#Magic the Gathering
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it might just be with first strike too idk, but it did that with my sheoldred and that's pretty nice to have
Metahook banned in standard
Yorion in modern
could have seen meathook ban coming from a mile away tbh
Ah rip
Yeah, meathook was guaranteed tbh
Guaranteed meathook doesn't drop a penny in price cause the things still stupid good elsewhere
should prolly play more since I have 2 more days before it goes away in arena standard
Nyaruhodo
Hey thats a good rare
I'll get dia before oct 13 
wait
meathook being banned means I get 4 mythic wild cards
lets goooooo
good choice of them to not hit kikijiki though
yes
am gonna go abuse meathook some more tomorrow before it goes away
clutched a ton vs these weird boros aggro plat lists
it's very scary im ngl
every bungus has haste and they have that trample knight thing that changes night/day
also the indestructible gaining whatever, and the 2/3 bird
I honestly just hate vsing mono blue and their 16 counter spells
I wanted to build rdw or some version of it because of blue yeah
but maybe ill just wait until brothers war to pick up a new deck
I have a concept for gruul goblins, but it's not competitively viable unless we get some goblins in brothers war
I hope we get some more merfolk in brother's war even if it's unlikely, I wanna play em in standard
yeah but like i said, the buy in for alchemy is too high for me
No card found for “goblin array”
send a deck list, i'll look at it
Man I gotta try more formats other than edh
But I'm a mono black player at heart and that's one expensive buy in
[[goblin influx array]]
i would have to get home to give a decklist
wait there is 1 more rare i think
influx array is a side card for the most part anyways
By the way what is Liliana of the veil doing in standard
mostly nothing
Awesome
she is doing something alright
I'm running out of ideas for decks, might fuck around and make mardu vampires
Legendary Creature — Vampire Rogue
Flash
Whenever Evelyn, the Covetous or another Vampire enters the battlefield under your control, exile the top card of each player's library with a collection counter on it.
Once each turn, you may play a card from exile with a collection counter on it if it was exiled by an ability you controlled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
2/5
[[corpse appraiser]]
Creature — Vampire Rogue
When Corpse Appraiser enters the battlefield, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If a card is put into exile this way, look at the top three cards of your library, then put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
"Scarcely a mark. A true work of art!"
3/3
you know what, that's a better idea, and i dont think I've played blue this standard yet
Building ninjas cause I got an absolute deal on a deck core for it
Shame sakashimas do not exist in the UK rn tho
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what WotC is doing
this isn't how one should handle important anniversary like this
Limited time only $1000 packs of 60 random beta proxies
Definitely not, it's like the shittiest thing they could have done. Goes "oh yeah the fanbase that made this game last 30 years? Fuck them, give us $1000"
Also damn, I didn't even realize that Collector's Edition was $50
I knew the worlds deck lists were $20 a pop
god I can't wait for the meathook ban to take effect, hopefully it opens up the meta
honestly I kinda wanna get into more monored with it gone
Man I didn't even know that for the 20th they had a from the vault which was 20 of the most iconic cards for $50
It's a card a year from all the 20 years at that point and this was an insane reprint value
iconic cards
doesn’t have bolt
Bolt wasn't in the worlds list at the time
Each of these cards came from their respective worlds list, with a booklet explaining what it did for the deck
Also most of those were the first time that art was used
The Jace alone back in the day more than covered the cost
Yup. Crazy how 10 years ago, this was an actual product for the fans
And this year's "anniversary" content is $1000 proxies and an advent calendar lair of cards they cut from other lairs (because they'd be too good of value then) and both are limited run
Like the 30 card lair is cool, but the art tells me it was cards that were supposed to be the bonus card in lairs this year but would cost too much, and they're now being sold separately to the first 10,000 bots
Honestly, I'm convinced WoTC is going full gacha/investors at this point
Standard sets keep the people around for the whales to flex on
But when the $1000 proxies sell out instantly, they'll realize they can keep making more and more absurd priced products for mega whales only
They'll probably never stop making regular packs and shit, but their interest lies exclusively in the mega whales now
it does make me disheartened to see MtG go this direction
The proxy shit might as well have been NFTs tbh
Hasbro wants the shareholders to get more money forever, and it'll eventually compromise on the game
As a player who rejoined in AFR, Double masters 2022 cemented for me that there was no low they couldn't sink to
I mean, looking at the quality control on Unfinity and the 40k decks, it looks like it already has
Also, the boxes for brothers war bundles have a huge "One transformers card in every bundle" and a transformers spindown now
So it looks like they're gonna just keep moving to more crossovers and more expensive cardboard with your favorite IPs on it, and let the game suffer because of it
It's amazing to me because the transformers cards are such... Eh cards flavour wise
after they messed up TCG that they had made for that IP
I hate that their art is just drawn to look like screencaps from the show
Like there's a lot you could do with a transformers magic card
And they just... Went with the first thing that came to mind
It looks so lazy. Like I know it's original art, but it looks like something you'd see someone post on custommagic or whatever
lol with TF TCG they used art from IDW comic books and from mobile game
I'm curious how long it's gonna be until we actually get mechanically unique UB cards in standard at this point btw
Because I'm sure the game is gonna go full Weiss Schwarz from here
ah yes, Weiss Schwarz, TCG that's mainly popular in Japan but no were else
I'm gonna give it 2 years at most. When LOTR horizons sells super well, and the doctor who ones do, we'll get a slot in Eldraine 3 draft packs or whatever with a Futurama card in it
Doesn't Weiss actually have miserable playrates? Like people only buy the cards for the anime characters and to use as tokens for other games
Weiss is exclusively a collector product, and it's honestly pretty clear that's what Wotc wants MTG to be at this point too
in west? yes. in Japan? maybe
I'm pretty sure Weiss is hardly played in Japan too
Iirc it's not top 5
I would like to see they current top 10 for TCGs
Iirc Weiss is a mess of a game with some expensive ass cards that make the game hard to get into
The amount of product available in the west is also an issue iirc
like is YGO still number 1 and how popular DM still is and of course how popular CFV is in there
Japanese Weiss cards are lot cheaper that's for sure because they open those more in there
It looks like the top 5 are Yugioh, Pokemon, Vanguard/Bushiroad games, Digimon, and sometimes mtg
Nothing I'm looking at has Weiss anywhere above 7th most played tcg in japan
western signed Weiss card can be $10 or $20 more expensive than Japanese one
MTG is also only sometimes in the top 5
Depends on how big other games are at the time
Bushiroad tend to have strong grip in there
Yup
they also advertise CFV a lot
I'm amazed vanguard has survived considering its meta's have been egregious and it's had to reset twice due to power creep
Iirc they're now on the second series of overdress?
Sidenote, but I was mildly concerned about the limited number of BRO archive foils (each being numbered X/500) but with the anniversary packs thing, they're probably gonna move more into sports card territory too with those
YGO stays on top in there mainly because of nostalgia
I wouldn't be surprised if the numbered foils thing happens every set in the future
And various specific alt style treatments
Sports cards have been doing it forever and it's always a big cash grab for them
I would say that CFV's power creep isn't any worse than YGO's
Yes but YGO has the nostalgia train backing it
Also I've never seen a format in YGO in my time playing it as bad as zodiac time beasts
ZTBs were mistake from Bushiroad pure and simple
honestly good
if these end up working the way masterpieces did, it will make standard a lot cheaper to get into by driving down the price of everything in the sets other than the numbered foils
honestly for alt art treatment numbering would make lot of sense
I'm fine with collectors stuff in regular packs cause it makes the normal cards easier to get, so long as they have easier to get versions that aren't as pretty
Like Digimon has alt arts or rare chase cards so people go for those, and thus the singles that aren't those go down in price
Yeah, it'd be fine if it helped drop the price of the regular versions (like pokemon does)
But there's the way sports cards do it too where it doesn't affect the regular ones
The rest of this 30th stuff and BRO is looking to be a mess for sure tho
it's way too early to say that bro will be a mess
we've seen like 3 cards from the set
I mean, Bro might not be bad card wise, but they're doing some fucky stuff tbh
Like I said, it's weird they have the transformers stuff taking main priority on the set bundle
Not even gonna have a set bundle dice, it's transformers themed
Gonna be honest was hoping for urza Vs Mishra theme dice
I like the set dice. I usually pick up a bundle just to have some cool dice variety
But this one is unfortunately transformers themed instead
I like that furnace golem art at least 
Yeah that art is pretty cool
Wish there wasn't a "transformers card included" right on top of it tho
I want to see some old dominaria dragons
Show us new versions of the elder dragons

I just realised they can shoehorn nicol bolas into this
Theoretically, yup
I think if we're gonna see a dragon tho, they'd be Chromium
[[Chromium]] could use a good card tbh
Both of his suck
Yeah
Maybe they'll be a new artifact dragon
Urza is already in esper, so it'd make sense to have some support for him in the main set
I just want more dragons for my dragon deck tbh
(I am fighting for slots at the moment yet am greedy)
Imma eventually proxy a deck for every color combo and Esper has nothing I'm super interested in rn
It'll probably be new urza, but Chromium could be fun
Gonna be honest I'm not impressed with either urza or Mishra from the precons
The urza is good but like... In the 99 good
Mishra is really good actually
You can copy stuff with a name change
Using like [[Gonti's Aether Heart]] for extra turns
Legendary Artifact
Whenever Gonti's Aether Heart or another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you get 
(two energy counters).
Pay 






, Exile Gonti's Aether Heart: Take an extra turn after this one.
Despite the magic that sustains Gonti's life, the crime lord is often described as heartless.
Mishra I don't doubt has good synergies it's just... Not how I imagined grixis artifacts
Yeah that's fair. But we do have other options for artifact grixis already
[[Silas Renn]] and someone like Jeska or [[Vial Smasher]]
Legendary Creature — Goblin Berserker
Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher the Fierce deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
2/3
LMAO WOTC flagged my Makeplayingcards order for using this back
Oh it still shipped. They just flagged it for no reason
Lmao
the boy himself
When the leyline is binding
we're getting there
I just realized [[Vexilus Praetor]] is the only creature with "Custodes" for a typeline
why even have astartes be a creature type
Honestly
They should have genericized all their creature types
Just have the Marines be human or mutants if you really wanna argue that
Necrons just be skeletons
Tyranids just be Horrors or Beasts
And then there's cards like Vexilus where he is the ONLY custodes
He's likely one that would get a UW printing too, because he's probably gonna see a lot of play in anything with white that cares about the commander
alien is literally a creature type now so i don't know why they didn't use that for the tyranids
Meaning they'll have to make a different creature type for another single card
Oh yeah, Alien is. Just use that tbh
It's not like every ikoria monster or anything got its own creature type
Hell, they didn't give the stranger things kids Gamer (which was at the time silver border) despite it being thematic
True. Sorta wish he was acorn only but I feel like the whole set would have benefited from that
Could have been way wackier with stickers if they're supposed to go on during the draft and never come off
Especially considering the stickers sorta fall apart after one use
Oh lmao they messed up the border in this lair even
Good ol WoTC QC
(Reflector Mage has the legend crown)
I do like that art for Azami
The art is sick
But it's just funny they messed up the printing on one of 4 cards in the set
Actually considering Unfinity and Warhammer, that's pretty standard
lol does WotC want to compete with Bushiroad when it comes to misprints
It's probably just they shit out product so fast now they don't care about quality control
Old misprints used to be expensive, but if you get the wrong stamp on your unfinity card or anything, it's just "yeah half of them have that"
that is yikes
Tbh I'm sure that about 1/4th the cards in the $1000 packs are gonna be misprinted somehow
oh for sure that's more than possible
but WotC and Hasbro won't care because they have gotten whales' money
Honestly, I'm surprised with how many misprints and wrong cards have been in the 40k decks tho
Like usually, a few people will find an extra land in place of a rare or something, but it's better like 50% of the decks have missing cards and dupes
that makes me want even less to buy any of those 40k precons
Gotta love charging $20 more and having more errors than usual
one of Neo Dynasty and New Capenna precons were already really bad when it comes to dupes
I need help remembering a card name
I remember it being a red legendary creature (?) that when something takes 1 damage it takes like 2 more damage on top of the 1 damage
Aesthetic Neutral, Printing Rebel
[[Torban]]
huh, couldve sworn it was a different card? But technically this works (maybe there is multiple with this effect?)
ty
There's [[Molten Immolation]] too that's similar
No card found for “Molten Immolation”
Not sure what the name is. There's a 6 mana enchantment that doubles damage
[[Fiery Emancipation]]
That's a super nice build around
Oh thank god the post Malone lair is Godzilla styled and not his deck
(if it was his Zur deck you'd see it in like 5 years)
Post Malone phyrexian agent confirmed
Now they always say compleations
Also, I think the "wizards realized the deck looked like shit with 50 foils, 50 non-foil" theory is the reason they've delayed the deck for ALMOST A WHOLE YEAR
Because if it was the coin, they'd go "oh yeah we're having issues with the coin" but they can't blame anyone else for the decks looking like shit and falling over when it's their own foils causing the issue
And they haven't said anything because obviously they don't wanna look bad and admit their foil quality has been shit forever
super disappointed we wont get mechanically unique post malone cards
after all this time they don't seem to bother to improve they foiling process
The funny thing is, foils used to be fine
Compare any foil pre-2015ish to any modern foil
The old ones don't have any issues. It's only 2015 onwards that they're nearly unplayable
It's also an English only problem. The Japanese printers don't have foil issues
I have a resplendent angel from 2019 promo stamped that had been sitting in a box for 2 years unsleeved
Not curled or dented in the slightest
I opened a collector's pack of unfinity and it looked like I had just received cards from a pringles can
It's to the point now I consider foils undesirable
I have never been big on foils outside games like YGO and CFV for practical reasons unless it's special like Judge Promo Avacyn or full art Deathless Angel
yup
Angels are so based
those two are there among my favourites in my collection
...? Got plenty of tribal support
Yeah I'm honestly at the point where I prefer non-foil every time
More than a lot of tribes
I mean it's not like merfolk goblins or elves but
It's up there
I’m talking about human tribal support
Angels are arguably the most supported white tribe
It makes more sense if you put the two sentences together
they are there with soldiers
Ah I get it no worries
Best I can give you is a human lord angel
Honestly I need to do a double check on all the angels and dragons released cause every time I think I've seen them all I get surprised
Like midnight hunt has 3 mythic angels
there is also this one [[sigarda, heron's grace]]
DO I HEAR 4
Chaos Warp?
Genuinely no clue on this one?
And a separate set of 5 lands for $30 lmao
i think u should unplug from magic
is he signing every land?
yea cus i see nothing wrong with this
this is a collectors item
for a very popular artist
no vital game piece is being sold here
I mean, I think it's fine. It's just kinda funny they still do that
why
The lands are fake signed, not actually signed
it makes logical sense
figured
5 lands for $30 is a ridiculous deal for basics, but they've literally always done it with lairs
and those lands then hold even more value
The Godzilla ones are $10, no one breaks $5
Let people pay the amount they want for their silly cardboard
yea
If they want to spend 30 then let them
It's fine tho because it's just full art lands. It's just wild that it's $30 for a basic of each color in all these land lairs
the godzilla lands are also just not the most appealing lands for everyone
If they want to spend 1000 then let them
People spend hundreds on getting people to sign their cards
but if it upsets u that they even exist please just stop playing magic or interacting with magic
its clearly not making u happy
Literally spending money to damage your cards
Only from someone extremely famous like Post would I be okay with someone signing my card(s)
Good news
he's just expressing his opinion. abit rude to tell someone to stop playing cuz they want to criticize part of the game.
You can get cards with his skins
No I disagree
People need to unplug from stuff that no longer makes them happy
It's one thing to express an opinion
It’s more rude to continuously imposing your hatred for something instead of seeing it and moving from it
Lord knows I have my criticism over recent WotC decisions
But I also won't stay mad about it
Like I don't play Yugioh anymore cus that game and the direction it moved into didn't make me happy
I don't go to banlist threads or gen_ygo or MD Chat to complain about every last decision done
guess i missed him doing that
He does it literally every day
Quite literally 90% of this thread is just complaints about Magic
Or arguments about X new product
or X format
people still have right to express to opinions regardless does some other people like it or not
Sure
All of them being super cold takes that anyone would’ve heard millions of times already
we are not some hive mind after all
Correct
This does not mean you are entitled to also then trample on and complain ad nauseam
Not just pope’s
If someone is not enjoying something the best thing for one person to do is to disconnect from said thing and move on
You can come back later on
maybe not
But why spend time being miserable?
or upset?
because there is still some aspect of game that they still enjoy?
Doesn't matter
If the majority the things around a game upsets me I'm just not playing it anymore or engaging with it further
I don’t have a problem with complaints, what I do have a problem with is when people do the same thing over and over again with the punchline being “haha money”
Just like how he hates “haha amogus” jokes
Yeah basically
I have my own set of complaints regarding new product releases
and foil quality and nany more things
But I also recognize that going on about it endlessly is pointless
Personally, because I will be spending money regardless
So my complaints are useless if I'm still buying about one or two cases per set
that's the thing. that's you, not pope ACAB or anyone else in that matter
Correct and if someone wishes to spend their life bitter about things
Sure they may
But that is also why I have mod powers here and can curate the space I have here
They’re free to be upset all the time but we’re free to criticize them for being upset all the time
Just as Misty is free to tell them "Hey it might not be in your best interest to always be upset at a hobby of yours"
Anyways I had a funny commander game with randoms that started with them having tons of salt
Turn 2 cursed totem on my board and they complained they couldn’t play and attacked me every turn with… 4/4s and 5/5s
I feel like I need to get some sort of marker or indicator on the times Keranos bolts someone to death
honestly no one in here will convince each other that they view is only correct one so at end of day arguing about this leads to nothing
So I made a deal with them, for me to kill my own totem and everyone will not kill me for a certain amount of turns and they all agreed
Little did they know, turning on their mana dorks meant handing the krenko player a 30 minute turn where everyone except me died and I killed him on the crackback 
Bad threat assessment strikes again
Poor threat assesment is the biggest killer in all games of Commander
Yeah idk why they get mad at the only thing keeping them alive
Nah I'm dipping. I like magic, the gameplay is great. But I just can't stand what Wotc is doing to the game. I should disconnect. Too bad there's not any card game that's really similar tho
Yeah it's good to take a step back and down the line who knows
Maybe you come back
if not at least it isn't making you upset anymore
Maybe. I feel like management for the game would have to change for that. I'll probably still go to my lgs here and there, but it's probably best not to keep up with it anymore
right but still it was rude from Misty to demand that you should disconnect from game just because he didn't like your opinion
Nah, it's fine
It's been a long time coming
Sidenote can threads not make me follow every time I reply
As much as we clown you, we’re not coming from bad intentions, it really isn’t heathy dwelling on things that make you unhappy
I've left the thread, any time I say anything about it, it auto follows, which is weird but whatever
you can silence channel
Yes commenting auto follows
I forgot I made a comment on the OW thread and it auto-followed too
Hmmm one sec
I know. I get that. I just disagree about the game and stuff at this point and it's unfortunate because I wanna like the game and enjoy it, but I just feel like I need to step back
Yeah it's what I experienced with Yugioh
Didn't like how the game went
Wanted to keep liking it but I knew
if I kept going it would have made me more miserable
Yeah, at least with yugioh it was kind of a more gradual decline for me tbh. Like I just stopped caring about formats and now the card loop is a mess
Magic was kinda "oh here's a ton of bad decisions and a ton of good ones" so I just kinda kept hoping the good ones would win out
At least magic gives you options. You don’t have to like every meta but there’s got to be one meta that you at least somewhat enjoy
with YGO I mostly keep up because of nostalgia
Yugioh is currently in the darkest times it’s been in in over a decade
And there’s no end in sight
It's different if it is an issue with how WotC is running Magic as a whole
I still like pauper, edh, and pioneer yeah. The issue is how wotc is running the game
as far as Magic goes I still like playing EDH so I haven't stopped playing it
So for me nothing enough to get me to drop this game
Like I'll keep up with my formats, but it's impossible to play magic without having to interact with that kinda stuff now
Like I have a big complaint with format management
Sure we just had a banlist for Standard and Modern
But Pioneer, Legacy, Pauper and Alchemy all could use some sort of change
unfortunately that stuff is every were so you can't really avoid it
Yeah, it's not limited to a single format or anything
And yeah, nykthos should have gone too this list
I know it's a cornerstone of the format, but when half the decks are devotion, it's a bit too present
Idk about the other formats, but it makes sense that standard, modern and edh get preferred treatment since they’re the most popular ones
Pioneer Fable of the Mirror Breaker is definitely too good and so is Nykthos
Pauper combo might be too good (again)
Legacy Delver feels the most oppressive and yet painfully dull it's been
Alchemy has the same issues Standard has which is insane to me given they can literally rebalance stuff and change it back if it's wrong or too far
Isn't Murktide also like sorta creating issues of being entire arhcetypes in legacy rn?
Nykthos is basically staple in devotion so it tends to be required in those
It's the core of the deck. The issue is the deck is too much with no real checks now
Like sure it dies before it can pop off against faster decks, but it can kinda do everything faster than the rest of the field
My only issue with standard right now is the post DMU format feels like it got solved way too fast, and now we’re stuck in a stale format
Honestly modern is pretty healthy and didn’t need a power related ban, even if the 4c decks were boring
Expressive Iteration also continues being the best spell in every format it's in
I'd say EI is the best card in Vintage atm too
Yes yes mh2 or whatever but that was the point of that set and it made the format much more interactive
Only Commander is really saved but even then it's just because the strength of cantrips and stuff is weaker there
Yeah Modern is in a good spot
4c is boring but it is whatever
No
Card was pretty broken but fun
I wish it got a Historic buff
Unlike Chariot, Luminarch, or Faceless Haven
It is definitely too far gone from Historic playability
Same with Divide by Zero but mostly because of the counters it competes with at the same cost
We’re in that weird period in standard where after goldspan we’ve gotten a red legendary dragon like every set, but all of them are mid af
Like uh moonveil whatever the fuck is called
Overcorrection
Oh Moonveil is great
This Standard has too much card advantage to run though
So Moonveil is a bit useless
And in Alchemy it fits weird on the curve
Yeah that’s mostly what I mean, only other red dragon that sees some play rn is shivan devastator
And that’s very eh
Turn 2 Whelp turn 3 four drop is the dream
Is Moonveil the one you want? Ideally it curves into Darigaaz or Rith and then you draw 3 to refresh
But the issue then lies in that your 3 mana play is vital to either ramp or interact here
I’m not sure what Izzet and Mono Red need right now, izzet is probably closer to being meta relevant though, mono red is going to get gatekept by sheoldred unless they get something big
Meathook ban helps though
I don't think you need Red in Standard for Blue
Yeah mono blue already does things
Same with Alchemy. Just make your mana consistent
Mainly be obnoxious as all fuck
I think the deck itself is medium
But it attacks an angle that the current decks suck fighting against
Yeah, I mean I think the deck is fine, but holy shit the deck represents all the blue stereotypes
Fair lol
Misty gave me the idea of grixis vampires and after doing some research, I decided I hated all the builds on YouTube
They’re fun if nothing else, been messing around with ratios and stuff, having access to certain blue cards makes some matchups way easier which I like
I can whip up the decklist again in a bit
If I play Arena I'm playing Alchemy or Historic though
I’m basically only logging in to do daily quests and then logging off
I do play more than just daily quests
But I'm not grinding to Mythic monthly
Too busy
I had a nice little push for mythic last season, but then got caught up with projects at work so yeah
I live vicariously through Ren
LOL yeah
I'm watching Misty and Ren get to Mythic before the halfway point of the month and Idk
It makes me a bit proud
Well we know Misty is great at the game, I’m more proud of how good Ren became so quickly tbh
You guys guided him, he listened and now he’s chilling
Yugioh knowledge transfers for sure
This would explain why I'm bad at magic too 
magic knowledge also transfers to ygo from my experience
i really had an easy time getting a hang of yugioh
I am slightly more surprised you actually liked Yugioh lol
Sometimes you have to take a good hard look into the abyss
And sometimes the abyss stares back
And you like it
ygo is objectively shit, unbalanced mess
but thats what makes it kinda fun at times
opp will set up the most disgusting unbreakable board and i will draw the exact outs and lague
*laug
laugh
It’s like playing fighting games and playing a kusoge for shits and giggles

For the first time ever in standard, there is not a single creature in standard that has no rules text. The last two vanilla creatures in a standard-legal set have been rotated out of the format along with Strixhaven. Carl takes a moment to remember some of the greats.
Click here to find the last 20 vanilla creatures in order, and have a moment...
just diviner of fates as the only nerf in alchemy for tomorrow
and honestly deserved
going from a 2/3 to a 2/1 so it dies to more thingd after conniving is good
it be like that
I like the game but man flooding sucks. I was 1 win away from dia now im back to where I started
mm alright, I only have a few hours until meathook goes though I think
so yea im trying to get dia before that
they are free rn
mhm
oh rly?
you will be facing a lot of aggro cus it will finally be free
but that just leaves esper in a more proper position
cus esper actually has life gain
do you have an updated list? 
a lot of the other colors relied on meathook vs aggro to gain life
meathook and sheoldred
to be precise
but esper naturally has dennick and interceptor
emperor
as life gain
I did pull a third dennick
this is where im sitting atm
im primarily playing alchemy esper or historic izzet
but anytime i dip into standard this is what im on
also i really gotta replace the shitty non-full art on the lands and get the dennick and destroy evil styles
but yea this deck is great
maybe 2 farewells is too much
but u dont have the consistency that alchemy esper gets
yep
u need to have the bulk vs midrange
like my list destroys midrange mirrors
this build however is also very strong into aggro
4 cut downs
2 march
3 dennick
4 interceptor
2 emperor to gain life
interceptor and dennick are also gonna carry raffine counters
god i'm so glad they nerfed it
it was way too strong
ya
diviner of fate is my baby but
card had to get nerfed
i like this nerf a lot actually
didnt weaken the ability
just hurt the defensive capabilities of it
diviner of fates is 1 of the best midrange cards ever made tbh
[[diviner of fates]]
yes they stack in multiples
so going t3 diviner
discard draw 1 that shares the same type
t4 diviner #2 discard
draw 2
that share that same type
and yes they trigger off any discard
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
When Toluz, Clever Conductor enters the battlefield, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard.
When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.
3/1
or that lili + is going -1
your own lili?
it draws u a card
[[calim djinn emperor]] discards itself for his ability?
you are now infinitely more likely for calim to be a 2 mana 5/6 ward 2 flyer
Legendary Creature — Djinn Noble
Flying
Ward 
Calim's Breath — 
, Discard Calim: Tap up to one target nonland permanent. Draw a card. Then you may exile two other cards named Calim, Djinn Emperor from your graveyard. When you do, return Calim, Djinn Emperor from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
When you discard Calim, conjure a card named Calim, Djinn Emperor into your library seventh from the top.
5/6
I'm a little short on the rares, one sec
oh yea dw about alchemy esper midrange
this deck is def more expensive than other alchemy decks bc its a midrange deck
so it wants you to go ultra greedy
wow thats a pull
not sure what rares to prioritize and im prolly gonna run budget options over the missing stuff
a suggestion to shore up missing cards
go 7-1 or better whenever an open comes up
those 2500$ do a ton to patch up cards
hell even 6-2
thats 1k
iirc
You gotta go through a day one and then a day 2
It is not as simple as "Just win the 1-2.5"
It is possible though
aye
swolenick
also im surprised I dont see cemetery prowler more, first time running into it
3/4 vigilance non targeting gy hate chungus that also cheats mana
for 3
dude spammed like all 4 on me this game
green is just kinda whatever in standard rn
also
trespasser has it beat soooo much
same mana cost
way more splashable
ward - discard
flips into a 4/4
eats for a drain
flipped eats 2 for drain 2
yea it just does a ton
Yeah trespasser is best girl

hmm maybe if prowler was 2G instead of 1GG?
but then you're playing green 

what caused this btw? lack of crazy tools in standard? like last time I was giga malding because they were super insane with snakeskin and like questing beast
and the whole adventurer 1/1 asshole draw guy
they lost a ton of cards
check their cards
they dont have creature lands
ranger class is gone
they are just
mid
Green needs meaningful 2-3 drops that makes it so something besides defiler/titan are threatening
yea
Like why would I play green instead of green white
standard mana bases are just boring atm
Prowler 

ironically meathook hasnt been helping me in any of these games
goal completed misty caster 
I wanted to test out spell pierce again, I haven't drawn it all that much so I can't tell if it's any good or not. Circle of confinement has been extremely good
rip meathook 
make disappear is ok
but this deck just doesnt wanna counterpsell
cus lili puts pressure on your hand
oh hmm
so counterspells are just better in the side yeah when you know you rly need it in the matchup?
since like negate/stroke are v nice
in g1 you kinda just prefer removal on threats
yep
g1 you want removal and wincons
g2-3 against a control heavy deck
where you can afford to go slow
and need to keep them off specific cards from resolving
thats when you play counters

since meathook is gone does that mean I have to play the cleave thing
or that enchantment that nukes all 2 drops
theres a few things
the lifegain loss is sucky sure but esper always had lifegain so its fine
path of peril is good bc it can become a full on sweeper
depopulate is just a sweeper
farewell is solid but expensive
yeah I dont think I can rely on farewell
peril might be the move
[[path of peril]]
i am playing both peril and farewell
bc farewell is better in the midrange mirrors
while peril is better vs aggro
which u must respect
i hate magic players
im up 7 minutes vs mono-red
im playing fucking esper
how
up 8 now
this is so dumb
9
10
all that to concede
been testing historic decks atm
done for tonight but rakdos is def powerful
very swole very strong
running decks like a league
5 matches
stats for this league
this puts me at mythic top 300 for the month
and i think im gonna make a legit push to #1 this month
its been a long time coming
my highest ever is 137
is this the deck that im gonna do this with? idk yet
its this or izzet
no other historic deck feels nearly as good as these decks besides goblins
but people are gonna be hardcore prepping for goblins
like this deck is pretty adept at beating em with all the removal and molten impacts
the other big decks are azorius and boros affinity
both of which im fully prepared for
shatterstorm and hidetsugu consumes all are insanely good in historic rn
slight thoughts on no chandra: i didnt miss her
shes not bad
but i felt every single card i ran in this 75 was extremely impactful in all match ups and i cant think of a point where i would have rather had chandra in one of those slots
this is a very adult decklist with so many 4 ofs and the few ones that are less than 4 ofs being cards you dont want as 4 ofs main
so intentionally hurting my consistency in impact plays by splashing say
2 chandras as fun-ofs would have easily cost me matches
right the match ups real quick:
1st was vs golgari midrange. extremely easy. my card quality > their card quality. i easily dredged through them game 1. game 2 they left discard spells in for some reason but pulled ahead after i missed a few lands. game 3 i showed them why you side out discard spells in midrange match ups as i kept accruing card advantage with my topdecks while they drew ioks and ts.
2nd was vs jeskai lotus: they turn 2ed strict proctor i immediately cast kroxa into it and they conceded. g2 they couldnt answer 2 bloodtithe harvester on board as they spent the rest of the game countering lilis and fables and a kroxa and died.
3rd was vs azorius affinity. game 1 i beat them by removing all their permanents as they came in and then locked them out of cards with citystalker + fable as they tried to topdeck to come back. g2 they got ahead as i flooded and then closed the game out quick with nettlecysts on thopers. g3 i hidetsugu'd them and then shatterstormed them on their recovery and they died.
4th was vs mono-red: the aforementioned piece of shit took forever g1 but died to my own beatdown and i won by the skin of my teeth at 1 life with graveyard tespassers gaining me a lot of life. g2 they roped me for like 10 minutes and conceded to sheoldred.
5th game was vs mardu sacrifice and this match up was fucked. game 1 they made all the wrong plays into graveyard trespasser and then they never saw a 4th land. g2 i overwhelmed them with trespassers and seasoned pyro and then they finally cast a yawgmoth and died to burn from kolaghan's command and trespasser burn.
and inquisition of kozilek
amd seasoned pyro
these are modern cards lmao
so is shatterstorm tbh
black eating good in historic huh
[[citystalker]]
No card found for “citystalker”
[[citystalker connisseur]]
also graveyard trespaaser
*trespasser
lowkey the 2nd card that carries hardest besides fable
I've been really liking Falkenrath Forebear vs mono blue as a way to keep tempo vs them
especially since half these players just sit on 2-3 open mana at all times
[[forebear]]
Multiple cards match “forebear”, can you be more specific?
[[falkenrath forebear]]
god Cemetery Gatekeeper shits on selesnya so hard
Jesus that post Malone one is value
is Totally Spaced out only in Foil?
Probably cause it's in galaxy foil
yea shame... good lands but not worth $50 to me
Might pick up the post Malone one for the medallion alone, and the yoji shinkawa one because GOD DAMN
hot damn the junji ito and yoji shinkawa ones are so good
Junji ito sadly isn't for me, but I'm super happy he got one cause his work is legendary
Wait, Yoji Shinkawa, is that the guy who did the iconic Metal Gear artworks?
Post malone pog
the stitchers supplier is cute
I have seen Post Malone in Game Knight but I have no idea why he is supposed to be big deal since I am not American and I don't follow mainstream music genres
maybe that makes me ignorant that I don't know who some famous person is but so be it
He’s a meh song guy who was popular for a song or so
Very good at leveraging that to get into edh shows though
post has had some of the biggest pop/hip hop hits of the 2010s
sunflower, congratulations, white iverson, psycho
rockstar
also wow and circles
Don’t know those ones
like I said I don't follow those genre
Had a commander party at my lgs tonight
We had two hours to play a game
I won in ten minutes

I assume it was cEDH since you won so fast
No I just had a cracked hand
Sol ring, mana cost reducers the whole kit and caboodle
I remember doing the same because someone flooded the board on 3 and I happened to clear it with extra damage coming from toralf
He got pissed real quick
Something something “blasphemous act is a cedh only card”
That must be why it's in multiple precons

There was a DMU sheoldred player
Nearly killed us using puzzle box and underworld connections
I managed to win thanks to a turn 3 terror of the peaks which spiraled from there
The deck I was using was Ur dragon tribal
tbh a big part of why i stopped playing edh was i got sick of having to watch people get into arguments over what does or doesn't count as "cedh"
a lot of the time it seemed to just be "anything that wins against my deck is cedh"
or that any removal or countering is cedh
or that attacking before turn 3 is cedh
IMO it's certain builds and combos that make it cEDH, not any single card
I mean I have used and seen many cards that you see in cEDH also in casual EDH decks
the straw that broke the camel's back for me was when someone said that me using [[shriekmaw]] on their llanowar elves was cedh
Creature — Elemental
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When Shriekmaw enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke 
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
3/2
not to mention Path to Exile
Had some fun games last night. Won a game on turn 5 thanks to krark(though he wasn't the commander). Seething Song into Jeska's Will into full Jaxis combo.
Had a game at my lgs last night where they were on gruul urza and pithing needled top t1
Went exactly as I expected while I searched for my abrade/vandalblast
That gruul girl is kinda nuts
(Gruul urza is Meria)
does that mean my cute obscura mafia girlboss sphinx demon is cedh 
apparently a bunch of cards just got errataed to have surveil or landfall if they had functionally identical effects
Yep
Pretty cool
Sure people are saying disinformation campaign is too good now but
No it just isn’t that good idk what people are on about
yeah disinformation campaign isn't going to see competitive play
Turns it into a decent build around like a weaker kiki combo or opposition in lower power cubes though since the surveil errata cards are good enough for cube
Grim flayer having both surveil and delirium finally makes it a retroactive grandpa to drc
I would like to build a surveil deck now
Poison counters
i mean
Thrumming bird reprent is nice
if they didn't bring those back i would be shocked
the thrumming bird is pretty
also these are almost definitely legit
Oil counters are neat
compare to its old art
Most definitely just more interactive energy though
Which iirc was its main complaint
wait the reprint added a type onto it
the guy who is listed as the artist for one of them (idr which one) says on his instagram profile that he's made art for wotc but according to scryfall no card with art by him has currently been released
also oil counters are probably just a one off thing and not an entire set mechanic
they do stuff like it every set
What does that mean
they can just randomly show up in sets now even if it's not a major theme of the set
like how prowess just sort of randomly shows up sometimes
Random question: when does hasbro generally start shipping product
Let’s see if I can a friend to snipe packages
FINALLY
Now cards like dimir spybug or thoughtbound phantasm can get massive with the help of channeler
I kinda want to make izzet breach surveil now
I think breach, channeler, [[enhanced surveillance]] and a 0 cost that saccs gets your whole grave in deck
And if you have 2 channeler or 2 enchaned surveillance in that set up you should be able to win since you can mill the entire deck while getting enough mana to cast thassa's oracle you mill
wonder what toxic does
Might give you a poison counter?
also that card is gonna be very good in historic brawl probably
Cause this is above rate for a myr rock
i don't think they do named mechanics that are entirely downside anymore
except for defender but that was sort of grandfathered into the game at this point
I have zero clue what it could be then, it's likely something to do with poison counter given the name but... I don't know
i guess it's probably a variant of infect/poisonous
i am willing to bet it is just poisons you or itself after some turns
Something I would like but is pretty much definitely not happening due to how niche it is is complaetion counters, get enough on a planeswalker and they get removed and you gain control of it
My guess is if it dies, it gives your opponent a poison counter?
I don't think it's a drawback, but I also struggle to think of a variant of infect/poisonous
New keyword 
That they could still do
Is it not common to put reminder text on new stuff?
If so that seems... Abusable
We have dealing damage in poison counters
And we have doing poison counters on damage
What else is there?
It's the alt art, alt arts don't get reminder text
Well, at least not all Alt arts do
Do we have regular art of myr convert
No only alts so far
Its a leak of a test card, and seems to be a set of alt art test cards
So its unlikely
I'm trying to view this under the lens of elesh norn, and the on death poison counters makes sense tbh
Artifact recursion is strong but it's not strong in standard rn iirc?
Trying to think of how to recur it with ashnods but coming up with a blank
my guess is it's infect but it gives a fixed amount of poison rather than scaling it to power
Thats already what Poisonous is no?
poisonous doesn't do -1/-1 counters to creatures though
Trying to think how they're going to do the new elesh, considering the last one was a considerable pie break
Why even give it 2 attack then though
so that it can't just win the game out of nowhere with a combat trick
it would do the poison counters in addition to the damage
So just Poisonous + Wither?
ye
Idk, that seems too similar to Infect to not just ... do infect
a lot of people really hated how infect can just end the game out of nowhere with combat tricks
A lot of the used combat tricks just... Give infect though
Inb4 they make elesh norn "if you were to gain life, gain double, if an opponent were to gain life, gain half"
Pretty sure infect never did anything in standard
infect didn't do anything in standard because people were focused on all the busted artifacts that were in the scars block
Tbh, dont see it doing much better in a modern standard metagame
Theyre not gonna print an unblockable one
Huh I just thought of something elesh norn could be
Something Thalia like but it reduces cost for you
yeah i could see them doing that
Works with the way elesh norn "recruits" and rally's people, makes it hard for people to be motivated to fight against her (and thus cost more to cast), where as it's easier for her
man I have no idea how people actually complained about meathook being knocked out of the meta
monowhite, red and gruul getting more space in the meta should be nothing but fantastic for diversity
completely unrelated but holy shit monored feels so good, I've been undefeated bo1 throughout all of gold so far
I mean I can understand people not wanting to see monowhite anymore lmao
i'd prefer mono white existing over like 50% of all decks in the meta running black
I can't understand it lmao, monowhite is actually a pretty easy deck to handle
especially in bo3
it's just a boring deck
and considering monowhite aggro was the best standard deck until sets rotated I don't think people are over the moon to see it back
could be wrong though
I don't even remember tbh, I checked out for a lot of that format
I'm pretty sure it was at least the most represented deck
alongside the funny izzet goldspan deck until that got hit and then rotation happened
I have 0 issues with decks running black
White though, it feels as if white has everything rn
really? I'm still seeing a lot of monoblack
Real Aeri pog
in standard?
ye
I've run into it a few times it's super gross to fight
t1 delver/consider then insane godcurve
then they play the topless flying shtstain
imo it's the hardest deck to play against
Yeah. They have a billion instants that do so much for only U
shore up, slip out the back, fading hope
theres also march of swirling mist to clean up the game
I think the only deck that has a good time vs it is like RDW
my opinion on blue delver is that the deck is very very prone to good card density
I think it was even better when meathook was around cause it really liked going into midrange like monoblack
lots of nice stuff to counter and prey on decks that prioritized lots of advantage cards
graphical glitch? my opp only paid W for this with no other effects applying
Are you playing standard or alchemy?
standard
(I'm never playing alchemy unless it's one of those free events they have at the start of each balance change format)
Mood komi
probs a glitch then
What’s the best way to play a commander deck online before buying it
cockatrice probably
you can join spelltable games using moxfield and obs if you want to
Thanks
Proxies are not a bad idea either
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What world is this
Also Cam is my guy, never heard of the other 3 though
hell yeah inject it straight into my veins
honestly it's kinda wild how many early magic characters didn't get cards despite being super important to the story
Cemetery Gatekeeper takes a massive dump on mono blue @atomic harness
Mountains in deck

less to cast. (If it doesn't require




