#magic card game

[magicwithclass]

Reserved List

There are over 500 Magic the Gathering cards on the reserved list. This list is a promise to never reprint these cards in paper which means, that for these cards, the copies that exist are the only copies that will ever exist. The reserved list only comprises of sets from before the year 2000 so most reserve list cards are 25 years old minimum. You would think that the cards on the reserve list would all be astronomically high but very few are over a dollar. Many feel that the reserved list will eventually be rescinded but the failure of the 30th anniversary edition cards makes this seem unlikely especially in the modern era. It seems like a lot of money is in newer Magic cards especially with the advent of serialized Magic cards. Now may be the time to move in to bulk Magic the Gathering reserved list cards. Every year the number of reserve list cards in circulation dwindle. Cards get lost or destroyed or they enter vaults never to see circulation ever again due to investors and speculators. At the moment, old school Magic seems to be at an all time low so this might be time to move in to reserve list cards. I recently purchased a couple hundred reserved list cards in various conditions and over the next couple of weeks I will post them online and explain the logic behind my purchase. Am I simply wasting money buying bulk that will never rise above a buck? Am I a fool for diversifying my purchases instead of focusing on one specific reserved list card and attempting to buy it out? Only time will tell. However, I really do have a love and a passion for the cards and it makes me feel a part of the community to have a piece of magic history in my hands. It is an interesting feeling to own something where there are only a certain number of copies on earth. Isn't this the appeal of serial numbered cards? Are serialized cards just a modern day reserved list for a new era? After all, most of the cards on the reserved list are cheap for a reason. They are simply unplayable in the modern magic the gathering era in almost all formats. Most serialized cards are chosen because they see play and are highly sought after cards. Any cards seeing a lot of play on the reserved list are already astronomically expensive so what is the point? Well, no one can see the future and some cards that were completely unplayable just need the right card printed to become all stars. The only question is which cards will reach that echelon. Yes, I have some opinions on which cards are more likely to see possible play in the future but you never know. That is why I want to diversify my assets. Should a reserve list card below one dollar spike card I will likely have many copies of it in my collection. Should all cards on the reserve list eventually spike as people realize that once all copies are gone they are gone and the cards aren't getting any younger then I will have simply made a profit. Even now, I do think there are cards on the reserve list that are criminally undervalued. I also believe that one day a card will spike on the reserve list that no one will predict. I am going to show the reserve list cards I bought this month although I have been buying reserved list cards for years.

[spinnenpfote6]

You know how fabricated the outrage over black Aragorn in LOTR Magic: The Gathering was when you think about how in the 1978 cartoon he was a Native American flaunting his shaved legs in a miniskirt and Chanel boots and no one batted an eye

[hattifattener4]

still kinda new to digital but i’m getting there!! Made this for my friend’s birthday (it’s a little chaotic lmao), MTG inspired/referenced ofc <3

[thepaintedsable]

Development: Apparently I play Magic now??? At least temporarily?????

I have never played this game, but a group of my friends are into it at the moment and one in particular really wanted an extra person to play with. Since I can barely justify buying myself the marker refills that I need let alone a new card game, he struck a deal that (as long as I got Bloomburrow and kept the cards in good condition) he’d buy it off of me for full price if I didn’t like it. Slay. I even got a few cheap cards I picked out myself from the shop that I just liked the look of.

I used to be really into Pokémon (I have two binders full of cards, in English and Japanese. I loved those things) but I never could catch anyone who had their own deck that wanted to play with me (“ew girls”), and thus the people I did play with didn’t know the game. We never played correctly because I didn’t have the practice to even know how to play properly haha. Interest burnt out when I stopped being able to get even those people to play. So I can’t even really say I like card games, I just liked having the cards.

Hopefully I like it??? I want to like it. I like the art. I think it’s so fun that each artist’s name is on the card, and there’s a ton of artists (the cards that rely on inkwork are beautiful. I want a poster of the Marching Duodrone card I have he is so silly). I think there’s a story arc happening??? I still don’t know how to play. Hopefully I like it, but at least I got some insurance if I don’t.

[prettyboyprettyeyes]

14 for your ask game

what are you looking forward to?

A MTG commander event next weekend, where you get to use any two legendary creatures as a commander pair!!

[monorayjak]

Red

Magic the Gathering (MtG) is a card game created in 1993 that has continued into the modern day. While much of its success can be attributed to creative ideas in world building, gameplay, and characters, pieces of it are hinged on one of the games core concepts: the “Color Pie.” In Magic, every card is grouped into one of a few categories: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless, and…

[riversworld96]

dear magic the gathering tumblr,

i am coming to you humbly as someone who is really madly in love with his boyfriend, and his boyfriend just so happens to be in love with this game. i don’t get it. i would really like to. please send me a comprehensive guide to understanding this card game. i’ll take videos, articles, art, blocks of text from some random guy on reddit from 8 years ago. i’m not picky. i just want to get into something that i know that he likes so he has someone to talk about it with. i feel like he’s watched a bunch of stuff that i like and i wanna return the favor :)

i’m trying to keep this secret until i have a pretty decent knowledge of the game, so i’m trying to get there as quickly and quietly as possible

please send me help!!!!

[missalppy]

Commission based on a magic card. ✨

[lunaxite]

It feels somewhat lonely logging into this empty dorm room, should I get roommates?

[saul-tortellini]

[printingproxies]

Mastering the Digital Realm: Navigating MTG Online

MTG Online also called as Magic: The Gathering Online is a digital form of the popular card game Magic: The Gathering. This game gives you an interactive and mesmeric experience as it allows players to build and customize virtual decks with magic cards. Whether you are a pro player or a newcomer it offers a variety of game modes that suit your preferences.

[magicwithclass]

Homarid Shaman is unplayable. It costs too much mana, has terrible stats, has an extremely niche ability and the ability requires additional mana. What is the point of talking about cards like these? Even newer players would likely realize that this card is jank. There are many reason why even cards like this one deserve a discussion. First, this is still a reserved list card. It is part of the history of the game that can never be reprinted so it is easy to forget. If you don't take a look even at unplayable cards then you might forget that recurring nightmare is on the reserved list too! Next, not everyone knows that this card shouldn't see play in any deck. Newer players may need to see a card like this too understand costs and what to expect for the amount of mana you pay. Third, you never know what card can come along that can break a card in half. They could make a card that draws ten cards when a play creature taps down a green creaure and then we would all have egg on our face when homarid shaman is 100 dollars. Never say never. Furthermore, you can use cards like these to talk about the living history of the game. Right now many creature types are being chaged to match the animal they are based on. For example, viashino became lizard and Cephalid became octopus. There is mixed reaction in the community if this is a positive change but change is usually met with some resistance. In 5 years this may all be forgotten and people may not realize why some of the lizard cards used to have creature type viashino. It could also hint at a subtle shift in mtg as a whole from an intellectual property trying to carve out an identity to a big business seeking conformity to appeal to a majority. After all, isn't one of the stated reasons behind universes beyond is to attract a broader audience? Even some mtg fans may not know what a cephalid is but everyone knows a lizard. The point of bringing this up is that homarids survived this creature type update. Homarid fans rejoice! Homarid remains homarid! However, that is merely because the creature type is not used very much. There is a very real chance that homarid becomes crab. What does everyone think about this? Do you want to see this change? What do you think about these latest creature type updates? Did you like this way of capturing living history in the discussion of a reserved list card where there is not much to say? If you must play homarid shaman in a deck I would suggest Hylda icy queen or any other commander with a tap theme. Most 4 person games should have some green creatures you can tap.

[prokopetz]

Memes about collectible card games tend to treat Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gu-Oh! as basically interchangeable, but the truth is that each of them is fucked up in completely different ways. In brief:

Magic: The Gathering –

Official rulebook that's about nine hundred pages long

Timing and priority framework with roughly a billion different steps and sub-phases that tries to account for every edge case and technicality like a video game developer trying to stop speedrunners from clipping out of bounds

Authoritative card text resides in a massive centralised database which receives constant updates and errata, such that what's officially printed on a card may bear no particular resemblance to what's physically printed on it

So densely keyworded that a single symbol in a card's text may expand to several paragraphs of rules

Yi-Gi-Oh! TCG –

Judges' rulings in major tournaments create binding precedent which is not subsequently incorporated into the rules, creating situations where fully understanding what a card does may require a knowledge of its complete history of use in tournament play

Multiple mutually incompatible priority, timing and targeting frameworks, such that which framework is used may vary not only from card to card, but among different effects of the same card, determined by differences as small as the placement of one word

Legacy cards may receive permission to resolve their effects according to what the rules were at the time of their printing

See the difference?

[8pxl]

got my latest set of magic the gathering artist proofs !! rly obsessed with how the foil cards turned out…, especially that command tower omg 😭

[overgrown-estate]

[monorayjak]

Daily Answer 1997

Daily writing promptIf you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?View all responses Hmm, a very good question indeed. I think I’ll limit myself to seven still living people just to simplify things. First one is absolutely Neil Gaiman, he’s a big inspiration for me. Spice8Rack (I think his name is Connor? Could be wrong though) and Sam from Rhystic…