(7-21-23) I'm too tired to make a proper question today. Tell me your favorite Magic trivia fact.

[rustic falcon]

😴

[bold pine]

Mark Poole’s art for Birds of Paradise was supposed to be the art for Volcanic Island, but the bird was too prominent so they came up with BoP to use the art anyway.

[digital violet]

Magic is Turing Complete: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828

[queen mauve]

ESPN aired coverage of world championship games from 1997-2000. Also in 2000 they covered Pro Tour New York & Chicago.

[weary saffron]

Using the standard faro shuffle method, it takes 10 shuffles for a commander deck to be considered randomized.
(3/2)log((base2)(N)) where N is the number of cards in the deck.

[midnight hill]

Shivan Gorge and Phyrexian Tower are the other two cards in the Gaea’s Cradle cycle.

[forest parrot]

Honestly based

[forest parrot]

I hate so much that this is true because specifically gorge doesn't fit AT ALL and P tower barely justifies itself

As for my favorite piece of mtg trivia... While you are controlling your opponent with Opposition Agent you have access to all the information they do including their hands...

This also means opp agent lets you control every player at once with things like [[collective voyage]]

[grim glade]

https://scryfall.com/card/c16/145/collective-voyage

Collective Voyage <:manag:292901508654301185>

Sorcery
Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches their library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

[forest parrot]

Btw Opp Agent+collective voyage is hilarious

[weary saffron]

My favorite trivia, though most people know it already, regarding the Lemure cards.
The original art by Richard Thomas was because he didn't bother to look up Lemure, thinking that it was just the little primate. Leading to what I think is one of the best series of flavor texts between reprints
[[Hyalopterous Lemure|MED]]

[grim glade]

No card found named “Hyalopterous Lemure” in Mythic Edition

[forest parrot]

You see I dont need lands anymore

[forest parrot]

Based demon monkey

[weary saffron]

It only made the flavor text that much better

[midnight hill]

As much as I’m a massive fan of phyrexian tower, it should’ve had T: Add B for each creature card in your graveyard. Shivan Gorge should’ve had T: Add R for each card you own in exile.

[bold radish]

how? you can’t respond with oppo after the players have paid mana

[forest parrot]

I'm aware it's that opp gets you multiple searches so you can use voyage and only pay 2 extra mana and no longer worry about lands

[forest parrot]

Tbh red should have been tied to damage exile doesn't make sense for at the time

[weary saffron]

I had always assumed Serra Sanctum was in the same group as Gaea's Cradle.

[midnight hill]

That and Tolarian Academy are.

[weary saffron]

A fun piece of MtG TV trivia.
On the show Blacklist, we learn that Raymond Reddington not only knows how to play magic, but is good enough to win what he terms a "high stakes" game.

A favor he later cashes in to call a drone strike on a enemy compound.