legendofa on What Does Bloomburrow Offer that …

1 hour ago

My reasons (mostly overlapping with Crow_Umbra:

1. It's not Earth-but-with-magic. I expect generic European-style high fantasy, but it's not directly 1-for-1 lifted from an existing culture.

2. Redwall was and still is one of my favorite series, and I like the animal fantasy genre in general.

3. Expanded creature types. With humans/elves/goblins/whatever out of the way, there's room to explore and develop lesser-used animals that have mostly been set pieces so far.

4. Lighter tone. After a couple years of darkness, heavy drama, and yet another apocalyptic event, this looks like it's going to be a good breather set.

Icbrgr on What Does Bloomburrow Offer that …

1 hour ago

This will be the set that makes Gruul/Naya Zoo Tier 1 for pioneer!

K4nkato on Tinkerbell says “No”

2 hours ago

Back in the game with Glitters banned so I’m testing a stock list with shaves for Ponder.

FormOverFunction on What Does Bloomburrow Offer that …

2 hours ago

Crow_Umbra beat me to it: I think it’s the cute factor.

FormOverFunction on Will Someone Please Explain this …

2 hours ago

The better you understand banding the more those lands make sense (making your legends of a certain color qualify as having banding when making a band with other legendary creatures under your control). The flavor is definitely there, but it’s way over-complicated considering the result. If (when?) they bring back banding, it would show up as “legendary creatures you control have banding” and they’d leave it at that. “Goblins have banding with other goblins” and other assorted specifications, while flavorful, are too much.

Grenthox on Does casting an instant that …

2 hours ago

If it does, would the next sequence be correct?

1. Cast instant x - triggers magecraft
2. Cast instant y - triggers magecraft
3. Instant y copies instant x - triggers magecraft

I would end up with 3 magecraft triggers?

And in case of a Veyran, Voice of Duality on the field, would I end up with 6 total magecraft triggers?

Crow_Umbra on What Does Bloomburrow Offer that …

2 hours ago

At least for me, the handful of reasons I'm excited for Bloomburrow:

• Totally new plane, so a fresh slate for us to get to know.

• I think most people like cute animals to some degree. A more cutesy take on anthropomorphic animals as opposed to humanoid versions should be fun.

• The animals are allegedly going to be centered on 2 color identities like the Ravnican Guilds.

• First MtG planes that isn't going to have any Humans. I'm always down for a departure into new territory.

• I'm personally looking forward to Legendary Raccoons (I know the Gruul precon will have a Raccoon commander), Legendary Crows, possums, foxes, & a platypus if possible. More than anything, I'd like a Legendary Raccoon or crow as a commander.

Apollo_Paladin on Menace to Society ($60 Menace …

2 hours ago

I have a very similar deck I've been running for a couple years now. You've got some decent picks here; slightly different direction than I went. +1

Take a look at my deck if you want to cherry-pick for some other things: Rakdos Menace (MTG Arena Build)

One notable difference I see is I find the synergy of Professional Face-Breaker with the Goldhounds can make for some really reliable ramp. Maybe something to give a try. Either way cheers!

DemonDragonJ on What Does Bloomburrow Offer that …

3 hours ago

It seems that many players are excited about Bloomburrow, but I am not certain why that is, since sentient beings that resemble anthropomorphic non-human animals, such as leonin, ainok, and viashino, have been part of this game for many years now, so I wonder what Bloomburrow offers that the game has not already had; is it the fact that the plane of Bloomburrow is inhabited only by anthropomorphic animals, and no humanoids?

What does everyone else say about this? Why are some players so excited for Bloomburow?

VitsEco on RW Hammer feat. Kellan

4 hours ago

zapyourtumor xD See my Modern Hammer deck here:

UW Hammer

If you have a look at this decks history I've tried to run Kemba, Kha Enduring a fair bit even as a one of it ends up being a dead draw 90% of the time.

I'm 50/50 on the Thrillseekers, I'll likely swap them out for Nahiri, the Unforgiving soon.

legendofa on Will Someone Please Explain this …

4 hours ago

I think it's obscure, but pretty shallow. Shelkin Brownie removes the "bands with other" ability, and this post makes that a parallel with a hypothetical "partner with other" ability.

Obligatory yet interesting trivia: The "bands with other" is the benchmark for incomprehensible and pointless mechanics. No tournament-legal card natively has it; it only appears on tokens from Master of the Wild Hunt and the land cycle that FormOverFunction mentions. Old Fogey is an Un-card that has it, too. Despite the limited and restrictive usage, it received two dedicated hosers in Shelkin Brownie and Tolaria. So that covers the "pointless" part. The "incomprehensible" part comes from the rules text description. Banding by itself is a combat ability that changes based on whether you're attacking or defending. The basic summary is that you can group creatures together and decide how combat damage gets assigned, but evasion abilities become less relevant. "Bands with other" modifies how the band creation process works.

Bren60201 on Full Control

4 hours ago

i love this deck so much espcecially when my friend uses it and I cant play the game thumbs up

legendofa on Card creation challenge

5 hours ago

Kţ∑∫∑þar would be pronounced something like Kts-Ss-Sthar.

(o)mŋiπ∫ŧţπ is something like u(r)hm-ng-ipsth-thp. The first letter (not transcribing for me) is basically the vowel of "foot" in a Geordie accent, if you know what that sounds like.

(o)mŋiπ∫ŧţπ

Legendary Enchantment Creature - Avatar

You can't spend mana from permanents to cast this spell.

When (o)mŋiπ∫ŧţπ enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then exiles the top half of their library.

If a player would draw while their library has no cards in it, instead that player doesn't draw.

9/9

Create the delivery of an important package.

Adamj on Ertairlessly Countering

5 hours ago

Thanks for the suggestions, I cut the daze for the solemnity.

moo1234 on Card creation challenge

6 hours ago

that's really indepth interesting read TypicalTimmy thanks

moo1234 on Card creation challenge

6 hours ago

oof.

thanks for the rules clarification

in order to not ruin the game, the new challenge is wild

SpammyV on Modern Horizons 3

7 hours ago

Given that you can get Blade with Stoneforge Mystic and Urza's Saga I think the odds are 100% there's a week or two of everyone trying out a GW shell with Basking Broodscale. I've also seen Sadistic Glee pointed out to make it a Pauper player.

zapyourtumor on RW Hammer feat. Kellan

7 hours ago

Kemba, Kha Enduring might be a another way to cheat equip costs?

zapyourtumor on RW Hammer feat. Kellan

7 hours ago

Edit: I am braindead I thought this was modern. Disregard literally everything I said

zapyourtumor on RW Hammer feat. Kellan

7 hours ago

No way Voldaren Thrillseeker is playable in hammer, 3 mana creature with an activitated ability that costs mana

Not running some combination of Ornithopter + Puresteel Paladin also feels like a big mistake here, since puresteel is just generically good and ornithopter allows for t2 combo kills (t1 ornithopter sigarda, t2 double hammer)

Stoneforge Mystic better than Open the Armory, id cut 2 open and 2 Kellan for 4 stoneforge if you can afford it.

Forge Anew is a decent 2 of as well. All in all I'd run less of the fling effects and fling creatures, since those are only good once you have a hammer attached. I'd focus on making the hammer equipping more consistent instead of playing those win more effects

Nightgroll on Roxanne Treasure Pleasure

7 hours ago

rock

zapyourtumor on Oketra's Sisters

7 hours ago

Wrath of God over Day of Judgment, regen not super relevant rn but theres shit like hardened scales with Welding Jar

no Martyr of Sands? you already have 4 squadron hawk

Abiding Grace is great, gives you inevitability and a mid late CA grinding engine

The One Ring is always good but even better if youre a lifegain deck, unfortunately a single copy costs half as much as your entire deck

Theres a better ajanis pridemate now, Voice of the Blessed

1-2 Emeria, the Sky Ruin also good

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

7 hours ago

There would need to be an entirely new chapter of rules created just to interact with a players mana pool. And even if you could, this would become a replacement effect. Essentially replacing an opponents , for example, with .

Best way to do it is to say "Whenever an opponent adds one mana of any kind, they instead add no mana. This ability may only resolve once each turn."

This way all of the feeder tokens can trigger, but only one resolves, allowing the rest to trigger as intended.

This way if you have three feeder tokens and an opponent adds in that order, they'd only receive .

This is because perhaps your opponent tapped three mountains (each its own activated mana ability and thus subject to the triggers), they'd instead add , , .

Then perhaps they sacrifice two treasure tokens, one for and one for . They would keep those, as each feeder has resolved.

This would obviously create an absolute tremendous headache because so many players combo off rapidly and then you have to sit back and ask how they did it.

For example, adding from Sol Ring would actually get you . But what if they tapped Sol Ring to add the mana into filtering for Azorius Signet and Dimir Signet?

Now your opponent believes they have with three permanents tapped when in reality they have no mana, and both signets couldn't be activated.

A more "game appropriate" version is this:

"Whenever an opponent adds a colored mana to their mana pool, they instead add . This ability may only resolve once each turn."

This way you don't completely ruin the game.

DarkKiridon on Shorikai Drift

8 hours ago

Taida I love all those options. I do want Minn, Wily Illusionist in the mainboard but I have yet to obtain a copy. Mystic Remora, I only own 2 copies so far and they're in other decks at the moment but will certainly get one for here as well eventually.

Thanks for the other suggestions and the upvote!!

Taida on Shorikai Drift

8 hours ago

Maybe you can include Unctus, Grand Metatect so you can dig even deeper. Midnight Clock can also help both being a mana rock and letting you draw quite a lot of cards. I also saw you have Minn, Wily Illusionist, and I think it could be in the mainboard. It cheats a lot of things into play with the illusions, and with Shorikai, Genesis Engine you draw the cards needed to trigger the ability.

Mystic Remora is also a very good card that you can consider. Although you will eventually need to sacrifice it, the card advantage it gives you is insane. If you also go for the route of mass drawing, Ominous Seas can flood the board very quickly, but you may need to include some cards to have no max hand size.

Another planeswalker that fits VERY well is Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim, and the illusions it creates are amazing with all the card draw from Shorikai, Genesis Engine.

Btw, amazing deck, I still have to upload my Shorikai deck here, but it is much less flavorful, just centered around tapping and untapping Shorikai, so I love the much more dedicated vehicle theme, it is definitely a +1.

KongMing on Ertairlessly Countering

10 hours ago

Finally, you have Decree of Silence, but not Solemnity?!? Instant add in this deck.

KongMing on Ertairlessly Countering

10 hours ago

Allow me to be of assistance.

Pemmin's Aura, Freed from the Real, Ophiomancer, Academy Rector, Galecaster Colossus, Telepathy, Knight-Captain of Eos, Unbender Tine, Morbid Opportunist, Boromir, Warden of the Tower.

Belfore on Boros Enchantment Fort

10 hours ago

Satyr Nyx-Smith, God-Favored General,Heliod, God of the Sun, Elemental Mastery, Goblinslide,Mirror March, Rite of the Raging Storm,Opalescence. Just some of the enchantmant , token oriented things I can think of that aren't on your list. you might also consider the keyword Battalion (very similar to your commander's abilities but if you are liking Battalion you should consider Odric, Master Tactician. I would also say take a second look at Baeloth since forcing your opponents to swing at each other can still activate your commander's abilities I think it makes an interesting fit for the deck.

itsbuzzi on real steel

11 hours ago

Loading up a coated creature with equipments sure looks fun. I would look into the fast lands as you have a good deal of pain in the mana base. A lot of things take colorless mana so a few pain lands are fine. I can't remember how many I settled with with my no token artifact list but 4 spire already takes up a lot of pain. Does Eiganjo hit that many things? I remember trying it and hating it because 4 wasn't enough and 3 (or less) mana for the ability hurt. You don't take too many colors but another dual could help out maybe a 2nd Mirrex I'm pretty high on that card. The SB seems a bit wide right now, not sure if you should get the consistency up there. 2 dance is fine as you'll draw it when you need it but 1 cage 1 soul guide effect you might not get it in time. The rebukes are sweet but otherwise you only have 2 phole 1 dusk rose and 2 battle for removal. The 2nd Mirrex can help get battle mana and that's honestly a sweet card for aggro but you might want more removals to ensure you find them. On that note you might want 2 shadowspear that's where I landed on the sweet spot for them

FormOverFunction on Will Someone Please Explain this …

12 hours ago

I assume they’re referencing the “bands with other legends” text from lands like Adventurers' Guildhouse and Cathedral of Serra. They may also be leaning into the “everybody hates banding and wonders what you were even thinking when you green-lighted it” feeling and how that might be the same notion for partner.

Dustinlee on Unable to add card to …

12 hours ago

When trying to add my copy of Innocuous Insect playtest card from MYSCON to my inventory I receive a message stating "Error: Card not found". Unsure if the issue is also extended to other cards.

DemonDragonJ on Will Someone Please Explain this …

13 hours ago

In this post on Mark Rosewater's Tumblr page, a user made a reference to something, and Rosewater said "hats off to anyone who gets the reference," so what is that reference? Does anyone here know what that user was referencing?

austintayshus on Card creation challenge

14 hours ago

moo1234 I think the feeder tokens as you've worded it would take 64 mana if you have 8 feeders. Because the -1 ability specifically gives the static ability to the feeder token. So if each feeder has the ability, each will take X mana, where X is the number of feeders you control. Does that make sense?

I think it would be better if each

• Each feeder token has "remove the first mana that enters an opponent's mana pool each turn"

Or

• If Kţ∑∫∑þar has the mana-draining ability with X and just makes feeder tokens that don't have the ability.

moo1234 on Card creation challenge

15 hours ago

I might be wrong on how rules work here. But feeder tokens because it's a static effect, if you have 8 feeder tokens, only 8 mana will be taken from your opponents mana pools, rather than 64 (8 for each token) this is the intended way for it to work at least

moo1234 on Card creation challenge

15 hours ago

Kţ∑∫∑þar the wasting

Legendary Planeswalker - Kţ∑∫∑þar

0: Remove X loyalty tokens from other Planeswalkers you control, put twice X loyalty counters on ~

-1: Create a 0/1 horror creature named "feeder" token with "remove the first X mana that enters your opponents mana pool, where X is the number of Feeder tokens you control"

-10: Create an emblem with "At the beggining of your upkeep choose one: create 2 feeder tokens or create X feeder tokens where X is the number of feeder tokens you control"

"cursed with immortality by ȱmŋiπ∫ŧţπ before the multiverse began, no one knows what Kţ∑∫∑þar is or how its spark activated. But it's in a lot of pain"

3

choose one:

create another card which creates feeder tokens or create ȱmŋiπ∫ŧţπ

Elocutiona on Owling Mirror (Dandân homebrew)

15 hours ago

predation We've actually found in playtesting that deciding when to play a Howling Mine is quite a balancing act :)

All else being equal, it's usually better to wait for your opponent to play theirs, since you can bounce it back to their hand, and of course they're the one spending the mana on it. Relic Barrier further reinforces this, since tapping down your own mine means neither player draws a card, while you can tap down theirs such that only they draw a card, making their mine a liability. The best way to use the mines seems to be as finishers once you have the tools to capitalise on it. The ideal turn 5 hand would be something like casting two mines, holding up a red mana for Runeflare Trap on the opponent's turn, dealing huge burst damage out of nowhere. You can get away with casting mines early in the game, but it's a risky play, not to mention that your mana could be spent on playing owls, or even drawing cards deliberately to dig for damage sources before your opponent can find them, since you'll be discarding to hand size anyway.

In sum, it actually tends to become a pretty tense game of chicken, with constant risk vs. reward evaluation on both sides. Waiting for the right time to put your mines on the board has definitely contributed to that :)

tigermanic on Gloryscale Blitz

16 hours ago

A friend wants to play more commander and suggested trying out pauper since all our friends are either broke or "frugal"

Looking though this list has got me very excited to try!

My first consider deck was mono red with a hearty amount of Viashino creatures. So this commander brings a nostalgic smile to my face!

GoGoBlaster on Gisa & Geralf's tag team

16 hours ago

test

predation on Owling Mirror (Dandân homebrew)

18 hours ago

Seeing as the Howling Mine hurts both players, wouldn't it make more sense to have the game start with it in play?

Shoop69420 on Boros Enchantment Fort

19 hours ago

Belfore I was thinking more of finding Enchantment based token generators or adding parallax wave. Making tokens is appealing to me as I want more opportunities to trigger Aurelia. Parallax wave has good utility and could allow me to temporarily break my own soft lock if I do it with eidolon.

jjjwalker on Titania Lands

19 hours ago

Changelog

Out: wasteland - Better versions of this effect reliquary tower - does nothing castle garenbrig - casting noncreature spells emergence zone - considering still blighted woodland - 5cmc is for titania rampagin baloths - clunky on curve emerald dragon - pick your battles chromatic lantern - yavimaya is more tutorable

In: Urza's Tower - want more mana from scapeshift piles Urza's Mine Urza's Power-Plant Blast Zone - removal land Gemstone Caverns - early game ramp is lacking The One Ring - card draw greater than 5 at once is lacking All is Dust - needed a board wipe Crashing Drawbridge - wanted a tutorable haste effect

Femme_Fatale on Small Update: New Formats, New …

20 hours ago

I was thinking about that myself actually but I think there's some issues with cleaning that data and how useful it'd be over time, and the maintenance involved in replacing things in decks when you get new hubs in or when users are entering hubs that already exist because they can't be bothered to find them ... there's a lot of pieces involved.

I think you either go one way or the other. We have a pretty popular hub request forum that legendofa here maintains that I trust the efficacy of that satisfies trying to go both ways already.

There is an issue of format specific archetypes that I think this feature might fit best for, more specifically so that we don't ever maintain it as these things can evolve quite rapidly or be incredibly niche. But if anything if I were to go this route I'd have every hub be user defined but include an auto-complete to site supported or recommended or popular hubs. Synonyms to some of these would have to be included.

Though I definitely fear the usefulness of this data, seems like it'd be just another form of title or description or hook. The deck space feature we have seems like it solves any sort of discoverability issues that user-defined hubs would try and solve.

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

20 hours ago

Mindrot Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx Zombie (Rare)

Flying

Madness

Whenever you discard a card, each player loses 2 life.

3/3

Wanted to try and keep this one simple. No real need to make it overly complex.

Make a brand new colorless Planeswalker.

itsbuzzi on real steel

22 hours ago

Oh damn another jeskai ensoul! It's super late but I have 2 jeskai ensoul lists in my page. The older one is more artifact creature set up which you may get some value from and the newer one with tokens that I'm currently running has been doing decent and may also hold some good insight. This list kinda looks like a merger of the two

SufferFromEDHD on Tergrid, the God of Salt

22 hours ago

Ill-Gotten Gains!

Icbrgr on Werewolves

1 day ago

Nonsense... its classic werewolves and its definitely excellent!