deceit edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-june-30-2025>NewsThe 2025 MagicCon 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 Rotationhttps://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-winners-and-losers-from-standards-2025-rotation>Spoilershttp://www.magicspoiler.com/https://mythicspoiler.com/CONSTRUCTED RESOURCES>Current meta, complete with deck listshttps://www.mtgtop8.com/https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/>Build and share casual deckshttps://deckstats.net/https://tappedout.net/CUBE RESOURCES>Build and share Cubeshttps://cubecobra.com/landingCARD RESOURCES>Search engineshttps://scryfall.com/https://mtg.wtf/>Proxy a deck or a cube for cheaphttps://www.makeplayingcards.com/https://pastebin.com/9Xj1xLdM>Play online for freehttps://untap.in/https://dr4ft.info/>What is EDH?https://vocaroo.com/1ihc21gJLBh1>WotC's War Crimeshttps://pastebin.com/JRYDiAjq (OLD)https://pastebin.com/nEcKGAys (NEW)>Previously>>96626630>TQwhats your favorite hybrid mana card?
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
>>96631107>TQProbably this one with deathbringer liege being a close second.
>>96631107Say something
>>96631209through the omenpaths chads eating good this year
>>96631234how many do you think will be Omenpaths sets? Marvel Heroes obviously but one imagines that Star Trek and TMNT don't have similar hangups. The LOTR crap is already in Arena.
>>96631107nice and simple card, perfectly showcases the sets' mechanic
>>96631218based
>>96631209This is the ultimate cuckening. The fortnitification will continue as long as you keep buying magic. I can cope and skip buying/drafting UB sets, but I will still contribute the killing of the game I like when I play Lorwyn. Everything sucks now.
>>96631234>>96631260i fucking hate omenpaths more than any other thing in magic, even more than raping kamigawa to make it more marketable
My beloved wife.
>>96631107>whats your favorite hybrid mana card?*judges you*
>>96631362Lorwyn is gonna be a tragedy. It will barely look or feel the same save for the Omar Rayyan bait they have set the trap with. I don't know what the fuck pic related is but it sure doesn't look like the grotesque shadowmoor merrow that we used to know.
>>96631107>TQBack in the day, I felt like a king playing this after a turn 1 Borderpost OR after cascading into it with Bloodbraid Elf(that's TWO 3/2 hasters on turn 4!)
>>96631123we... must.... be.... better MEN
>>96631107Yummy tummy
>>96631578What?
>>96631107> WotC's War CrimesYou can add another mastectomy
Interesting thing is that Jaws will be getting a Universes Within version in a future release, unlike the other unique Secret Lairs recently which're just also distributed to WPN stores to make them more available.
>>96631670Trannys man
>>96631681I mean it is just a shark so it shouldn't be too challenging to adapt
Modern has unironically healed
>>96631772True, I just wonder where. Maybe a Commander deck, maybe it'll be on a bonus sheet or a Special Guest, maybe it'll just be part of... I dunno, a return to Ikoria, that has Sharks.
Print it to modern horizon 4 cowards
>>96631818the hobbit will change that>>96631861you mean pioneer horizons 1
>>96631818Modern won't be healed until I can play Jund, Pod and Twin without the entire store laughing at my first game action.
>>96631870this time it will be a standard set so the power level will go down drastically
Is modern unironically the best format right now? When they will port it to Arena?
>>96631983>Is modern unironically the best format right now?if you're a proxyGOD yes>When they will port it to Arena?historic is the modern format for arenaputting actual modern into the client would an admission that digital cards are worthless and they don't want to do that
how can anyone see those secret lairs and willingly keep giving JOTC money
>>96631209Praying Gay Bolas anon eats good in Reality Fracture.
>>96631983Hopefully never, historic is way better>>96632023MTG is a premium product
how does this game manage to keep finding new lowshow is it we haven't hit the floor yet
>>96631983modern sucks dick. the people mindlessly repeating muh deck diversity don't actually play the format. every tier deck consists of A+B I win combo, solitude ephemerate scam, or braindead play what you draw (energy, eldrazi, prowess, affinity, zoo).
>>96632052Wait for the K-POP set.If we can have TMNT set we can literally have ANYTHING as Magic set now.
>>96632066>anythingLike Taimanin Asagi?
>>96631818energy is lame and gay but the rest of the format is alright i guess
>>96632100No, any heterosexual UB is not happening
>>96632119just ban energy in your pod and call it a day
>Go to fnm with the insect deck (fifth time)>Go 1-2>Finally start getting picked on for not netdecking/running a bunch of "inefficient cards"Maybe I should take a break for a few months and hope Lorwyn had good generic tribal support.
>>96632147>Finally start getting picked on for not netdecking/running a bunch of "inefficient cards"It's netdeckers that are killing the game from the mechanical side. Brewing is gradually becoming a lost art, and the meta reflects it.
>>96632181not him but you don't need to brew when pros do it for you
It has never been more over.
Where's Ragavan and bowmasters? Banned?
>>96632147>get picked on for not netdeckingI sincerely doubt this was anything other than people trying to help your jank ass tribal deck that's going 1-2. Not everything is a personal attack.>>96632181People have been netdecking for over 15 years now.
>>96632235They're powercrept out of the format
>>96631488https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=type%3Amerfolk+%28game%3Apaper%29+set%3AshmShadowmoor merfolk didn't have a coherent identity to begin with
>>96632246>People have been netdecking for over 15 years now.Yes, but mixing that with the 5yo power creep singularity means that brewing gets shunted aside in favor of ready-made heartfire resonance or Vivi cauldron combos. It's no coincidence that FIRE killed /ccg/, brewing is just the next step of the decay.
>>96631209I'm pretty happy with this line up.
>>96632261fucking how
Memedern is awful faggots i don’t know how you can bear with this awful slop of a format. Belcher is literally a humanity mistake.
>>96632288Step 1: Print a busted cardStep 2: Let your shills rave about how powerful it is so the paypiggies buy it upStep 3: Let your paypigs dominate the format with it for a while so they can feel like they got their money's worthStep 4: Ban it and make insincere overtures about how you didn't plan for things to play out this way.Rinse and repeat
>>96632288Bowmasters rarely has draw triggers to capitalize on with cards like stock up and consult the star charts and atraxa putting cards in hand. Key creatures have 2+ toughness like guide of souls and solitude. The only way to play bowmasters as removal is to get a lucky ambush block.Ragavan dies to ocelot pride first strike and the ability is so swingy it's difficult to gauge how effective it actually is. Ragavan shows up in zoo, energy, and random decks playing red but really it's trash. 1 toughness, dies to removal.tl;dr bannable in legacy due to brainstorm. unplayable in modern due to no brainstorm.
>>96632288MH3rd Impact and several bans have made the LTR bullshit and the MH2nd Impact irrelevant.
>>96632330Man, I remember just a couple years ago when Ragavan would go win games on his own. It's insane how every year makes yesteryear's nightmares seem quaint in comparison.
Due to Universe Beyond Mark gets to write more articles on the color pie.
>>96632235>>96632261>>96632288>>96632324>>96632330>>96632348is this an elaborate troll? every single boros energy list runs 4x ragavan what are you talking about?
>>96632265I guess we have a different set of eyes.
>>96632387Ragavan's the worst 1 drop in the deck. The best thing it can do is a turn 2 blood moon or be a red permanent for the back side of Ajani. The days of blue red ragavan murktide are long gone.
>>96632383I’m really tempted to write to this motherfucker and ask him how many years for real they pretend to make by 2027. Maybe 12 for the absolute endless spoiler season? Obviously 1 UW set so we they can cramp as many shitty IPs as possible.
>>96632383wait does he even understand the color pie?
>create a land token
>>96631488>>96632265Different anon here but like... that looks like a merfolk from Shadowmoor to me.
Is this card good or shit?
>>96631818not until burn is playable again
>>96632399>Ragavan's the worst 1 drop in the deck.but that's not the point, it's one thing to ask why ragavan isn't the most played creature in the format anymore, it's another to post this >>96632235 assuming it got banned because you don't see it anywhere when in reality it's a staple playset in the most played deck in the format
>>96632436it's good shit
>>96632436>5 manaSHIT
>>96632436Terrible
>>96631488I agree with you but that’s probably the worst example to pick for shitty generic art we’ve seen so far. It looks perfectly fine.
>Watching the pro tour>all modern decks are Modern Horizon slopwhat a disaster of set! so much damage done
Print this to modern too, jeskai control needs some tools
>>96631123as someone that refuses to play commander, partner confuses the fuck out of me. because it's one straightforward mechanic allegedly but there's three entirely different versions of it>partner (lets you have two commanders, ok)>partner - keyword (basically the same thing but needlessly restrictive for flavor reasons I fucking guess)>partner with (just lets you add another specific creature from your library to your hand when it enters the battlefield????)
>>96632547Welcome to the year 2019+6
>>96632547you better like it because this is the future of pioneer in like 2 yearsthen they'll make pioneer 2 and rugpull a bunch of people again
>bit the bullet and got a Yuna for my Modern enchantress brewI don't play nearly enough to be depressed about the absolute state of the format and better decks can't stop me from having fun. You WILL get paired against my pile of removal at the weekly and we WILL go to turns.
>>96631209Why should we suffer a worse year than this one that was already pretty good?Why seven sets?Why Nickelodeon collab?Why Star Trek?Why, just why?
>>96632562partner-keyword is just secret lairshit that just means (can be paired with other cards from this product). Same shit for stranger things and the TLOU one having their own unique keyword that lets you any combination of two cards from that batchpartner with lets you actually benefit from running them inside the 99 of a deck because they tutor for each other
>>96632593Let my format alone. We don’t need the Modern shit lobotomy special.
>>96631209if most of the ubshit was just precons I'd be fine with this but we might unironically be getting a third "things from contemporary america as magic cards" set within the next nine monthsStar Trek looks like another full franchise dump that I imagine wotc is full of diehards for so I mostly just hope Ryker and Data are decent cards
>>96632562The reason they make restrictive versions of Partner is because Partner is basically 'too good' to print unrestricted these days. Even one new card with Partner suddenly has to account for EVERY other card with Partner and they just don't wanna deal with that.
>>96632626Star Trek is apparently covering the whole franchise but I highly doubt they'll give equal looks at everything. Probably every major series will get some substantial stuff, I dunno if the reboot films will get anything, but the bulk will likely be TOS/TNG/DS9.
>>96632436>doesn't have convoke>lets you tap all your creatures for one guy and immediately eats it before you can flip
Fallout was super successful, right?Bethesda surely will license out The Elder Scrolls next.I feel like each playable race could be tri-color, or at least dual.
Another potato for the collection
>>96632700She's a lot skinnier than I remember.
SUOMIFINNISH BVLLS ARE GONNA WIN THE PROTOUR
wotc will fix this game in 2027, right...
>>96632733>Gavin and Maro still existno
>>96632733of course anon, next year having 7 sets and literally only two of them being in-universe is just an anomaly. definitely not a sign of the future. trust the plan.
>>96632733Why would the people who are deliberately destroying it suddenly stop to try to fix it?
>>96632733Sure here you have a fast insight of the future:Power Rangers setPizza Hut setThunderbolts Marvel setMy little Pony setSteven Universe setMinecraft setK-POP setRavnica cluedo edition 2 setOh are you counting 8 sets? And only one “In-Universe” set? That’s just an anomaly for 2027 we just had so much awesome we just increased the number of sets and don’t worry we are expanding Magic brand with a lot of interesting side projects like books, tv shows, comics, etc so the fact we just made a single in universe set is not that bad right? Stay tuned for more awesome content of Magic 2027 :^)
>>96632733No, they'll only be forced to once investors fuck off and they have no choice but to cater to actual players to sell things.
>>96632261>>96632288There's a difference between a card being powercrept out of the meta and simply not being the most adequate cards at the moment.
after this weekend i surely want to see hasbro fall into disarray.
>>96632768
Why is everyone at protour fat and old, where's the new blood
>>96632768If funny because this is exactly the same shit they just made this year haha! Is not infuriating at all haha! Maybe we should just burn this company totes joke haha!!!!!
>>96632805there aren't any new players going forward, just "investors"
Yo 4chin it's your boy Rosewater here. Due to the overwhelmingly positive receptions we've had we are going to introduce Aftermath sets to the UB sets haha!
I just looked through strixhaven in case I forgot to pick anything upWhat a shit set
He's making sure his threats follow through
>>96632805Why would anyone under the age of 35 ever play Modern at this point?
>>96632246I'd agree with you if they didn't just throw comments at me like:>Why aren't you running Llanowar Elves instead of these conditional mana dorks? You should just run elf tribal. Besides, they'll give elves even more support with Lorwyn.>You shouldn't run Overlords unless you center your deck around Yuna, Kona or control in general. Personally I wouldn't run them period, not while Vivi is still legal.>The only BG deck I'd recommend running right now is the demon deck, and even then it's not that great post-rotation.The only constructive advice I got came from the guy at the counter, saying that I should probably cut splashed colors and focus more on the BG insect/spider cards that work with the tribe, even if they're shit.>>96632181>Brewing is gradually becoming a lost art, and the meta reflects it.That was inevitable with the popularity of the Internet. Literally any game with an active competitive community often devolves into waiting for someone to find an exploit to cheat their way to the top.
>>96632826speaking of strixhavenwhat were they thinking with this, she gets one shot at a real card and it's this
>>96632859I think they forgot what they wanted to do with Kasmina, so she's just not really a thing.
>>96632805all the new players just get funneled into commander never to be seen again
>>96632859Pretty sure the plan was giving Planeswalkers from WAR who can only downtick a way to go up in loyalty, I think she was probably a 2-drop at some point but they got scared and bumped her up to 3 mana
>>96632826strixhaven was pretty lame desu. I never liked HP too much, so maybe i'm biased.
Where are the other stones m8s
>>96632882praying they're all dumpstered in the set next year and that they aren't seriously going to dripfeed this for another five years
>>96632882It's gonna be one per marvel set from what I've heard.
>>96632882Probably 2/3 in Marvel Super Heroes, and then who knows how many more sets (1 or 2 more, I feel like there's gonna be an X-Men set because the ONLY X-Men shown for Super Heroes is Wolverine, who's in every goddamn team) will determine the spread.
>>96632894Almost certainly won't be 5 more sets, Marvel broadly splits their things up into like 3/4 groups of Spider-Man, Super Heroes (Avengers, Fantastic Four, Street-Level shit), X-Men and Cosmic and those could be all the Marvel sets. Not so sure on Cosmic, that has less broad appeal.
>>96632882you just know at least one is gonna be locked behind a secret lair to gouge their paypiggies
>>96632857>just elf tribalIt's so fucking boring to play holy shit. >ELVES ELVES ELVES ELVESthe most interesting elf tribal card isn't an elf, and neither is the second most interesting elf tribal
>>96632924nta but elf tribal is the only deck I truly enjoy running that isn't RDWI'm a very simple person
>>96632924Elf tribal in pauper is a ton of fun to play and really strong actually.
>>96632383Oh boy I can’t wait for yet another asspull from the famous kike about how everything white is a bend/break/tall ask and hear how nonwhite breaks are very in color and totally fine.Biased kike.
>>96632942What the fuck does that even mean? Biased? In this context. Also are you aware of the color council?
>>96632954>color councilYou damn well those niggas dont do shit
>>96632960Yeah but why would Maro be actively sabotaging a color? He is there to make Hasbro money.
I know exploration might be too strong for modern but what about pic rel?
Reminder that in-universe magic is receiving more attention than ever so stop complaining about universes beyond
>>96632954Ask Nosewater how he feels about Dawn of Hope, Smothering Tithe, and low costed white removal in standard.
>>96632967Because he’s a crybaby kike who lost a bunch of games to white years ago and we never hear the end of it now
>>96632994probably breaks amulet titan
>>96627800Honestly I think I would buy this If mtg was still good.>>96627821Strixhaven students....Why would they push things people clearly didn't like?>>96627893>>96631107Shit card.Instead of Incarnations we got Shitier-Shitelementals. Incarnations were the elementals that costed 6 mana and had one replacement effect and a "when this card goes to your deck instead shuffle it in your deck" effect.I hate wotc design team.Also for >TQProbably one of the Spirit avatars from Shadowmoor/eventide. Godseye and Demigod comes to mind.>>96628283so fucking over.>>96628503So fucking stupid.>>96628633>They are now merchants.They always were.>>96628650>Literally a shaman, talking to her spirit elemental/god all the time, and following traditions of her belief>sorcererI don't say that this is fucking stupid because 2025 is not over yet and I know 2026 will be worse...>>96628701>2) ...fantasy, as a genre, was used as a way to reflect the worldview of those in powere. It leaned into stereotype and reflected how the privileged wished the world was.Poetic in a game with XIR/XERs characters...
You know damn well, no one is reading this mass reply
>>96631670Did they get the mentally ill art director back?
>>96631123Will his wife's son also get a card?
mtg dood, move the fuck onsit's so fucking over they can't even shit out slop thats from a currently popular franchise like hollow knight or apex legends instead they can only get 10-20 or even 60 year old shit with star trek/capeslop
>>96631123AREEEEEEEEEES
>>96633069Card game?
I distinctly remember a player exodus during 2016ish but now I can't find any evidence. Am I crazy?
>>96633151people were upset about the jacetice league but I think it mostly fizzled out into mere grumbling compared to the current doomsaying decline (in active playerbase, if not profits admittedly)
>>96633050I actually read it. Missed the changeling art.
>>96633164>jacetice leagueI do remember this phrase
2027 leaks are already out. And the worst part is some of you faggots would actually buy this
>>96633228>still having a UW setpoor fake
>>96631209post the fake one from earlier in the year>>96631234only one of those is omenpaths
>>96633228>almost literal voltron voltronyou bet your damn skippy I'm getting the power rangers set
So Lorwyn is possibly not fucked with after Rosewater's comments for it?
>>96633265Wizards is incremental, they know not to put frogs in boiling water. Of the 3 in-universe sets next year, only 2 of them are new sets, the 3rd is alleged to be UW prints of the Marvel slop, so really there's only 2 actual sets next year. Year after it will be 1, and then it'll be none
