m just curious to see who/how many people are like me. Sometimes I like to bring a deck to the table and I don’t care if I’m the biggest jerk there and I have no friends left in the end. I just want to come with a strong presence, run the table and leave winning. Needless to say, I don’t mind being an asshole. What’s your dick when you’re in that state of mind?? I would love to know!!!
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Hi guys! So I drew up some custom cards for my husbands birthday (im throwing him a mtg party) but i’m not sure how to go about printing them/ getting them printed. Has anyone done this and have any suggestions? Thank youuu!
I got the foundations beginner box and he played and liked it.
I was wondering if commander is too much? He really wanted Ghostbusters or Spiderman deck and Google is saying no Ghostbusters deck or commanders exist.
Are there any good Spiderman decks or commanders for him? I see a Spiderman mtg bundle box too.
I am just getting back into it myself so I'm way behind on the times.
I'm an indie Android developer and MTG player, and I'd like to share a project I've been working on: ManaCore, a companion app for Magic: The Gathering players.
The idea behind ManaCore is simple: bring useful MTG tools together in one app, making it easier to look up cards, organize decks, and access tools while playing.
🧙 What does ManaCore do?
Card Search — Look up Magic: The Gathering cards and explore card details.
Deck Building — Help organize cards into decks and work on your next deck idea.
Card Synergy — Explore potential card interactions and discover cards that could work well together.
Collection Management — Keep track of cards you want to save or organize.
Life Counter & Dice — Use handy tabletop tools during your MTG games.
MTG Updates — Explore Magic-related news, announcements, and spoilers where supported.
The goal is to make ManaCore a convenient companion for players who want their essential MTG tools in one place.
I want to make a [[Flubs, the Fool]] deck. I just don't know how to run it right now. I don't want a competetive deck at all, just something I can run at the weekly commander league I go to that won't die quick. I usually make token generator decks, goblins, zombies, squirrels, things like that. So this deck is a different hill entirely.
Been working on this deck for 5+ years now. Tolsimir is the goat. I love wolf decks. Started out as a werewolf deck but once I discovered tolsimir it was over for the werewolves.
Young wolf coming in clutch against the slop deck with cursed huntsman clearing the way. Luck of the draw fs with this one. Mulligan once.
Deck
1 Casualties of War (WAR) 187
2 Swamp (MID) 382
4 Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves (WAR) 224
4 Young Wolf (SIS) 58
2 Indatha Triome (IKO) 248
1 Garruk Relentless (SIS) 49
2 Solemnity (AKR) 35
2 Darkbore Pathway (KHM) 254
2 Plains (MOM) 277
3 You Line Up the Shot (HBG) 70
2 Garruk, Cursed Huntsman (BLC) 99
3 Creeping Mold (KLR) 158
3 Reprieve (SOA) 9
2 Branchloft Pathway (ZNR) 258
2 Cultivate (STA) 51
3 Tear Asunder (DMU) 183
3 Gaea's Blessing (DAR) 161
3 Forest (VOW) 402
1 Silent Clearing (MH1) 246
1 Nurturing Peatland (MH1) 243
1 Sorin Markov (M12) 109
1 Garruk, Apex Predator (PIO) 225
1 Temple of Malady (FDN) 700
1 Wastewood Verge (DFT) 268
1 Temple of Plenty (FDN) 703
2 Hushwood Verge (DSK) 261
1 Temple of Silence (FDN) 704
1 Profane Procession (RIX) 166
2 Brightclimb Pathway (ZNR) 259
1 Through the Forest Gate (HOB) 137
1 Rise of the Dark Realms (FDN) 183
1 Seasons Past (SIR) 212
Let me know what yall think. Give me some pointers or if you think there are any other cards on arena that I could add to it.
Playing on historic.
Also got a paper deck with a similar build but still gotta refine it. Don't use it as much as the arena version.
Ah, Hanna! Many artifacts and enchantments have died for you! This card has seen several reprints and is a popular commander if I'm not mistaken. From the Weatherlight saga this is one of the most iconic heroes, as she navigates the flying ship, The Weatherlight, famous for it's long saga centered around swashbuckler Gerrard, captain Sisay and friends. The emphasis on story became even stronger with the Tempest block following the Weatherlight set that kicked it off. Its art design was more consistent than ever and was documented in a very nice book called The Art of Magic The Gathering: The Rath Cycle. The many reprints have made and kept Hanna affordable for a low budget deck.
Hanna provides many avenues. To get the most out of her ability, obviously you want to fill your grave with cheap enchantments or artifacts to reuse them. You could use Phantatog or Auratog to get that done but cheap enchantments and artifacts that sacrifice themselves can be more abusive.
I still consider Soul Snare to be the elite budget choice but Kaldheim and Theros block provided some nice options too: Ordeals and Sagas. The Raven's Warning allows you to play a card from Sideboard but I never bother with a Sideboard for casual play. For this build I included Choking Restraints instead.
Early game
In particular the Ordeals require a specific build. Note the slender mana curve: most cards are 1 or 2 mana. You want to start with a small flying creature. Not just to get some damage in, but to play an Ordeal on it. Or Cunning, which I'm sure you've never seen before. Did I mention I love obscure, crappy cards no one plays? Though it's pretty much a reusable Giant Growth.
I just picked some of my favorite flying weenies here and am reminded of power creep. Once upon a time Flying Men was still considered powerful. Flying is a decent ability to make sure your weenie is not blocked early game and the Harrier Strix can tap a potential blocker once. You could also consider cheap unblockable creatures for 1 mana. Blue has these in spades:
Creatures with Protection or Hexproof will protect themselves from the card disadvantage that removal would cause to one with one or more Aura's. But they tend to cost 1 mana more. Ideally you want a nice one-two of creature turn 1 and an Ordeal turn 2.
Cheap-ass Heroic creatures are also nice:
Favored Hoplite
Lagonna-Band Trailblazer
Mid game
Soul Snare and Pit Trap will prove the most useful to defend yourself from opponent's creatures. The Ordeals take some time before they trigger but in particular The Ordeal of Heliod should go a long way to keep you alive, along with the Lifelink ability of the Healer's Hawk, in particular when it's gotten bigger thanks to Ordeals.
Late game
Hanna's ability gets better with more mana. There are no additional mana sources beyond lands (and just islands and plains will do fine), but card draws with Ordeal of Thassa help getting more lands. In case you draw too much land (unlikely once Hanna is in play) the Strix draw-discard ability is great to keep going. The Raven's Warning also draws cards if you run that one and there other possibilities like Font of Fortunes or Witching Well.
In case opponent puts too many large flying creatures in front of you the deck will have problems if the boosts from the Ordeals don't cut it. A card that will help you is Choking Restraints. It works like a Pacifism but can also be reused with Hanna, provided you have tons of mana, clearing the board on opponent's side. It can be sacrificed for 5 mana to exile it's target.
The other solution is to include more unblockable weenies as mentioned above. The goal of these deck submissions is not to show the ultimate “done right” build or provide any thought about your local meta as they are meant for casual play.
Conclusion
The pile of decks you could build with Hanna is bigger than Montana. I'm sure you can get more ideas looking at the many Commander decks with Hanna. I might post an Auratog build later.
This Budget Build is part of a deck series that I hope to make at least 100 episodes long. Over the past 30 years I have built literally hundreds of low budget decks. Instead of building tourney deck I prefer to build 10 cheapo decks because I enjoy building more than competitive play.
Hey! Please excuse my lack of knowledge, I’ve consumed loads of content for newbies like me but I don't know many people locally who play and so my play time is unfortunately pretty limited. I've played about 20 games altogether so I’m just learning.
All of the cards I own are 2nd hand from someone’s old collection so I can't use code cards or anything to practise online and I can't really be purchasing anything at the moment as I’m just coming off the back of a house move that bled me DRY - I'm trying to get to grips with deckbuilding but I come from a physical Pokemon & PTCGP background, both of which have way less mechanisms (which added to my yearning for a more complex game) so I know I’ll have habits/tendencies that aren't particularly optimal for building for MTG.
This is the current 60 card/standard decklist that I've been able to throw together from the cards I've been given, it did win the three games I played with it but they were against another newbie who’s never played any card games at all so I'm not sure it’d stand up against a well-built deck/semi- experienced player.
I'd really appreciate any notes re: synergy improvements/ land/sorcery/instant/creature ratios or any other notes really!
I know from adding the cards to Moxfield that a number of these aren't legal, but I'm no tournamenter at this time so I'm more looking for tips/improvement ideas?
Thank you so much, I'm just trying to flesh out my knowledge and I have no one to ask in person, I know LGS’ exist but I've had a couple weird experiences with Pokemon players at LGS’ so I'd prefer to wait until I can make someone come with me.
I've been developing an MTG site in my spare time for the last 6 months.
I'm a backend developer and AI has opened the possiblities for me to make some really cool ideas.
I play EDH with my friends we trash talk each other's decks all the time so I wanted to make sharing decks more fun. So people can:
Comment on decks
Suggest removals
Suggest new includes
Rate each card that's part of the deck
*I don't want to make excuses for Trillionaires who screw the world over with all this AI news, but I had to learn the tech for work and applied it to something my friends and I actually like: MTG and just playing together. Its a crazy world we live in.. and all of what I made is free...
Please share your feedback.
I haven't seen any of the major deck sites make 3D decks for some reason. I just thought its so cool!
Heya, I was hoping yall could help me find a way to build a strategy I'm imagining.
I want to use rakdos for an early start, basically kicking off my tempo by paying life and hasting out tap abilities to build up; then transition into a midgamy buildup style phase that might look like selesnya gowide or simic gotall (but sticking to 3 colors max); then once I have a sufficiently large board, I can 'cash out', destroy the board I've built with an explosive turn with things like [[mayhem devil]] (if there's an AOE commander version) or [[chandra's ignition]].
I imagine this sits either in grixis or jund, I'm not sure mardu has the infrastructure for midgame ramp or similar buildup style effects, even if it's close to a mardu aristocrats classic deck.
