#magic: the gathering

[mega-gaymer-party]

[hexbloode]

[niuttuc]

Did Tumblr know magic: the Gathering has a buff ogre woman who does time magic through brute force? And has some of the most unique effects in the game? I feel like that's something Tumblr would appreciate.

[prokopetz]

Magic: The Gathering deck whose theme is maximising the number of smug anime girls present in the illustrations while still having something resembling a coherent game plan.

[leidensygdom]

So uh, if you want to know what Wizards of the Coast is up to, they allegedly sent the Pinkertons (a private security guard, which is a fancy way to say for-hire thugs) to the person who leaked a Magic: The Gathering set. Who wasn't under a NDA or anything (not that it'd justify said measures).

The Pinkertons went to his home, threatened to put him in jail, seized a bunch of his stuff and made his wife cry.

Anyways, uh, I wonder if there's still gonna be bootlickers trying to defend WOTC on this?

(Reblogs for awareness are appreciated!)

[yoshifawful64]

HUGE WIN FOR THE FURRIES

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

Say what you want about MTG, but you really gotta give the story and lore teams credit for some GREAT stuff. A whole trailer makes you REALLY care about two gingerbread cookies just trying to survive while a battle rages around them

And then the lady SURVIVES the boiling liquid only to see the boy cookie getting eaten and goes absolutely FERAL and decides to fight one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse

Pictured above: Her grabbing a fucking fork to stab the planeswalker who ate her boyfriend RIGHT in the eye, a planeswalker known for being brutal and aggressive

[cardboard-crack]

[noctambulance]

So, the great work begins... Here's out Beta Kids prior to going god tier! (Go check out Kociakarma btw!)

[necroticboop]

❝ Your realms are diseased, and we are the only cure. ❞

[georgebennettart]

Hey everyone! I'm brand new to Tumblr so I thought I'd start by posting some of my beasties for you to enjoy!

[mega-gaymer-party]

[feyd-rautha-apologist]

MtG designer ca. 2-3 years ago

looks at upcoming small animal themed set with one animal species per two-color combination

looks at Ral Zarek, canonical gay male Izzet character

looks at color identity of the one otter they've made so far

We have the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable rn

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Oh yeah, because I haven't seen this one making the rounds on here yet:

WOTC sent the honest-to-god Pinkertons after someone who'd mistakenly gotten unreleased product

(full article here)

[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?

[cat-cosplay]

Meow-gic: The Gathering