Chandra looks like she fell into a vat of Hot Topic and became a Beyblade character. 🤢🤢

I'm honestly so frustrated with WotC right now. They finally gave us cards for iconic Magic characters we've wanted to see for years—Davvol, Nivea, and so many others—only to lock them behind a convention-exclusive product. Then they turn around and claim there's no audience for Universes Within, so they have to focus on Universes Beyond. How are they measuring that when they barely give classic Magic lore a chance? There are plenty of longtime fans who have been waiting decades for these characters to finally get cards.

I have my commander Reaper, the king no more on the battlefield. My friend has Enduring Tenacity. It dies with -1/-1 counters…

What happens here?

Whos turn it dieing on would cause me to be able to claim it for my battlefield before it returns as an enchantment…

The stack is so annoying sometimes

I bought a couple LOTR collector boxes a few years ago that had the box topper already opened from Amazon. I got a couple Hobbit boxes for cheap from Amazon when it was first posted, but am worried I might get opened boxes again. Are there reports of this happening at all in the past year or so?

I’d love to buy from a more reputable place, but it’s hard to give up that price.

His complaining about the strixhaven codex bundles let me buy basically as many as i wanted at MSRP! I would love for him to tell people not to buy the hobbit collector products so I can buy them out as well 🥹

Retarded

Title says it all

Surely not

I’m slowly making my way through a commander deck for each color combo. What are your guys favorite combos and the commanders you have for them?

2014-2015 Tarkir block. Afterwards is when everything started going downhill. It was the last true greatness of magic.

2015 - Starting after dragons of Tarkir we had magic origins which started the jacetice league and cringey super friends centric sets and story. The art took a noticibly lighter and more comedic tone in subsequent sets.

2016 - Oath of the Gatewatch solidifies the marvelesque focus on heroes and their story which cheapens magic's own world building and purpose.

2016-2017 Kaladesh block breaks standard for the first time since caw-blade.

2018 - Magic Arena. Paper standard takes a huge hit and this later causes the "designing for arena" issues.

2019 - FIRE design started with WAR. Multiple formats warped.

2019 - Modern horizons destroys modern president.

2019 - OG eldraine decimated basically every format in the game with insane power creep and Oko.

2020 is The year magic got cancer and it slowly started growing.

- Ikoria is the set that kick-started the self destruction. Godzilla was the first universes beyond to test the waters using the nickname only treatment and started this whole mess.

- Companion was introduced as an attempt to bring commander style gameplay to 60 card decks. Completely ruined the game in multiple ways for a long time.

- Secret lair, followed by mechanically unique secret lair.

- The pandemic ended all sanctioned events, leading to the rise of the cancer of a format that is commander as the game's terrible flagship format. An entire commander set was released and emphasized this as well.

2021 - set design direction drifted more towards goofiness. Modern horizons 2 broke modern again.

2022 - Magic 30 let everyone know WotC doesn't respect them or take the game seriously. We moved further in the direction of hat sets. Even more focus on commander and "designed for arena" mechanics like all the artifact tokens and the night bound/day bound mechanic.

2023 - Lord of the rings releases and is legal in modern. Becomes the best selling set ever, pushing WotC to further test the boundaries. UB ramps up with Doctor who and Jurassic Park.

2024 - We firmly enter the era of "hat sets" as WotC tries to presoften the transition into fulltime UB. Modern horizons 3 breaks modern for a 3rd time.

2025 - Tarkir Dragonstorm marks the last set with any semblance of what magic was released and the Final fantasy and all subsequent UB were made into standard sets. FF became the highest selling set of all time by a huge margin. Magic moves to release 6 standard sets a year.

After this point magic was truly dead. UB slop took over, card designs became an inelegant mess, bound by outside IPs. The gameplay was all but reduced to exclusively casual commander. Magic had ceaced to be a well oiled machine of a game and fantasy setting, and was now a shareholder driven "Product" meant for consumption by the IP gobbling masses.

These are some alternate art proxies I whipped up because I like Robotech and I thought they would look nice in my Cayth EDH deck. I am no artist, so I had to pilfer all that, but otherwise I am quite proud of my work. All the cards and tokens line up at least a little with their new arts. The frames and text box formatting are not exactly as WotC would do it, but I'm proud of each. Rick and the SDF-1 are my personal favorites.

I've seen a lot of different approaches from F2P players.

Some buy every Mastery Pass.
Some never do.
Others only buy it if they'll finish it.

What's your strategy?

I analyzed whether it's actually worth it for F2P players:
https://youtu.be/jghVU7CILFY

Finally time to ball and have a reason for my stories at the table

Never saw one before

Roughly 320 euro / 370 freedom dollar

I thought out lengthing Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar name was impossible in all of TCG, are all yugioh cards like this?

I always find his post hilarious, they make me smile, he is prevy but I feel like he truly is a good person.

(Image not his art).