no changes waiting room edition>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-february-9-2026>NewsThe 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 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>The Slop is for the Pigs. Pigs eat Slop.https://x.com/RealPokemoki/status/1972817965847617963>WotC's War Crimeshttps://pastebin.com/JRYDiAjq (OLD)https://pastebin.com/nEcKGAys (NEW)>Previously>>97743039>TQthere's a B&R tomorrow, any predictions? bonus points if it's anything other than no changes
Standard is healthy and thriving
>>97753313one might say flourishing, even
Free my nigga.
Play Dandanhttps://pastebin.com/KCJQ1TkF
>>97753351BASED KETHIS DID NOTHING WRONG
>>97753304>any predictions?ban basic lands, they're too powerful
>>97753362Kethis died for Emry's sins.
>>97753304>there's a B&R tomorrow, any predictions? bonus points if it's anything other than no changesDamn, another no changes article?
From 1 to 10 how much are you enjoying Pizza Magic? Soon we are getting Strixhaven.
>>97753304>CommanderUnbanned Karakas and Emrakul>All other formatsNo changes
>>97753304>TQprobably no changes but i think they could honestly take like half of the modern banlist off at this pointi mean would birthing pod or jitte even see play in modern these days?
>>97753304>tqfood chain banned in historic
>>97753304>>TQ>there's a B&R tomorrow, any predictions?Isn't it obvious?>We're monitoring the situation>All macro archetypes are seeing play>The meta looks healthy and diverse>Our data suggests it doesn't have an excessively high win rate>We can't make any changes now because it would disrupt an upcoming event>We're waiting to see how the next release effects the meta>The format has all the tools necessary to deal with it>There's plenty of room for rogue decks to succeed
>>97753304seriously please, ban this shit card in pioneer and unban some fun cards so we can shake up the meta a little...
>>97753491haha I just started playing Historic yesterday.was going to build food chain but decided not to, made a deck with 0 alchemy cards instead.easiest format of all time. no one you queue against knows how to play magic.
>>97753506ajani?
>>97753474Jesus CHRIST how horrifying
>>97753502Pioneer is dead, just like ModernLet go
>>97753532Pioneer is the only format I play on Arena, and I'm not having troubles with finding games.
>>97753532I agree but they will have to give the impression, this game is something else than Cummander and Standard is not a good example.
>>97753532>Pioneer is dead, just like ModernI fucking wish, Modern already has one Pro Tour and two Magic Spotlight events confirmed for 2026, Pioneer has nothing outside of community events (mainly run in Japan).They didn't announce the formats for the World Championship in November but I highly doubt it there's any chance for Pioneer to show up out of nowhere.
>>97753581The reason why commander is the most popular format of magic is very simple: You get to play pretty much all the cards you have lying around and it doesn't cost you $600 to make a deck that is playable.That's literally all of it.
>>97753637But why do I have to suffer commander-oriented card designs and release schedule, while not playing commander?
>>97753633It will be Pioneer anon, they will not bet a new competitive format formula.Is that or some sort of EDH competitive shit I highly doubt about just because of this >>97753581
>>97753651>Is that or some sort of EDH competitive shitbracket 2/3 event, trust
>>97753651>It will be Pioneer anon, they will not bet a new competitive format formula.I would love for that to be the case but like I said I'm very skeptical.
>>97753651Cummander can't be a competitive format because is designed for casuals and retards to socialize, every attempt at make it competitive hurts someone fees fees and destroy the whole purpose of that tabletop game disguised as MTG game.
>>97753650Because WotC is a company that needs to make a billion dollars right this fucking second. Think of the shareholders. Think of all the other divisions of Hasbro that need money to throw into a burning pit.Do you want the My Little Pony reboot to die just because children thought it sucked ass? Are you that cruel? Do you want the G.I Joe Card Game to be consigned to oblivion just because it's a terrible idea that will never make any money???? Cruel anon, cruel anon. Chris Cocks is displeased.
Does it or has it seen serious play in any format ever?I have fun with it in brawl/duel commander. People love Farewell but this is just better if you can float mana. High Tide? Azorius Control with Teferi's Protection or flickering effects?
>>97753699this, just this. enjoy seven products a year, line goes up, hype never ends, magic is for everyone but you, bigot.
>>97753702It was very powerful when it was in Standard. Threshold decks ran it because you could play it turn 7, play a land, put your 1 mana Thresholded critter into play as a devastating beater the enemy simply will not be able to efficiently counter.
>>97753461Didn't even touch it.
>>97753689>every attempt at make it competitive hurts someone fees fees>this is why i'm going to a public event specifically designed with brackets in mindwill retards learn to keep quiet due to public shaming or will they actually cry on stream for not being able to do the thing for performative notoriety/actual retardation? either way i can't wait
>>97753702Upheaval is a panic button. Should you ever fall behind for any reason it can turn any position into a 50/50 at worst and a 70/30 at best, should you have 7+ mana and be able to immediately recast a threat to give yourself a huge advantage.
>>97753702It was one of the kings of Odyssey alongside Wild Mongrel and Psychatog. Like the other anons said, it's a complete reset button that can often transition into a position of large advantage as you get to restart the game with your graveyard full, your best cards on hand and a threat on the board.
>>97753702it is in a bunch of premodern stasis lists as a 1-of
If we reprinted Psychatog into standard would it see play?
>>97753637Cool is that why I sit down and see Vivi Ornitier across the table and know if my opponent ever untaps with his 3-drop he'll win?
>>97753759Not in Standard, but in Pioneer. Standard doesn't have the madness/flashback cards to take advantage of it.
>>97753761the other anon forgot the disclaimer that edh is played with 4 people (as are many multiplayer games like smash) and the vast majority of casuals have their own group and don't actually play with randoms, much less sweats
>>97753761I dunno, that seems like an unrelated issue. Psychic Frog is not a card designed for Commander but you'll probably die if the enemy untaps with it, too.
>>97753633>Pioneer has nothing outside of community events (mainly run in Japan).hahahaha m8 Pioneer is more dead in Japan than it even is in the west. let it go.
>>97753738have seen some play 1 main 1 sideboard if you want.such is its fate.I don't know if Stasis is even a very good deck desu, I ordered both it and Stiflenaught but don't expect to have much reason to switch between them.
>>97753774MH3 was designed for Commander that's why it had 4 Commander precons and no Modern precons, and all the flipwalkers randomly had an extra color on backside.
>>97753781I mentioned Japan because Hareruya still does these:https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=80093&f=PIhttps://mtgtop8.com/event?e=71629&f=PIthey are literally the only 2 major paper events Pioneer had in the last year, everything else happened on MTGO
>>97753798MH3 didn't have a Modern precon because a Modern precon would cost you $700 dollars or be completely unplayable. And no, nobody plays Ajani in Commander. He is through and through a card designed for Modern's value shitfest environment. Nobody would even think of playing shit like Grief in Commander.
>>97753810I'm not surprised they can get 1 decent tournament a year for it because of player density but even through the language barrier Hareruya staff managed to essentially tell me "we can get every format to fire any given week... except Pioneer, that one is dead as shit"
>>97753581This will never not be funny because Commander players are the ones currently propping up the singles market and they will endlessly power-creep their decks and bling them out but still say "Oh, Commander is the casual format, we are just having fun" at the same time...Anyway, I have little hope that Strixhaven (forma de inverso) will be any good.
>>97753351I think I found Kethis' hidden hand.
Embrace tradition.Come back to Premodern, /tg/.Come back home.
>>97753863Why did WotC fill LotR with niggers? Wasn't Aragorn enough to get their point across?
>>97753877I'm not playing any format where I'm expected to shell out for Gaea's fucking Cradle or Parallax fucking Tide.
>DestinyxMTG collabSo does this mean we're getting a UB set?Destiny would have enough characters to avoid turning out like Spiderman or TMNT where they have to pad the set with a bunch of random crap like pigeons or bagels or pizzas.
>>97753886Parallax Tide is banned. Just proxy your Gaea's Cradle.
>>97753798Every Modern Horizons set gets called Commander Horizons. It just happens to rape the fuck out of Modern (or rather, rape its bloated corpse) along the way.
>>97753882If they could get away with it every Magic character would be black
>>97753892A good premodern list will still cost me thousands of dollars because of Deranged Hermit, Survival of the Fittest, Winter Orb, Natural Order, Stifle, Powder Keg, and enormous amounts of myriad cards with utterly unreasonable prices that I am expected to shell out for. Most events will allow only very limited amounts of proxies.If you fags were actually wanting "real Magic" without WotC's interference, you would just proxy everything and be done with it. But you don't. You just want people to buy these $400 Phyrexian Dreadnoughts you're holding the bag on. Genuinely fuck off.
>>97753913Don't be poor?
premodern horizonplanar standard horizon (featuring UBs)Dandan horizon
>>97753913>you would just proxy everything and be done with itcedh is down the hall and to the left, they have high entrance fee high cash payout events, perfect for (You)>but muh 1v1!and where does that sentiment lead you? back to wotc.
>I hate all this Magic powercreep!>I just want to play with balanced cards like Gaea's Cradle and Mox Diamond!what produces this sort of mental illness?
>>97753877I vill not play the Brazilian mtg game. I vill not buy the overpriced cards. I vill not play with modern rules.
>>97753934americans being richer and more outspoken than say the japanese means a lot of retards get into the hobby with their shitty hot takes whereas in other places they would simply be priced out/browbeaten to shame
>>97753816But Grief goes great in my esper blink deck!
in a just world shilling a format where decks cost seven thousand fucking dollars should earn an execution by firing squad
>>97753934only newfags bitch about muh powercreep
>>97753946only oldfags bitch about muh powercreepnewfags wouldn't know what was lost, that's why they're newfags
>>97753952found the newfag
>>97753946You fucking retard.
>>97753954ok tim
>>97753952yes I remember what was lost. classic balanced designs like 1 mana 12/12. this is what premodern is like btw.
>>97753955>t. started playing last decade
Remember the balanced game design of "T: Add 30 fucking mana"? I remember.
>>97753962>muh stiflenoughtlooks ok to mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79OUXkcFtLMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79OUXkcFtLMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79OUXkcFtLM
>>97753964I started with portal 2 you nigger
>>97753976>portal 2hahahaha larping faggot
>>97753973awful card, not modern playable
newfags really do be cherrypicking cards from 20 years ago as examplenigga you weren't even born thenThose cards are twice as old as you
>>97753979Believe it or don't I don't care. Oldfags hate powercreep. You are a goddamn retard.
>>97753974If Stiflenought is balanced then so is Izzet Lessons. Around the same exact meta percentage. So either Premodern is balanced or Standard is terrible. One or the other faggot.
>>97753986I am literally posting a card that sees the most play in the format. It is the card that gives the name to the meta deck of the format. It is literally the format headliner.
>>97753989no one who went through urza block would ever bitch about powercreep larping faggot
Thread reminder thar Hexhaven>Strixhaven
Fun fact: The best artifact, instant and sorcery were all printed in Alpha.Fun fact: The best enchantment was printed in Nemesis.Fun fact: The best dual lands were printed in Onslaught.Fun fact: The best land period was printed in Urza's Saga.Fun fact: The best creature was printed in Ravnica.
>>97753990~10% meta share for the "best" deck is tame in "balanced" metas, you dumb niggernow go look at modern boros energy and cry me river
yeah yeah yeah and you're 12, you never saw or touched those cards, let's stop pretending to be a victim here
>>97753995reminder that dreadnought sucks so much it needed help from brazilians to be relevant in a fictional format
>Fictional formatIs more real than whatever shit you are playing casting Donatello and Superior Spider-man, fag.
>>97754015Fun fact: The best feet were printed in Commander Legends
>>97754028>he got offendednow THAT'S larping lol
>>97754028Donatello did not cost me US$ 7.000 to play, and so he is much realer then your decks
>>97754023lol
>>97753974buy an ad
>>97754017funnily enough, energy is barely even a top tier deck in terms of power level; there are like 3-5 decks stronger than it. it just has a pretty even matchup spread and is easy to play.
Cyrus' Premodern tier list dropped.any deck B tier and up could unsurprisingly win a tournament.
>>97754067It's definitely getting kneecapped soon enough I feel. One deck having 20% while the rest hangs at 6% probably yields a ban. Maybe they'll ban Phlage or Ajani.
>>97754067if you're 50/50 on everything you are in fact the best deck to play, and old tarmo jund would kill for that meta share
>>97754073I hope not. the only Modern deck I'll ever play dunks on Energy.
custom card time
>>97754042I paid $20 for my dreadnoughts
>>97754071>a deck that dies to a bunch of spot removal>a bunch of go wide decks>a bunch of graveyard deckssurprising that nobody's rocking fluctuator
>>97754103Probably too vulnerable when everyone and their mother is playing seal of cleansing
>>97754116Meant >>97754109, my bad
>>97754119>seal of cleansingwell clearly BW isn't running that + swords + vindicate + chainer's edict on the side (to deal with argothian enchantress too) that dreadnought is running aroundthose BW control decks are awful UW standstill is much better
>>97754130monoB midrange and monoW control are also better decks than BW, I don't think BW is very good at all
>>97754071His assessment of S and A seems fine but below that gets a bit messy. Moneyball should be higher for starters.
>>97754193BW are currently traps because they keep hanging on to dark rit + hippie and gerrard's verdict when not only is the bw mana base not good enough too many of the top decks actively want to fill their yardthe bw control decks got a few things right by pivoting away from that, but going control isn't the way imo, but rather midrange
>>97754071One of my favorite parts of premodern is that the cool deck names are back. No one wants to play "Pernicious Deed Midrange" compared to "The Rock"
>>97754300Why is the red deck called sligh?
>>97754332Because a pro player called Paul Sligh did really well in a 1996 PTQ with it. A friend of mine actually got to take a game design course taught by Jay Schneider, the dude that invented the deck.
>>97754350Interesting. I had no idea.
>>97754000Since Strixhaven's colleges are based on conflict what would the other colleges.GW - Law Is morality something natural or is it artificial?
Premodern has a limited card pool. In fact, the current standard has almost as many cards as all Premodern sets(5400 vs. 4100). How long until Premodern is solved and there won't be any new decks?
Obligatory Reminder (tm)
>>97754436Depends if GW is planeshifted Witherbloom or Quandrix
>>97754597How much did FF sell?
>>97754609If you can find out, I'd love to know.
>>97754449Premodern needs ban rotations.
>>97754609Nevemind. Found it.The answer is 7797 at peak, slightly less than TDM's 8150. It's been downhill since.
>>97754627>>97754616your feeble attempts at yelling at the sky hoping wotc won't continue with UB is funny, chartschizo
>>97754638That's not what I'm hoping, anon.
>>97754089Pretty cool honestly.
>>97753882It's a good litmus test for racism. It works for both types, too. Those who care because they don't like the change and those who support it. Caring about this stuff at all is weird.
>>97754735Radical centrists still exist?
>if the company go out of their way to blackface Aragorn, then it's wholesome (this count as not caring about race)>if the player notice things, it's racism (this count as caring about race)Hmm
>>97754748>>97754777I don't know about you guys but for me this forced race-swapping for ESG points is perfectly normal and not weird at all.
magic sucks, you shouldn't play it, and you DEFINITELY shouldn't spend money on it. prove me wrong you absolutely fucking can't.
>>97754777Yes, caring about it is as weird as being a flat earther. It's 2026.
>>97754796It sure is par for the course with the demographic shift in America
I'm surprised FIN and FIC have had price increases across the board.
>>97754777>intentionally misconstruing the contemporary definition of racism (caring about race as opposed to discrimination and bias based on racial qualities) to be mad at wotc>not just being mad because their game is shit and a rip offyou're a retard and just as much part of why the game is bad. it's a dumb game meant to take your retarded money, your political enemies money, kid's money, everyones' money. fuck you.
>>97754809I had fun playing TMNT. My friends got together and played sealed. Then we had pizza. I got Dark Leo and Shredder and made a damn good sneak deck. You can’t tell me I didn’t have fun. Deal with it faggot.
>>97754833yeah well people also have fun smearing themselves in shit while they fuck. just because you're a retard in the same category as scat fetishists doesn't change the fact that magic sucks and you shouldn't play it or spend money on it.
>>97754842>Playing card games with friends is equivalent to extreme scat fetishistsAnd yet here you are posting in the general about it. If someone told me they were posting in a scat fetish general and claimed it was done ironically I wouldn’t believe them.
>>97753532I only got into magic in the last few months and the local group I wandered into is a pioneer one. No idea how much there is besides this one group but they seem pretty happy showing up every friday to play it.
>>97754735Nah that's not true, if you care with any sincerity about the source material then you'll understand that Tolkien, without any racist motivations, specifically conceived his entire legendarium as a sort of post-hoc mythology for England. It's meant to be rooted in English (in the traditional stretching-back-a-millennium sense) character and ideals and perspectives, and all the major protagonists should look and feel English. Black Aragorn is as wilfully contrary to the spirit of the source material as an Arab Amaterasu or a white Buddha.
I started playing MTG (actually playing, not kitchen magic) with arena launch. Remember creating my first deck (golgari midrange) farming Standard bo1 events (aint nobody got time for bo3), Good memories.
Be honest, would you play a Nier Automata set?
>>97753304>TQsomething from boros energy, hopefully ajani or ocelot pride
>>97755206No.
Do you actually want vanilla creatures to be viable? Be honest
>>97755210If TMNT was a kamigaway rerun Nier Automata would be mirrodin.
>>97755212Vanilla creatures being viable is one of the primary metrics by which the game's health can be determined.
>>97755212Some are pretty cool. Better than the fucking FIRE cards with a hundred lines of rules text on every card.
Every fucking day i have to block 5-10 dogshit channels that talk about MTG. I absolutely do not give a shit about cardboard price, top 10 dimir commanders of 2026, startrek leaked cards, booster openings, etc.Youtube is so fucking dogshit, i watched ONE video about MOM draft to see if i want to try it and now i have to do this shit constantly.Also i shit you not all this MTG content creators are so fucking ugly, bald and fat, there has to be some correlation between MTG and worthless lazy cunts.
List of Acceptable UB(aka shit i like):Devil May CryFrieren Cowboy BeebopWesley Snipes BladeJoJoAttack on Titan (shit ending but set would be kino)FireflyPath of ExileList of Unacceptable UB (aKa shit i DONT like):everything else
>>97753487>4 mana NeoformUnplayable
Are we ready for the ultimate "NO CHANGES" shit blogpost today?
>>97755303I think they're gonna be cheeky and make one meaningless change just to say they did something, like jitte unbanned in modern or something
>>97755212>Do you want only noncreatures to be interesting?No
>>97755260With taste like that I bet your favourite spice is flour
>>97755212I don't. The push for creatures to be the main part of the game has been a genuinely good thing. It's better if the game takes part on the battlefield instead of in the stack.
>>97755248uh oh zoom zoom melty
>legacytamiyo BANNEDbrainstorm BANNEDorcish bowmasters BANNEDUro BANNEDeldrazi fleshlight BANNEDplanar nexus BANNEDDeathrite Shamman UNBANNED>pioneer lmao>modern el oh el>hearthstone with lands formatsjej>cummandergriselbrand UNBANNEDIona UNBANNEDYou're welcome
>>97755316>Screaming Nemesis is unbannedPlease god let this happen, it would be so worth it to see the meltdowns.
>>97755206>All artifacts setThis could be a secret lair at best and still no if we go by the track record of what western devs do to 2b
>>97755492Yawn fuck off.
>>97755206No, Nier doesn't have enough stuff to do draft chaff with. It would be another Spiderman set where they need to shove 2B into every dogshit common to even get enough fo fill a pack.
standard>Mightform Harmonizer>Earthbender Ascension>Stormchaser's Talent>Boomerang Basicsmodern>Amulet of Vigor>Ephemerate>Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury>Mox Opal>Arena of Glory>unban Birthing Podlegacy>Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
>>977552291-mana 20/20 no textGo off king.
>>97755915>grandeur is back
>>97755915vigilance in a blue and red creature. get fucked vigilance schizo, wherever you are.
>>97755925It should be in every set and on as many legendaries as possible to make the commander players sad.
>>97755915>common legend ugh->with grandeurnow we're cooking
>>97755949They did it once before. Neat way to square the circle at least.
>>97755977>goblin embermage reference>no dick hanging outthey had one job
>>97755915Not the only thing that's back.
>>97755492unironacally based
1 hour until no changes
weareflourishing
>Strixhaven leaks
more shit
Pissmodern lost, because it is a Judeo-brazilian scam.Pavper won, as usual, because it is a European (southern, not smegma eating nordcuck) format.Many such cases!
>>97756375Paupershill...I kneel.
>>97756238I fuckin predicted it >>97753491 gimme some (You)s
>>97753491>>97756383if I craft food chain now do I still get wildcards back?
>>97756238it's realhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-march-23-2026
>pioneer paragraph is all about greasefang
Whatever.
>>97756419>The format has a defined few decks that are going to see success the most reliably, but it's an environment where players can pick their favorite kind of strategy and champion it to find success over time.>Honestly? I'd recommend giving it a shot.
>>97756428Planar chaos was a mistake and we're gonna keep paying for it until the end of time
I just came back from paupergeddon AMA
commander and any form of it is gay and it blows my mind that people take it seriously
>>97756453MTG and any form of it is gay and it blows my mind that people take it seriouslyFTFY
>>97756428what is the problem with this again
>By and large, red is showing up at a higher clip than desired across several different archetypes, but each of those archetypes appears at an acceptable range. We've talked a bit over our last few announcements about flavors of Mono-Red Aggro, Izzet Lessons, Steel Cutter Prowess, and Arclight Phoenix decks, but we're seeing each of those decks succeed at a clip we'd expect to see strong decks perform. If red and blue aren't your favorite, Greasefang, Okiba Boss is currently the centerpiece for two different graveyard combo decks. Greasefang has both Orzhov and Abzan variants, each with its own strengths and weaknesses because of differences in how they play.>If you don't like this 4 decks all Red/Blue BTW, you have this stupid combo deck that is boring as fuck, if you wanna play the format that's it, because we will not ban shit or unban anything to shake things up :^)Carmen you and the rest of Pioneer balance team don't actually play this game fucking bunch of clowns... You should all be fired.
>>97756451Did you get any from the trannies in a bathroom stall? No shame, we're all anons
>>97756430>Honestly? I'd recommend giving it a shot.Lol pioneer is a flop
>>97756419They basically said "red is fine because there are 2 entire non-red decks ( *cough* using the same combo *cough*) you can play"
>>97756455Card games that don't involve gambling is gay and it blows my mind that people take such kiddie games seriouslyFTFY
>0 bans>0 unbansDidn't they promise to make this B&R windows more active towards format changes?
"standard is fine because there's like 1 non badgermole cub deck and like 17 DIFFERENT(!!1!) badgermole cub decks you can run, plus you guys just aren't running enough removal it literally dies to doomblade"Every day mark rosewater continues breathing is a day wasted
>>97756460>Carmen you and the rest of Pioneer balance teamI don't think there is an actual balance team, they just picked random people, they check on some statistics and write a paragraph about how every format is flourishing
>>97756489they also promised no UB in standard, never believe any of their lies
>>97756464No but there were unironically a larger amount of cute girls (girl) all dressed like whores, you tell me why you would go around in a 1000 virgins events dressed in stiletto heels, black tights and very short skirts and there were dozens of them around, I'm not kidding, you probably can see them around in insta reels or whatever in the geddon hashtags.
>Black Spiderman is becoming unavoidably meta in StormCAN'T WAKE UP
>>97756489Monitoring formats, broMagic is flourishing, bro (in Nebraska)Every archetype can be successful, broNew set around the corner, bro
>>97756511>Every archetype can be successfulUnironically only in bracket 2 edh assuming your pod arent whiny retards about interaction
>>97754071>gw threshold isnt even on there=(
>>97756505OF whores flock to these kind of events because they figure lonely nerd losers that spend lots of monies on their hobbies will spend monies on their butthole pics
Most masculine Witherbloom studenthttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-episode-1-penmanship-practice
2013 mono blue devotion > 2020 omnath uro
>>97756509cute art
>>97756509"Smirtouille" is a funny name.
>>97756489the problem cards in standard are still being sold in recent displays so they can't ban them yet, and other formats are irrelevant for making money this quarter so nobody at wotc cares
>>97756533tl;dr
>>97756587Wait for the summary anon to come.
>>97756529Maybe but there were some more "conservative" ones, they were all fairly pretty desu, there was this one very classy with 5-6inch heels and red tights dressed in some kind of french style. Genuinely surprised, never seen these many (real) women actually playing at a magic event, we even had 2 7/10s cuties in our B&B that played at the event, one of the was on UB faeries.
>>97753530Hell no i quit this game its fucking ruined and awful. Ill never forget you though.
I like food.
>>97756536Unexpected, but not unwelcome. Master having pro-red was big
Can someone that plays Pauper explain to me why the fuck is Bonder's Ornament banned?You people have Brainstorm, Tron and Writhing Chrysalis. How on earth is 4-mana once a turn draw a card possibly a problem?
>>97756691Because it was asscancer to play against and devolved into people having to put that card into every (many) decks, tron especially abused it, it was a miserable experience.
>>97756691it was banned before MH2 came out
>>97754876He's posting in a general about MTG and TMNT isn't MTG. Your argument is moot by default.In your analogy, we'd be in a general talking about how good fucking is and you come around saying that you enjoying smearing shit all over you during sex, to which we say it is not good at all and disgusting.
>>97756691It's banned for being in Tron. Pauper as a format is thirsty for card draw and other stuff like Ichor Wellspring also got banned for being a bit too efficient at drawing, even though it is practically harmless in other formats.
>>97755206Would WotC even want to add this? Too many boobs and asses around and it's super bleak compared to the type of cheap, easy to consume franchises they are trying to push for crossovers.
>>97756691>BrainstormThere's no tamiyo, the greatest payoff is sneaky snacker and due to the lack of good fetchies not even full control decks play it, instead preferring preordain due to consistence.>Writhing Chrysalisshould've been banned 2 years ago, even better if they just erased mh3 from existence>troncurrently lacks powerful enough payoffs, you can play it as a t2 deck as aggro/midrange/control/combo, there's various of them but they are somewhat more inconsistent and sightly slower than the current respective t1 archetypes.
Strixhaven/Arcavios is such an unbelievably lame plane its not even funny.There are like 3 salvagable bits on the plane itself and the whole thing is ruined by the dogshit hogwarts ripoffCan we just go do a block in Ikoria (and retcon everything we did in Ikoria last time). I want to fight monsters
>>97755212It depends. Vanilla creatures, at this point, are just boring the the very definition of draft chaff. Unless there's some really interesting non-vanilla hate cards or strategies, I'd rather just have more interesting creature effects.
>>97756729>not even full control decks like familiars* play itI meant to say
Nosewater here, I have a GREAT solution for the lack of vanilla support haha! There will be a new keyword, "Vanilla" that allows creatures with abilities to count as if they have no ability! Brilliant old me! It's exactly like Devoid, which I also invented haha!
>>97756730The problem with Arcavios is that the idea of this plane where everyone is hunting for knowledge because everything got hard reset in an epic war is basically just Zendikar again and then they ignore all of it to focus on some incredibly homo ass college faggot shit like it's fucking Mean Girls with Scooby Doo bad guys.
>>97756729>There's no tamiyo, the greatest payoff is sneaky snacker and due to the lack of good fetchies not even full control decks play itHuh? What are you talking about? It's a 4-of in Faeries, Caw-Gates and the current top dog of the format, Terror. You have Ponder and Lorien Revealed to shuffle stuff away. Meanwhile literally nobody but Familiars even plays Preordain.
>>97756596Just throw that shit on the AI machine for a summary. Let the slop summarize the slop.
>>97756715>TMNT isn't MTGHilarious copeDestinyfags arent going to say that Jace is part of their game either but they dont lose their mind over it
>>97756758Lorehold is the only bit that even represents thatThe other colleges are just arts and crafts or magic dueling shit which have no relevance at all outside of the gay school
>>97756769Yes, terror fields 12-16 ways to clear it away and it makes sense because it wants to throw spells on top to mill itself and cast terrors early as well as to setup delver, but that's a tempo deck.>UB faeries (control version only)uses about 9-12 ways to clear it but the decks performs mildly, some people may just use ponder/preordainThe point is, that card is not as good as it is vintage and legacy.
>>97756809Fair enough.
>>97756730Reminder that the entire conflict in Harry Potter all stems from racism of wizards to muggles and vice versa but wotc cant handle mature topics that's the ripoff is even worse than usual
>>97756780No because the AI might embellish or hallucinate thinking a real story couldn't possibly be that dogshit, and make the story look interesting, tricking me into reading the real one.
>>97756730I just remember there's liliana for some reasons, she was sad about gideon and there's a nigger wizard
>>97756858It's even worse in Ikoria because they somehow took a story beat from Monster Hunter: Stories (a spinoff literally aimed at 8 year-olds) and somehow made it even less nuanced.I imagine this is also why the movie and TV series have indefinitely stalled, because not only is the source material total shit, but WotC is refusing to let the production team introduce any "problematic" (e.g. actual problems) or "conflicting" (e.g. a character displaying more than one personality trait) elements into the story.
>>97756858>Reminder that the entire conflict in Harry Potter all stems from racism of wizards to muggles and vice versanot really it stems from a woman date raping a guy
>>97756877The only thing that made Ikoria worthwhile was that there is a commander land that shows the plane is now absolutely raped and overrun by monsters so Kudro was 100% right
>>97756803Shit isn't an inheret part of sex, no. In the same way TMNT isn't an inherit part of MTG, even if the degenerates at WOTC reasssures you they are and they are super hecking fitting.
>>97756895That too.
>>97756877I liked the Ikoria book. They didn't do anything good with Lukka after it but he's interesting in the story itself- there is actual pathos in how he goes from the golden child of Drannith to an undesirable by nothing but happening to be born a bonder, and how his life as a Coppercoat makes him completely incapable of functioning in bonder society, so has no other option but to desperately try and beg his way back into Drannith's good graces.The issue is that for some reason there was a total disconnect between the lore team and the art team. Like 90% of the art with Lukka actively contradicts what is happening in the story. His tiger thing isn't even his friend, he didn't befriend it or anything. It killed his friends and then he spends the entire book trying and failing to get it away.
>>97756895Date raping a muggle isnt a crime but what's a crime is the dad leaving tom's mom like a nigger, fucking muggles
>>97756899Kudro literally got handed a superweapon that would PERMANENTLY solve the monster problem and he tried to destroy it, because it would compromise his power over Drannith, anon.
>>97756909Rest assured nobody in the destiny thread is crying over mtg, hmm i wonder why the whining only goes one way
>>97756938>kudro's right>fuck he's a chud though>let's make him dumb for the plot>our treehugger politics must prevail, we're trying to push kinnan you know
>>97756938That was character assassination and made zero sense because Kudro was already the ruler of Drannith, there was no one introduced who even wanted to challenge him, the Ozolith was put there by some unknown foreigner to make monsters insane so no one to this day even knows what the fuck it was about, and Kudro was so dedicated to Drannith he sacrificed everything from his relationship with his daughter to his own humanity for it out of pure selflessness yet he is somehow le ebil chudler.
Retards arguing about lore from years ago? Yeah im thinking we are COOKED.
>>97757075>Kudro was already the ruler of DrannithThe other Kudro was the ruler of Drannith.>>97757111Cooked means good.
>>97757075>That was character assassinationHe was INTRODUCED doing that how can it be character assassination. The first thing that Kudro does in the story is declare that Lukka must die, when he is an utterly loyal soldier whose friends were all slaughtered by monsters who would be devastatingly effective in Drannith's hands.Kudro never actually sacrifices anything at any point. He betrays Lukka, who loves him and his city, out of pure powertripping. As far as he knew, Lukka used the Ozolith, Drannith would be safe. He didn't know about the mysterious planeswalker, and that guy didn't even do anything. He just handed Lukka the keys to the Ozolith to see what he would do and there were no side effects or betrayals. But Kudro cannot stand a city that doesn't need him, that can control the monsters and wield them for the betterment of all, because he has to be in charge. This is what he is introduced doing in the story, what he does when he sends assassins to kill Lukka even though he is completely loyal to Drannith even after being kicked in the teeth after a lifetime of faithful service, and what he does when he backstabs a Lukka who was fully intending to hand over control of the monsters to Drannith.
Kek retards.
>>97756858Actually most problems in Harry Potter stem from the fact Voldemort's mom was a rapist and had an Evil FAS baby while Tom senior was drugged with a love potion
kudro did nothing wrongmonsters lives do not matterhuman supremacy now
>>97757140What kind of idiotic cope is this? Is this what WotC actually thinks people got from the story?
>>97757149Lukka LITERALLY was pushing for human supremacy. He was going to put every monster in the plane under human control. Bonders can take monsters that would kill humans in droves and make them assets for humanity. The conflict of Ikoria isn't "monsters good, humans bad". Kudro is essentially an oil baron spreading propaganda and lies about nuclear energy, because if people actually used this devastatingly effective natural resource (bonders), they wouldn't need him and he wouldn't be able to exert total control over society.
>>97757160The opening of Sundered Bond is Lukka getting declared a criminal for no reason but being a bonder. Kudro is the one that does this. There is no "character assassination," this is Kudro's character. Bonders are a powerful natural resource. The reason they are treehuggers living in the wilds is because Drannith is wasting that resource. In the world that Lukka envisions, someone like him or Kinnan would be raised to serve Drannith. This would objectively benefit the city and many less people would have to die. But Kudro would get less control over Drannith's military in this scenario, so Kudro cannot abide this way that is better for literally everyone else.
>>97757111I agree we should be talking about lore from superior UBs like Final Fantasy instead, mtg lore sucks why do you think they're replacing it
>>97757162fpbp
>>97757200Tpbp (two-hundredth-and-fifty-third post best post)
>>97757181Has the low quality of MtG writing turned your brain into mush? No shit Kudro didn't have faith in the capabilities of bonders because they started showing up one day with no explanation and could just as easily have their powers disappear one day if it wasn't for WotC's mandatate of heaven making reader's accustomed to shit like this happening all the time. From Kudro's perspective there's no reliability in bonders with immense risk (which Lukka proved through all the problems his emerging powers caused). "Hmm yes I know we've been fighting tooth and nail against these monsters for generations, but what if we invited them into the city borders because a bunch of people with superpowers they themselves don't fully understand say they're able to control them? That's a good idea!"
>>97757181>>97757162Kudro is a basic bitch litmus test where you can only support him if you hear him saying "humanity first!!! it's them or us!" and then ignore everything he is actually doing
>>97757270>which Lukka proved through all the problems his emerging powers causedLukka's powers saved his fucking life. He was going to die against the flying tiger, and so did the rest of his team. His emerging powers were an objective benefit to him and if he had not been declared a criminal, they would have gotten the tiger for themselves. The same applies to every other bonder; the reason they aren't using their powers FOR Drannith is because Drannith doesn't want them around.>No shit Kudro didn't have faith in the capabilities of bonders because they started showing up one day with no explanation and could just as easily have their powers disappear one day if it wasn't for WotC's mandatate of heaven making reader's accustomed to shit like this happening all the time.Bonders are Ikoria's native magic, you dumbfuck. Them "disappearing" is as likely as one day aether just vanishing from Kaladesh or the leylines of Zendikar suddenly deciding to go quiet. There is no evidence they just "showed up one day" when we have bonders that are as old if not older then Kudro. It is a natural part of the plane, a natural resource that Drannith is deliberately refusing to use when it would benefit from it, purely to keep Kudro's military reign going.
>Want to search for things that make artifact tokens.>Realize I have to include (o:treasure or o:blood or o:food or o:investigate or o:clue or o:junk or o:...)I fucking hate nuMagic.
>>97757321>It's native magic>Conveniently ignores the entire story of the Ozolith to push narrativeWotC is that you?
I would have appreciated a banning for Standard format. The exact banning didn't matter, just something to give the impression that WOTC gives a shit, and a slight meta shake-up would've been nice.
>>97757364>I would have appreciated a banning for Standard format.Best I can do is THE FORMAT IS FLOURISHING.
wake up chuddie, your new protag just dropped and it's too brat for you to handle
>>97757356The Ozolith didn't create bonders. It can awaken them, but they existed before it appeared, and they continued to exist after it exploded, not even in the other books or anything, in the same book it is introduced. You didn't even read the story you're complaining about.
>>97753650sorry you didnt get to play when the format was funsorry it nuked every other format
>>97757396and you're literally just making shit up to fill in the gaps on bad storytelling.
>>97757378
>>97757396>They totally existed before they just did nothing until the Ozolith awakened them, trust me they'll totally exist after the Ozolith explodesKudro was supposed to know this... how?
>>97757378did they change the strixhaven font to make it look like some old school sword/sorcery shit? wew
>>97757378And just like that, all hype for the set is dead.
>>97757378Why this company is a constant monument to failure?
>>97757418Bonders have existed before Kudro was even born. We have bonders who are 70+ years old. There is absolutely no evidence they come from the Ozolith, they have always existed in the plane. The Ozolith awakening bonders is, in the book, an unnatural occurrence the bonders explicitly remark is not normal. The bonders are a part of the plane. Kudro refuses to acknowledge this. He refuses to accept that this immensely powerful natural resource can be exploited for his city to benefit the lives of all. He had all the time in the world and means to learn this; bonders are everywhere, and they have villages and enclaves in the wilderness BECAUSE they are exiled from the city.His son-in-law just became a bonder. His son in law that trusts him utterly. He didn't HAVE to declare him a criminal or exile him, and he could have waited to even see what was going to happen. Lukka fucking hates the tiger bird and is very vocal about hating it. Nothing suggests he is innately dangerous. In fact, we KNOW bonders can stop doing bonds. They are often forced to either give up their bond or be exiled from their homes and families, this is canon. Lukka would have cheerfully given the bond up if he had been given the option.This is the opening of the book: Kudro of Drannith takes his best asset, his captain, a man who is loyal beyond question, and throws him in the garbage, and then lies to the populace of Drannith to justify it. A man who is completely blameless, who just had his friends slaughtered, is declared a criminal based on nothing but lies. To say that Kudro was fighting for anything but his own power requires you to ignore literally everything he is doing.
>>97757378Not only that's the book, but that's not the protag.
>>97757378>Twerk>0 mana>you win the game and your opponent owes you reparations
>>97757501Looks good so far
>>97757426why would anyone be hype for strixhaven. fucking retard
>>97757378That's a man
>>97757475This is literally all word of god shit that WotC never once indicated any explanation for aside from "it is known".
>>97757501why do they keep shoving New York inside Magic sets??
>>97757461My sister-in law works for their marketing firm. It's comprised of exactly the kind of people you think it would be and they are twice as out of touch as you can imagine. This also includes my sister-in law who is on a grocery bag full of medications every day, does puppy play as part of her therapy (even in front of the whole family when we are on vacation together) and is always talking about how EVERYTHING is "gay coded". I want to stress how out to lunch these people are.
>>97757537It literally is all in the book and in the Planeswalker's Guide. Simply read the fucking text. Literally just read and it is all there.
>>97757530Nah she's not a man. She's one of the characters.
>>97757426>he was hyped for return to trash
>no changes in Pauper again>yes we know that a common card, available only on a product meant for kitchen table play that has no other cards worth buying is hard to come by, which is why we are making it easy to get digitally!burn Gavin after crushing his balls
>>97757581>PWGLiterally word of god.
>>97757657if you mean that commander common it will come down, you can see there are 1000s of unsold copies on cardmarket there isn't that much demand.
>>97757657Pauper players should act like paupers and just be glad they got something
>>97753637Commander being a 'budget' format hasn't been true for years at this point. Even casuals will drop loads of money on expensive format staples and big splashy commanders based off net decks they read online. Even basic pre-cons are at least a £50 upfront investment these days
>>97757692>£50If you can't afford that much on a luxury cardboard hobby then maybe you should play chess instead
>>97757669well there isn't much demand at that price for sure. a playset of that is like half the cost of a pauper deck.>>97757670but we got nothing in Lorwyn
>>97757657Pauper going to shit once Wotc took over? Who would've thought?!
cpEDH is the best EDH format
For me, when I think of Strixhaven and how I feel about it, I remember how it was released during the peak of covid lockdown craziness, and I was playing lots of MTGA Strixhaven draft at the time to avoid thinking about the situation. Functionally I really enjoyed it, I liked that it was a '2 colour pair' set where you could easily splash a 3rd colour. But yeah, slight emotional baggage.
>>97757721more like they don't know what to do with it>high tide unban made people unhappy so they stopped unbanning stuff
>>97757140not him butWhy would you invite monsters inside your city?Have they ever provided evidence the monsters couldn't go bersek while inside?This is a thing all irl "dictatorship" regimes: If anyone imposes a threat to the regime (independent of who is in control) this thread will get removed.An exemple is Kin Jong Un's brother that was in exile, he represented a threat to the regime in a possible succession because of how much he was immersed in capitalism. Thus he was assassinated even with 0 chances of becoming their leader without heavy international help.In a zombie Apocalypse you either exile the people saying we "must be friends of zombies" or you kill them, at best you let them do their experiments away from your settlement. Old Kudro was justified.
>>97757792>Why would you invite monsters inside your city?Korra UB when?
>>97757270This.Kudro was justified because he was managing not only a city but one of the few safe heavens for normal humans left in the world.>>97757321>Lukka's powers saved his fucking life. He was going to die against the flying tiger, and so did the rest of his team. His emerging powers were an objective benefit to him and if he had not been declared a criminal, they would have gotten the tiger for themselves.What he is saying and you are failing to understand is that you don't invite someone that has a power people don't understand to your city. Specially when said power could kill your citizens if it ever went out of control.>Bonders are Ikoria's native magic, you dumbfuck. Them "disappearing" is as likely as one day aether just vanishing from Kaladesh or the leylines of Zendikar suddenly deciding to go quiet.Like how Kaladesh Aether was being held as an rare commodity (until wotc forgot Kaladesh - Aether Revolt subplot) ? Or how Zendikar Leylines were quiet before the Eldrazi imprisonment or in areas were the Titans devoured them?
>Mono-blue devotion annihilates Uro/Omnath Ramp solely because Omnath built entirely against the mirror match.Kek.The FIRE consumes itself.
>>97757792if you don't let vampires in you are a bigot
>>97757270>. From Kudro's perspective there's no reliability in bonders with immense riskKudro really was, unironically, an extremely sensible and savvy individual that any nation could be proud to have as leader.He is legitimately one of the greatest men of virtue in all of MTG lore.
>3-2>annihilates
>>97757872The games where it won were absolute shitstomps.The games where it lost were one turn off going the other way.
>Prof video with a decent concept instead of kvetchingaight let's se...>Tranny staff member forces ximself into it yet again
>>97757886Please understand.The head is DAMN good.
>>97757886I don't think I could listen to prof talk for longer than 3 minutes, he's an expert in the dragging out every sentence and point to extend the video style of speech
>>97757664as opposed to the other words, which are historical fact in the public record?
>>97757906That comes naturally to english teachers
>>97756730>Can we just go do a block in IkoriaNo. Never again.
>>97757886I'll bet you, if anything, its the professor forcing that guy into the videos for signaling points.
>>97757918*adjunct English teacher
Blocks would be the salvation for Magic but they will just never do it so they can keep shitting UB sets.
>>97757945The funny thing is that this does so much damage to edh as well. I know people like to shit on it but I had so much fun playing it from like 2010 to 2018ish.
>>97755915Opus is just a more restricted version of the Elemental's mechanic in Lorwyn: Eclipsed.
>>97757941are you implying the tranny doesn't want attention? because that's the only thing every tranny wants, otherwise they wouldn't be a tranny
>>97758043I'm implying that the professor has total creative control over what degenerates he puts on screen.
>>97757378Comparable.
>>97757378>18+
holy fuckingshitthe art they've teased for nuStrixhaven is FUCKING AWFUL my fucking god how is it SO BAD
>>97756373>Pest ApeSeems the mascots are all going to be hybrid animals.>Bibiloplex TomekeeperWhen this creature enters choos up to one.-Target creature becomes prepared. (Only creatures with prepare spells can become prepared.)-Target creature becomes unprepared.>reparteeIt appears to be a heroic variant where it now looks at all creature. Repartee - whenever you cast an instant or sorcery targets a creature
>>97758114>The white man marches on
>>97756373>endure the paradox>3GU>Sorcery>draw 3 cards, you may put a land from your hand TAPPEDHuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh?
>>97758208Actual answer? They know this isn't going to appeal to as many people as lorwyn so they get their best speedpainters on it, plus the people who really want strixhaven are okay with this "aesthetic"
>>97758251It's an instant so it's actually better.
>>97757378make it stop bros, just make it stop...
>>97758251>anon not familiar with how powercreep is nowadays.
>>97756373>golgari frog that gains you life whenever a creature you control enterswhite loses yet another mechanic
>>97758414>starter deck card vs commander set carddamn you guys are really grasping at straws
>>97758421you are 15 years too late to be bitching about this
>>97758432black has no reason to have it
>>97756373Looks like boring slop shit.
>>97758421Why are Innistradi inquisitors so corruptible?
I enjoyed Golgari sac with Witchcraft and pest so much but it seems they will not repeat that... Feels fucking bad
>>97757886Prof also reads all comments, how do we polically correct we said everyone is tired of the tranny ine very video and is causing it to loss longtime viewers
>>97758493they're supposed to remind you of the catholic church
>>97758466If monogreen can have it, then green/X certain can. Also, you're still 10 years too late to be bitching about this. 7 years if you prefer Ayara.
>>97758541>AyaraWhiteoids cannot compete.
>>97758493Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
>>97758414lmao wtf
>>97758541>>97758574
>>97756373>All completely generic boring garbage.>Rehashed generic mechanics pus boring twists on old mechanics.Welp, this set looks like a hard pass. Completely soulless, low-effort design.
>>97758541>>97758574Quite frankly, black should be allowed ZERO (0) life gain, just like it should never get enchantment removal.The color of suicide should not have the means to reverse its own sacrifices. Ever. No exceptions.>"Buh-b-buh-but vampires!!!"Don't care. Green can't have bees, black shouldn't have Lifelink.
>>97758526No matter how politely you phrase it, you'll be labeled as a bigot, so there's no point.Best bet would just be to say you're not a fan of xim and solely that.Doesn't matter tho, xe's the lead writer on Prof's staff, so yeah.
>>97758836>The color of suicideThat's red you idiot
>>97758843No.
>>97758836Black is literally not the color of suicide
>>97758836>The color of suicide
>>97758574Why does the elf do vampire shit?
>>97758858No citations I win.
>>97757857To be fair, Mono U curv out would dominate Omnath nut draw. If you go 1-2-3-Master, you're making 7 2/1s turn 4 and all Omnath can do in respons is drain you for 4.All his creatures other than cobra are fucking Legendary so he isn't blocking and he has no wraths.And T4 Master into T5 Master is just rape
>>97758893Sorry bud, I debunk your win and rebunk my refutation.
>>97758836You were saying?
>>97758898It was sick to see relatively fair Magic pretty well counter rsuch a broken list. Watching Omnath crumble largely due to how heavily it's invested into countering its own one-deck meta was great stuff.
>>97758541Lukewarm take: Zendikar has the coolest vampires of any plane.
>>97758836>>97758879>The color of suicide
>>97758836>Green can't have beesWhat? Green has all the bees and hornets.
>>97758891It is supposed to be the mono-black kingdom's legend so the its black effect needed to be the blackest effect. The sacrifice effect is supposed to represent sending her new suitors to die for the cauldron of immortality.
>>97758891A cat is fine too.
>>97758836They hated him because he told the truth
>>97758836>>97758879>>97758945>The color of suicide
>>97758948The Eldraine sets are 2/2 soulful. It's nice.
>>97758836>should not have the means to reverse its own sacrifices. Ever. No exceptions.
>>97758986>Gideon embodiment of white kills himself to save used goods>Liliana embodiment of black makes contracts with 4 demons to stave of deathFace it white kills itself at the slightest provocation while black kills others when depressed.
>>97757501Is that meant to be Chandra? Where are her breasts? Did she get magical boob reduction surgery or a goddamn mastectomy??? FUCK WOTC FUCK THE WAR ON BOOBS YOU CAN'T STOP ME FROM ENJOYING THEM FUCK YOU WOTC
>>97759048I think that's Kasmina. Calm your tits.
>>97759074>I think that's Kasmina.Even worse...
>>97759048>>97759074Her name is Eula Blue. A Silverquill student from New Capenna.
>>97758843>>97758858>there are more red cards that explicitly mention suicide than black oneswtf
>>97759074Never forget what they DID to Chandra's breasts. She looks like a boy. I promise you she will troon out very soon.
>>97759090>End-user license agreement BlueWhat did they mean by this?
>>97759102It's actually End-user license agreement Bitch looks utterly eroded
>>97759029I love old magic art. It's a lot more evocative of the spell - when it says Jump you actually see the art jumping. I don't know why but new cards just feel so flat. The feel like a blurry photograph shot several feet away.
>>97759139Yes I know just what you mean
>>97759139thats why i love sorceryi like more the "dirty" art works that current magic style, everything feels so clean and safe now
>>97759178
>>97759090>Eula Blue
>>97758836>not allowed to kill my creatures>not allowed to make me discard cards>tutoring is BS>shouldn't be able to drain life>shouldn't be able to destroy enchantments>and yet black can do all thisHELP GAVIN BLACK IS BEING MEAN AGAIN IT'S RUINING MY POD
lmao the strixhaven leak is BOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING set looks like total garbage lol
>StandardNo changes>PioneerNo changes>ModernNo changes>LegacyNo changes>VintageNo changes>PauperNo changes>AlchemyNo changes>HistoricFood Chain is banned.>TimelessNo changes>BrawlNo changes
I'll be honest I was too sleep-deprived to remember there was a story today that's why I'm late. Anyway. SOS episode 1. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-episode-1-penmanship-practice>We open with the gang communicating via scribing boards, basically the usual 'write on one and it appears on the other' magic tool>Abigale is stoked to be able to share her poetry on the fly, Kirol draws themself lifting a building,, Abigale starts to explain what she's learning at the Forum of Amity, apparently a place where diplomats gather, which she's finding overwhelming even with her hearing aid, but also finds it fascinating, then goes "anyway, what're you all up to on your own field studies">Sanar immediately goes on a 26 page scrawl that is skipped over but we are assured is quite vivid and descriptive of his experience at Spectacle Summit, and is about to keep writing more before Tam interrupts>Tam goes "can we keep it to one page please, 30-ish pages is too much like work">Sanar asks if that's not boring, but then Kirol explains their thing, because they've been getting into Mage Tower, unsurprisingly, and their field study is the Fields of Strife, a place where some old warrior ghosts are basically stuck fighting the same battles over and over, except it's like ALL battles from history that have been fought there at once and magic doesn't really work right there, so Kirol's relishing learning about history>They go on some more, explaining how they found a spirit and fought it off with a big statue they were carrying, which seemed to work out well enough>Lluwen has thinly-veiled anxiety about everything because holy fuck this is a new plane what is he doing here, and he's getting along poorly with the Arcavios elves>His field study is to Titan's Grave, which is still upcoming and isn't detailed much
>Standard has continued to look diverse and healthy.jfc we're literally just in the post-truth age of MTG gaslighting>The speed of the format is higher than our internal target, with some decks exerting too much pressure too early in the game. Addressing this in future sets has been on Play Design's mind for a while now. HEY IDIOTHOW ABOUT YOU FIX IT NOWIN THE B&R ANNOUNCEMENTYOU KNOWTHE TIME WHEN YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FIX THINGS
>Looking a bit further back at our nonrotating formats, Modern continues to flourish. This fucking shit lmao holy fuck.
>>97759258I mean, that's on brand for Strixhaven. It was always a boring "Couldn't get / Didn't want" Harry Potter IP plane. It is made worse by the fact that modern authors have no imagination and cannot write about anything outside of their own experiences (and most writers have only had one "experience" which was going to school).
>>97759271>Sanar says the guy in charge of that trip, Professor Fel, apparently kinda sucks, which Abigale backs up with an anecdote>Fel was teaching a class she took on some poisonous flora a while back, basically gave them two cups of leaves, one of which was hemlock, and said "fuck you, figure it out, make a cup of tea with one">Abigale asked what if they got it wrong, he said "tough shit, you'll get an antidote and learn not to fuck that up again">And he continued to just kind of be a hardass throughout, so Abigale dropped that class>Anyway, Tam finally says something of note, explaining that she empathises with Lluwen, having come over from Shandalar herself, and also explains she had a run-in with Fel once, where he asked her about her ability to petrify (she doesn't have any) and then went "Well, you're no use to me, good night", and Tam found his curiosity at least somewhat interesting and suggests Lluwen goes on the trip>Lluwen then recounts his own meeting with Fel when he applied to Witherbloom where he again rather bluntly listed off what's been said about Lluwen (isolated, nobody knows what his deal is, etc.) and then stamped his form>Kirol then chimes in, saying Ajani's gonna be their advisor because they need one after seeing a spirit, for reasons, and Kirol is excited to fight some ghosts and learn stuff, but Ajani goes "I was similar when I was your age, and would be glad to teach you otherwise">They talk some more, Kirol tries to uncover some stuff about Ajani's past, Ajani asks if they know how Planeswalkers Planeswalk, and Kirol says not really, Prof Vess has been tight-lipped and Fel doesn't say much (so I guess he's Delian), and the only other ones they've met are Ajani and Oko
>>97759345>OkoHis voice still rubs me the wrong way.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8heN0kff-Hw
>go look at the story>it's formatted like AI chatbot boxes talking to each other with huge walls of text, dashes and all. these are supposed to be written by "kids writing to each other"hmmmmmmmm
>>97759405Run it through GoWinston.
>>97759345>Ajani explains that trauma is how it activates, and says he wishes many nascent Planeswalkers never spark, because they'll have a happier life>Ajani then explains it was the loss of his brother that caused it for him, which causes Kirol to feel REALLY awkward, but Kirol asks if Ajani will tell them more about his brother anyway>Anyway, back to Lluwen, who's gone (with Tam) to Titan's Grave now, and Lluwen remarks how weird it is that people find him more approachable now that they see he's friendly with somebody else>Tam has some questions for Oracle Jadzi, who's with this trip apparently, or at the Grave I'm not sure, which is why she's along>Jadzi and Fel (who is Dellian, rather), are both there, Jadzi with a friendly welcome and Dellian with a "get signed on attendance or you're losing fifty points from your grade">Lluwen asks Tam if she respects him because they're so similar, which she gives him a look over>Lluwen and Tam explore some shops around the place, but mostly find them uninteresting compared to the Grave itself>They head back to their camp, which is empty of everyone except Jadzi, Lluwen encourages Tam to ask her questions, but Tam says it'd be rude to interrupt meditation, but Jadzi just laughs and greets them>They talk for a bit about stuff, before Dellian shows up, chiding the pair for wasting Jadzi's time, but Jadzi says it's never a waste to spend time with students, which he seems to not disagree with at least>Lluwen continues, a bit later on, talking about visiting Toadstool Copse, where Dellian instructed the group to find something nobody else had seen before in the semi-restricted area>Lluwen searched until nightfall, and found a weird sort of plant-animal (the frog that was posted a bit ago)
>>97759318To be fair, modern can never even approach being balanced and they have no interest in doing so
>>97759414>Lluwen does know it's a lumaret, but this one is studying a piece of bark like it's reading something, and he has no idea what to make of that, so he tails it silently until it finds a group of other lumarets, who all sort of cheer at the arrival>Lluwen goes "oh shit these little things have communication and map-making", and immediately dashes off to Dellian about that, who goes "they don't have magic, there's no records about that, find something useful", which Lluwen notes hurts a lot to hear>Kirol's the only one still up at the time of that letter being written, who confides they ALSO had a bad time today, they met that same spirit from before, who called them a defiler then threw his spear at them>Kirol notes said spirit looks a fair bit like a family member of their's, and also was a bit afraid, so they kind of froze up, but then Ajani happened, cutting the spear then the spirit in two>Ajani then looks at Kirol, clearly feeling ashamed, but chides them to be more careful>Kirol goes "Well, we're both hurting together at least?"
Also Tam is definitely not related to Jace in ANY way, guys.
>>97759472Jace and Vraska met like two fucking years prior in lore. This shit is so fucking stupid.
>>97759413>use AI, use it, USEnice try bot
>>97759472I didn't realize that was a question people needed to have answered.
>>97759481Jace also exploded and is probably capable of reshaping reality in some form now so who knows what Tam's origins are. She might just be an unrelated gorgon that Jace mentored.
>>97759500>Jace also exploded and is probably capable of reshaping reality in some form now so who knows what Tam's origins are. She might just be an unrelated gorgon that Jace mentored.I'm sure Wizards will find a way to make whatever she is an even stupider idea than anyone could ever have speculated.
>>97759096Her tits look fine here.
>>97759524Yeah that's Dellian. I'm sure he'll appear exactly twice more ever.
>>97756691It was banned 2 Modern Horizons ago. Format was much slower, and tron getting access to that card draw was ass cancer. It's probably a safe unban nowadays.
For me it's Ulamog. He literally has mog in his name.
playpremodern
>Standard has continued to look diverse and healthy in the months since our last banned and restricted update.>Pioneer is in a unique place. By and large, red is showing up at a higher clip than desired across several different archetypes, but each of those archetypes appears at an acceptable range>Looking a bit further back at our nonrotating formats, Modern continues to flourish.>Legacy looks like it hasn't reached a solved end state, and it appears players are enjoying the journey they're on. The top of the standings at different events are distinct from one another, with different macro-archetypes and decks taking turns in the spotlight.>Vintage is more or less what we perceive as the ideal state of an Eternal format. >Overall, the format continues to look fairly healthy. As the Pauper Format Panel and I have been monitoring Pauper, it's clear that Terror has remained one of the better decks for a while, though it hasn't crossed the line to make us take action so far.
WotC deserves a nuke. They care 0 about the balance of this fucking game.
>>97759728>WotC deserves a nuke. They care 0 about the balance of this fucking game.STANDARD IS HEALTHYMODERN IS FLOURISHINGPIONEER IS IN A GOOD PLACE
>>97759713Should I play Signalis?
Terror barely performed in the geddon. It's a strong deck, but to single it out while affinity and chrysalis decks are also top performers is some kikery. At this point I just wish we could get rid of the sac ichor wellspring to a black draw 2 spell pattern.
People are asking how Loot will feature in Secrets of Strixhaven.
Post your face when.
>>97759804lmao
>>97759804I'm glad they're finally adding more support for fast red prowess decks in Standard. That archetype was sorely lacking and desperately needed some extra help.
>>97759757It's an okay little indie Silent Hill meets Dead Space thing, depending on your tolerance for anime influence
>>97759804Come on, they haven't even had the balls to print an unconditional sorcery speed bolt in all these years.
>>97759804This is 100% fake. Bogwater Lumaret is confirmed to have a Collector's Number of 0177 meaning it is impossible for the card located at 0160 in the number crunch to even be a Mono-Red card, let alone Lightning Bolt.
>>97759804>Cuck on Bolt in Standard for decades>Wait until we've had the same red prowess meta for five fucking years straight to finally include it
>>97759846Here's how it can still be real 17 monocolor cards for each color and 75 non artifact colors cards.
>>97756428I just noticed it's a spirit when Lorehold is already the spirit college. Seems witherbloom is becoming the g/w hexhaven college.
>>97756428Why the FUCK is this black?
>>97759804No fucking way this is real.I'm willing to eat some of those pizza cards for real if this is true.
>>97759934rosewater hates bolt
>>97756428It's supposed to be the B/G signpost uncommon.The draft archetypes are;W/B-Repartee target your creatures with instants and sorceriesU/R-Opus cast instant and sorceries for 5 mana or moreB/G-LifegainR/W-Make cards leave your graveyardG/U-Ramp
>>97759804>gendered flavor textNot a chance
>>97759960Isn't that basically the exact same as what we had the first time around? Only WB is different, and I think that was a subtheme even.
>>97759804>This is 100% fake. Bogwater Lumaret is confirmed to have a Collector's Number of 0177 meaning it is impossible for the card located at 0160 in the number crunch to even be a Mono-Red card, let alone Lightning Bolt. fuck you for giving me hope
>>97759929Black can gain life.
>>97760145IMAGINE being so dumb you fail to comprehend the literal, ACTUAL most basic rule of logic, that being "Is does not equal ought"
>>97760168>strixhaven's use of the color pairs is focused on things they have in common that aren't focused on by their ravnica versions>for witherbloom this is lifegain>WHY DOES THIS DRAFT COMMON SUPPORT THE DRAFT ARCHETYPE FOR ITS COLOR PAIR?
>>97759929Because it has a black mana symbol
>>97760208proof?
>>97760223Look at the top right of the card, next to the green mana symbol
>>97760204In case you can't read, I'll repeat:Is does not equal ought.
If strixhaven cards made it into foundations boxes...does it means foundationgs cards got mixed in strixhaven boxes?
>RTR, Gatecrash and Dragons Maze boosters, fat packs and even pre release kits are still cheapI think I want to pick one up just to relive peak magic. I started with original Innistrad but RTR block is what hooked me in the game. Re-experiencing a Gatecrash draft now as a much better player seems so fun. Pic somewhat related, slop that made me cringe so hard that it made me want to RETVRN
>>97760374
>>97760378Do not attempt to play sealed or draft with dragon's maze boosters unless you want to drown in cluestones.
>>97760374pre release is going to be a wild ride
>>97760392I remember Dragons Maze sealed and draft very well. I know it was shit, most 3rd sets in a block were. I'd probably go RTR/GC for actually playing, DM just to relive some soul on the cheap.
>>97760168>"Is does not equal ought"but "has been for over 30 years" does
>>97760410>but "has been for over 30 years" doesNope.
>>97760407Yeah, it sure was shit. It's funny you mention this though, I pitched RtR sealed to my brother earlier today because I saw prerelease packs were still cheap and available a while back.
>>97760413might as well play another game at that point
why strixhaven hype seems to be less than tmnt?
>>97760481>why is a normal set less hype than reserved list 2: electric boogaloo?
>>97760481It looks like a shit set. The spoilers were extremely boring.
>>97760145Every color should gain life.
>>97760510ESPECIALLY blue.
>>97760522Yeah.
>>97760481The only thing I care about in Strixhaven is Magecraft so I can abuse it with pic related and so far we haven't seen any new Magecraft cards
>>97760730They probably don't bring Magecraft back due to it being a massive can of worms.
>>97760780>>97760780>>97760780
>>97759512You can't stop the japanese from drawing boobs, even under a mandate.
>>97759524A shame that he will just be the DEI quota instead of a character made to be cool or have significance (I mean, he will be important but it will just be artificial).I miss our boy Koth. (A shame how they portraited him in the last Avengers Endgame)
>>97760168green should gain life?
>>97754300For me, its "THE SOLUTION", though that is partially due to me having a secret crush on lightning angel
>>97757568>My sister-in law works for their marketing firm.>It's comprised of exactly the kind of people you think it would be and they are twice as out of touch as you can imagine.>This also includes my sister-in law who is on a grocery bag full of medications every day, does puppy play as part of her therapy (even in front of the whole family when we are on vacation together) and is always talking about how EVERYTHING is "gay coded".>I want to stress how out to lunch these people are.I actually don't believe this sister in law exists, and least not in the form you state. At some point, you get a minute of two of clarity in your life, and you tend to realize how retarded/insane you are, and you ten to level out after that. This bitch sounds like she downed ALL the propaganda, and never once had a moment to self reflect in her life
