Fixing edition>Stream linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT8_n61ehvg>Banshttps://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-march-23-2026>NewsThe Pro Tour and Magic Spotlight Series in 2026:https://www.magic.gg/news/the-pro-tour-and-magic-spotlight-series-in-2026Metagame Mentor: The Final Four Standard Regional Championships of Early 2026:https://www.magic.gg/news/metagame-mentor-the-final-four-standard-regional-championships-of-early-2026>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>>97992159>TQWhat card would you fix?(Either by buffing or nerfing.)
>>98010589>TQIsland produces 3/4 of blue mana
>>98010589>TTwhat fix what isn't broken?because it's beyond salvation at this point
I love observant, cutting humor.
Rate my draft format?>Problem: In booster draft, each drafter picks cards one by one. The drafter must guess at whether he eventually will be able to put together a synergistic deck from the individual cards that he has drafted. This creates inefficiencies—e. g., flip-flopping between different plans in an attempt to conform to “signals” that have been sent by other drafters, and instantly throwing cards into the sideboard because nothing in the current pack conforms to the drafter's current plan.>Solution: The simultaneous multiple-round auction (SMRA; also known as simultaneous ascending auction) was developed by economists for the application of selling off synergistic bands of radio spectrum in an efficient manner, and has been adopted by several governments for that application. The parallel to Magic: The Gathering drafting is obvious.
>>98009063>2015 ModernI'm guessing this is MTG's equivalent of Goat in YGO. I was going to ask if there are any cubes or formats I should be aiming for instead of Foundations and this basically answered it.>CubeWhich one, there's a gazillion of them
>>98011015Don't listen to anyone that says to play premodern. Its a meme format only played by south americans.
>>98011354tfw nobody cares about pre-pioneer
>>98011354>Its a meme format only played by south americans.How long you will keep doing this?
>>98010929New York was back within half a year, with only a break for Avatar and Lorwyn
Pre pioneer is about as cool as jacking dicks off with your butt. Its fuckn gay.
>>98011015Find out what people around you actually play. Anons will bloviate about closed formats but you should make sure you'll actually have opponents instead of being another bitter nogaems faggot like most of this general
>>98011555>jacking dicks off with your butlike.... with a hamburger bun?
I’d rather play a fan format like Premodern than the kike slop infesting Standard
>>98011421wheredoyouthinkyouare.jpg
>>98012031Bait used to be believable.
>>98011832No its like jacking butts off with a dick its completely different technique and texture.
One way to not just fix cards but magic as a whole is to gatekeep faggots out like Spice8Rack and TCC.
>>98012221But if they dont make everything lame and trans hasbro wont make as much money! Think of the billion dollar corporation and its employees!
>>98012231Ironically those freaks will call that "rainbow capitalism". I hate subhumans like that, they are a plague on humanity.
>>98012259Do they even buy this shit? Like we had gay and black Secret Lairs, do we ever get actual sales figures on shit like that?
What if the tranny shit is manufactured and wotc is lying about profits and just wants to push trannies everywhere because they are owned by blackrock and vangaurd. Lol wouldnt that be wild? Lmao.
>>98012270only the ones with money or who have enough ESG boxes ticked to get free stuff from WOTC. I guarantee tyrone who lives with his single mom isnt playing magic nor is he paying 50$ for a secret lair that has 3$ worth of value. It's all to make the weirdos and kiddie touchers feel good about their disgusting existence.
>>98012270>he thinks Hasbro, a billion dollar corporation, is burning money so they can put black people on cardslmao are you serious?these bloodsuckers would be selling KKK cards within the month if they found it to be profitable, they simply follow the money
>>98012364Thats not true at all if they released a secret lair of all the racist banned cards i would actually buy them. Also see>>98012296
>>98012381Yeah, and it's clear that the profits from those cards are negligible, they're not going to waste their time with making pennies.>what if wotc is lying about profitsretardbro, they would still need money to stay afloatplus shareholders would flay them alive>b-but what if they're lying to shareholders tooschizo shit, one of the few consequences that can actually hurt rich people is when they try to fuck over richer people
>>98012425People aren't buying Magic packs anymore. It's all resellers. I think the game is in trouble. Not dying because people will buy any slop, but interest is way down.
>>98012364>thinking niggers have ever bought Magic products because of niggers on the cardsRetard, you might want to sit down for this
>>98012460No, don't think that's what he meant. Black people don't give a fuck. This is only done for the certain subset of white people. And there's a lot of them. And they play Commander.
>>98012439WotC/Hasbro don't give a fuck if it's resellers buying packs or black people buying packs or chuds buying packs. That's my point. If the game is on a decline and they're faking numbers to prop it up, they would be literally crucified. Look at any rich person in prison, the only reason they're there is because they started fucking with other rich people.>>98012460Again, it doesn't matter to the suits who buys packs, as long as they're buying packs. But logically they're not going to take a loss just to play politics. They sent pinkertons to get some cards back. They butchered the competitive scene because it wasn't directly turning a profit. They're literally trying to bust a union right now. They only care about making money, anything that doesn't will get dropped. The fact that they've stuck with it for this long indicates it's making money.
>>98010929But for real I want another Alara/Capenna set, shards are just damn fun.
>>98012460>he thinks nigs on cards are targeted at actual nigs and not white childless Californians with IT and entertainment jobsThe most "WE WANT BLACK PEOPLE" thing WotC has done is spamming products with Anime art. Hood Niggs love anime
>>98011000:-(
>>98012590Everyone loves anime. 90% of those anime cards look objectively superior.
>>98012715I will die on the hill that most of the Strixhaven mystical archive cards have better EN art than JP art. Both the OG set and this new one.
>>98012751Nah.But I think what holds the Mystical Archive cards back is that shit ass giant border.
>>98012751In general I think the MA cards came out looking pretty sweet.
can anyone tell me the logic of ruining one of their biggest secret lair succeses (cats) with fucking garfieldpeople want cute shitlings not that fat fuck
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>>98012831we lost so much soul in devices in modern age is not even funny anymore
>>98012816Get educated.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2C5R3FOWdE
>>98011000Normal draft: open a booster, grab one(or two) card and give the rest to the next guy.Your idea: Giant wall of text.I'm not saying your idea is wrong, but one of the points of draft is how easy it is to explain and launch. Your thing could work too but no way it'd replace draft
>>98011000look, if you want to play an auction game just get high society for like $15
>>98012816>ruining secret lairNeedless repetition
Premodern was a financial psyop to move those particular card singles that weren’t selling for legacy and vintage.
>>98011452Yeah but it was a better New York the second time around and it's coming back around for Marvel.
>>98012943It isn't that complicated. Simplified version:>Each player gets 960 poker chips>The auctioneer opens eight boosters>Each player uses his chips to bid on exactly 1/8 of the cards (just delete the secrecy of bids if it's too complicated to implement)>Bidding continues until every card has a winning bidder>Repeat for pack 2 (and maybe pack 3)
>>98012816Jim Davis streams magic the gathering so you figure it out smarty pants
>>98013074
>Chandra... I'm already a demon.Damn, I got chills when he said that.
>>98012869>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2C5R3FOWdEi should be working why i am still watching this
>>98013236It's an interesting rabbit hole. Get back to work, slacker.
The pizza will continue until morale improves.
>>98013527why the fuck did they make a random dog a legendary
>>98013550you should know the answer to that by now
>>98013527Pizza is such an overrated dish.
Embrace tradition.Come back to Premodern, /tg/.Come back home...
>>98013634You don't understand, Italians invented MEAT, CHEESE, and SAUCE on top of CARB. Literally no other culture before them tried doing that.
>>98013554I assure you that not every other creature needs to be a legendary
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>>98013659they do in jotc's eyes
>>98013527Is Pizza the core mechanic of the New York plane like Artifacts on Mirrodin or -1/-1 counters on Shadowmoor?Spiderman is famous for his Pizza time, TMNT has pizza tribal draft archetype and now this
>>98013527This art looks like literal slop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=356ilzFF8BEIt's funny how accurate this remains to this day and almost seems like a guide that WotC followed for what to do, not what not to do>>98011015The point of cube is that it can be anything you want; you can have as much or as little nuMagic design in there as you want. If you take a look at Cubecobra you can see many examples; the MTGO Vintage Cube and LSV's Cube are often cited as good (starting points) if you don't know what else, but if you're new they may not be the best. The downside to cube is that you do need to coordinate with other people rather than showing up at your LGS at 6pm on a Friday and playing with whoever's there for <format>Again, you're safe with pretty much any closed format provided you can find people to play with. Worst case you can play on MTGO or in webcam leagues.
>>98013760Explain. Also this is the guy who painted Loot.
>>98013771What was the main issue with Chupacabra compared to regular removal/counters? Is it because it's always a guaranteed 2-for-1 which makes it an auto-include (which in turn kills Standard enjoyment because it removes replayability and all that)?
>>98013527>Set number 726Wait, what the fuck? How?
>>98013933Jumpstart
Coldsnap, now THAT was a good set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nMRSBXQDpw
>>98013941Even if we include Jumpstart and add all of the Commander decks, 726 is still very high. For comparison, Final Fantasy commander reached 483. So if we assume Marvel commander decks have a similar number of cards, that means Jumpstart has over 200 new cards/reprints not in the main set. That is a LOT.
>>98013527Are there any other Marvel characters associated with pizza?
>>98013884Listen to the video, he explains everything in there. Look up the cards if you aren't familiar. If you've done that and still don't get it, come back and I'll try to explain it a bit clearer.
>>98013965It's a full jumpstart set like Avatar and Foundations . Avatar Eternal went up to 300 on the collectors numbers with no commander decks so it doesn't seem too crazy considering they're pushing Marvel hard
>>98014029Deadpool, Spider-man
>>98014038I did, it's simply that the dog is a guaranteed high-value 2-for-1 creature that at most can fluke... and just be a plain creature. It has no variance with its value and is always the correct play, and it strongly disincentivizes any kind of investment or long-term planning because you'd rather play "ETB make a 1/1 token" than "big fucking dino that needs to attack once before it accomplishes anything"
Hey Kikewater, does making White “care the MOST about legendaries” matter in Standard yet??
>>98013527What other "pet" characters should we expect?
>>98011000Anaconda also solves the problem of wasted picks, doesn't introduce a ton of new open information, and doesn't require a bid process with an arbiter and secret info exchange. I think I'd rather do anaconda and see if that solves the "problem" sufficiently.
>>98014093Mew the cat. Teamed up with Lucky once to fight crime.
I opened a bunch of ice age packs that cost me $50 and made shit. But if I open a collectors pack for $50 I open a bunch of slightly valuable full arts at absolute worst. What explains this difference? Is opening old packs just burning money?
>>98014093Jeff the Land Shark for sure.
>>98014176Packs you bought were already cleaned out and resealed.
>>98014176>I opened a bunch of ice age packswhat do they smell like
>>98014176In most cases, yes. You'll mostly be getting reprints or cards that don't make much of an impact nowadays. With collectors, people are suckers for full arts/ alt arts of the cards
>>98014190Shit for real? That blows>>98014195Underwhelming honestly
>>98014224What old packs can I open that aren't burning money? I really like older cards and want to crack packs of them.
>>98013554Because of white women?
>>98014296I feel like that's something that's not feasible. You'll almost always be paying a third-party, and they hike the prices up
>>98014310ffs it's commanderthrow quotes on that "women" and you'll pass the test
>>98013550He's a not completely niche character, he's Hawkeye's dog from Matt Fraction's amazing run, though him having a CARD is very weird.
Anyone ever built a Horsemanship deck? The thought makes me laugh. Same with Banding.
Back then the dogs were all cool dogs like Isamaru and now it's le heckin' pizza pupperino and Phelia the blink corgi that's just a 2/2 with goodstuff attached. Really hate what this game has become. Cards shouldn't just all do 3 things.
>>980110002/10It's shit for a whole host of reasons.The one that stands out to me the most is the idea that you will be able to make good decks with 26 non-basic cards in your pool (15 cards - 1 basic land and 1 token/ad card = 13 playable cards per pack). Given that an average limited deck has 23 spells that means there are only 3 cards in your pool that will not be used in your maindeck, fewer if you are drafting lands for mana fixing or utility.It doesn't matter how 'efficient' your draft format is (it also isn't efficient by any sense of the word I am familiar with and I would love for you to go into detail what the word 'efficient' means to you), it is extraordinarily unlikely that you will be able to open a pool of 208 cards and have less than 25 of them be useless in all formats (eg., Hedron Alignment or Biovisionary are not going to be played in draft).You being ignorant enough to not realize that two packs absolutely will not create a wide enough pool for viable limited decks shows me that you understand fuck all about limited. The rest of your format introduces the need for a 9th player who doesn't actually play the game and makes the draft process take forever.There already exists the rotisserie draft format which solves the same 'problem' (which is an intended feature of draft fwiw) you have outlined without wasting everyone's time. I've only done roto drafts with cubes but we just open one round's worth of packs and then burn the last X number of picks (usually 2-5 depending on number of players) to ensure the best 30 or so playables are picked from a standard sized pool. I suspect this would work well in booster draft as well.
>>98014189I LOVE PLUCKY MASCOT CHARACTERS BEING PUSHED TO THE FOREFRONT OF EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF MEDIA!!!WHERE'S LOOT? I NEED MORE LOOT WOTC! THE PROBLEM IS THAT HIS CARDS AREN'T STRONG OR ANNOYING ENOUGH! I WANT LOOT, WINGED WISDOM! I WANT LOOTER ORB! I WANT LOOT TWIST!
>>98014176Ice age doesn't really have any really valuable cards besides Necro and the rare lands.
>>98014764Anon are you ok?
>>98014804NO! I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH QUIRKY MASCOT CHARACTERS IN MY LIFE! I NEED MORE LOOT NOW!!!
>>98014093Throg the frog ThorLockheedHit MonkeySquirrel Girl’s personal squirrelThe Pet Avengers
>>98014093Dr Strange's ghost dog
>>98013527I'm ready for this set being a new low point. Worse than Spiderman and TMNT.
>>98014778So shouldn't I be pulling decently valuable cards for my commons and uncommons then? It's literally just like lighting 50 bucks on fire, compared to collector boosters for which I can recoup $20 at least usually
>>98014577I made a cube that had many old mechanics. Included in that was.>Horsemanship>Shadow>Phasing>Banding>Bands with othersIt's quite a fun way to play. There are lots of awful creatures by today's standards but because the power level is so much lower some terrible creatures have a chance to shine. Like this guy is actually a bomb when all the other bombs are equally rubbish.
>>98014073Yea, you got it. The comparison he draws to Baneslayer is really solid because Baneslayer is a powerhouse that can provide massive swing if it gets to attack even once, but it has to attack before it provides any benefit. Bowmaster is another example like Chupacabra where it's even better; it ALWAYS gets value even if it doesn't kill something and is even safer because it has flash, you can just cast it on your opponent's end step rather than having to commit to the board on your own turn.They give examples of Nekrataal and Doom Blade + Divination. Nekrataal kills stuff, but with limitations. Like Fear, it gives a particular colour a contextual advantage over the others. It sticks around but only has 1 toughness, so a 1/3 can block it even though it has first strike. Double spelling Doom Blade + Divination requires the player to cast 2 spells and have both of them resolve, and even does not leave a body in play. Chupacabra is Murder on a 2/2 that will stick around and continue to attack and block until it's removed.You can draw comparisons to this on other games, too. Hearthstone had this card, but it was only available for the Hunter class; strong, but tolerable because you can only play it in Hunter and it's something that this class exclusively does. Then they introduced the 'rush' mechanic, which was like haste but limited to attacking other creatures - which is a base mechanic of the game - resulting in a similar effect to Chupacabra. Furthermore, many rush creatures had on attack triggers or high toughness values, meaning they could stick around for more than just the turn they're cast.
Counting or not Counting Gang ViolenceBInstantTarget spell's controller sacrifices a creature and loses 5 life.R8 my card
Abrace a tradição.Venha pro prémoderno, /tg/.Venha pra casa...
>>98015481Uhh i only know tex mex but it sounds like you want a butt for your dick. Dick butter.
>>98015509?What the fuck?
>>98015631NTA but it's definitely dick butter you want.
>>98015672???
>>98013527I wonder how much restraint it took them not to give Lucky the Hero type.
>>98015262Yeah I get it thenThe comparison to Hearthsone is a bit funny, considering that game has always been about battlecries/deathrattles being the main way that creatures generate value and are different from each other, which is the opposite of what early MTG was all about.
>>98015329seems right at homeBBBB to win a game if opponent taps out for a single spell. Brilliant!
>>98011452>people ask to bring blocks back>new york block
>>98016679>people ask for downsides to powerful cards>the downside is tracking too many upsides
>>98016762oh, the irony
>>98012751the strixhaven Mystical arch artwork is better than huge swathes of regular card art from recent sets.
>>98013771>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=356ilzFF8BE [Open]>It's funny how accurate this remains to this day and almost seems like a guide that WotC followed for what to do, not what not to doSpeaking of power creep, I will forever maintain the position that the one simple fix that would bring balance back to the game would be the return of upkeep costs.
>>98016773I think one thing it has going for it is that the artists were seemingly encouraged to depict the motifs in a stylized or abstract manner. Most basic card art is more literal, functionally photographic in representing the idea of the card. That can be fine in its own way, but it's not necessarily the most visually interesting way to represent a concept.
Idk why Mu Yanling is in Strixhaven's archives but I'm appreciative of every little morsel of exposure given to her and Shenmeng.
Pissmodern issue isn't that it is played by non-americans, it is that now it has been invaded by subhuman locusts known as "angloyid, designation AMERIMUTTEN".This is why Pavper will always be victorious, it simply put KILLS the amerikike menace.
I'm going to play pauper in a new store in Ingerland today, is mono U fairies still viable or will I just get steamrolled?
>>98016942It's a shame, Pauper is cheap enough for me to keep a few decks in a backpack when I go to play at a store but some people won't even play Pauper if it's free. Probably don't care until it can get them an RC invite.
Pauper sucks because you can't make a decent monk deck.
>>98017212What is it with you an monks?
Where are marvel leaksI've been suffering through Gay School: Secrets of Homos as best I can, but all I've gotten were Vision cards (if your favorite character was/is Vision you're a loser among losers) and a fucking Pizza dog (to remind me I will never escape Pizza in mtg).
>>98017225Subjectively I love monks with all my heart and soul.Objectively, I acknowledge I obsess about stupid shit, like a sperg.
>>98017225It's a meme you dip.
>>98016762I dunno how people play a lot of the newer cards without losing their fucking mind, and this is without mentioning when there's 4 people playing overcomplicated shitI ain't touching lil bro outside of Arena
Speaking of coplicated shit, I was watching the strixhaven pro tour finals, and despite presumably these two guys being among some of the very best magic players in the world, even they were losing track of shit because there was so much going on. The judge stepped in and asked them to play slower so stuff wouldn't get missed. This seems insane to me, why does the boardstate get so fucking complicated? There's a bajillion triggers, multipliers and assfuck math to keep track of, it feels like. And these guys were playing the SAME deck, so it could get twice as bad if there's two different decks doing this shit.
>>98017238>Marvel LeaksWhy hurt yourself like this?
Though the Omenpaths 2
>>98017273remember when we made fun of yugioh cards for being walls of text?
>>98017355lol that's not even 2-sided
>>98012221I used to like TCC in the early days but I got tired of him when he rolled out the UB apologetics (probably because he liked Dr Who so it was fine when it was stuff he liked) and now he's bitching about a problem he helped perpetuate
>>98016942Truth nuke.Enjoy your speculative "market" "game" KEKW, hope you bought your cards when cheap, 3k cradles and survis with 500€ dreadnaught soon!
>>98017367if only richard garfield knew what pandora's box was being opened by split cards. every day Hasbro pries open holy creation tearing apart the space on cards to try and fit more text on them.
>KEKW
Okay listen me out:Double faced cards that are also flip cards (from og kamigawa) and each one of those flip cards is a split card.That's 16 cards per card!
>>98017731>double sided cards flip cardsI'd fuckin play it. The split card thing is too much for me.
