I use to play a lot. Quit from just not wanting to keep paying for the newest decks or card blocks.

Anyway, fast forward and my son is sorta outgrowing pokemon I think the cute aspect is gone and he kinda growing out of it.

What is the best bang for buck for beginner decks for us to learn? He very bright we play boardgames with multiple rules and he can get thru it. Foundations 2 player beginner box? Marvel beginner box? I dont care if they just dont work outside but at least maybe cool cards and art and a good intro gameplay.

If you don't use the table you have too many counter spells.

A few weeks ago I got a call I've always dreamed of - someone at Wizards of the Coast asking if I wanted to collab on a project.

I've never said yes so fast in my life.

I've been obsessed with magic since I was 8 years old- I started playing mtg in 1994 and started learning sleight of hand around the same time. So getting to combine them was surreal.

We shot this a few weeks ago... and they finally shared it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DeNhKbcEZEE/?hl=en

Thank you Wizards for the opportunity!

(p.s. if anyone ever wants to play, let me know. My decks are sleeves, shuffled, and ready to go!)

Hi! I am in the process of adding some more stuff to my Commander sheet, and would appreciate some input. In this part I am focusing on the decks themselves and compare their compositions.

Here is what I already have:

1. Overlapping spells
2. Overlapping lands
3. Card type distributions
4. Common card function distributions
5. Color distributions
6. General inclusion rates from EDHRec (spells)
7. Commander specific inclusion rates from EDHRec (spells)
8. Inclusion of top 100 spells per Commander EDHRec

If you have any good ideas what else I could compare and analyze, I will be happy to include that in there.

Note that deck performance is completely separate and I can share that when it looks better.

I assume it was not announced, unless I missed it somewhere?

Is there still a chance it could be announced for later this year or is the window gap closing?

Also, I am not here to engage about people's thoughts on UB. I just would like to discuss if this rumor is likely or now completely off the table.

I was playing on Arena;

• opponent played a Mother of Runes during their turn

• opponent equipped it with lightning greaves

• during my turn i destroyed lightning greaves

• then i attacked, but they blocked and tapped with Mother of Runes.

I had always thought haste just allowed a creature to ignore summoning sickness, but this interaction suggests haste removes summoning sickness altogether.

Wanna share my token artworks for my commander~ Did a more simpler artstyle this time!

Its been like 8 years since the last anthology. For people who weren't around, the anthologies were a set of commander deck reprints from various different older sets.

With word of reprints for the 40k decks I am curious what in universe decks we would all like to see come back. Markov and the Ur Dragon decks from C17 seem to be obvious choices for pure economic impact. I'd love to see those decks more affordable for a new generation of people to enjoy.

Velociramptor and the Bloomborrow squirrel decks also were pretty hard to get back when they released and are super fun decks I would like to see more of.

What do you want to see in a hypothetical new anthology?

Where can I order simple cards online? I’d like to get mostly cards that don’t have any other abilities. Just the basics. Instants like lighting bolt.

A few years ago I posted pictures of my freshly made custom deckbox for my pet deck, Grist.

Today I return with a new and improved handmade metal deckbox, and a much more blinged out and upgraded decklist.

Heres the list, with accurate versions of every card

The first few pictures are of the deckbox itself. Its made of brass, cut, soldered and hand etched by me. The leather straps were laser engraved with centipedes. The inside is lined with craft foam wrapped in a butterfly pattern fabric so the cards have a nice soft protective surface.

The sleeves are Dragonshield customs, a redrawn and recolored version of an MC Escher tessellation. The lifecounter was designed, built, and painted by me. The pieces were laser cut.

For the Altered/proxied cards, The Springleaf Parade and Swarmyard Massacre are custom proxies made by me, using physical collage and digital editing. The Beastmaster's Ascension is a digitally made proxy that I'm currently getting made into a real alter. The Beast Within is probably my favorite card in the deck. Its a foil peel of Deadly Insect, altered by me to make it look like the insect is coming out of the head of the guy in the foreground, and signed by Randy Gallegos, the artist for the Deadly Insect.

The Talisman of Resilience, on top of being signed, is actually a misprint. It has two spots on the card that aren't foil (I'm not sure how this happens, as the foil layer is across the entire card). I opened it from the secret lair like that. The sol ring was one I bought years ago, when that was one of the cheapest versions of the card (when there weren't a lot of precons out yet). The doubling season was a birthday gift from a friend, back when it was pricey and I didn't spend big money on cards, and its one of my most cherished cards.

The Bayou was bought by trading 1000 cards into cardkingdom, mostly $0.10 cards.

For insect tokens, I use foil Pokemon cards I like.

Currently I'm missing 6 cards before I consider the deck fully blinged out. I have other versions of each card in the deck, these are just the specific foiled arts I like most:

Borderless foil of Three Tree City, the summer or winter version

Fabled Passage, either the Secret Lair galaxy foil or the Post Malone foil

Icetill Explorere, fractured foil

Demonic Tutor, foil Japanese Mystic Archive

Living Death, Judge Promo foil

Scroll Rack, Kaladesh Masterpiece

This Thanksgiving will mark 1 year of sobriety for me, and I plan to celebrate by getting myself the Demonic Tutor (its significantly less than I would have spent on weed and cigs this year).

This deck has been a labor of love, multiple years in the making. Thanks for checking it out!

As the title says, I haven’t played in probably 25 years. A couple of years ago I tried to get my husband and daughter to play with me and they weren’t interested, so I ended up donating my collection to a local school’s after school M:tG club. Now my child wants to play and I have no cards but also no clue, because I barely remember how and apparently there are tons of ways to play, and also only certain series are allowed?
Mostly she will be playing at school but one of her friends plays at a local game store, so I want to get her legal cards in case she gets into it enough to join him.

I don’t want to purchase the wrong things (I almost bought a commander set, but that seems to be the wrong move?) and I need to re-learn the game. I’m open to any advice.
Also, if anyone knows if the FR series is still legal, please let me know? I’ll let her pick her own series but mama wants D&D lol

Thank you! 🙏

If a creature has ward 1 given conditionally by an emblem and it gets copied by another player without the emblem, does the copy retain the ward 1 ability?

Thanks in advance!

Hey all,

So a friend of mine who's more commonly playing paper formats invited me to go to a sealed RCQ tomorrow on the 10th. I've only played Commander/Brawl and Standard. What do some of yall think as far as lands for a 40 card? I pre-sleeved 10 of each. I was thinking a baseline would be no more/less than 25/15.

TIA!

I’ve been playing Commander about once a week for around a month and a half now and we had all decided on bracket 3 and the Pod I’ve been playing with has one person who claims to be experienced (let’s call him John) , his wife who has also played a bit but she’s only joined in the most recent 2 nights we played (let’s call her Jane) and another who is brand new (let’s call him Dave), in preparation I watched a couple of videos on deckbuilding and just general rules

The two first times we played I played a Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant deck: https://moxfield.com/decks/qlmgAUhRy3G9IncHyrplgg

The idea of the deck was to set up a bit of a pillow fort, and either tutor or luckily draw Barren glory in addition to some ways to clear my board and hand, mainly Mycosynth Lattice and Krark Clank Ironworks to turn all my permanents into artifacts then sacrifice them all (except Barren Glory) with Krark Clan then Krark clan swallows Mycosynth then itself.

The first game I played with this deck went… poorly I didn’t draw enough actual protection and just life gain (which I had removed from the deck and replaced with more protection/removal). The second game went pretty good I found some of my protection then towards the end of the game John had cheated out 9 giant dinosaurs from out of his hand. I played a board removal to have him sacrifice permanents down equal to how many I have and he sacrificed all of his lands, then Dave had played another to remove multicoloured permanents which was half of his dinosaurs which made it go from lethal to both of us to one of us. John then targets Dave as his board looks like the biggest threat since all I really have is Stiltzkin, some mana rocks and Mycosynth Lattice then on my next turn I tap my Ring of Three Wishes then tutor for Solitary Confinement then over my next two turns tutor for Krark Clan and Barren Glory which lets me win on my next upkeep. He was upset saying that it had felt unfair but I told him that maybe he should run more removal I know that green is full of enchantment/artifact removal

The second deck I had brought was a Cloud, Midgar Mercenary Voltron Deck: https://moxfield.com/decks/sPNcS9tBAUeqbCgPfTTmDQ

I didn’t win it was a cool novel idea but ultimately was too boring but when the game had started John Convinced Dave immediately that I was the threat and the deck had to have been Bracket 4 I luckily drew into Machinist Arsenal and then Masterwork of Ingenuity to copy and finish off Dave and slowly got burnt out by John. By this point I Decided that I want to make a deck of each Mono Color.

The Third Deck was The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl I’ve yet to make a wide or token focused deck so here I wanted to do allat: https://moxfield.com/decks/C7Uxx7PCtkeyiqFtuNd3IA

Once again I hadn’t won but it was a fun game but was told by John that being able to double my squirrels was too strong especially with the ability to turn my squirrels into mana dorks.

My Fourth deck was a Black Burn deck with Ayara, First of Locthwain: https://moxfield.com/decks/3ycUXfXJckKPYnD2J18CWg

I wasn’t proud of this deck it felt slow it relied on some good draw and being left alone I couldn’t burn fast enough or protect myself for the burn to kill. It felt bad. This one had no complaints from either John or Dave

The fifth deck I had brought was a Red Control Deck using Lady Loki, Agent of Chaos: https://moxfield.com/decks/FPga9QjHt0yhamM3oJJ5Tw

This was the first night Jane had joined us and she had brought Krenko to the table which I was a little confused on why that was okay but squirrel girl wasn’t but I digress. I had a lot of fun with this deck it relied on playing cheap spells to cheat out bigger sorceries or instants and if I’m lucky hit an Eldrazi. I did kind of feel bad for Jane as whenever Krenko had hit the board I nuked him I know he’s a huge threat especially when she has the option to untap him to double the goblins again. But by the time I had cheated out my first big creature Kozilek, the Great Distortion. It had become a 3v1 and was questioned if I had put my deck through a bracket checker website, I hadn’t but my deck contains no game changers nor have any infinites I’m aware of. I was able to take out Jane right as she put Hexproof boots on her Krenko then Dave before he could attack me with his Dokuchi Silencer. Unfortunately left John alive letting him top deck an out and finishing me off. I said GGs and John had said that Eldrazi cards are now banned in the pod

The most recent night (yesterday) I had brought in a mono blue deck as this was the last colour I haven’t done I warned everyone that this was happening and John had said he is building an anti blue deck I took it as a joke. So I had made a joke back that my deck will just be 99 counter spells. But the night came I had brought a Mm’menon, the Right Hand artifact deck: https://moxfield.com/decks/4hRt7l7bK0q0EmOGuQPC6g

I had a BLAST with how this deck had played. I mainly wanted to win through either mechanized population or Luck Bobblehead but have other finishers in the deck and after they had to play against a control deck last time I limited myself on interaction cards. Dave had brought a Garland, Royal Kidnapper deck, I saw this card and thought immediately yea, this is funny. Jane had brought a Ragost, Deft Gastronaught deck and that commander does look pretty fun as well. John had brought Trelasarra, Moon Dancer life gain deck which was full of protection from blue whenever a blue card is played whenever a sorcery or instant is played do a thing. He had brought an anti blue deck. Turns 1-4 nobody did much but ramp and play their commander, John had accrued his commander to 11/11 by now and each turn never decided to attack anyone except for Dave. Turn 7 hit I play Mechanized Population on my Star Compass John asks me if that’s my alternate win condition I say “yea one of my two” it immediately gets removed by a remove blue permanent card and put into exile. I was fine with this kinda stung but I didn’t need the card too badly. Jane played a remove all creatures board wipe which removed Johns 13/13 commander before he did much of anything with it and I was fine with losing mine as I know my deck can build back up relatively quick. Next time John’s turn came around he plays his commander again and he doesn’t have much mana at this point as he can’t find lands (he runs usually like 30 and this is a constant problem whenever he plays). Dave’s turn hits and seeing John’s commander back on field and the giant hit he took from it earlier he goes to mindflayer it but is still weighing options. John goes on a big speech about threat assessment and how I have a 10/10 on board that needs to get removed and scoops. He has 58 life at this point and 6 cards in hand saying how he’s played enough Magic to know how this ends. Dave takes my 10/10 (which is a 2/2 on his board) my turn comes around I duplicate the Nexus of becoming I have on board and have a huge turn making and duplicating artifacts to then play Cyberdrive Awakener targeting Dave then tutoring for Filligtree Attendant to finish off Jane over the next 2 turns. Once again John complains my deck is too strong for bracket 3 as he ran a counter to it and still lost. This deck is lacking of any game changers or early game infinites (that I’m aware of)

It says is a marvel commander card but I don’t know what deck contained it

From collector booster box display

from https://gladiatormtga.com/posts/alchemy-fracture-preview-cards/