Fun fact: The probability of finding the 001/001 One Ring in a collector booster is <0.00003%.
The probability of getting struck by lightning during one's lifetime is approx. 0.0065%.
Which means you're ~200 times more likely to get struck by lightning than to open the One Ring
Thinking about how Yawgmoth's Vile offering by Chase Stone is probably one of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of MtG art to come out in the last decade.
Some would say I shouldn't double down... But I will.
I've been shown a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh art in the replies. And none of it comes even close to this single MtG token.
That is all.
I think that Magic would be overall better if all mana fixing lands, including Fetched, Shocks and Triomes, were printed at uncommon instead of rare. They are one of the largest barrier of entry to most formats, and I don't buy the argument that they'd break Limited.
Since I've introduced my coworkers to EDH, three of them have built. Dragon decks. Which means that I'm now tempted to pull a little prank on them... 🤭
"I sac my Orc Army to cast Beseech the Mirror with Bargain, tutor and cast Sheoldred. Activate the One Ring, draw 3, gain 6."
"I tap The One Ring to draw 3, sac it to cast Beseech with Bargain, cast another Ring, get protection from everything, tap it to draw 1"
🤢🤢🤢
This depiction of Éowyn by
@Cathaoir1
looks great btw. Guess the racists were too busy complaining about Aragorn to notice it? Or maybe they just don't care about women, that would make a lot of sense.
There are only 4 MTG arts by HG Higgenbotham, all of them artifacts, and they have one thing in common: they are not paintings, but slightly modified pictures of *actual sculptures* the artist made (see picture below for the Claws of Gix sculpture). Isn't this the coolest thing?
Every time I hear someone say that this or that MTG mechanic is not so difficult to grasp for newer players, I think of that time I was teaching my girlfriend to play Magic and she tapped a Llanowar Elves and then proceeded to look through her library to fetch a Forest...
I can't understate how strong this card is. Stops Cascade, Plot, Suspend, Fierce Guardianship & co., while being an on-rate creature that can also save your board.
Reprints are always good. A card that before was 50$ is now 2$ because of a reprint? GOOD.
Having at least one version of a card available to most players while also having expensive "fancy" versions for collectors is a positive thing.
What if -shocking, I know- what if WotC made sure lands like Fetchlands, Shocklands, etc. were cheap and easily accessible instead of using them to push sales on random products?
On the left, a card that was banned from Modern because it pushed small creatures decks out of the format (and is still banned).
On the right, the most played creature in Modern and 4th most played card overall...
A thread that I've been meaning to do for a long time: what does it mean to be "strictly better" in Magic? This word is often used improperly, but it actually has a precise (and pretty restrictive) meaning. I won't be able to cover all the corner cases, but I'll do my best. 1/14
As 2023 draws to the end, I'd like to make a thread of those that in my opinion were the best Commander card released this year!
Top 24 Commander cards of 2023:
1) The One Ring
2) Roaming Throne
3) Delighted Halfling
4) Tribute to the World Tree
1/6
I don't understand why people are dunking on Seth here. This is just true, and by at large it's also true of Vintage and Legacy.
These formats are so expensive to play without proxies that doing so would severely limit the available playerbase.
Interestingly, this is only the 4th creature in the history of MTG to have natural first strike and deathtouch. This combination of keywords makes a creature basically unbeatable in combat.
Isn't it weird that Venice is the only real-life city (afaik) that has ever been represented on a Magic card, and it hasn't happened only once, but twice?
Y'all talking about MH3: < I'm so excited to see what Ulamog and Kozilek look like > this and < I hope this proactive free spell cycle doesn't break the format > that.
Bitch, I'm out here wondering which of Abzan, Temur, Sultai or Naya is gonna get the next Hierarch
With the Eldrazi precon bringing more popularity to colorless decks in EDH, it may be useful to remind that:
-Arcane Signet, Command Tower and similar don't tap for mana in a colorless deck
-Myriad Landscape can't get Wastes, as they don't have a basic land type.
The LOTR commander decks have some really outstanding reprints!
Swan Song
Heroic Intervention
Scourge of the Throne
Reanimate
Toxic Deluge
Anguished Unmaking
Birds of Paradise
Combat Celebrant
Door of Destinies
Shared animosity
Asceticism
Rejuvenating Springs
And more!
This is your yearly reminder that colorless is not a color and thus Arcane Signet doesn't tap for mana in your colorless Commander deck (sorry Kozilek)
I have the solution to the MtG counterfeits (counterfeits, not proxies) problem: make each Magic card cheap enough that it's not worth the hassle to make counterfeits of it. Boom, solved!
I don't understand Commander players who're like "oh but I don't play to win". I understand that having the fun of the whole table on our mind when playing EDH is important, but we also usually build our decks and play to win, no? Playing to win is not some toxic trait y'all.
EDH players will tweet "This card is super underrated" and it's just a picture of more mana symbols than you've ever seen in one place in your life, all in the upper right corner of the card
We all make fun of all the Zetalpa reprints but can you imagine reading this the first time as a new player??
LEGENDARY ELDER DINOSAUR 4/8 FLYING DOUBLE STRIKE VIGILANCE TRAMPLE INDESTRUCTIBLE... This thing must be unbeatable!!!
"Welcome to another episode of Game Knights/Extra Turns, where once again no one pays for JLK's Rhystic Study, he draws a billion cards while the other players focus on each other's scary permanents on the battlefield, and he ends up winning the game!" 😝
This is probably not gonna be a popular take, but: if you buy a card that's only expensive because it hasn't been reprinted in a very long time, and then that card is reprinted and its price crashes to 1/10 of what you paid, you shouldn't complain. 1/2
So the excuse for having dud rares like Zetalpa and upshifts like Smothering Tithe at mythic in Commander masters is that they need to balance the draft experience. Is it too much then to ask that a 20$ booster product shouldn't be balanced for draft? Especially since 1/2
I love how they represent the card Necropotence in the Magic manga*, like a giant version of the skull dude holding the caster in their hand.
*Destroy all Humankind: They Can't Be Regenerated
Thank you YGO fans for educating me on every YGO art archetype. I think I now got a hang of the main ones:
-The robot dragon with the gun penis
-The robot angel waifu
-The killer teddy bear
-The armored warrior waifu
-The dragon waifu
-The sushi battleship
-A weird little fucker
Dear
@wizards_magic
, please reprint these two cards into the ground. Would be great if Greaves in particular was in every single precon. Signed, every Commander player.
Magic: the Gathering players will complain about product fatigue and too many Universes Beyond sets, but then they will buy the crap out of said products.
Original Ravnica's basic land design was so revolutionary. How do a Plains, an Island, a Swamp, a Mountain and a Forest look on a plane that's a single, immense city? Before Ravnica, basic lands had always been very literal in their depiction: each Forest art would display 1/2