing?
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>>97615179
>could this be cool for a custom set/block or is that just too much mana fixing?
It's a tapland, anon.
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>>97615179
>Basic
This could never, ever be printed into constructed. There isn't much reason for this in the context of a custom set either since you can just use cards that check for basic types.
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>>97615179
Seems fine as long as you remove basic.
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>>97615184
>>97615185
"basic" as in "you can play more than 4"
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>>97615179
It's probably fine. They've already printed fetchable tri colored lands.
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>>97615190
Unfortunately that's no where in the rules.
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>>97615190
>"basic" as in "you can play more than 4"
This would be handled with Relentless Rats wording.
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>>97615196
100.2a
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ok look the point is a block where you can play as many taplands as you want and all of the mana fixing can grab them as easily as the traditional basics, as of right now i really don't care about how you would word it
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>>97615223
>as of right now i really don't care about how you would word it
If you don't care about the rules of the game, find a different game.

It's a fucking tapland mate. Every color combo has like 500 of them.
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>>97615225
You're the one that doesn't know the rules.
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>>97615229
Boo hoo. Go cry about it.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/qjjRs4tYZ5A
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>>97615223
as long as you don't do any kind of domain-like mechanic it wouldn't be overpowered.
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> Izzet
> Is it??
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>Innit
>innit?
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>Selesnya?
>I hardly know ya!
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Please stop posting clown girls
im gonna honk
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>>97615282
>>97615284
>>97615292
British innit? >>>/vt/innit
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>>97612030
a lot of those are actually being used for gay anal sex
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>Boros
>More like funos
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>>97614050
>nobody is spoonfeeding me
>and cards cost money
>and uhhhhh also UB for some reason
Faggot
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>Magic the gathering
>More like Slop the consuming
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>>97615381
>>
>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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>>97615497
Thanks
Mate
Not
Tempted
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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?
>

Too bad he does the most boring content while the game is at the height of its popularity.

>>97615132
>>97612445
>>97611485
>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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>>97614881
>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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Future of mtg? No, present of mtg.
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>>97615666
I bet its from reddit
>The Slop is for the Redditors. Redditors eat Slop.
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>>97615675
Yeah its from diet 4chan
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>>97615592
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
why do corpos think crossovers are needed? must be the vast majority of people buying the product because they arent a bunch of cynical, posturing 4channers.
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>>97611768
>does not discard a card upon entering
USELESS JUNK
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>>97615762
Short term profits from retarded casuals at the cost of killing the identity of your prpudct and shit on any long term loyal customer, yep seems like a plan.
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>>97615755
Because the people who like the crossovers buy product and you don't.
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>>97612107
>premodern
can I play necropotence?
how about brainstorm?
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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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>>97609496
Aragorn Skywalker energy
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>>97615860
aragorn/skywalker/spock/sonic deck
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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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>>97616048
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>>97616048
that's way too much knowledge for someone that does not play commander
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>>97616048
>Jesus of Nazareth
LOL
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>>97615844
>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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I LOVE TURTLES
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not Magic The Gathering
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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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>>97616058
>>97616197
I’m gushing from my throat
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Is there a turn 3 mono green deck?
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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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now that the dust has settled, how will TNMT improve standard?
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>>97616295
It's a commander set.
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>>97616254
Yes it’s called Cub-Hoof
Turn one elf
Turn two double Cub
Turn 3 cast Craterhoof
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>>97616334
Can only see simic decks like this.
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>>97616197
I stomp the turty
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>>97616034
>funko pops are not selling
Literally a first holocaust....
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https://youtube.com/shorts/7Pri5aRbbJg?si=iaD-r8XQc0f8USV-
Truly such innovative white card design
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>>97611804

0/10 the very model of why Magic is shit now

Just the fact that these cards exist makes me not want to play Magic anymore
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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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>The Turtle set's art is good compared to Lorwyn Eclipsed
xe doesn't actually believe this, right? lorwyn has the best card art of any set released in the last 10 years
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>>97615497
Peak was Transformers...
But I'd still take her in the Subservient movie.
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>>97616357
>fine
Makes me laugh every time
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>>97616814
nta but i find lorwyn art ugly and straight up repulsive, so any art > lorwyn art for me
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>>97617111
tasteless nigger
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>>97616886
This one is kinda meh
>>97617111
This one is great though

Lorwyn characters have always looked goofy
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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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>>97617195
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
>furry calling other people cattle
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>>97617214
oink oink
squeeeeeeee
swine
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>>97617221
>doesn't deny it
You want to fuck pigs? Is that it?
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>>97617232
nta but
>ywn have fat loser pig anthro gf who cannot stop herself from buying UB
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>>97617232
>You want to fuck pigs?
Fucking pigs feels great, just ask your dad, half-swine.
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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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No wonder you guys cave in and buy UB every time.
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>>97617242
Your dad?
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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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>>97617276
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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>>97617404
>MTG is literally at peak of its popularity and UB is leading that peak.
Final Fantasy andLOTR maybe. Otherwise UB is reaching a critical mass of slop that people dislike.
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>>97616508
> narrative designer
UB sets don't even have stories though? You know someone is a useless retard when they have to wear a job title like "narrative designer"
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>>97617417
>(even then it had an annoying amount of Legendary cards)
Fewer than in tmnt while having more cards total.
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>>97617467
That's why I said Avatar was good while TMNT is shit, I still don't like having 3 Tophs/Aangs/Azula/etc
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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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Haven't been paying much attention these past couple months but I just talked with a judge friend of mine who's saying that TMNT might very well shape up to be the biggest flop he's ever seen, we're talking over 50% seats open for the prerelease still. And our LGS has always had a very strong MTG scene, to the point where even in the lowest points of the game in recent memory where you had people complaining that their LGSs weren't firing events we still had a healthy amount of people playing, hell even the SPM prereleases sold out fairly quick. This is legit the first prerelease weekend that I have seen not sell out, just to give you an idea of how big a flop this is shaping up to be.
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>>97617463
Someone has to right the flavor text
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>>97617541
Damn, just checked my own lgs and they've got 12 signups for saturday as of now. Lorwyn meanwhile had 80 people on both saturday and sunday.
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>>97617246
>nuLorwyn
>you have to admit that the art is good
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>>97617404
no way on earth i believe that list, FF and Lord of the rangs, yeah i can see that, but avatar/duskmourne selling more than OG innistrad or return to ravnica? gtfo of here nigga
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>>97617587
you have no idea how much more popular mtg is right now than it was pre-pandemic
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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

>>97617587
Lot more players = bigger sales, its that simple
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>>97617602
>I unironically might go because i like turtles
Based.
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>>97616333
>commander set
>only one precon
That's really cowabummer, dude.
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>>97617602
your wife’s boyfriend allows you to have all that junk in the house?
kinda based guy ngl
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>>97617602
based, but I don't see my boy there
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>>97617634
Let me guess, your room looks like this.
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>>97617602
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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>>97617642
forgot pic
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>>97617246
>you have to admit that the art is good,
L
and let me make this clear,
MAO.
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>>97617195
Anon, I understand you have no taste, but that particular piece is garish, tasteless and hideous.
Try developing some standards before thinking you can comment on anything.
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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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>>97617646
you need more?
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ECL was unironically one of the worst sets of all time and I'm tired of pretending it's anything else.

YES, it was as bad as MKM and DFT.
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>>97617246
>you have to admit that the art is good
Do I, anon?
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>>97617677
empty room=empty mind, midwit
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>>97617683
yes
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>>97614834
THE REBELLION OF THE PIGS
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>>97617692
>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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>>97617678
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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>>97617717
>hating mkm and dft is reddit
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>>97617706
Well, I disagree.
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>>97617731
A disagreement from a position of zero knowledge is of zero value.

Learn something about the subject before entering a conversation about it.
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>>97617706
idk what the art critic opinion of this one is supposed to be, but that looks like shit
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>>97617706
Is this old man considering having sex with a corpse?
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Imagine thinking actual Magic sets like DFT or MKM could be worse than Spider-Man or Avatar. I can't laugh hard enough at UB apologist.
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>>97617766
>Doesn't know the story of Ahasuerus
Embarrassing, mate. You should have learned the classics by now.
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>>97617736
Oh yeah?
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post good art
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>>97617814
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>>97617814
When is art considered good?
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>>97617853
When i say so.
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>Turtles in 2026
What the hell did wotc expect to happen? The prerelease signups are so empty right now
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>>97617882
They are waiting for Trek to save the year.
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>>97617889
I don't know if Start Trek is more popular in the US, but out of most of my locals, I don't know anyone who likes it
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>>97617853
>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
The list goes on.
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>>97614834
I refuse to get new set every other month.
I refuse to play ub.
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>>97617949
Then you refuse to play constructed at all? Are you a Cummander enjoyer?
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>>97617903
Do continue.
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>>97617903
So how would you evaluate this cool Platinum Angel using your metrics?
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>>97617889
>>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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really people here believe star trek set will not wreck sales record? for real?
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>>97618210
>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.

>>97618213
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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>>97618249
Time will tell. The UB fatigue is setting in.
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>>97618213
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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>>97618249
OINK OINK
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>>97618249
Yes
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>>97618303
no way that’s real
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>>97618213
>>97618263
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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>>97617814
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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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>>97618517
would be nicer if it was more like chrome/shiny steel.
put in the effort anon, show us how its done
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>>97618670
>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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>>97611485
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.
>>97612495
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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>>97618362
>>97618517
Interesting stuff. I do not have much of an active perception when it comes to art I suppose.
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>>97618760
>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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>>97618760
>>97618801
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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>>97618517
>Walks into the thread
>Calls everyone idiots
>Improves Brom's art
>Actually elaborates

/mtg/ has better art directors than MTG
fuck
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>>97617660
I will not hear slander against my goat Ron Spencer
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>>97618897
>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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>>97618904
>That work, however, and much of his recent work honestly, is not his best.
Agreed, sadly.
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>>97618916
>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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>>97618904
>>97618916
these look like yugioh monsters
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>>97619008
Style isn't substance, though having both is nice.
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>>97615497
>Megan Fox as April
White washing !!!!
>>97615592
>https://youtu.be/95ahNQRVSXk?si=y_z4PPAsGRTyMR7r
damn I miss old mtg. We had broken cards that by today standards are garbage.
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Ron's magnum opus
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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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>>97619083
>we decided early on to make her a girl (maybe I'm projecting)
AHHAHHAHHAHHA
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>>97619039
It's a great one.
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Kinda gay but manhole tribal would be sick
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>>97619213
>>97619213
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>>97617683
>i picked the one of the two dubiously ugly cards again that means i win!
you lost lmao

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