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Mage Academia edition
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>What is EDH?
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>Previously
>>97864698
>TQ
Now that the dust has settled how was Secret of Strixhaven?
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Real Magic.
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Play
Dandan
https://pastebin.com/umGk9qQD
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Look at her, she's positively beaming with glee.
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Say something nice about this card, I know you can, anons!
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>>97872530
It truly is a great card
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>>97872530
What they did with my favorite college?
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>>97872736
Whatchu talkin bout
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>>97872530
I saw this card and laughed. I thought it was a joke. It must be a joke to put an obese black cunt on a card. It even looks like AI. But no...it is a real card in mtg in the year of our lord 2026. Just when I thought those FUCKERS couldn't stoop any lower...here we fucking are. Jesus fucking christ
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I wish the usage of generative AI models on any device would result in the battery exploding. Too many people are incapable of using this technology responsibly. It'd be better for them and the rest of society if their stuff simply explodes. Then they can be relocated to like a reeducation camp or an Amish commune or something.
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I want more Wacky Races.
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>>97872833
What do you mean?
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me at FNM, and the mono green player plays his 7th forest by turn 3 (just used Harrow). The cards in hand are what are on my board + and island
this was a bracket 3 game btw
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>>97872857
What I find hilarious about leech collector is it's actually a bit racist. A fat useless black collecting her leech children. Offended by everything, Ashamed of nothing, Entitled to everything, Contributing nothing.
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it hurts my soul how true this is, control doesn't fucking exist in modern anymore
I play UW in pioneer to scratch the itch but it just isn't the same thing
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>>97872911
I can imagine playing modern or pre modern. why would someone subject themselves to those card pools
where is the set that is just OG mirrodin to OG innistrad. thats the format I want to play
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>>97872911
WotC literally doesn't want control viable anymore. Threats get better while removal stays worse. Why?
Arena and Commander players complain when their shit gets removed.
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>>97872938
that sounds like a really fun game. people who don't play interaction, in any color are big dummies and n00bs
"I just want to play all my fun stuff and play" ok then play bracket 1 or 2. pokemon is a better card game overall for more fun casual kitchen table buddies while drinking and hanging out but magic is a much deeper and potentially more fun game. pokemon was literally made for kids like me who were 8 years old when the base set was released by GōtC (groomers of the coast, not wizards anymore)
furthermore GōtC is dead set on nerfing all colors other than green, ESPECIALLY blue. the next bracket update will ban all blue counter spells.
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>>97872999
commander is a better format than all of magic other Swiss draft (of GOOD sets which there has not been since final fantasy) and vintage
standard= garbage
modern= garbage
premodern= ULTRA garbage
pauper and legacy are ok but not great.
best format would be OG mirrodin to OG innistrad but until then commander is THE magic format
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>>97873026
Please refer to the OP.
>>What is EDH?
>https://vocaroo.com/1ihc21gJLBh1
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>>97873033
>n-no u!
Concession accepted, Final Faggot.
>>97873048
>original innistrad had Delver of Secrets
Yes, it did have the format-ruining Better Goyf, one of the reasons it was such an AIDS block.
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>>97873026
Commander is trash because instead of efficient strategies based on 60 card 1v1 it devolves into who can appease your transexual friend while drawing your one off card in a hundred card deck. Commander is so casual it's always embarrassing when people think their 100 turn game with 40 life is impressive to anybody with a brain. If you actually tried to get to mythic in a 60 card format your 2 braincells might touch and realize a game where you are waiting for your 1 off draw after 5 hours is garbage. Like all commander games.
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Memba when people used to attend multiple prereleases in one night just to get multiple copies of the prerelease promo? Happened during my Dark Ascension prerelease and the store owner was so impressed with my loyalty for only playing his store that I got another one for free. I ended up winning the tournament for a full box using multiple Black Cat and burn spells. Last round opponent forgot to flashback his double mill spell. Good times.
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Now that I think about it, the last set I fully processed was FIN, played a ton of limited and messed around with a lot of rares in shitbrews. I didn't play any spiderman or edge of eternities limited so I don't know the cards, I played a little bit of avatar but got bored, lorwyn came and went while I was busy at the start of the year, I did not care for teenage mutant ninja turtles at all and now strixhaven 2 is almost out.
I used to keep up with every single set release a decade ago, I cannot even begin to imagine how someone would do that today.
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reminder that twixalan vampires sparkle in sunlight
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>>97873219
Zendikar-Innistrad truly was a mistake for making sparklepires the MtG standard going forward instead of the previously grotesque Baron Sengir type.
>>97873240
So fragile you hurt your feelings on it, it seems!
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And then comes the meltdown
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I don't even think it was executed badly in the story and worldbuilding, it set it up cleanly as a "this is a soft power push by Avishkar, not just a random race for no reason" and even showed that Muraganda was only HALF consenting to the race, with most of the inhabitants being surprised and terrified by it. The cards themselves though just showed Mario Kart.
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>>97873472
Because otherwise we'd be playing commander.
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>>97872530
>all the replies
Y'all need some fat knowledge & black knowledge
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Do mailmen steal letters with cards in them? I already have five card shipments that didn't arrive this year. All from different sellers and some even from different countries. Losing money is bad, but waiting for the last cards to finish a deck is worse.
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>>97873536
>do mailman steal
Is WotC retarded? Holy shit yes, of course they do. There's someone feeling up your mail every step of the way.
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it's a fucking activated ability
they're sending the comprehensive rules to the shredder and allowing non-card objects to remain in exile... for....
activated abilities...
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>>97873636
I finally gave up on standard last year. Making CaC is the only way I have fun with this game anymore.
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>Making CaC is the only way I have fun with this game anymore.
Hell yeah, brother.
Every MTG format is dead, but I can still enjoy custom set drafts with the boys.
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honestly we should just turn /mtg/ into /ccg/
The only thing left to talk about in the "real" game is how dumb and ugly the newest fat person looks in the latest card art.
I'd rather talk about the game itself and how we enjoy it instead of all that stupid shit. Nobody plays even a single MTG format anymore.
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>>97873659
Would you prefer it be from the command zone?
I could kind of see it instead be "'prepared' is a state that allows the prepared creature's controller to create a copy of the spell printed on it on the stack, treat this as casting that spell", but I know there's some autistic reason it has to be worded and treated the way it is.
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>>97873708
>"'prepared' is a state that allows the prepared creature's controller to create a copy of the spell printed on it on the stack
There is literally no good reason to do it any way other than this.
It makes no fucking sense for them to have done it the way they did it.
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>>97873068
my deck is SOOOOO good I have 4x of each card to hope I draw it! yes thats the rule 4x not 5, and I could do 3 but I want more "consistency" so I can replay the same game over and over again
you are a troon
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oh noes the 33% chance of a t2 3/2 flyer TOTALLY WRECKS MUH META GAME dude seriously you are a homo. get a grip
same people who cry over gtiaxian probe- ie homos
not to mention delver, gitaxian, mental mister are all from the set right next to each other New Phyrexia and Innistrad. That was peak magic since 1994.
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obsessed with troon groomers because...you are one? or just mad that commander is better than 4x sloppa "muh pox walker" shit. you belong on pReddit
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>>97873696
come on over to /edhg/ we talk about commander, and goofy memes and all sorts of stuff about magic including how groomers of the coast is ruining ALL formats (even subpar ones like standard and modern)
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prepared is a dog shit mechanic but thankfully in commander, it will just be a drop in the bucket since we play a superior eternal format.
you limp wristed standard and modern players are gonna have to deal with all this prepared bullshit on TOP of the mass of UB sloppa and other garbage sets like Groom-haven. I dont know how you'll even handle it. very grim.
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>Calls him a tourist
He has been here longer than you and your forced meme.
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>>97873801
Y-you're brown and Brazilian! And I'm totally not brown. You hear?! Premodern is shit! It's the worst format of them all. And I'm not just saying that, because I suffer from cognitive dissonance and have to rationalize giving money away for shitty new cards. It's just not true. My ninja turtle cards are an investment and will be sought after commodities in a few years.
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>>97873828
I play with a couple brazilians at my weekly and they're quite nice and also not brown
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What premodern decks are you playing at the moment? I doing pretty well with this 5-color control deck.
https://moxfield.com/decks/RJnRg-im70CHcz9qB8BU0w
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I saw a pretty austistic google sheet that rated all spoiler cards sorted by color(s) for the, I think it was the Avatar prerelease or something around that time, with links to the cards in the google sheet.
Is there something like that for SOS, or just another resource that makes the evaluation quicker than going through all cards on Scryfall?
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>>97874130
Goes great in my Rakdos Food deck with Asmora and pic related
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>>97874130
wtf Is that Yunky's!?
The leaks... were true?!
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Why were there so many bloody toys in DSK? If the theme is haunted house then there's any number of domiciliary staples that could be adapted into artifact creatures. Child's Play wasn't even that good.
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>>97873960
Aggro Standstill and Survival Infestation. I'm considering GW Madness for next gameday in two weeks.
>Wandering Stream
I bought a foil copy of this card even though I don't have a use for it because the art is fantastic.
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>>97874231
>GW Madness
I love this little guy like you wouldn't believe.
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>Pre modern
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Premodern is fucking retarded. It doesn't use the rules from 30 years ago it uses modern rules.
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Fuck I guess orcs are cute now
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I’m just glad people who have never read another book in their lives aren’t calling Strixhaven Harry Potter this time around. The concept of a magical school predates those books by about a million years, plus Strixhaven is clearly based on college and not a British boarding school.
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The whole point of it being a fan format is that Berlin can just reject whatever retarded changes Wizards tries to cook up to sabotage it. People play the format because of Berlin and recognize that he makes the rules, not WotC.
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Middle School is there for you, as it uses old rules like mana burn and damage on the stack, but the playerbase is not as wide spread. It also has a higher power level with Grim Monolith and Necropotence legal.
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>>97874507
Indeed
https://x.com/baalbuddy/status/2025169819256160336#m
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>>97874461
>adult elephant head on a "teenager" body
Fuck this, this is the worst art in the set.
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>107.9. A tombstone icon appears to the left of the name of many Odyssey™ block cards with abilities that are relevant in a player’s graveyard. The purpose of the icon is to make those cards stand out when they’re in a graveyard. This icon has no effect on game play
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>>97875039
Everybody knows wiggers needs the government handouts the most
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>>97872530
looks like they found me noticing
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I just realized the Goremand demon is a busty lady demon. This is blowing my mind. It's been years yet nobody informed me of this.
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You laugh but this happens in modern too. Last week I built a budget green and white enchantment deck for a modern event at my LGS. I don't have any shock lands so I used gates for duals.
When I got there I asked the people at the table if they were playing modern and asked if I could join them. A store employee asked me if I had signed up yet and made me pay $10 and download some stupid app. I don't mind supporting the store but the app was really annoying.
When I got to my first opponent I asked them what their deck's powerlevel was and they looked at me bewildered. He said that it was a 10 very bluntly and I asked him if he had any other decks that he could play. He smirked and just said no. He was playing some sort of jund goodstuff deck and spend the first couple of turns playing discard spells and eventually killed me with some creature that gets +1/+1 for each card type in all graveyards. I had never met a pubstomper until today and it really put a damper on my mood.
The next round I tried to start a rule 0 conversation with my opponent and asked him what he was playing. This guy said that he didn't have to tell me and the two people at the table next to us turned to listen in to our conversation. I told him that the game would be more fun for both of us if we were playing on the same power level and the people next to us immediately started laughing. One of them told me that this wasn't the command zone hosted by Josh Lee Kwai and Jimmy Wong and that this was real life. The other guy told me that this was "big-kid-magic" and I decided to leave after that.
It really sucks and I had no idea that the people who play modern at my LGS were so toxic. I was really looking forward to playing this new deck but I guess I need to find somewhere to play casual modern as it seemed that everyone there plays exclusively cModern (a word I guess for tryhard modern)
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>>97874982
Especially because it's very likely Chris Rallis just drew it with a model reference. He very clearly does that in other art.
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ranked secrets of strixhaven's top 10 cards
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control has literally never been viable in modern ever, what are you on about
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>Wilds of Eldraine
>The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
>Murders at Karlov Manor
>Outlaws of Thunder Junction
>Bloomburrow
>Duskmourn: House of Horror
>Aetherdrift
>Tarkir: Dragonstorm
>Edge of Eternities
>Lorwyn Eclipsed
>Secrets of Strixhaven
Setting aside the proliferation of UB, what's your verdict on the post-MAT era so far?
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Play Standard.
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>>97875769
>I'm content playing Pioneer for now.
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>>97875465
UWR control was one of the earliest top decks of the format. Celestial Colonnade was an expensive card because of UWx control in modern.
Grixis Control/Cruel Control was also a viable tier 1.5/tier 2 deck (roughly the same as Living End or Boggles).
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>>Aetherdrift
>>Edge of Eternities
I really liked these. I'll quibble over execution but in general it was pretty cool to see new things being tried. Contrast to SOS which isn't nearly as rough around the edges but also doesn't really do anything new or interesting.
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jeskai was a dogshit deck with a mediocre gameplan backed up with mediocre interaction like bolt and path and (lmao) electrolyze. it's simply not true to call it a top deck just because people liked to play it and it did well in some small events, mostly on the back of "i play rest in peace and win" sideboard plans
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I'll let it slide.
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>No Learn to expand the primary mechanic of Strixhaven's potential.
>No playable support for any of the OG Strixhaven's strategies.
>Shit art.
>Boring, lazy designs.
>The main mechanic breaks the rules of MTG.
Yeah this set fucking sucks.
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is that prepare? i thought if the creature dies you can't cast the spell anymore
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>is that prepare? i thought if the creature dies you can't cast the spell anymore
There will now be a 5000 word chunk of the comprehensive rules explaining when a Prepared spell is and isn't subject to 704.5e (Ceasing to exist for remaining in exile.)
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>There will now be a 5000 word chunk of the comprehensive rules explaining when a Prepared spell is and isn't subject to 704.5
just nuMagic things.
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So Seb McKinnon was based and extremely talented with an excellent sense of aesthetics?
Why do the gay wokes ruin everything? I’m considering getting a new hobby. Or maybe there’s a good proxy seller I can get to put all my cards in blackface so they’re future proofed.
Maybe I should just sell my cards and go full /k/ autist
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are black mana users okay?
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No.
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>>97876426
Also, like...
>704.5a If a player has 0 or less life, that player loses the game.
I guess this fucking card breaks the mechanics now.
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>>97876438
they brute force'd a murder mystery set into ravnica, the end result is something that doesn't feel like ravnica nor does it particularly fufill the murder mystery intent
they could've taken the chance to unfuck the mess they made with new capenna not having an actual police force but nope
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>>97876438
A murder mystery set in ravnica sounds like fun. The actual cards are just new versions of ravnica peeps and some of them are now detectives.
I legitimately do not know a single thing that happened in murders. I dont even know who was fucking killed. I dont really keep track of the story but for a lot of non-ubsloppa sets you can get a vibe or idea just by playing a couple drafts. Like I know that Duskmourn is a planewide haunted house run by Vagina or whatever his name is.
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>>97876438
Its literally "new hat" set
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>>97876479
dina's guidance enables superior spiderman
trudge might be shit, i thought it could be blinked
yeah the rest are mid
truce is a midrange card btw, you just make the 1/1 always unless they have one really big thing. against someone with 3 creatures it's a house
fel is kinda just 4 mana oko
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Teysa, Zegana and Kylox (the new Viashino inventor guy) were all killed. Oba (of the Trostani) was the culprit, and WANTED to kill Krenko but only managed to get Kylox who he'd kidnapped at the time. Zegana was barely a character, Teysa came back as a ghost and Kylox didn't really matter at all, so, you know.
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What is your favorite creature type? I am thinking about restarting collecting my OG love "Beasts".
Do you think Beast art improved over years or degraded?
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>>97876502
They killed everyone's favorite banker.
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>Like I know that Duskmourn is a planewide haunted house run by Vagina or whatever his name is.
Large parts of it is haunted rollercoaster rides and circus tents. Valgavoth's true aim was to be a showman.
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Why does Chandra look nothing like either of her parents?
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>Do you think Beast art improved over years or degraded?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxeJ703w18
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>>97876827
The red hair is presumably... Something something manifestation of her magic attunement to fire. She has the skin colour of her dad at least, and it does look like they're changing up her design to look more like a Desi Indian like her mom.
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>7 hours of Ice Age set review
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https://x.com/suki_yaki_3/
Shadowchads are laughing at us bros
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Got any predictions for the next Secret Lair? At this point I just buy secret lairs and play my cube on Forge. I got to try one of my cubes a month ago but the last catch up for mtg fell apart as my friend's trans "brother" broke HER leg or some shit.
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Euphoria Secret Lair
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>>97876881
It’s already a flop. The entire set is commander slop and the only 60 card boost is all the Izzet optimization redundancy for Lessons. Literal wet fart of a set to tee up Marbel Supertards. It’s not even prerelease yet and I already got email ads for preorders to Marvel
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>>97875651
They wisely coupled the manlet fuccboi with the bookish goth girl.
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>>97877823
They teased a bunch with this and Dwarf Fortress is on there.
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>>97878197
He looks familiar.
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I work at an LCS.
I just watched my coworker pull this card from a TMNT collectors pack.
More specifically, from a pack that I bought him.
Motherfucker.
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>>97878287
God I miss the days like this. Some of my friends trooned out. Others became cunts. Most just moved out of the shithole backwater I live in. I’d move too since I work remotely but I’d never get a mortgage as good as the one I have locked in and my daughter likes her school. My friend wants to play my cube this week online. I’m gonna try to make it happen. But damn I miss seeing friends in person without my cunt of a wife around.
Anyone have experience using xmage for cube?
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Premodern is the worst format of them all. It's terrible. Nobody should play it. Don't even look into it. In fact, everything about it is so bad, we should sell all of our old cards and premodern staples. Just get rid of them. Especially cards like Powder Keg and Exalted Angel. Oh, and Cursed Scroll.
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Where's the fucking Elder Scrolls UB slop, Todd?!
Fallout did gangbusters, hurry the fuck up.
There's enough content for 2 standard sets or a fuckin' Modern Horizons, I don't give a shit.
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>Return to sender - Undeliverable as Addressed
I had these incompetent fucks so god damn much
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Upvote this post, my dudes.
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>>97879384
I agree, the format sucks. Unfortunately, BL is working on a Premodern set. Here is a preview of it, subject to change.
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Why do you design a game?
Is it for people to play the game, or is it to sell something to someone who will never play it?
When claiming that a particular game expansion was successful, should we not discuss only the parts of that product that people who actually play the game engage with?
Collector Boosters? Premium foil serialized reprint? Alt border treatments destined to slowly disintegrate in a scalper's binder? All of that is corporate dust. What matters is the Play Booster sales, because those are selling to people who play the game. Playing the game is the purpose of the game. All else is slop greed.
Universes Beyond is a catastrophic failure to anyone who actually cares about the game. There is no argument against this. The facts are clear.
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>>97879681
Why no Exalted Angel? It's in every other deck.
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>>97879685
>universes beyond brings in new customers, the most valueable currency for a company.
It does not. It brings in tourists and massively increases churn. Churn is a universally terrible thing to increase. UB is a suicidal pursuit.
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>>97879689
A 5% increase in churn rate reliably corresponds to ~50% annual losses across almost all sales fields. Very small increases in churn result in massive increases in the demand for marketing to offset the titanic losses that churn creates.
Pursuing a business strategy of fast sales and high churn is psychotic and genuinely impossible to maintain long-term.
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If I was working at WotC, I would do exactly what they are doing right now. They have never made that much money. Some nerds get angry? Sales might drop in a few years? Who cares? You get a bonus.
It's terrible, but why should they not take the money when we are throwing it at them? It's their job. We have only ourselves to blame for enabling this crap.
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>>97879721
>"I would partake in the same suicidal greed, had I the chance."
Is the statement of a vapid husk of a human, withered of spirit, who lacks all morals and takes no responsibility for their own personal failures.
That is you, anon. You are a cretin.
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If I was working at WoTC I'd be concerned for the future of MtG. There is no denying that numerous other card games are sprouting up to reclaim the audience they're shitting on. Only a fuckwit enjoys playing current year big standard, commander is boring as fuck and basically an elaborate game of Diplomacy, there are fan made formats like pre-modern which is infested with hues and planar standard which still has fire bullshit. Sorcery, Yugioh, One Piece all of these card games are rising stars because MtG is simply not the same power house it once was. They might make a lot of money from collectors of UB trash but just look at the Leech Collector to know the direction MtG is headed. It will be just like so many murdered franchises, offered up on the altar of DEI because white man bad. I'll always have cube at least, they literally can't fuck that up.
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>>97879726
It's their job to make money for the company. Do you understand this? If they can do something that increases sales, they will do it. It's how it works in the grown up world. In a few years when this sheme collapses they will be already be gone working somewhere else. The people selling you cars or vacuum cleaners or computers or whatever do not care about your wellbeing or what happens in a few years. If they can use cheaper materials, they will. If they can increase sales by marketing they will.
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You sit down with your favela friends on some plastic furniture. It's a warm summer night. Your tranny gf sits on your lap and caresses your hair. In the background there is electrofunk music, the neighbours arguing and the faint noise of gunshots. You take out your premodern decks. Life is good.
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>>97879686
There's a number of cards that I suggested he add to the set that he doesn't have already. I think they should take a higher priority, especially those that Usea doesn't have. A couple of his recent nonfoil sets have had OG printings of various premodern cards, but I get the impression alot of more casual buyers like to buy whole sets because they think they're getting a discount - they aren't. Can you believe that Plaguebearer was a bulk rare a month ago and is now going for something like $30 USD?
>Plaguebearer
>Engineered Plague
>Foil
>Tsabo's Web
>Psychatog
>Weathered Wayfarer (ONS)
>Savannah Lions (Foreign Black Border or Unlimited)
>Stasis (Foreign or Unlimited, maybe 4th or revised)
And ones that he already has
>Cursed Scroll
>Powder Keg
>Exalted Angel
>Undiscovered Paradise
>Phyrexian Devourer
>Altar of Dementia
>Volrath's Shapeshifter (only a single copy is used in a powerful deck)
>Brain Freeze
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>“Do you have newspapers on Fiora?”
>“I’ve never heard the term before, so I’m assuming not.”
>“Broadsheets, maybe? Declarations from the local government, news about what’s been happening where and when and to whom, postings about job fairs…”
>“Ah. No. We have printing presses, but the Queen would never tolerate such a potentially uncontrollable means of making her will known. City criers suit her much better, and they know that to deviate from her decrees is to risk a slit throat or a stolen tongue.”
Nobody on this plane knows shit about what's going on on any given day
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>>97879937
For BL, you either email him, buy from his website or buy from his Aliexpress store. You can also join one of the frequent no-middleman group buys in the Proxy BST d*scord server to get wholesale rates although the people running them started jewing participants for a $5 service fee. It's still cheaper overall. Anyway, just email him the list of cards you want and the BL set they're from e.g
4 City of Traitors English - BL REGULAR 18
4 Guru Lands Plains - BL REGULAR 16
I think his normal prices are $2 per card although you can negotiate, and GB wholesale prices are $1 per card. No, you don't need to buy a full set. The 'discount' for doing so is the same as paying group buy rates.
For Usea, which most people consider to be better for ~90% of cards and especially foils, he has a website, a self service ordering form, and people running group buys. If you use his website, you add all the stuff to your cart, enter your shipping info and then check out. In the notes section specify if you'd like to pay via Stripe or Paypal, then a few days later you'll get a manual invoice. The self service process involves using a scripted spreadsheet and helps speed up processing times.
Other sellers include Ron, Gail Cao and Villa Zheng. Same story as BL albeit no website. I would generally not recommend buying from Ron unless you specifically want FWB/FBB Tropical Island, Volcanic Island, Plateau, Badlands or Tundra (all from BM LANDS 1) or another exclusive noone else has. You can also buy from a western reseller such as Bootleg Mage who does the leg work in checking which versions of card are best and filtering bad/misprints. He charges a premium to do it, something like $3 or $4 per card, but I've heard domestic US shipping is 2-3 days. I've never bought from him because I'm not in the US but he is legit. His cards are sourced from the above manufacturers.
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>Howdy, partner!
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>only four of these across all formats
Outrageous. There ought to be at least five.
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>>97880014
Got him
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>>97880012
Still weird to me that Belzenlok is an Elder. Val, obviously he counts. Shilgengar, sure, he's the progenitor of Innistrad vampires... Bel is... Like... He's just kind of a powerful demon. Not much else.
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>>97880339
I appreciate him for dying so quickly and leaving the Cabal's leadership position vacant for Braids, who is anime.
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>>97875930
At least we got a really good forest
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Mountains
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Fountains
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>>97880895
Japan is the only country where MTG is not the number one game so the Japan marketing department spends money on artist to appeal to Japanese players. The English side has also tried to appeal more to Japanese players by making the 10 Japanese style cards each which they said are supposed to look like the average card in a Japanese TCG shop. This is also why those cards show up in English compared to the others.
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