$1000 for four boosters of proxies. I'm in utter disbelief that WotC thought this was a good idea. It might be the dumbest thing they've ever done. I can't figure out who the market is for these. Non-tournament legal, so someone out there wants "official proxies"? Anyone I know who uses p...

Unfinity Review I'm gonna do a really casual review, seeing I'm unlikely to jump through the hoops this set wants us to. For sanity's sake, I'm only reviewing non-acorn cards (it's already annoying-as-intended to have to filter through, now watch me miss one). Regular Cards Aerialephant – If I was ...

Stickers and Attractions are waaayyyy too tedious mechanics for my retired mind to handle in deckbuilding. Dice are technically already in black-border already, but I already largely avoided them because of RNG ( Wyll's Reversal being an exception because even at its floor it's a fairly unique spell...

These Warhammer decks are extremely tight-knit flavor-wise and I can see folks keeping them intact as a closed environment (although it feels like the Necrons and the Tyranids will probably outpower the other two, the former with synergy and the latter because it ramps and scales better). Even takin...

Dominaria United Review Okay, it's time again for a "quick" review. As usual, disclaimer I usually just preview within context of my suite of decks and a few cards outside I find specifically interesting. I'm still detached from the lore of the game (I started in Kamigawa, so the Phyrexia...

Looks like we got another WH40K spoiler mixed into DMU. The Swarmlord 3GUR ~ enters with 2 +1/+1 counters for each time you've cast him from the CZ. Whenever a becountered creature you control dies, draw a card. 5/5 Seems...pretty boring. Good. To be accurate, it gets +1/+1 counters for any Command...

To be bluntly honest, I don't really visit individual deck threads, not at least for a good number of years (even before Salvation began its decline). I might have a literal look, but it's mostly just to enjoy the atmosphere and rarely actually about the details (might occasionally walk out with a s...

I run the 36-37 spectrum myself. Back in the really old days you would start around 40-42 than start deducting for ramp, but nowadays ramp is so ingrained in the format it basically accounts for its own section and you don't start reducing land counts until the ramp gets excessive (and even then you...

As a block, absolutely Kamigawa. Was marketed to Kamigawa, started out in its prerelease, fell in love with the lore and now whenever a OG Kamigawa foil pops up it does pull me back to the old days. I built a whole EDH deck around 3 of its Legends (Ryusei, Godo and Hidetsugu). Neon Dynasty did such ...

Unfortunately, the discourse surrounding EDH is largely a dumpster fire. 75%? Optimized? Jank? It's all vague and ambiguously defined to the point it renders power level discussion meaningless. Does it need to be meaningful? It only matters for the people you're actually sitting down to play with; ...

Baeloth Barrityl. Entertainer looks fun as board control for Animar. Only gonna cost R and I shouldn't have issues getting +1/+1 counters on him. Sure, probably still more straightfoward to just trample, but he's definitely the more entertaining choice. Spectacular Showdown really feels like Insurr...

Baldur's Gate 3… I meant Commander Legends 2: D&D Boogaloo "Quick" Review I said I wouldn't do a review for this set, but I did it anyway. There are some interesting cards, as per with every set these days committing to the format one way or another. I could care less for the flavor (...

Combine this approach with my agreement with "not every product is for me" as a philosophy, and you can hopefully understand why I just fundamentally don't understand some of the positions put forth in this thread. Other things on the not for me list include Un-sets and ancillary stuff li...

They're gonna keep doing precons with new sets. Their data shows commander is how the highest proportion of new players learn, so that's why they do it so there's always an easy way for new players to get hold of a precon. To them now, Commander precons are the successful versions of those 60-card ...

If we're going to self-introspect Magic Colors in a way similar to how we classify ourselves in a MBTI system, then in some ways we need to recognize each color also has a "extraverted" and "introverted" side to them and whether you're most dominantly recognized by which side. If...

As a baseline, I think Bootleggers' Stash is... fine. Kruphix, God of Horizons already does something similar (preserving your mana across turns), while also being significantly harder to kill. Upwelling and Horizon Stone also exist. There are certainly spells that benefit from having piles of extr...

Streets of New Capenna Review I had the time to spare for a speedy review. Helps I'm much less attached to the set than I did Kamigawa (then again, I started during Kamigawa, nothing will be special as it to me personally). Also, I have no Shard decks in Re:Commanders (they're all Wedges), so discl...

Jemolk Yeah I could see where you're coming from and why my PoV can be seen as defeatist, but reality is back then my main LGS did its arms race much earlier and much more abruptly (during Eternal Masters and also due to a weird influx of vintage/legacy converts) and I decided with my dwindling ava...

You know you aged when just replying quote-by-quote on one topic got you like "That's enough forums for today and probably the next few days as well". To think I was able to do that with multiple hot-topics and still feel energized back then (mostly during Salvation's heydays, I was alread...

Ehh might skip some of the smaller sections or the ones we agreed on. I'm not sure how Arena factors into it all tbh. In some ways I think it could be a good thing. Standard was becoming less and less popular as an onboarding format as EDH rose to popularity, preventing players from being properly t...

Cause Kamigawa 1 was a failure and to have a return they noted it need a mechanical and flavor reboot. Maro even listed all the old mechanics of Kamigawa 1 in a design article and noted the only three things they felt worth salvaging was channel, ninja tribal (and they almost didn't have ninjutsu) ...

One thing I think may have a somewhat profound impact on the current less-than-perfect road we find ourselves on is the massive shift to commander as a common, probably the most common, beginner format. It sounds a bit myopic to say that they way I progressed through the game was the ideal way, but...

I assigned WU the "control" aspect of my decks, but I quickly learnt that traditional control doesn't scale well in multiplayer and element that does (stax) is heavily disliked in the more casual meta (although I also found out competitive metas do actually appreciate it to some degree bec...

I wouldn't have as much of an issue with high end decks if players were more honest when playing them. I think there might be some level of disconnect about how strong some strategies are for some people but its just frustrating when you end up playing against decks that are in another league. It m...

Food for thought: How much has the recent changes in the greater Magic eco-system affected the format? EDH is a format not available on Arena, nowadays arguably the de-facto introductory system to the newer generation of players to Magic itself, especially during the pandemic period. This has a casc...