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>get absolutely awful packs at prerelease>not a single mythic, only 8 rares, and of those two are unplayable duds and the rest don't have any good support at common and uncommon>end up cobbling together a GW deck that contains all but one of my green commons and uncommons, all but one of my white commons and uncommons, and not a single rare or bomb>somehow proceed to go 3-0 and win the entire 37 player event>shop was kind enough to let me keep the lands I used as a souvenirI am still utterly flabbergasted by this, how the fuck did this pile of commons and uncommons take me the whole way?>>98738494>>98739693Yeah you two were right lmao
White Vampires with lifelink.
>matched up against high school kids >Each of them says "that's crazy" or "X is crazy" at least a dozen times
>>98741690damn, that's crazy anon
epic sealed poolvery cool game
>>98741704biased
SEXOOOO SEXOOOOOS SEXOOOOO WITH WITCH SEXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
>>98741660thats some huge ass sleeves right there lmaogood job on the 3-0, anon
>>98741730Thanks - those are my designated limited sleeves, I bought them at the shop for my first ever prerelease when I realised I needed sleeves and those were all they had left, but I've since found they're actually pretty good for that purpose too because them being so big makes it easy to get all your cards in and out.
>>98741704pic related is on topic because it's MtG
>>98741653There's also card that does some damage whenever your opponent creates a token right?
bark ritual W (instant) :add WWW to your mana pool.use this mana only to cast dog spells
>>98741865This goes straight in my dog deck!!
Play Shandalar
>>98741865
When are we gonna get Enchantment-Aura that linger or at least jump between creatures?
>>98742069It has been 18 years.
>>98742076Cool card. Worth a reprint.
>>98742076>zoltan boros
I just realized we only have the soul and the mind stone. Does that mean that we have more Marvel sets on the way?
>>98742076Yes but no. Let me rephrase: Aura jump between creatures (if there are more) when the creature dies. Something to bring back some "relevance" to Enchantment-Aura compared to Equipment
>>98742091
>>98742091IIRC its supposed to be 3 Marvel Sets and adjacent, Spider-man was Adjacent, we are supposed to get and X-men.Wild Guessing, another Marvel Set but more based on the Space (GotG, Eternals, Silver Surfer, Kri Empire, Asgard... etc etc etc) and 1 more Based more on the Magic Side of Marvel. (Dr Strange, Dormamu, Magik, Hellstorm, etc etc etc)
I was really reluctant to play UR lessons in pioneer because the standard version of the deck left a bad taste in my mouth but after trying it I gotta admit the deck feels smooth as butter to play, I might be joining the dark side
>>98742225its really cool that one of the best decks in pioneer is a deck consisting entirely of cards from one singular standard legal set
>>98742231first time?
>>98742231>>98742235You are like a little baby. Watch THIS.
Major Magic Antagonists>UrzaBlue>EldraziColorless>JaceBlueReally makes you think.
>>98742235oh was MH3 standard legal?
>>98742231this isn't as bad as it sounds, the avatar cards will eventually rotate out of standard and people will still want to play their lessons deck and I can guarantee you it won't be in modern
>>98742301I think you misunderstood, esse
>>98742257well no but it's a similar principle
TQMy citizen waifu of course
>>98742243Mirrodin was a trip
Had this happen at prerelease today, only heard about it afterwards>player 1 had tinybones out >player 2 was at 1 life when he decided to play curse-marred demon>it resolves and while player 2 was searching through his library, player 1 said: "once you discard, that's game">player 2 then said: "well then I won't do that" and walked back the play without player 1 having a say on it>player 2 went on to place second at the tournament, while player 1 felt that they had been cheated out of a higher standing>player 1 went on to accuse player 2 of cheating >player 2 said that due to prerelease events being more casual, take-backs like that are fully legal and any judge would take his side >player 2 has been playing for 15 years and he has experience as a judge (he was the only judge present at the prerelease)>player 1 has played for less than half a year
>>98742353Any actual judge would say that once you've started resolving the effect by looking through your library the game now cannot be rolled back to its original state and there's no "taksie backsies"
I mean the more experienced you are the more you are allowed to cheat and take back. Just look at all the magic world champs.
>>98742353obviously he is not allowed to do that if you were playing for real prizes
>>98742406First place got 3 booster packs, and a deck box and sleevesSecond place got 2 booster packs, and a deck box or sleevesThird place got 1 booster packSo yeah people were paying for prizes
>>98742353>>player 2 said that due to prerelease events being more casual, take-backs like that are fully legal and any judge would take his sideI'm a level 7 judge with certifications in all 6 colors, including the one they don't tell you about until you reach level 4. And that's bullshit. Even for a casual tournament, where "take-backs" are permitted, there's still rules that need to be followed, and the primary one is that you can't reveal new information or change the board state in a way that can't be reversed.If you meant to tap an island but instead tapped a volcanic island, you can undo that without any issue as long as its done before you do anything else. But if he played the Demon, and it resolved, I would say that was already too late, because it meant revealing that the player was willing (ie, had no counterspells/etc.) to allow the Demon to resolve. Some judges might disagree, but the moment he started going through his library was where no judge would permit that sort of takeback because the library has to be shuffled and you don't get to shuffle your library for free on account of a mistake.
>>98741660had a very similar experience. I think some legendaries were hyped so much that people built entire decks around them without the proper support. I actually beat a few players who'd pulled a card worth the whole prerelease box in a single pack, though I wish I'd gotten that luck myself
>>98742353Isn't the search and discard mandatory. If it wasn't it would say "you MAY search" or to prevent discarding "put up to one card into your hand, then if you did discard one card at random."
>>98742255The only mono color that hasn't had a main block antagonist yet is Green I thinkBlack has many, White has Konda, Red has... Smaug? I feel like there must be proper in universe examples but I'm blanking
>>98742464smaug is not a villian
Played blue green on the prerelease today. I didn't want to but it was the best of what I had. Expected to go 0-3 or 1-2, but did 2-1.>2-0>2-0>0-2Last round I possibly could have won. Had a blunder the first round and second. Was super close either way. It was a good black red deck with tons of removal, some graveyard recursion and efficient creatures. It ended up winning the whole thing.Luckily I got a triple mythic with one of my prize packs.>pic related
>>98742325at least it had cool art
>>98742458The search is mandatory, but the player 2 wasn't walking back the ETB, he was walking back playing the demon at all, right after having started the ETB.
With Reality Fracture already over.... When are we getting the best Magic set in history and Captain Jean Luc Picard paragon of humanity and Federation best asset?
>>98742464Wasn't Mishra red? Or is he too smalltime?
>>98741704I genuinely would be madcool ff11 playmat btw
Finally....Zoomer Jund
>>98742464Kaervek, but he's more black than red.
>>98742353That's one that needs to get addressed in the moment. as soon as he picked up his library he was committed. Now if he had then tutored removal and was able to cast it with the ping still on the stack it's not a problem, but P2 was absolutely not allowed to walk that back with the change in game knowledge.It's unfortunate but you do have to play those kinds of events a bit more aggressively and I probably would have not said anything until after he has selected his card. After he had picked and then discarded at random, THAT's when you say "tinybones pings you, any responses"I'm willing to walk back certain things like re-tapping mana for sequencing or playing a different land within a single phase, but after you make another game action or move phases then its done, and that includes anything I want to do to your stuff as well.
>>98742353You mean a judge is a career faggot who abuses his position? Wow now that's something I've never heard before
Went 2-1, lost at last round, hurts way worse than going 0-3. Went UR and felt bad about it. Below are the MVPs, above the remaining dregs of an alternative timeline's deck. I like the amass PW idea, I wish it wasn't Jace, at least he's dead. I wish I got a freaking Lili.>>98741690That's crazy.
Urza's Saga (land enchantment saga) was such a mistake man
It's time for selesnya domination.
>>98743016WHOA DID SOMEBODY ORDER A PIZZA SURFS UP DUDE
>>98743016I wonder how much better it will be than Dyadrine considering Badgermole is gone.
finna play the brain freeze deck in premodern
>>98741653i need /tg/'s help!im making a blue/white blink brawl deck on arena. what permanent give repeating blink effect? i found "don+leo, problem solvers", "abuelo, ancestral echo ", "airbender ascension" and "teleportation circle".
>>98743083this card that just released.displacer kitten.blue y'shtola if you can afford 6 cmc.
>>98743073the ill gotten gains one?even if it's kinda stupid, it's just too dope to hate
TQAlso love a good bird token
What are some good Big mana decks in premodern that dont cost an arm and a leg? I was going to play Elves and Welder then I saw the price. Even the gold bordered cards cost stupid
>>98743353proxy them
>>98743083I've only ever built mono white blink in EDHAbdel adrian and blink him with something like Flickerwisp or Charming PrincePheliaPreston the vanisher
>>98741653Plant kraken feels weird like the monored merfolk Kiora>TQTarmogoyf {1}{G}Token Creature — Lhurgoyfhttps://scryfall.com/card/tm3c/22/tarmogoyf
>>98742255was urza a major antagonist?
>>98743457Yes he made Urza's Saga
>>98741653>TQ1/1 Banding token.
>>98741653>TQFree my boy, he did nothing wrong.
>>98742872>stingcaster mageFinally answers the question what if Jund can do "Bolt snap bolt." This list looks solid enough that I want to try it out
>>98741865Lark Ritual (U)InstantAdd UUUSpend this mana only to cast Bird spells
>>98741704I had a really weird case in duskmourn prerelease where my common and uncommon sheet was exactly the same for 3 packs, which meant I basically had to play a simic constructed deck.I think I went like 2-3 or some shit because I got bombed out.
>>98741983I would but the clunkiness, oh the clunkiness
>>98743016Guiding Hydra is shit, I have no idea why you are trying to push this narrative for the third thread in a row. It doesn't even live in the same zipcode of viability that Ouroboroid does.
>>98743457According to modern retcons, yes. Never mind the fact that he saved the entire multiverse. He was abrasive and all knowing and a bit crazy - but he was right.
>Make it black.
>>98744284Just like Jace...
>>98742353that's pretty scummy
Free Mono White
>>98742243>standard set made up of 2 blocks is made up of the stronger 1 of the 2 blocksI know it was cancer but this is fucking nothing comapred to rotating all of Modern with 1 set
Does Standard still have a major first player advantage?
>>98743083Soulherder
>>98743083mind stone, the other one
show your pulls
>>98744696With Badgermole it did (somewhat), its less of a problem now. Don't play BO1.
>>98743083Phelia and thassa are pretty good if you meant standard brawl fuck you you are retarded lmao.
>>98743146nah I was thinking of playing the mono-blue one.
This character design and art are so fucking ugly.Genuinely, what the fuck.
>>98745459Not even the worst black snapcaster mage
>>98742665NYCC, I would guess, so a week on Friday.
>>98745459Quit being a chud and just play the cards you are pathetic.
>>98745003no, not standard brawl>>98744804lol the stone formerly known as mind.>>98743096>>98744795>>98745003thank you!
Ohhh Jace is the face of MTG? Ohhh sorry sweaty he is a white man and we cant have a white man as the face of the game. That's Kind of Problematic so, I hope you dont mind if we replace him with a dubiously ethnic snake woman...
>>98745703Let's be real, no one liked Jace.That said, the nu-walkers they're trying to force are all awful as fuck. Like does anyone care about Basri, Samut, Huatli, etc?
For me?It's Day & NightTime to bring it back.
>>98745742like that wide-nosed, half-shaved, gender-ambiguous thing that sparked becase xhe was so great at everything that xhe had to write xher own destiny or some shit
>>98745742or Kaya
I like Kaya. But only this Kaya.
>>98745742Samut isn't god-awful, but yeah I can't think of the last character introduced that people actually like that isn't some random Bloomburrow self insert. Kellan managed to (somewhat) redeem himself at the last minute by becoming a family man with a big titty goth GF but up until that point he was extremely boring.
>>98745853Oh, I forgot about Angrath. He was well received, but he has been completely forgotten about and his daughters hate him. What the hell did he ever do to deserve that shit?
>>98745853Samutt is literally just super fast negro woman
>>98745742Tyvar was fun.
>>98745873At least she fits her plane / setting and isn't obnoxious. >>98745862So that means no character introduced of note since 2017? Fuck...
>>98745862Angrath was one I was about to mention, but I think it's because they don't know what else to do with his character. Being angry and wanting to get home only works when he's trapped on Ixalan, and after that it's not like it'd work to have him continuously getting trapped on planes and being angry about it.
>>98745459Wakanda will be a lot better
>>98745945Wakanda?
>>98745949Oh sorry Zhalfir, it definitely won't be a Wakanda ripoff
>>98745910>it's not like it'd work to have him continuously getting trapped on planes and being angry about it.Actually that would be fantastic. Maybe the twist could be that some asshole is orchestrating it and it turns out Angrath is getting Truman Show'd.
>>98745742No one has ever really liked any Magic characters. Like yeah I'm sure you can find twelve Gerrard fans or whatever, but in the grand scheme the named characters have never been widely popular for any reason other than appearing on powerful cards.
>>98745968You can have characters that are meta and also just popular because they're cool. Thalia is one of the more well known characters partly because she's on a card that was meta for 10 years but also because she looks cute and her story is somewhat interesting, before they just assassinated her development in VOW or whatever the fuck that was.It's harder for there to be cool characters now because all the random characters are fuck ugly or they're animals to appeal to women and redditors, and the pushed cards are obviously pushed and feature focus group tested brown people no one gives a fuck about. There is literally nothing interesting about the flavor of the game anymore and this is even before you get into the multiverse gigacancer. This game's lore is now straight up tourism where every other month they are going to some new fag ass hat plane and there is no actual cohesive story.
>>98745945>lived long enough to see the incredible artistic design of Mirage and Visions get completely shit upon
>>98746001It really hurts but this is only the beginning
>>98745842>some dipshit tourist's OC ruined my favorite planeI will never not be mad
>>98745952Well I hope it will be more Mirage.
>>98745968Lying fag, people liked urza/yawgmoth, kamahl, phlage/jeska, akroma. Fox calling the grapes sour yet again
>>98746023Ruined how?
>>98746040She literally destroyed the Orzhov
>>98745742We love the Wanderer here.
>>98746046Literally how? Orzhov does what Orzhov does. Just less kikery.
>>98746054Actually nevermind I answered my own question. Albeit we've not seen any Orzhov under Teysa yet.
>>98746027>characters that appeared on lots of and/or on powerful cardsyeah dude total ownagethey definitely weren't forcedalso how is that supposed to be sour grapes
>>98745742Basri is the best character White has had since Serra. But JOTC kikes made him into a cat joke and desparked him along with Wandering Emperor.
>>98745968Don't forget that this love of the characters only comes after they left the meta. It's all nostalgiavision just like every single MtG meta in history.>(Character) has an entire deck built around them dominating the meta>"Grr, I hate (character)! They're ruining this game with all these pushed cards! Nobody even likes them anyway!">(Character) deck loses viability because it rotated, got powercrept, or got banned>"Man I miss (character), they were so well-written. They were basically the face of Magic."I had the displeasure of somehow watching this happen with Jace, twice.
>>98745703Jace was already replaced with Chandra as the face of Magic in 2020.
>>98745945Why does an Africa set have a rich American haircut?
>>98746166There's no Africa nor America in the Multiverse. There is New York though.
>>98746166Because they hired a bunch of black American afrofuturist "consultants" that have never stepped foot in Africa to help them design the set
>>98746196There's also China.
>>98746196>There's no Africa nor America in the Multiverse
How come wizards used to be able to do black people, but not cringe?
>>98746227That's Wakanda.
>>98746252Wakanda is in Africa
I thought Reality Fracture was going to somehow justify all the UB shit. No idea how they would have. Instead it's just Time Spiral but lamer and they killed yet another white male character. We've had color shifted characters before like with Mirri the cursed. Every UW is so fucking lame these days. I just couldn't give less of a fuck about FIRE designed magic.
>>98746270MtG century of humiliation.
>>98746263Not in MTG.
>>98746239They were allowed to portray them as they would have been before globalization. A bunch of violent savages living in shit and filth. Nowadays when you talk about history like that you're labelled as an ist and a phobe.
>>98746270>throw away a memorial dedicated to the sacrifice of a white mana character just for a combat trickSounds about kike
Just sold this card (return to the light realms full art facet foil) for 300 CADdid I rip myself off or?
>>98746270>b-b-bros I totally used to love UW but now I realize UB is so much better who else think it?Still not buying your Final Faggotry slop, Mark.
>>98745945Hopefully there will be a lot colorful headwear based Nigerian fashion.
>>98746040She killed brago's ghost and did so in the most >AND THEN MY CHARACTER JUST COMES IN AND FUCKING KILLS HIM CAUSE SHES SO STRONGkind a way possible
>>98746284>They were allowed to portray them as they would have been before globalizationtrue>bunch of racist bullshitlol retard
>>98746473Fashion is too European needs more Adire symbols.
>>98746270Magic in terms of gameplay is so far removed from its roots at this point (ignoring everything else) that I really think it'd be better to just split off. You want to play a "modern TCG" with do-everything cards? Play Deckmaster: gays and niggers edition.
>>98746147Faggot, I've been playing before, during, and after Jace's life. The only people I've ever seen that liked Jace were in a thread on here a week or two ago. Jace was meh at best, hated at worst.
>>98746523Yeah, I can't imagine old Magic ever printing a creature that made itself evasive, pumped itself, untapped itself, and had inbuilt protection.
>play creative technique irl>fizzle constantly, get awful draws, my opponents have every stax piece known to man in their opening hands>play creative technique online>consistent turn 2 kills, never fizzle, always have removal for their permanent hateExplain this
>>98746593you really thought you were cooking with this one, didn't you?
>>98746593>famously most broken block in history, to the point that the ceo personally reprimanded the design team
>>98746610needs a 4th tibalt's
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/reality-fracture-vision-design-handoff-part-2A cut mechanic was Turning Point. A saga where could choose between 2 different chapters. Such as Ia or Ib.
>>98746593this card would not even be playable in standard
>>98746624It's in the sideboard
>>98746613>>98746614Yeah I just can't imagine any time Magic has made an overloaded card design that did everything before 2018. Not a single time. Especially not any extremely famous examples that had entire decks formed around them.
>>98743525Based.
more cards have been banned in standard since 2019 then the entire history of magic before that year
>>98746810Which is of course meaningless and indicates nothing about design trends. Or does it?
>>98746810Yeah because pretending Baby Jace doesn't exist for 2 years was a better ban policy, right?
>>98746862Commander proves this card does nothing. It could be unbanned today and it wouldn't do anything useful.
>>98746904was this even played in standard at the time?
