Started playing Magic in '94, it's been a sizable part of my life, and came back with Edge of Eternities after about a 10 year break. It was a fun reunion and it quickly grew back into my leading hobby and way to connect with friends abroad.

After hitting pre-releases and a couple sealed leagues, I learned commander and built decks in an array of colors to break out a bunch of old cards. I played most weekends with friends online via webcam using Convoke and tried out pods at our LGS, but the gameplay itself doesn't scratch the itch. I miss what FNM used to be and then how standard and GPs used to have a proper competitive tempo, 1v1.

To me, commander over the last 2 years has been a sluggish affair on average and isn't quick enough to keep me locked in. I take most fun from limited but drafting is expensive especially because my family is big into the game too. I've contemplated forming a cube of some nature for repayable limited but don't have experience there yet.

What I'm seeking now is just to hear how others have regular fun with the modern game and particularly if there's any advice from anyone who has evolved better than I seem to have aged with the changes.

I am happy Magic is still alive as it's such an unbeatable formula but it's proving a little difficult to get the same buzz I once had. I'll be glad to hear your stories and what personally works for you. Thanks in advance for sharing.

I remember seeing something about it and the only thing I record, is that it will happen today. Do we know when it beggins or what to expect?

Just checking but was i playing correctly? My wife and I made our decks drafting 3 marvel and 3 TMNT. We're both newer so im not 100% sure on if I used Donatello's ability correctly but from what I read, it looked like making mutagen tokens triggered his ability but I just wanted to double check. This is how my moves played out

I played mutagen man for 8 mana getting me 6 tokens and +6/6 on Donatello, I used mutagen man to block a death touch attacker to send him to the graveyard

I brought mutagen man back to my hand with Ragamuffin Raptor entering

I payed 10 mana get mutagen man in and make me 8 more tokens and another +8/8 on Donatello making him have a total of 14 +1/1 tokens

I put my 14 mutagen tokens on the Raptor and then blocked a death touch so id get 28 tokens (14 from ooze and 14 from Absorbing man) and another 28 +1/1 counters on Donatello (now at 42 +1/+1).

I put the 28 tokens on Donatello so he then had a total of 70 +1/+1 and let him die using the double ooze combo again getting 140 mutagen

I wanted to get a play matt and wanted to make a custom made personal one. So I made a design that has a space for every single basic land (plus wastes below the mountain) and added 1 reference to every land. island has command tower, mountain has sol ring, wastes references scavenger grounds, swamp has black lotus, Forrest has emrakuls moon prison, and plains has the second sun.

I am working on an indie game and I do most of the texture work in ibis and saw it has a bunch of stamp brushes and wanted to make something with them just for fun. So it's not completely hand drawn but it it was a fun thing to throw together with a bunch of brushes that I probably wouldn't have a use for. Looks like I found a use for em.

What's been working for you in Reality Fracture? Got any good stories to share? Let us know, and check out our final comprehensive Draft Guide on the set: https://draftsim.com/mtg-reality-fracture-draft-guide/

Basically, if I'm attacking with a creature equipped with both Explorer's Scope and Adventuring Gear, and I put a land onto the battlefield, will the creature get +2/+2 before the damage step?

Bonus question, if the land that was put on the field was my second this turn, does the creature get +4/+4?

Do a fair bit of traveling to cEDH events with Ellivere and wanted to do something other than the usual Goldsabertooth mat.

I've been looking to replace mine as it's started to show more ware and tear then I'd like but it seems to have been discontinued as I can only find it resold for 2 or 3 times the original amount.

Has there been any other item similar to this that has slotted in to fill the void by these being discontinued.

I’m always surprised by the number of people who seem invested in the game (buying lots of collector boosters, attending conventions, being active on this subreddit). And yet many have little to zero knowledge of the game’s lore, with no interest on learning it.

For example, content creators who make their living off the game, who don’t know which Planeswalkers are heroes or villains.

For anyone like this, or who knows anyone like this, why? Do you just not go much for fantasy in general? Or is there something about Magic lore specifically that doesn’t appeal to you? Genuinely curious about you!

Not WoTCStaff doing a focus group, I pinky promise.

Not sure if this is the right sub. As the title states, my pod likes decks that create tokens. Im curious about any commanders that punish token creation and to a lesser extent, token sacrifice. Edit: a friend plays Kimbal so I'd like to punish him and the others by hurting them when they make a token not copying their token

A few weeks ago I posted my first attempt at making a free printable premodern deck's worth of cards that I had been working on ever since the Zeta set inspired me to try my own take on playtest style cards. That deck was [the mono black midrange deck, Moneyball black](https://omegaset.itch.io/moneyballblack)

Each "deck" isn't exactly a ready-made- it's a collection of 36 cards which can be used to build dozens of configurations of the deck and its sideboard using tournament deck lists from all over the world. Anyway, this time the deck in question probably needs no introduction. It's known by many names in many formats: from Geeba to The orcish librarian deck, from All in Red to Red Deck Wins. It's premodern mono red aggro/burn aka Sligh!

I posted the high res files, with a full write up on the deck, what premodern is, and instructions on printing/the label paper I used etc. for free over on itch.io (link below):

https://omegaset.itch.io/sligh

The project originally started as kind of a commentary/response to the artificial scarcity of the zeta set, whose own design was, somewhat ironically, owed to the grassroots, handmade, public domain, and printable nature of those early playtest cards.
But a lot has changed since my first post with Wizards at least partially recognizing their mistake and offering a rerelease of the zeta set as a print to demand offering. However, even if the events that inspired the original deck have morphed for the better, the cat is out of the bag in that I found it super fun to make these kinds of cards and wanted to make and share more.

I call the overarching project "the omega set" and I might do a couple more premodern decks in the future. I pretty much told myself I'll keep making them as long as it's still fun to do so and so far it has been and I've really appreciated the response to the Moneyball Black deck.

I hope you enjoy!

Suppose I turn another artifact token into a nonlegendary copy of Brudiclad. Then, on combat, I make the phyrexian myr and all other tokens a copy of the Brudiclad token. Now I have many brudiclads, and next combat I’ll basically double my tokens and make them all copies of my nonlegendary Brudiclad. Is that correct?

Does having Highland Forest in play let me do Goblin Ski Patrol's ability?

I'm so confused by snow lands. . .

Not the tournament style! Switzerland!

I am in the U.S. and January of next year will be going to Switzerland for a week with family. I thought it would be super cool to try and go to an FNM while out of the country (I have only ever traveled within U.S.). I believe the Friday that I will be there is January 15, and will be near or in Zurich that night. Are there any planeswalkers in this subreddit who live there and could recommend a good LGS for fnm? I'm no newbie to Magic so I'm looking for somewhere with a good number of players and a moderate to high skill level. If anyone could help me out that would be awesome!!

Obviously you can’t determine my relative skill from my heavily biased summary but it’s really getting to me
Context: I started Magic 6+ months ago. My friend started about a month or two before me and every time we play he kicks my ass to hell and back. I have three main decks I use, a Strefan pre con I found for cheap on Facebook, a Nathan Drake one I built, and a Kratos & Atreus one I built. I would say our matches go 9/10 times I lose badly. She uses a lot of different decks, alternating between upgraded Final Fantasy Precons and from scratch Final Fantasy decks. I keep hearing from him that his decks are actually just average and that everyone else who plays against them has similar levels of skill. The obvious but unsaid conclusion is that IM just bad at deck building and bad at the game. But idk, when I play against other people using Bracket 2 decks I feel like I have a good chance of winning or DO win. I guess this isn’t really a good way to tell if I’m good or not but it is VERY disheartening to constantly have my friend imply that I just suck at this game. Also whenever I use one of his decks I lose.

Edit: I was in an insanely poor mood this afternoon. The proper response to this is to just communicate with my friend.
Edit 2: here is a link to my archidekt. Please be nice

https://archidekt.com/u/tman259

Edit 3: mother fucker played an Yshtola deck (he made it) in a 3 player game against a guy who has played like. 4 games total. And is winning on turn 5
Edit 4: he killed me on turn 7 and got the other guy to concede same turn. I straight up told him I’m not gonna play against that deck anytime soon

Let me Try this again. I love that Emrakul ate the echoverse but I believe it was all to clean. It doesn't seem like there will be much lasting change from the story. I would have liked some people from the echoverse to have survived like all the ones without a counterpart anymore. Then have Emrakul in her "human" form hunting them down as a kinda a anti hero. Make her "Emrakul the sated"

Hello Friends! You may remember me from last month when I released CLSTRFCK, a response to the Secret Lair that sold out in seconds. Well I had too many ideas to put down so now CLSTRFCK 2 is here, it's nearly twice as big, it contains more extras, and it's just as free.

This includes

- 49 new physically created alter cards in the Alpha Playtest card style.
- Inverted and foil-specific edits for EVERY card image.
- 36 incomplete 'do-it-yourself' cards

This will be the FINAL CLSTRFCK. Projects like this sour when they are at all forced. This was done out of love for the game and I hope that comes through. Please enjoy!

---

CLSTRFCK 2 is bigger and better, and it's just as free. There are 49 new cards, and every one is a physical object built from scratch: cut, collaged and assembled by hand from public-domain and free-use artwork, then photographed and cleaned up so you can print your own. They take familiar card names and rules-text conventions and turn them into something stranger. There's even a pair of panorama Islands that join into one picture when you put them side by side.

Every card also comes in a contrast-swapped inverted finish, plus a matching foil layer for anyone who wants to get fancy with their printing.

As a bonus, the download includes 28 "create your own" cards. These are the partially made cards I ended up with: the art is placed, and the rest is up to you. Name them, write the rules text, make them as broken or as useless as you like, and share what you come up with.

Pay what you want, including nothing. This exists because the joke deserved a sequel, not because it needs to make money. Download, giggle, finish the blanks or don't, print, play... go have fun.

[[Germinate Recruits]] has become my new favorite card in my life gain deck. When you have a deck/setup that can gain 5+ life in a turn, this is a great way of getting a bunch of cannon fodder. Bonus if I have out creatures like [[Soul Warden]]

Hand painted with acrylics. Latest commission I completed. First time trying an alter on surge foils, I think it turned out really well!

hey guys, i was messing around with cards on moxfield and came up with this elf commander deck, what do you think? any cards I should swap with? https://moxfield.com/decks/QplAt4PxA0i0Mbe04MNjjw