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[cardboard-crack]

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[magicwithclass]

There is a rumor going around that wotc and the commander rules committee are in cahoots and are colluding. Perhaps WOTC is trying to fracture he commander community in order to take over the format and make it an official Magic the Gathering format run internally. I think they are doing this to prepare for the official launch of commander on mtg arena during holiday 2025. Is this 4 person commander or 1 v 1? This is unclear but the rumor is that commander on arena will release to coincide with the marvel set.

[magicturtle]

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Deepfathom Skulker (Magic the Gathering Online Promo Ver) by Raymond Swanland

[vaguely-art]

Wanted to treat myself to something fun tonight as a distraction and entered the midnight Vintage challenge on mtgo, and I'm walking into round 5 with a 3-1 record, guaranteed to at least make my entry fee back and very likely to do better. Let's go?

[ashaya]

Managed 2 trophies this evening for the Vintage Cube LIVE feeder leagues before they closed!

God I love cubing

[fourpointedhalo]

Back on the arena ladder grind

5-0 leagues... save me 5-0 leagues

[folanoflimbo]

mtgo adding a ton of new shit to starter accounts and a commander starter kit to the paid account with actually good cards in it is going to make me buy it.

im already so sick of arena, and i yearn for vintage cube

[beatsandskies]

The Wizards Invitational ’03: Battle of the Theme Decks (Part 3)

Ever wondered what would happen if Mark Rosewater was forced to face off against Richard Garfield with 20 year old precons? Well wonder no more! Well... maybe wonder a bit, since all we really have is a result and no real details.

As the post title alludes to there are two previous posts in this series. The first covers the “precon draft” portion of this event, and the second covers Round 10 of play. The Invitational was a multi-format event held on Magic Online, of which 3 rounds were played with Invasion, Odyssey or Onslaught block theme decks. But because this was held on MTGO – its purpose was to highlight the then…

[magicwithclass]

Mice and rats are that popular?

Why did you choose both mouse and rat to support as a major tribe in bloomburrow? I do not know the difference between mice and rats but colloquially people typically use the words interchangeably.or sometimes people say rats are big and mice are smaller. Or that rat is just a derogatory term for mouse. Couldn't you pick one or the other and then have a few of the other appear sparingly in the set? There are so many animals you could have done it feels like a waste to choose two almost identical animals. Also you mentioned that you did not rat and mouse to share a color. Is this because it would be difficult to tell the difference between a mouse or rat from just art? Different colors means you can say it's a mouse because it's white. Why both mouse and rat as major tribes?

Because they are the two most commonly used animals in the anthropomorphic animal genre.

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[magicwithclass]

Squandered resources is a powerful card with a powerful effect. I am actually shocked that this card flew under the radar for as long as it did especially since there was a blog, site, or other form of media that carried the name squandered resources. The card was actually under a dollar until the end of 2016 so there was a time since prices were formally recorded that you could have picked up this card for absolute bulk prices. If every good card on the reserved list has been picked dry and there is nothing left to speculate on then how do you explain squandered resources being 60 cents less than ten years ago? Did no one see the potential in a 2 mana ramp card that is also a free sacrifice outlet. There are many decks that want lands in the graveyard or can easily recur lands so a free sacrifice engine is absolutely paramount for those decks to function. Zuran orb and sylvan safekeeper are cheaper options but redundancy is important and this offers the effect on an enchantment. The payoff is also stronger. Never underestimate extra mana even at the cost of a resource especially if you can easily get the resource back or you are using that sacrifice to you advantage. Many decks can make excellent use of squandered resources in their combos. The gitrog monster, muldrotha the gravetide, and lord windgrace decks all benefit from having lands enter the graveyard and can put them right back into play. Even so, the number of commander decks that use this card on edhrec is astonishingly low. I would think any landfall deck that utilizes combos that sacrifice all lands only to bring them back with aftermath analyst or world shaper would need to use squandered resources. Very few cards let you sac all your lands in a single turn and leave you mana positive but squandered resources has combos and synergies. The card was five bucks after 2016 and reached almost 20 dollars during the initial buyout of 2018. By 2021 the card was about seventy five dollars as a all time high. So why is the cars going up now? Why is there a renewed interest on a reserved list card that has spiked a number of times? In short, the necrobloom. The necrobloom is the second strongest commander released in modern horizons 3. A little birdy can tell you what the strongest commander in the set is. The necrobloom is also highly competitive and is potentially cedh. The card wants lands in the graveyard to dredge and some decks have a land in graveyard theme. Is it any wonder that squandered resources can fit into a necrobloom cedh deck? Desert decks and a jund graveyard commander deck also got a boost in 2024 so it was a good year for squandered resources. Currently, the card is approaching fifty dollars. That is higher than in 2018 but I do not think it will reach its market high. However, this has become a soft staple in necrobloom decks, appearing in over 20 percent of decks. That deck is competitively viable, popular, and new so I think squandered resources will probably hold onto a higher price tag for the foreseeable future. Will it go back down when the hype dies or will you have to squander your resources getting a copy of this card?

[vaguely-art]

I'm posting this here too, y'all have to deal with it, I finally got my first undefeated trophy in Vintage on mtgo!!! Been playing this deck for a few months, started with a couple strong 4-1s and some 4-2 challenge finishes, but this is my first 5-0 run.

[fairywinds]

collab i did with @cureskies 💓💓💓 she did the lineart in the cure sky drawing and the colors in the cure prism one, while i did the colors in the cure sky drawing and the lineart in the cure prism one!!

[stompanieart]

tiny Rolan (and Gale) headcanon: Rolan and Gale would both (OBVIOUSLY) be very into magic: the gathering.

Rolan would play vintage--he has extremely strong opinions on what cards should be on the restricted and banned lists but aren't. when he gets manascrewed, he mumbles "must be fucking nice" under his breath while his opponent taps their vast amounts of mana.

Gale would play commander and draft--he loves that both formats give him multiple people to chat with while they play. he would never admit it, but he has designed a commander card. it is named "Gale, Avatar of Ambition."