Magic the Gathering: No UBRead A Book EditionThis is a general for a version of Magic the Gathering that excludes 3rd party IPs, these cards are known as "Universes Beyond". This thread is not a duplicate of any other general, it is not a fork of any specific general. There is growing support for versions of Magic formats that exclude UB, for example Planar Standard. This general is the place for those discussionsThis general is as legitimate as D&D Old School Renaissance threads and it exists for similar reasons.Discussion of Magic the Gathering where no set or release that required 3rd party IP licensing can be mentioned. That includes Universes Beyond and Secret Lair.WARNING: There is a massive sperg from /edhg/ seething over the existence of threads he didn't personally make and it is highly likely that he is going to try to shit up these threads for a while.Ignore him and one day he will kill himself.The ONLY Magic sets this year:>Lorwyn Eclipsed, January 23 2026>Secrets of Strixhaven, April 24 2026>Reality Fracture, October 2 2026Thread Question:More than 40 cards got errata'd to include the "book" type. What do you think the reasoning for this is? How will books feature in future sets? Given they have no mechanics in common what was the purpose of this? When will any of the errata'd cards actually get updated reprints?
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>>97930589>TQIt's for the upcoming romantasy gooner girl legendary
>>97930807God id like that though
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How does abigale deliver heroic stanzas if she deafDoes she do a bird version of deaf people speak
>>97931427Almost half as gay as OP is lmao
>>97931562You've been seething for several days now. You're a shining star in the beacon of faggotry.
>>97930589Wanna link to the previous thread just like all the other MtG generals do, faggot?
>>97930690exiles to removal
>>97931427Damn that's almost one tenth as gay as FF14
>>97931572Says the beta who STILL has a seething paragraph in his gay little op about the "mean edh trolls trollin" 3+ threads into his temper tantrum general.
>>97931824No. What would be the purpose of that?>inb4 muh archivesThey’ll have to do a little extra digging then, won’t they?
>>97931898Yeah it can be bounced too, but in most situations people don't have exile or bounce for a land, so they'd have to get in while it's still a creature. If they don't, you will feel like a god
>watch the Strixhaven Command Zone game>the 2 players with green are casting like 15+ mana per turn by turn 4>the boros player gets to do literally nothing all game>it's over on turn 6 or 7God I hate the direction Commander is going in
>>97932532no no anon. we NEED to limit the use of farewell! white is too strong compared to green
>>97932614Said it 100 times but tying basic game mechanics to colors was a fucking mistake.The fact that basically only green can ramp and only blue can draw at a good rate completely fucking skews the game. It would be like if only red was competent in combat and every other color was crippled by comparison. Like just give all red creatures first strike or double strike, and that would be the sort of disparity in basic mechanics we see with green and blue
>>97932624wouldn't every color then just be identical? or should every color have some more complex gimmick to set them apart, where is the line drawn at basic mechanics?
>>97932652>wouldn't every color then just be identical?Keeping access to keywords strictly color specific would be a good start>where is the line drawn at basic mechanics?I think it's pretty obvious.>drawing cards>playing lands>making mana>playing each type of cardAnything that you would look at and just think "yeah that's a fundamental game action" You can stiff have colors that work better with particular types of card. Green can still be the landfall color, but enough of this shit where green decks can have twice as many lands on board as any other color. Either they don't get all the extra lands they get, or everyone has reasonably costed ways to play more lands.It wasn't necessarily so bad a long time ago when lands were just the only thing green had, but nowadays they also draw whenever they cast creatures, whenever they cast enchantments, or draw equal to their power on board etc etc etcThe two most fundamental aspects of this game are making mana and drawing cards, and I will never fucking understand why designers at WotC were like "yeah green should just be really good at both of those"
>>97931427Wait, I thought Rowling was "transphobic"? Since when is she homophobic as well? I have a hard time believing she would be against homosexual people, she's always come across as pretty fucking liberal to me.mtg lol
>>97933234Rowling is incredibly liberal even for a bongBut she believes that there are only 2 genders, and for her thought crime she was excommunicated
>>97932532Why the fuck does this put finality counters on shit? Were they afraid of some kind of convoluted combat celebrant loop or something?
>>97933234>Wait, I thought Rowling was "transphobic"? Since when is she homophobic as well?Once the left decide someone to be persona non grata, all labels can be applied to them. You will see troons call her a literal Nazi all the time too.Reminder this whole troon debacle started because she said, and I'm paraphrasing here but it's almost a one to one quote, "I know trans people in my life and I love them, but they are not biologically women"Literally it. Said a male who identifies as female is valid but they're not biologically identical to a female.>she's always come across as pretty fucking liberal to me.She's a bit of a Blairite neo-liberal type, but 15 years ago her views were considered very progressive, yeah.Anyways, what school am I playing in Strixhaven tomorrow? My heart says silverquill, but I've heard simic bullshit is strong in this limited environment
>>97933248White can't have shit. The fact it's only tied to attacking is a stealth way you make it pretty much a hard once per turn too. The rezzed permanent doesn't even come in attacking, you're basically bringing it back for an ETB or static effect
>>97932826aight. let's assume this happens. now the next anon comes along and sees deeper mechanis as fundamental. like, why shouldn't every color be able to landfall, it can already ramp lands like everyone else. we have already seen this in certain colorpie shifts that were bends originally so it's not even a slippery slope fallacy anymoreI get your angle but people would always want more once the first push is standard enoughI would way rather have every color approach these problems in their own way like we currently have. red makes more treasures to ramp, and exiles the top card to "draw"but yeah green get way too much shit comparatively
>>97932532>God I hate the direction Commander is going inIt's a real shame what happened to the format. What's worse is that people will celebrate games being over so quickly because "it means we get to play more games," even though the lethargic nature of EDH was one of the few things that made it worth playing over 60-card. Now you have people begging WotC to let you play hybrid spells outside color identity because "that's how it's played in every other format," making it sound like they just wish all the other formats died off and the 100-card singleton format with a legendary creature leading your deck was the only way Magic was played.
>>97933865>let's assume this happens. now the next anon comes along and sees deeper mechanis as fundamental.Completely unjustifiable.>why shouldn't every color be able to landfallYou simply would not print landfall in all colors.
>>97933953>people will celebrate games being over so quickly because "it means we get to play more games,"This is 100% an influencer mentality. They do this shit for a living, so they don't have to care about the quality of their games. People who only play 1 night a week and get in 2-3 games in that night care way more about if any of their games were actually good.I recently saw one of those fat balding baseball cap MtG influencers give a "hot take" that Commander should have no ban list because "it's a casual format". The ban list is what keeps it fucking casual. This game is way too easy to break and the default rules capping power levels benefits the majority of people who are showing up at their LGS and just need a baseline understanding with whoever is there of how the game is played. This "no ban list" shit is something you can ONLY have in situations where you know the people you will be playing with and all share similar opinions on how the game should be played.Fuck, I hate influencers so fucking much.
>>97933234She goes against leftist scriptures so she's every ist, phobe, hitler, Satan, stalin, and every evil and ailment on earth
>>97933234Because she once said (with groveling apologism) that men should not enter women's rape shelters even if they identify as women, she is regularly accused of:- Racism- Sexism- Homophobia- Antisemitism- Islamophobia - Ableism- Actual card-carrying National Socialism- Being MAGA, somehow- possession by an eldritch mold demon living in her walls- Transphobia (obvious)This is simply how the progressive stack works. If you fail one purity test you auto-fail the rest of them unless The Party™ deems you useful in some way. It seems The Party™ decided JKR would be more useful as an example, though they may have bet on the wrong horse there considering Potter shit still sells gangbusters despite not having good media for a decade.
>>97934074well, they are completely justifying to not print land ramp in every color instead with alternative ways
>>97934628Harry potter just had that popular game where you fight goblins (Jews according to leftists though now Jews are bad after calling everyone hitlers for over a decade?) and it's supposed to get a sequel
>>97933234since tranny girls are really men there's a lot of gay trannies, and if you look at it from the side of 'they are ackshually women' well then the trannies that are into women are also gay
>>97934669I heard that had a lot of bad fanfic elements to it so I did not consider it good media, but it undeniably sold well (despite the boycott and harassment campaign against any streamer who played it)
>>97934700Women are fags cause they like men. Liking women at all, even lesbians, is pretty fucking gay
>>97931427>Kenrith twins>queerIs xhe saying that incest is canon, or did they both get made homosexual?
>>97935886they're both bi
>>97935913So there's a chance...
Dead gameDead generalLast thread lasted almost 1 week in release week...
>>97936259dead board if a thread like that can last a week
>>97936273TG is slow and some people keep bumping dead threads before it reach page 9. (TG is slow because shitposts are done in generals instead of brand new threads)(and there are less people in the board, but there are lots of 1 day threads in here)
>>97936259>release Literally who cares? What are we jamming in premodern bros?
>>97934894I wouldn't know I didn't play it and the only reason I'd want a Harry Potter set is the vast quantities of seething it would cause
>>97934925Based noticer
>>97936768Valid, it'd probably be really funny. I'd bet money that at least one WotC employee would resign in protest or be fired for attempting to sabotage the set.
>>97936259and that's a good thingfuck ritual postersfuck off-topic spammersand fuck flooding samefaggers
>>97936401How expensive is a good premodern deck these days?
>>97937222300$ baseline.
>>97937261Well at least it's not $900 i guess
