Magic the Gathering

[subtle sierra]

so unless i misunderstood it

[glad peak]

“During the declare blockers step” is the only relevant text here, it gives a special timing window that bypasses regular timing restrictions

[subtle sierra]

sure ig

[glad peak]

Essentially reading “you may cast this spell during the declare blockers step”, which already wouldn’t need rules text to specify

[sleek ferry]

How many variants of zendikar rising full arts did we get

[glad peak]

Just got this in

Still no idea what the card is but if it’s copy pasted from the original then this would be rules text

Sure hope that rules text changes

[sleek ferry]

This seems more real

[sudden lava]

https://www.tumblr.com/markrosewater/812070285185548288/maros-secrets-of-strixhaven-teaser

Blogatog

Maro’s Secrets of Strixhaven Teaser

Before previews for _Secrets of Strixhaven _​officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my _Duelist_​-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• An ability word returns which first appeared on a second visit to a popular plane

• Four of the five school get a new mascot (aka creature tokens and sometimes cards)

• A mythic rare cycle that grants your instants and sorceries old keywords

• A new mechanic that redoes an old mechanic without its drawback

• A spell which costs {X}{X}{U}

• A mechanic that has been in _Magic_​ for many years finally becomes a card name

• a 6/6 with a mana value of 1

• A new Pox spell

• A spell that grants a specific deciduous mechanic to any cards of two specific card types

• A cycle referencing iconic spells from Alpha

Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:

• “Whenever [CARDNAME] attacks, ...

Tumblr · Mar 25, 2026, 2:56 PM

[sleek ferry]

As you cast it the creature becomes unprepared

[glad peak]

a mechanic that has been in magic for many years finally becomes a card name

Woo welcome Storm, a card that gives the next card storm

[glad peak]

As it reads right now, it only becomes unprepared once the spell has resolved

[subtle sierra]

Creature – Giraffe

🦒

[golden plover]

Oh my God wait... What if this is intended because counter spells feel bad

[glad peak]

Very likely

And if that’s the case then they created a MUCH bigger problem

[golden plover]

You gotta remember WoTC keeps making things way softer so you don't feel bad about decisions

Lmao true

[glad peak]

I wouldn’t hate it if they put a “once per stack” clause in there

[golden plover]

I dunno, they'd be stupid strong if they were all just more or less uncounterable

[glad peak]

So to try and make counterspells feel less bad, they made every one of these spells have multikicker:copy this spell

Actually, replicate is a more apt comparison

[golden plover]

Lmao true. Honestly, people just need to get over it

[glad peak]

Which does make sense thematically

[golden plover]

Things are allowed to feel bad in magic

[glad peak]

If you’re looking to prepare a thesis, then it’s expected for replication, but this is the arts school

Arts isnt science and science requires replication

[twilit canyon]

once per stack but its cheap is fine tbh

[glad peak]

Yep it would be an elegant solution to a problem they made themselves

[sleek ferry]

Tbh I’m thinking about it now, even for the ancestral recall one, it would have been fine if it said “if this creature was casted, it enters prepared”

Assuming it works how we’re assuming now and you can just ancestral recall a million times

[glad peak]

This was definitely a design oversight theyre going to have to fix

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a last minute decision because someone got their prepared spell countered and hated it

[sleek ferry]

Well I say we wait for the official text

I think it’s more likely that somebody casted the blue one, it got removed, and they were like “hey why don’t we add a “when it enters it enters prepared”

Ward 2 for all intended purposes is like the milder of ward costs tbf

[glad peak]

I would hate to face this in the birthing ritual deck

They can reliably get to it and they just drown you in value

[sleek ferry]

They could also just add rules text to the prepare key word that state that for a creature to be prepared, it must be casted

[golden plover]

I mean the easiest solution is to only let you use it once, regardless of it it resolved

[glad peak]

It would but it wouldn’t keep the “counterspells feel bad so we give you the point back” thing they seem to have purposefully added

[golden plover]

Who cares, get countered

[glad peak]

That’s what I’m saying

https://tenor.com/view/congratulations-played-way-to-go-gif-20642385

[trail anvil]

legendary bird skeleton warlock
👀

[tardy echo]

I wonder what the returning mechanic from plane rerun is

Maybe bargain?

Thematically doesn’t really fit w the set but mechanically it would be v cool

Watch it be a ravnica mechanic

[gritty nest]

Have you guys seen the Strixhaven card with ancestral recall on it

[trail anvil]

yeah it was posted earlier

[copper pecan]

it's converge, they spoiled it earlier

[tardy echo]

Wait what set is converge from

[copper pecan]

battle for zendikar

[knotty ferry]

I'm watching totalitarian community college

I'm gonna become an mtg god

[tardy echo]

Oh wtf I thought it was older than that

[knotty ferry]

Yo with the new set coming out, what rotates out of standard?

[copper pecan]

nothing

rotation only happens once a year

[knotty ferry]

Oh good

Wait when

[past socket]

Towards August iirc?

[copper pecan]

new years

they changed it starting with this year

[sleek ferry]

Early 2027, no exact date set

[knotty ferry]

Ok

Good

[sleek ferry]

We know the sets rotating out though

[tardy echo]

It’s everything older than bloomburrow right

Or is bloom also rotating

[sleek ferry]

Bloom is rotating

Wilds of Eldraine (WOE)
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
The Big Score
Bloomburrow (BLB)
Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK

So we lose half the verges

Cavern of souls

Mistrise village

[tardy echo]

Wait wtf duskmourn is leaving

[sleek ferry]

Yes

[tardy echo]

Before I got to cash in my enduring vitalities…

[sleek ferry]

Duskmourn came out in late 2024, so it’s technically getting the least amount of time in the meta

[tardy echo]

Extremely unfortunate for such a sick set

[past socket]

o7 Duskmourn

[tardy echo]

Overlords were one of my favorite cycles in a v long time

Tbf we still have like 9 months

[sleek ferry]

Overlords were indeed the coolest

[past socket]

Loved the ones I’ve played with

Particularly Hauntwoods and Mistmoors

[tardy echo]

Imagine a world where overlords were legendary

[past socket]

g and w respectively

I will make Mistmoors a bloons all the same

[copper pecan]

shout out to my ride or die oomfie overlord of the hauntwoods

[tardy echo]

Hauntwoods was just so zucking cool

[past socket]

I just overall understand them as Titan that can be casted earlier

[twilit canyon]

hauntwoods one of the all time green cards ever maybe

[past socket]

at the cost of not getting to swing with it for a few turns

[tardy echo]

Far worse card than titan

[twilit canyon]

in terms of balance, utility, viability, fun...

i can think of a few others

[past socket]

I’m not saying they’re better or worse

[tardy echo]

Card just works on a v diff axis

[past socket]

I just know they’re similar with some differences

[tardy echo]

Part of why titan is the way it is is bc it grabs utility lands

[past socket]

I mean the Titan cycle premise itself

Enter and swing, do thing

[tardy echo]

Ahh

Thought you were comparing hauntwoods to prime time specifically

[past socket]

No no

[vivid hatch]

man excluding the sea gates and FoN belcher is extraordinarily cheap

[past socket]

Not even close on that regard

[sleek ferry]

Impending was just such a beautifully done mechanic

[vivid hatch]

and thats with CT zero so free shipping

[past socket]

I was just noting the similarities of the Overlord and Titan cycle

Though is more comparable to the Escape ones ig

[tardy echo]

I hope we get it back

[past socket]

Enter n swing do thing with conditions

[tardy echo]

I also hope we revisit duskmourn

Status quo shift with multi colored overlords would be unbelievably cool

[past socket]

Valgavoth do be having some potential as an antagonistic force

[tardy echo]

Wait is foundations not rotating even though it’s 2024??

[twilit canyon]

foundation sets are there to stay for a while longer than usuap

usual

[tardy echo]

Further pushing the weekly new foundation cards…

Btw did you know rishkars expertise was in foundations @golden plover @sleek ferry

[trail anvil]

part of foundations was that it was meant to last for 5 years

for better or worse

[tardy echo]

Seeing

I mean I don’t want foundations to rotate I think it’s a sick set

Just didn’t realize

[trail anvil]

ye it's pretty nice

[tardy echo]

Ok wait actually why did I gaslight myself into thinking doomblade was in foundations

[sleek ferry]

Yeah, high key, if a new player wanted to buy a sealed product, I would tell them to open foundations

You get so many usable cards out of it

[tardy echo]

Aren’t all the current arena starter decks made out of cards only from foundations

[sleek ferry]

Idk if it’s only foundations, but mostly for sure

[tardy echo]

Not that those decks are super strong but the set is good for cutting your teeth on most types of decks

[golden plover]

Damn when did they add that one

[tardy echo]

Today (I made it up)

I’m just doing a social experiment where I see how far I can go saying “did you know x card is in foundations”

[golden plover]

That was a good pick

Totally reasonable card for that set

[trail anvil]

my favorite foundations inclusion is [[zetalpa, primal dawn]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/tdc/142/zetalpa-primal-dawn

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn <:mana6:292901508780130304><:manaw:1007102126813610074><:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible
The sky takes flight and the earth trembles.
4/8

[trail anvil]

flappy bird, the ultimate keyword soup and timmy's first bomb

[sleek ferry]

Remember that black creature that used to exile it and get all its keywords

[knotty ferry]

[[abyssal harvester]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/fdn/54/abyssal-harvester

Abyssal Harvester <:mana1:292901508373282827><:manab:292901508872273920><:manab:292901508872273920>

Creature — Demon Warlock
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.
"Till the soil, spare no soul. / Neath the darkness, nightmares grow." —Children's nursery rhyme
3/2

[knotty ferry]

This?

[trail anvil]

[[urborg scavengers]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/mat/15/urborg-scavengers

Urborg Scavengers <:mana2:292901509060886528><:manab:292901508872273920>

Creature — Spirit
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile target card from a graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
This creature has flying as long as a card exiled with it has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.
2/2

[trail anvil]

keyword soup my beloved ❤️

[tardy echo]

True, but it makes a bit less sense considering return of the wild speaker is already in the set

[subtle sierra]

mtgtop8 with the inaccurate naming again

(it's just lessons)

[subtle sierra]

nice excruciator idiot

[sleek ferry]

Btw just as a heads up

Ben Bateman talked about the AR card, and basically cleared the air and said that people should wait for the full spoilers before freaking out

He also stated he’s already seen the set, and knows how prepare works

[steady onyx]

so he said it wasnt real?

[sleek ferry]

No, the card is real

[tardy echo]

I mean did ppl actually think you’d ever be able to just cast 5 copies of recall at once

[golden plover]

Yeah surely they'll just say 0 errata the mechanic

The card is strong but fair if the mechanic works how it's intended and not works as the rules say

[sleek ferry]

I mean I don't think it would be an errata at all, I just think people spread a fake effect on how prepare works

It literally made 0 sense for it to work on resolution

[tardy echo]

Yeah for the record we still haven’t actually seen printed rules text

[fallow citrus]

I think it works how it's written it's just the rules will say you can only cast a prepared spell once or smth

[sleek ferry]

Or, it could require to tap the creature

[fallow citrus]

there will be something

they aren't just letting you AR 5 times in one turn

[subtle sierra]

but what if they do

[fallow citrus]

then I would be bemused

would actually be funny in mill

in your opponent's upkeep just make them draw like 15 cards so they deck out

[golden plover]

It can also be the second funniest response to thoracle

The funniest is still cedh all star [[Angel's Grace]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/tsr/4/angels-grace

Angel's Grace <:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Instant
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

[golden plover]

"Whoops sorry your Thoracle loses you the game"

[fallow citrus]

has this been posted yet

seems really good for a 2 mana charm

[subtle sierra]

this is insane

[knotty ferry]

holy shit

Why couldn't I have been born the son of an oil baron

[tardy echo]

The prismari one is gonna be expressive iteration trust

[lusty trench]

Its 25 bucks

[atomic harness]

close enough welcome back vanishing verse

[knotty ferry]

25 bucks is a lot for a guy like me

Word me @sleek ferry

[sleek ferry]

word

[glad peak]

Huh I found Ben Bateman’s editor at locals

[sleek ferry]

tell him Ben is the GOAT

[glad peak]

All he said was that the card was real and there’s a lot of cool things you can do with prepare, nothing else

I did

[tardy echo]

Well yeah prepare seems like a sick mechanic

Maybe controversial opinion but as strong as the AR card is idt it’s still incredibly cool

[glad peak]

Tbh I think the current text we have is a a mistranslation

Translations are notoriously bad at getting exact wordings right

[sleek ferry]

Mistranslation from the English tcg

[tardy echo]

I mean again have we actually seen a card with prepare rules text

[copper pecan]

no

[sleek ferry]

No, hence why I think the most likely scenario is people made up the rules text that everybody is floating around

[copper pecan]

i think people should probably wait until we have actual confirmation of what it does before we start trying to evaluate the mechanic

[tardy echo]

Yeah

Someone just posted a rules text that for all we know literally doesn’t exist and then everyone started freaking out about it

Imagine if we got a leaked speed card and everyone just pretended it went up whenever any player took damage anytime ever

[glad peak]

I mean, that’s what we thought was going on when we first read it

[tardy echo]

And look how speed turned out

[glad peak]

I also found something that’s apparently supposed to be from the mechanic explanation article that says preparation disappears on cast but of course nothing concrete yet

[tardy echo]

Yeah how about we wait until we actually get an explanation from wotc

[glad peak]

You saying you’ve never engaged in speculation?

But yeah it’s pretty fun to think about if they really did mess that text up

[tardy echo]

There’s a difference between engaging in speculation and the level of dooming occurring in chat yesterday

[tardy echo]

Reanimator best deck in legacy again

[glad peak]

I wish

Reanimator’s fun but the problem isnt the outlet, it’s the enabler

[tardy echo]

If u make a strong enough outlet the inconsistency of the enabler can be alleviated

See goryos

Not exactly the most consistent deck

[glad peak]

Legacy already has the best outlet

Just not a fast enough enabler

[tardy echo]

Sigh son why griselbrand when I can cast 10 ancestral recalls and deck my opponent

[glad peak]

With what mana

[tardy echo]

I cast blue ritual

gg

[glad peak]

[tardy echo]

Question btw

Can beseech cast suspend cards

Or no

[copper pecan]

it can

[glad peak]

Yes

[tardy echo]

Ok I’m seeing now

I was trying to figure out how the 5c storm deck in legacy cast will

[golden plover]

@subtle sierra have we considered esper otters

For [[Unholy Annex]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/dsk/118/unholy-annex-ritual-chamber

Unholy Annex <:mana2:292901509060886528><:manab:292901508872273920>

Enchantment — Room
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. If you control a Demon, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Otherwise, you lose 2 life.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Ritual Chamber
Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, create a 6/6 black Demon creature token with flying.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

[subtle sierra]

I mean, kinda

Idk if it's worth

[golden plover]

Yeah I don't think it's a good idea

But it's an option

[fallow citrus]

me when I need to make aggro better

[tardy echo]

We’re 2 for 2 with good charms

Which one do we think is gonna be unplayable dogshit

[fallow citrus]

uhh

selesnya

[zinc shard]

Think this was leaked already but just in case

[tardy echo]

Is there selesnya in strixhaven

[glad peak]

Probably izzet

[tardy echo]

My bet was gonna be simic

[glad peak]

Red blue has usually been the dumping ground for cycles

[fallow citrus]

nah izzet will be expressive iteration 2

[tardy echo]

The golgari charm is gonna be greater good/doomblade/regrowth on a charm

[glad peak]

Izzet’s will probably just do something to enable big spells

[tardy echo]

Is prismari a big spell theme

[glad peak]

Yep

It’s an on cast + if 5+ mana then do something more

[tardy echo]

Wao

Oh some other strixhaven cards got revealed that weren’t posted in here

1W 2/2 1 mana sac destroy artifact/enchantment

[subtle sierra]

Does it have flash

Cause this just worse cathar

[sudden lava]

No

Izzet (Prismari), Boros (Lorehold), Golgari (Witherbloom), Simic (Quandrix), and Orzhov (Silverquil)

[tardy echo]

Lifelink

I forgor to say

[sudden lava]

Calling it now, prismari charm is gonna make a treasure

[subtle sierra]

I feel like this doesn't make it better than cathar still

Or farm animals for that matter

[tardy echo]

I mean it’s just a slop card that they print every so often

White card that sacs to kill artifact is semi classic draft chaff

[subtle sierra]

True

[copper pecan]

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zughd6zdycmykb3gyr7cg7bq/post/3mhy2ph5l2222

Dana Roach (@danaroach.bsky.social)

At long last Torment of Hailfire and Exsanguinate will be playable.

Bluesky · Mar 26, 2026, 4:49 PM

[golden plover]

Please WoTC accidentally put Dualcaster mage into Strixhaven. It'd be so funny. Y'all gave up on pioneer anyways

[sudden lava]

oh that, that can be scary

[tardy echo]

This card is hype sorry

This might actually make me play commander…

[glad peak]

Card’s meh

Yet another gaea’s cradle double dipper

Who could’ve thought cradle was a good card

[fallow citrus]

affinity for creatures....

[tardy echo]

Idc about how good or bad it is it’s sick

[glad peak]

Not talking about how good it is

I’m talking about design

It’s yet another card that’s in that line of text

[knotty ferry]

Isn't this broken with like a token spam deck

[tardy echo]

Sigh I think it’s sick

Green cheat card that lets you cheat spells and not just creatures is a weirdly uncommon thing

It’s also why teval is so cool even if it’s also silly

[glad peak]

any green commander is broken in a token spam deck

[tardy echo]

Any green commander is broken* fixed that for you

[glad peak]

That’s why gaea’s cradle is so good

Nah, there’s a ton of shitters in green

[tardy echo]

In standard it’s almost certainly not very strong because you need to jump through a lot of hoops to stick something like that in the first place

[glad peak]

Lot of green commanders read insane but do jack

[tardy echo]

Even the worst green commander is better than the best red commander

[glad peak]

[tardy echo]

My goat kamal fist of krosa

Animate every land my opponent has then I ezuris predation gg

[glad peak]

Rograhk solos everyone

[tardy echo]

Nuh uh

[glad peak]

You won’t get a chance to do any of that when you see poggy roggy on the top ropes

[tardy echo]

How many natural order effects does green have in commander btw

[glad peak]

The first witherbloom was pretty funny but bad colors

[twilit canyon]

uh

i knew before

but how many are actually worth playing?

idr that

[tardy echo]

Idk

How many are unconditional

Is it literally just natural order

I’m just wondering if there’s ever an angle where u play this in 99 over command zone bc you could cheat it faster

[glad peak]

Unconditional? 2

Natural order and Magus of the order

There’s stuff like green sun’s and chord but those require tons of mana

There’s pod effects too but bro’s 8 mana

So funny enough, best deck to put this in the 99 of is… poggy roggy reyhan

[knotty ferry]

Oh it's a commander card? Nvm I'm out

[tardy echo]

It’s not a commander card

[glad peak]

It’s a commander card let’s be honest

[tardy echo]

But it’s probably only gonna be played in commander

[glad peak]

They’ve been shoving in cards designed and tested only for commander into standard for about a decade now

[tardy echo]

It’s a card designed for commander but is not literally a commander card

[glad peak]

Indeed

Wish they made all the commander designed cards bad

Don’t want more instances of nadu hogaak uro

[tardy echo]

Is hogaak even a commander card that’s just a them thing

[twilit canyon]

hogaak was probably not intended for commander imo

that card was way too pushed to have been imo

[glad peak]

Weird mishmash of keywords with restriction is commander design but that was also the set of weird mishmashing of mechanics so who knows

[golden plover]

Iirc they did outright say Hogaak was designed as a commander card

[twilit canyon]

yeah but i dont believe them lol

[golden plover]

Because it cheats it's commander tax

[tardy echo]

Idk hogaak feels like a card designed too much w having multiples of cards

[golden plover]

Like I think that was explicitly the reason it was made that way

[glad peak]

I think hogaak was designed specifically without testing for multiples of cards

Because if they did then they would’ve realized it was too consistent

[copper pecan]

iirc they did playtest it for modern but the people they brought in to playtest it didn't know about other non mh1 sets that weren't out yet so they weren't aware of [[sticher's supplier]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/tdc/196/stitchers-supplier

Stitcher's Supplier <:manab:292901508872273920>

Creature — Zombie
When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
No part goes to waste.
1/1

[copper pecan]

which was what really broke hogaak

[past socket]

I’m really happy with a Golgari Magnus the Red for the new Witherbloom

[zinc shard]

https://commandersherald.com/spelltable-ai-voice-mod-kills-itself-after-one-11-hour-cedh-game/

[subtle sierra]

[glad peak]

Cedh is doing great things now for us I guess

[tardy echo]

Rare example where the article is funnier than the headline

[glad peak]

It would’ve been funnier if it was quad etali or quad Rog thras

[past socket]

Commanders Herald tends to deliver on good satire

[zinc shard]

These all seem pretty nutty

[fallow citrus]

yeah I don't actually think there's a bad one this cycle

[twilit canyon]

these are p strong wow

[subtle sierra]

i wish prismari could do 2 to 1 target but yeah

you know what's the best thing

[glad peak]

Oh sick the prismari one isnt trash

[subtle sierra]

i play 5c

so i can play all of them

(terrible idea)

[twilit canyon]

never underestimate a fork

not fucking fork

lol

[glad peak]

Theyre great to get a stab at

[glad peak]

I wouldn’t either, I don’t blame you

[knotty ferry]

Do charms do anything special

Like does the name charm mean anythig

[glad peak]

No theyre just charming

[subtle sierra]

it's like pot of X

[knotty ferry]

Ok so it's just an enchantment like any other

[subtle sierra]

an old cycle of cards

[knotty ferry]

I see

[subtle sierra]

instant

[knotty ferry]

Oh

Yeah

True

[fallow citrus]

which one started the cycle originally

was it archmages

[subtle sierra]

archmage's?

[twilit canyon]

no

[subtle sierra]

i doubt it's the ravnica ones

[glad peak]

Charming prince isn’t an instant

[twilit canyon]

archmage's charm is relatively new

[knotty ferry]

Based on my limited knowledge, these seem really flexible

[twilit canyon]

ye

that is the point of charms

[glad peak]

It was the 3c dragon charms

[twilit canyon]

[[piracy charm]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/tsr/78/piracy-charm

Piracy Charm <:manau:292901508754702338>

Instant
Choose one —
• Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
• Target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn.
• Target player discards a card.

[glad peak]

Archmage’s charm is hella new wtf

Oh right I forgot about 1 mana charms

[trail anvil]

I feel like these are stronger than the other two

[twilit canyon]

[[chaos charm]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/mir/163/chaos-charm

Chaos Charm <:manar:292901508796645397>

Instant
Choose one —
• Destroy target Wall.
• Chaos Charm deals 1 damage to target creature.
• Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

[twilit canyon]

[[ebony charm]] iirc?

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/mir/120/ebony-charm

Ebony Charm <:manab:292901508872273920>

Instant
Choose one —
• Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
• Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
• Target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

[twilit canyon]

i have no fucking idea what the white one was called

[glad peak]

[[Dawn charm]] I think?

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/371/dawn-charm

Dawn Charm <:mana1:292901508373282827><:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Instant
Choose one —
• Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
• Regenerate target creature.
• Counter target spell that targets you.

[subtle sierra]

sorted by release

[twilit canyon]

hmmmm

oh cool

[subtle sierra]

ivory

[twilit canyon]

ivory

wtf

[glad peak]

Oh I wasn’t even close

[subtle sierra]

https://scryfall.com/search?q=charm&order=released&dir=asc anyways if you want the link

[twilit canyon]

that wasnt even terrible ig the others were just way more notable

[glad peak]

The white black charm is very very good

[twilit canyon]

but yeah they only started becoming better come ravnica

boros charm my goat

[glad peak]

Not good enough to make a deck out of though, so likely no deck will play the silverquill one

[trail anvil]

agreed oomfie

[glad peak]

Until white black gets more decks

[trail anvil]

this card is hype

[glad peak]

Boros charm my favorite

[subtle sierra]

boros charm my hated

[glad peak]

The commands are a fun cycle

Instants where you choose 2 modes

[trail anvil]

why do you hate boros charm

[twilit canyon]

control player

[subtle sierra]

i hate aggro

yeah

[glad peak]

But ye [[charming prince]] is a charm and isnt an instant

[trail anvil]

so one-track smh

[subtle sierra]

my friend doesn't call me a control addict for nothing

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/fdn/568/charming-prince

Charming Prince <:mana1:292901508373282827><:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Creature — Human Noble
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Scry 2.
• You gain 3 life.
• Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
2/2

[twilit canyon]

neither is [[charming scoundrel]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/woe/124/charming-scoundrel

Charming Scoundrel <:mana1:292901508373282827><:manar:292901508796645397>

Creature — Human Rogue
Haste
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Discard a card, then draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Create a Wicked Role token attached to target creature you control.
1/1

[glad peak]

Control players are much more one track minded and less disciplined than aggro players from what I’ve seen

[subtle sierra]

look i didn't filter by instant, guess i die

[trail anvil]

wait that's so silly

[glad peak]

Helps when your deck is designed to pull you back into the game at all times

[trail anvil]

that was intentional though no? by wizards

[twilit canyon]

correct

on both fronts

[subtle sierra]

look i just wanna have 50 life with cornucopia

[glad peak]

Yep the Prince and scoundrel are intentional

[twilit canyon]

it is also really annoying how they have added charm or charming to cards and not given them 3 abilities at least

like at least [[obsidian charmaw]] has 3 lines of text

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/137/obsidian-charmaw

Obsidian Charmaw <:mana3:292901508771610624><:manar:292901508796645397><:manar:292901508796645397>

Creature — Dragon
This spell costs less to cast for each land your opponents control that could produce .
Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls.
4/4

[twilit canyon]

why couldnt eriette of the charmed apple also have 3 abilities

[subtle sierra]

because the she does, the card is the apple, so it doesn't

duh

[trail anvil]

yeah or goblin charmbelcher!

[subtle sierra]

i fucked up that joke

kill me

[trail anvil]

okay

[subtle sierra]

[glad peak]

Stop gaining life then

[subtle sierra]

no

[twilit canyon]

thats not how that card's called

[trail anvil]

this beledros is actually something I need yesterday though

[subtle sierra]

it's called mind goblin

[trail anvil]

genuinely went from the worst elder dragon in the first set to the best in this one

I don't need to see the rest to know

[glad peak]

Nah, we saw lorehold

Easily much better

[subtle sierra]

lorehold is almost a 5 mana do nothing

[trail anvil]

miracle with drawing each turn is cute but eh

[subtle sierra]

idk if i like him

[glad peak]

Kinda funny how lorehold continues to be a turns based card with no blue

[twilit canyon]

you will play jeskai

and you wont play commander unless you really like sundial of the infinite

[glad peak]

Finally a card built with commander not on their mind

Huh wtf?
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/7692682#paper

[twilit canyon]

we need to kill eldrazi players

[glad peak]

we need to kill energy players

[subtle sierra]

ptcg players in shambles

[glad peak]

After they went down the wrong path of how handtraps should work, they deserve it

[subtle sierra]

how do they work there

[glad peak]

They don’t anymore

But for a bit there were 2 cards, one of them being veiler

And that was too much for them and the community outcry forced them to never touch that design space ever again

At the same time yugioh was experimenting with veiler

[zinc shard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65N1QuzOkM

[trail anvil]

Josh really does love his shorikai

[glad peak]

Shorikai’s a fun deck, don’t blame him

Even more fun with fiddlebender and emry and sewer cam

[tardy echo]

Wait I was almost right…

Its village rites (almost greater good trust) and sort of a doomblade (better than doom blade probably trust)

Just not a regrowth sighge

2 mana gain 5 is like actually good rate for a charm though no

[glad peak]

Ehh for a charm with a lot more flexibility? Sure

[tardy echo]

All of these charms are pretty decent idk

Esp compared to the ones standard has been getting for a while

[glad peak]

Boros charm would be the worst of these 5 from the looks of it

[zinc shard]

Lets all play slivers and not tell Josh

[tardy echo]

Yeah and it still seems pretty good all things considered idk

[glad peak]

The weakness of boros charm is that the first mode is pretty bad, second mode is very niche and/or hard to set up, third mode is good but nowhere near enough to carry

I think it’s mostly fine?

[trail anvil]

wait is beledros standard playable?

elf into cub into some revolting discounts

[glad peak]

It would be but I’m not too sure about using all my ramp to get a guy where all he does is ramp

But there’s enough gsz effects now that maybe?

[trail anvil]

rhythm into hoof?

[glad peak]

Why do I need beledros for that

Now if you had said rhythm rhythm double hoof then now we’re talking

[trail anvil]

true!

your new hoof discounts the next rhythm by 1 too lul

[glad peak]

So my friend who’s obsessed with red built mono red in modern

Bad news is I have to tell him his deck’s illegal

[twilit canyon]

fury?

[glad peak]

Chain lightning and fireblast and price of progress are not legal

[twilit canyon]

holy

[glad peak]

Yeah I know

[twilit canyon]

that is a significantly more unreasonable set of adds (not chain)

[glad peak]

And then he starts whining (yes actually)

Love the guy but no mono red doesn’t have to be good everywhere

[past socket]

Eyy Satya!

[fallow citrus]

and bait used to be believable

[glad peak]

Yeah it’s not real

[past socket]

font’s off

[glad peak]

If it were real then it would’ve been a legendary creature and had an activated ability for 2 mana to prepare it

[fallow citrus]

nearly all the replies think it's real it's quite entertaining

[tardy echo]

Charms are basically meant to be slightly underpowered effects for the cost supplemented by having the choice between multiple different effects

[past socket]

Leave it to X, the disinformation app!

[tardy echo]

This definitely looks real trust

[past socket]

Can’t believe I noticed the font on the bottom instantly

[fallow citrus]

it's so obvious

also it uses the art from [[thopter pie network]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/hho/16/thopter-pie-network

Thopter Pie Network <:mana2:292901509060886528><:manau:292901508754702338><:manau:292901508754702338>

Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you're eating, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Use food to represent the token.
Whenever a creature token you control dies, if it's represented by food, eat it.
They all thought her dream was just pie in the sky.

[tardy echo]

It’s also carrying a literal black lotus card

Anyways this card is the buff affinity needs to be playable in modern word me @fallow citrus

[fallow citrus]

[past socket]

Can we have more joybaiting instead of ragebaiting

[fallow citrus]

don't even think this is ragebaiting

[past socket]

It’s ragebaiting for the purposes of farming engagement because a certain ket fiend thought rewarding engagement bait was a good idea

[fallow citrus]

so it's just engagement farming

[past socket]

And outrage is what gets the most engagement

[sleek ferry]

Some small pickups

[fallow citrus]

expedition fetch sheesh

[sleek ferry]

Best fetches with the best border

[knotty ferry]

WE ARE COOKING

[knotty ferry]

Do you guys have any recs for YouTube channels to watch for learning the game/explaining strategy past the basics?

I'm watching some totalitarian community college videos but was wondering if there's anything else

And for standard, not commander

[fallow citrus]

uhh

not standard but andrea mengucci is an amazing competitive player for explaining his thought processes etc

he does modern pauper legacy etc

[stark skiff]

https://preview.redd.it/pax-east-is-so-salty-v0-an5y3fwdoerg1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=36f0b980d5d7e7d009512587c4e428de88a93f2d

[fallow citrus]

depends if you appreciate just good game sense or format dependent knowledge

[twilit canyon]

jim davis is a fantastic player who explains a ton of good details about actually playing the game

[knotty ferry]

Ok ty

I'll check out both

[sleek ferry]

CGB will show you a bunch of different standard Strats to try + he’s entertaining

He also competed in the first PT Reid Duke ever went to

[knotty ferry]

Lol

Ok

@sleek ferry is cgb canadian

[glad peak]

So I’m wrong, the boros one is actually insane

Easily the best

[sleek ferry]

I don’t think so? Pretty sure he lives in the Midwest

[knotty ferry]

Michigan so basically canadian

Interesting

Im watching one of his vids, it's pretty good

Dimir control with Sean Washington, librarian

[sleek ferry]

In terms of being entertaining he’s top notch. He’s also a pretty good standard player

If you want to learn how to get better at draft, than Kenji is far and away the best for that on YouTube

[tardy echo]

What led to this change of heart

[atomic harness]

gamers

[tardy echo]

Does it start with an R and end with an ogakh

[atomic harness]

isn't this insane

1st and 2nd modes are cracked

[fallow citrus]

probably the least insane one but still good yeah

[tardy echo]

Idk boros is prob worse than this one

[atomic harness]

Can someone pull up voros and silverquil (orzhov)

[tardy echo]

The fact that this is just an actual quench and not specific to noncreature or whatever

[fallow citrus]

the boros twins

[glad peak]

No one here plays modern

[atomic harness]

Yeah it hits creatures

[glad peak]

Boros energy

[atomic harness]

I used to son

[fallow citrus]

it's like 1 or 2 of in energy

[atomic harness]

but then they banned fury and grief

icant

[tardy echo]

Boros is edict for artifacts helping hand or +1/1 trample board

[glad peak]

Compared to a 0 of for the other charms

[fallow citrus]

the best thing it does in energy is out scion of draco lowkey

[tardy echo]

Orzhov is uh

[atomic harness]

@twilit canyon

[tardy echo]

Drain 3 kill nonland <2 and +2/2

[glad peak]

The best thing it does is buy back ajani

[atomic harness]

Silverquil was good when I read it iirc

[fallow citrus]

yeah if we're talking peak value sure

[tardy echo]

Well yeah in modern the boros card is gonna be good

[atomic harness]

it was like vanishing verse at home

speaking of which can we have vanishing verse back

[glad peak]

And then if you have some creatures it’s a win

[atomic harness]

[[vanishing verse]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/stx/244/vanishing-verse

Vanishing Verse <:manaw:1007102126813610074><:manab:292901508872273920>

Instant
Exile target monocolored permanent.
"Whoever summoned that thing had better confess right this moment, or the whole class will be cleaning the ink receptacles for a month!"

[fallow citrus]

it just does everything boros wants in a niche card

all of those modes will be used

[atomic harness]

little mudkip we can blow up rhystic with this one...

[glad peak]

Imagine wanting to blow up rhystic in a blue green x deck

In what world does rhystic hurt you when you’re play Rog thras or kinnan

[atomic harness]

Hmm what do we blow up with it then

[[quench]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/rvr/56/quench

Quench <:mana1:292901508373282827><:manau:292901508754702338>

Instant
Counter target spell unless its controller pays .
"When properly invoked, the plasma globule encloses the offensive spell with a satisfying slurp."

[knotty ferry]

Ok in this video I'm watching, cgb's opponent keeps summoning [[restless reef]], and cgb says he's doing this because he has a restless reef in hand and wants to clear it. Why would you want to do this? Can you not have multiple restless reefs?

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/lci/282/restless-reef

Restless Reef

Land
This land enters tapped.
: Add or .
: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, target player mills four cards.

[knotty ferry]

Actually let me just link it

https://youtu.be/i0ca8nkTxhs?si=QyE1BtCC4ZBpV8h0

From 7:32 to like 8:05

[copper pecan]

idk what he's talking about, you can have multiple reefs

[knotty ferry]

He says it's to "unlock" the reef in his hand

Does unlock mean something in mtg

[copper pecan]

no

well it does but it wouldn't make sense in the context of reef

[glad peak]

Why do you need to

[copper pecan]

unlock is when you cast a room from the battlefield

[atomic harness]

Might come up

but no yeah the first mode is probably the best one

quench-sama...

[sleek ferry]

When he said unlock, he meant that demolition field was basically making his first reef useless, so he wanted to guarantee that CGB would use demo field before playing the 2nd reef

[knotty ferry]

ok

makes sense ig

[sleek ferry]

Think about it this way, you’re playing a deck where reef is a critical part of your wincon, you’re vsing another blue/black deck, so you know it’s extremely likely that they have removal + you already know about the demo field. As the opposing player in this matchup, using demo is the best way to maximize your resources here

[knotty ferry]

As in, it's correct for cgb to use demo to pop the reefM

?

[sleek ferry]

Considering his hand, and the info he has available? Yes

[knotty ferry]

Yeah

That makes sense to me

From the perspective of his opp, he wants to force out the demolition field and there's no reason to show info before doing that

So it makes sense

Cool

[tardy echo]

I didn’t watch so I don’t have context but it probably has to do with taplands

Sometimes you play taps on weird turns or at times when it’ll feel bad so that you have less odd mana later

Otherwise if I have 2/3x reefs in my hand it’ll feel like dogshit if I play all my untapped lands and then I’m basically 1-2 land drops behind in terms of actual mana

Oh it was something else thugs explained

[atomic harness]

How good is imposter mech? @glad peak

[[imposter mech]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/nec/13/imposter-mech

Imposter Mech <:mana1:292901508373282827><:manau:292901508754702338>

Artifact — Vehicle
You may have this Vehicle enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it's a Vehicle artifact with crew 3 and it loses all other card types.
Crew 3
The best way to fight evil is with its own weapons.
3/1

[knotty ferry]

ok that wasnt it but what you said makes sense in other context

[copper pecan]

when the mecha is sus

🧯

[knotty ferry]

.

[tardy echo]

Yeah ordering taplands can be sort of difficult for a lot of ppl to figure out

It depends on the deck/mu/hand everything

[glad peak]

Imposter Mech is only good if you’re running all the other clones and want one more like in kinnan

[sleek ferry]

Imposter mech is better than fucking what’s it called

Flesh duplicate

It’s also good if you play a deck that can win with devoted druid

[glad peak]

Not in kinnan it’s not

But also mech being good with Druid isnt really that big of a deal ngl (mostly because no one plays that line nowadays)

[atomic harness]

What about phyrexian metamorph chan

[glad peak]

Better than mech and flesh

Being able to snipe an artifact is good

[atomic harness]

[knotty ferry]

Silver 2

Does any meta deck actually play that enchantment

That draws 1 on upkeep

At cost of life

Pyrex arena

I've faced it a few times but idk if it's just low elo/budget strats

[sleek ferry]

Phyrexia arena hasn’t been good since the stone ages

[knotty ferry]

Holy...

[past socket]

My brain jsut associates Devoted Druid with Myrkul, Lord of Bones

[knotty ferry]

Yo is there a strat against this blue red otter deck

I've faced it twice, I just won against it, but it feels so hard to beat

Idk how I won I think my opp messed ip

It was playing [[storm chaser talent]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/blb/75/stormchasers-talent

Stormchaser's Talent <:manau:292901508754702338>

Enchantment — Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When this Class enters, create a 1/1 blue and red Otter creature token with prowess.
: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
: Level 3
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue and red Otter creature token with prowess.

[knotty ferry]

To summon guys

And then this equipment creature summoning card

Astrology something

[subtle sierra]

Ok so planisphere sucks, but stormchasers is just a meta card

[knotty ferry]

I can't interact with artifacts or enchantments so I feel like I have to just use my removal on the tokens? Idk if theres anything better

[subtle sierra]

You have to remove the tokens

[knotty ferry]

That feels so bad

Holy

Oh they also had a planeswalker

That summoned guys

Idk if that's normal

[subtle sierra]

The problem is, once they have boomerang and 6 mana, they can look stormchasers

Walkers summoning guys is incredibly common

[knotty ferry]

I mean the specific one

I forgot the name

[subtle sierra]

Give me the colors

And mana cost

[knotty ferry]

His deck was blue red

The Planeswalker went +1

[subtle sierra]

[[ral crackling]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/blb/230/ral-crackling-wit

Ral, Crackling Wit <:mana2:292901509060886528><:manau:292901508754702338><:manar:292901508796645397>

Legendary Planeswalker — Ral
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a loyalty counter on Ral.
+1: Create a 1/1 blue and red Otter creature token with prowess.
−3: Draw three cards, then discard two cards.
−10: Draw three cards. You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery spells you cast have storm." (Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
Loyalty: 4

[knotty ferry]

To summon

Yeah him

[subtle sierra]

Ral is a good card, you just need walker removal

[knotty ferry]

The only card I have for planeswalkers is uhhh

[subtle sierra]

For dimir that's [[bitter triumph]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/tdc/173/bitter-triumph

Bitter Triumph <:mana1:292901508373282827><:manab:292901508872273920>

Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Though he wept at Inti's death, Caparocti's eyes were keen, and his spear pierced cleanly through Clavileño's tainted heart.

[knotty ferry]

Bitter triumph?

Yeah

That

[past socket]

Even more Dimir bros in this forum lol

[glad peak]

There’s a lot of ways to win around it

Chief of which is to just kill them before they can really get value

[subtle sierra]

Thank you wotc for your functional app

[subtle sierra]

Lmao i got kicked out of a game, rejoined and

Game got a bit funky

The corrupted battlefield...

[atomic harness]

There's a better one

[[unholy annex]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/dsk/118/unholy-annex-ritual-chamber

Unholy Annex <:mana2:292901509060886528><:manab:292901508872273920>

Enchantment — Room
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. If you control a Demon, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Otherwise, you lose 2 life.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Ritual Chamber
Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, create a 6/6 black Demon creature token with flying.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

[atomic harness]

You gain life your opp gets burned and you get the cards faster

And you can cash in a big chungus

[trail anvil]

used to be all over standard

[atomic harness]

What happened

is it unviable now

[trail anvil]

I think standard is too fast for it

[atomic harness]

True...

[trail anvil]

the format used to be dimir midrange's playground but now you have fast decks instead

[twilit canyon]

annex is great but yea standard aggro is good

u never wanna be stuck in a spot where your annex will just kill you due to the opponent's aggro

[trail anvil]

I'm kinda sad cause all the cards I crafted for standard a few months ago have gone out of favor 😭

[subtle sierra]

New account time

[trail anvil]

I play non-rotating formats, nothx

[sleek ferry]

Alright this was a good tweet https://fxtwitter.com/maetcg/status/2037210520927817849?s=46&t=DdUsqNPs-c3IFDRYOhiq8A

Mae (@MaeTcg)

Is this what cedh is like?

Quoting adult swim (@adultswim)
︀
Should have rolled a 3 #smilingfriends #adultswim

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[knotty ferry]

wow

i just played vs the most aids deck

and ofc its white

summons a bunch of tokens and copies them

summoned a knight with vigilance

IM HARDSTUCK SILVER 2

[subtle sierra]

can arena not break on me 3 times a day

[golden plover]

Mood. Lost a game because it crashed and by the time I was back, they got 2 free turns

Oh and now mine isn't working at all because I closed it lol

[subtle sierra]

yeah arena is down

[tardy echo]

The closest in standard you see is [[unholy annex]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/dsk/118/unholy-annex-ritual-chamber

Unholy Annex <:mana2:292901509060886528><:manab:292901508872273920>

Enchantment — Room
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. If you control a Demon, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Otherwise, you lose 2 life.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Ritual Chamber
Enchantment — Room
When you unlock this door, create a 6/6 black Demon creature token with flying.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

[tardy echo]

Which is actually a v good card

[golden plover]

Phyrexian Arena is in fact standard legal

But... It's bad

They patched it into foundations

[tardy echo]

No I know

That wasn’t patched it was an og for me

I just mean the closest card you’ll see in standard

Other formats have different, better phyrexian arenas

[golden plover]

Actually I think it was a buy a box promo too for foundations

Yeah that card has been there the whole time

[tardy echo]

The actual wtf is this card doing in standard one for me is confidant

And that’s not even foundations

[golden plover]

Notably he's a wizard

Meaning he might be relevant for the Strixhaven wizard support

[tardy echo]

Syncopate was also in final fantasy what’s up w that

I knew there was a counterspell I was forgetting that got reprinted

[knotty ferry]

Is this real or cooe

Cope

[sleek ferry]

Maybe at lower ranks?

[golden plover]

This is totally cope

[sleek ferry]

I've literally never had this in mythic

[golden plover]

It can feel that way sometimes

But it's not real lol

[knotty ferry]

Sigh

Cgb viewers are troll

[sleek ferry]

I mean you have to remember

The average viewer is bad at the game

You are blessed to have people like me, Saint and Misty here to lead you to the light

[copper pecan]

this is just straight up wrong

the only format that has anything even remotely like this is brawl and that pretty much only takes the commander into account

no ranked queues have anything like that

[golden plover]

Doesn't it have a "deck value total thing too"?

Iirc brawl has a bunch of cards with hidden point scores that push you up and down tiers

[copper pecan]

it used to but iirc they lowered it so much that it effectively doesn't matter

[golden plover]

Gotcha. I know it used to have some crazy stuff like fetches adding 50 points and Mox Amber adding 100

[sleek ferry]

Sol ring + 500 points

[golden plover]

Sol Ring isn't in brawl

But it'd be funny to add it and have it immediately send you to hell queue

[tardy echo]

It does fake brackets I’m p sure

[sleek ferry]

https://fxtwitter.com/starcitygames/status/2037318704610828626?s=46&t=DdUsqNPs-c3IFDRYOhiq8A

Star City Games (@StarCityGames)

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I might just have to pick this up

That winter orb is sick

[tardy echo]

The crawler looks amazing

Hiding the worst fears and narset sighge

Also I like the implication that island is a salty card

(I agree)

[sleek ferry]

Well worst fears is the least playable card in here but hiding the narset is sad

[tardy echo]

It’s still a sick card son

Discount for 7 with the new witherbloom gg

[sleek ferry]

Now you’re using your noggin

[glad peak]

I’m right here

[sleek ferry]

If he wanted cube advice, maybe I would send spatula your way mud

[glad peak]

I play more formats than cube

Im not a devout standard player tho yep

[twilit canyon]

i do find it funny i got mentioned when i havent played standard in a month or so

fwiw i can dm jim and he can hook me up with standard tech and catch up quickly

[glad peak]

i only play modern recently because it's hype (other than eldrazi those variants are mid af)

actually fleshraker is one of my all time favorite cards but eldrazi as a deck is residentsleeper

[sleek ferry]

I wonder what the rare cycle for strixhaven will be

Rare land cycle*

[tardy echo]

Let’s get typed cycling lands back in standard

[knotty ferry]

silver 1

holy shit

im catching up to areo

[knotty ferry]

I just looked at the timeline for sets in 2026

Star trek? People still watch that shit?

[sleek ferry]

Star Trek has potential due to edge of eternities being so good

But I don’t really care for the medium

[knotty ferry]

What does edge of eternities have to do with star trek

Marvel is like iron man and shit right

Black panther, Paul rudd

Idk what else

[subtle sierra]

eoe is the set with spaceships

star trek has spaceships

[knotty ferry]

Oh captain america

[knotty ferry]

I see....

[golden plover]

Oh these are all gonna have the same art lol

Also why is Mind white? Feels like it should be blue

[hidden ermine]

Hmmm

No I think white makes sense

Its ultimate power is linking all minds into one, and beyond that its basically allowing your inherent powers to be amplified or for you to gain telekinesis and telepathy, improved by the strength of your soul

Telepathy is the only part thats like, clearly blue

[golden plover]

Blue is almost always the mental color

I guess Space is blue then?

[hidden ermine]

Probably

Green is Power, Red is Time, and Reality is ?

[twilit canyon]

that

hmmmm

reality would fit white too

[hidden ermine]

Reality I feel is too broad and too generally powerful to really work for a single colour

[twilit canyon]

you toss it as the special stone as wurbg

lol

[hidden ermine]

Either that

[golden plover]

One of them has to be colorless anyways

[hidden ermine]

Or it requires colourless mana

[twilit canyon]

oh actually

[golden plover]

Yeah

[twilit canyon]

good point

[golden plover]

There's 6 stones

[twilit canyon]

reality = colorless

with a 1c casting cost

[golden plover]

One has to be colorless

[twilit canyon]

i forget that you can just make a stone colorless

[hidden ermine]

Tbh part of the issue of mapping them to colours is that blue was just given "all the weird magic"

[twilit canyon]

fits eldrazi theme with reality too i guess

[hidden ermine]

So time, space, mind, all of those give powers that are represented by blue cards

[knotty ferry]

wait

[hidden ermine]

Im thinking space is blue just because no other colour really would fit space all that well

[knotty ferry]

POST MALONE owns the one ring?

WTF

[golden plover]

This is kind of an issue you get a lot in UB yeah

[copper pecan]

yeah he's a big fan of mtg

[golden plover]

Not everything can cleanly translate to 1 of 5 colors

[knotty ferry]

@sleek ferry we need to get rich

[golden plover]

So you'll see weird misses in color sometimes

[hidden ermine]

Its not even neccessarily a UB issue as much as its "early magic was not very well planned ahead" issue

[golden plover]

Yeah true. But at least in universe it's consistent at this point

[hidden ermine]

Also imagine if we get an infinity gauntlet alongside the sixth stone and its casting cost is WUBRGC

[knotty ferry]

Is this real

[subtle sierra]

yes

[sudden lava]

"erm actually the art is different because its a different stone" -

[knotty ferry]

Holy

Plows and Shareholders is the 🐐

[glad peak]

Correct

Too bad it’s not standard playable

[tardy echo]

It’s the best removal spell ever printed son

[knotty ferry]

Wait but since this is coming out, won't it be legal?

[sleek ferry]

It’s a promo

[knotty ferry]

Promos aren't legal???

[sleek ferry]

It’s a promo from PSA

[knotty ferry]

So when I did TMNT draft, I got a pack of 3 promos. Are those not usable

[sleek ferry]

For being signed up to their magazine

Those are yes

[knotty ferry]

Oh ok

Good

[glad peak]

Well

Depends

[tardy echo]

Promo prints/SL drops don’t change what formats cards are playable in

[knotty ferry]

Ok but why is it not legal in standard

Isn't standard everything released from 2024 onwards

Idk if it's 24 or 23

[tardy echo]

Swords is not printed in a standard legal set

Promos/secret lairs/anything similar do not count as actual sets

[sleek ferry]

It has to be printed in a set yeah

[tardy echo]

If swords was printed in standard right now it would probably get banned anyways lol

[knotty ferry]

Wow

Interesting...

[twilit canyon]

instant ban yeah

[copper pecan]

swords is probably the strongest single-target removal spell ever printed

there is no way they would ever print it into standard again

[glad peak]

I wouldn’t mind it coming to modern though

Solitude is so powerful because it’s free and can be repeatable

[subtle sierra]

Even heavily nerfed versions of it were meta

Lay down arms my beloved

[stark skiff]

God I hope to be able to finish this collection

[glad peak]

One day

[copper pecan]

maro fursona reveal

[atomic harness]

[[LAY DOWN ARMS]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/bro/11/lay-down-arms

Lay Down Arms <:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Sorcery
Exile target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of Plains you control. Its controller gains 3 life.
She'll swing a blade all her life, but never again for war.

[sudden lava]

https://tenor.com/view/guinea-pig-guinea-pig-peanut-peanut-pig-guinea-pig-shake-gif-27286654

[tardy echo]

For reference uh [[path to exile]] was/still is an extremely strong card

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/ecc/65/path-to-exile

Path to Exile <:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Instant
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

[tardy echo]

And as an even more extreme example as stated [[lay down arms]] was v good

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/bro/11/lay-down-arms

Lay Down Arms <:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Sorcery
Exile target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of Plains you control. Its controller gains 3 life.
She'll swing a blade all her life, but never again for war.

[trail anvil]

I miss it in monowhite

[sudden lava]

precons are on the first

[twilit canyon]

do not forget [[seam rip]] and [[portable hole]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/eoe/34/seam-rip

Seam Rip <:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value 2 or less until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
Drix hunt down Eldrazi Potentiate without hesitation or explanation.

https://scryfall.com/card/afr/33/portable-hole

Portable Hole <:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Artifact
When this artifact enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value 2 or less until this artifact leaves the battlefield.
"They fall for it every time."

[glad peak]

thinking on people building fully defensive decks in cedh now, i want to play [[marchesa, dealer of death]] because of how she and clones + obm interact together and against rhystics while allowing me to keep my own rhystics

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/otj/220/marchesa-dealer-of-death

Marchesa, Dealer of Death <:manau:292901508754702338><:manab:292901508872273920><:manar:292901508796645397>

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay . If you do, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
"You should have folded when you had the chance."
3/4

[knotty ferry]

holy fuck i got hit by this so often

[tardy echo]

And think abt how much worse it is than swords

In literally every conceivable way

[sleek ferry]

Swords only hits creatures bozo

Seam rip and portable hole are so good

[knotty ferry]

There was another enchantment I've faced a lot

It gives the creature ward

I rhink

And also exiles target permanent

And it's wh*te

Forgot the name tho

[tardy echo]

I’m not saying they aren’t good but they’re infinitely worse cards than swords lol

[tardy echo]

Sheltered by ghosts

Which is 99% of the reason nowhere to run sees play

[knotty ferry]

Yes

This one

I fucking hate that card

I've been hit by it like 30 times

[tardy echo]

It’s a v annoying card

[knotty ferry]

Holy fuck

Just played against some cancer shit

[[Clarion conqueror]]

[lost widget]

https://scryfall.com/card/tdm/5/clarion-conqueror

Clarion Conqueror <:mana2:292901509060886528><:manaw:1007102126813610074>

Creature — Dragon
Flying
Activated abilities of artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers can't be activated.
All challengers were summarily silenced.
3/3

[knotty ferry]

I got cooked

[twilit canyon]

torpor orb and its consequences have been a disaster for creature desi-

[tardy echo]

Wow! Thank god they’d never print torporb into standard again! That would be disastrous!

[subtle sierra]

White is the floodgate color

[subtle sierra]

best card in the game

[atomic harness]

@twilit canyon @glad peak I heard the cedh kids are noticing subtlety

[twilit canyon]

eh kinda

[glad peak]

Nah it’s just one more piece of free interaction in free interaction rhystic slop

[twilit canyon]

it was always a known good card just like

[glad peak]

And it’s not too hard to meet the requirements and isnt easy to bypass like daze

[twilit canyon]

if your deck needs subtlety, your deck is weird

[glad peak]

Even the rhystic slop decks don’t really run it all the time too

Speaking of, Sam black drafted up a Rog ishai deck that uses cards that discard draw on cast and kozilek to recycle the deck to keep playing with rhystics and rhystic clones

At some point you gotta win and that point’s gotta be way before that becomes relevant, no?

[atomic harness]

Idk why this stuff is so popular

[twilit canyon]

magic players love drawing cards

[atomic harness]

I think kinnan doing it is cool, the rhystic spam I mean

bc you have a lot of mana to spare unlike rogshai

And you can spin into the clones to begin w

[glad peak]

Rog gives you faster mana than kinnan

That being said I want to see if marchesa can have legs when people decide to only play these types of decks

[sleek ferry]

Kinnan has always been cool because everything he does is cool

[zinc shard]

lol

[glad peak]

i wonder what card that is

[subtle sierra]

yeah me too

[zinc shard]

Better be prepared

[glad peak]

cards don't look the same

[glad peak]

Totally a real card

[subtle sierra]

got into plat while testing simic mill

it's quite decent ig

i might get it irl

it's just a diff flavour of control

[subtle sierra]

arena is down again

yay

[knotty ferry]

[past socket]

Nice choice of Basics

[stark skiff]

Boo where’s the avatar ones

Also the ass creed ones are underrated

[subtle sierra]

i'm a basic bitch and i love the karlov ones

i just find them pretty

[copper pecan]

i like the dmu basics

[knotty ferry]

Looks like AI art

[copper pecan]

it's stained glass

[subtle sierra]

it's just a stained glass asthetic

[past socket]

Agreed on both MKM and DMU

NEO’s are amazing too

[twilit canyon]

i use the full art space basics

[trail anvil]

wym basic smh

karlov ones are just some of the best ones

[glad peak]

My favorite are the pizza lands

This message was sponsored by wotc

[sleek ferry]

I fully switched to EoE ones

[past socket]

Given the mountain especially, fair.

[glad peak]

Ok marchesa in cedh isnt good but it’s funny to punish overly rhystic brained players by playing obm and outdrawing them

[sleek ferry]

I mean the issue is that all grixis decks literally play the same aside from rog si

[sudden lava]

best plains art imo

[glad peak]

There’s 3 versions of Rog si alone

[sudden lava]

One day I gotta pick up 32 of these in foil, not expensive anyway

[glad peak]

Actually yeah almost every grixis deck plays differently but has the same plan b and c