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I like building Commander decks. It feels kind of like brewing a Cube archetype!

Mai fans eating good this set. Too bad they did Anime art for the Thalia-Mai– I really hope this one gets a showcase with better art.

I love the 9 guilds of Ravnica. It’s a little weird there isn’t a U/B one, though. Dimir? What’s Dimir?

Actually, the Spongebob Ones were all peices of art commissioned to copy the style of the animated series. They were illustrated by artist Tyler Walpole, who will be at the Shoebox Cube event in March!

I'm something worse. I'm a White Counterspell Sicko

This is probably the single largest issue with the standalone set era: sometimes they aren't able to fit the volume of certain mechanics we would like into the single set. I can't really think of a solution to this other than bleeding themes more between sets. I think not doing blocks has been...

Mana Tithe is now legal in this format.

I feel like Unlucky Cabbage Merchant is probably a better game peice than Spider-Ham, Peter Porker. In addition to having a more useful ability, it also doesn't force you to track a dozen different creature types and provides an art upgrade. Seems like an easy swap to me unless I really need...

I am genuinely worried the change won't happen now since the Commander community has reacted so poorly to the announcement. I really hope that WOTC was just discussing a change they are going to make anyway and aren't actually interested in incorporating negative feedback, but I'm not sure...

In a recent post about an update to the Commander Brakcets System, Gavin Verhey revealed that WOTC is considering unifying the function of Hybrid Mana with the other Magic formats. In a usual Magic deck, you can play a card with a hybrid symbol in any deck capable of generating mana for one or...

Wanderer actually only does the Silent Arbiter effect for herself, so if you really want to impact the full board, you still need Arbiter or something similar!

Doubling the cost of something makes the variation a little bit more harsh than a smaller price jump (like 5 to 6). It’s going to be a lot easier to fit 1 mana into a turn sequence in a lather number of environmental contexts than it would be to first 2 mana for the cycling. This is especially...

It's been kind of frustrating for me how unimpressive the big thicc creatures have been. I want my 8/8 for 5 to actually feel impactful, damnit!

It's not quite worse since you don't have to pay the echo cost to keep the creature. 4 mana > 8.

I think The Hobbit is more likely. There's not nearly as much going on in the background of The Hobbit's story compared to The Lord of the Rings, most of the people, places, and events in the book revolve around individual named characters and locations. Outside of the Battle of the Five Armies...

It kind of depends on your power level, right? Cards like this don't necessarily need a ton of synergy to make it into a final 40, but they benefit immensely from drafters who build around the things they're trying to do. A good recent example of something similar to this is Up the Beanstalk...

Honestly, I think Avatar is actually a fantastic fit for Magic. It’s one of the most fully realized fantasy worlds of the 21st century — elemental 'magic' systems, distinct nations and cultures with deep lore, mythic heroes and villains, clear philosophies and aesthetics — all things Magic...

Au Summon @Chris Taylor and get a proxy without the party text!!

Probably because it was contained to a single card that only gave itself -1/-1 counters sometimes. Modern Horizons 1 and 2 also had a mixture of counter types, and Murders at Karlov Manor had a Wither card in the form of Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Honestly, it looks UB or RB. Maybe we get the whole cycle?