Was sorting through some chaff today and saw this for the first time in a while. Other than it not being legendary, Wrecking Crew seems like a perfect reprint for the upcoming Spider-Man set. It's almost a one-to-one representation art wise of an existing villain in Peter's rogue gallery and seems reasonable enough to fit into the set power level wise.

I'd be interested to know any other cards of any rarity you can think of that might show up with a Marvel variant this time next year.

I feel like they contain less doubles? And maybe even cards that fit together more? Has anyone noticed anything similar?

I usually get bundles of sets I want and barely get any doubles (and almost never one card thrice), but I noticed recently that anytime I buy individual boosters I'll get 2-3 cards twice in just 2 boosters or on the fifth one I'll already have half the cards.

Also, this one might be more far fetched, but when opening a bundle, I sometimes notice that boosters seem themed? Like getting multiple (3-4) rooms in the same booster and having multiple enchantment creatures in the next one? Or in past extensions having multiple caves in one booster and a lot of cards with "descended" in another one?

I feel like it happens too often to be an impression, what do you guys think?

EDIT: FOUND!!!! The store i last visited at the con had it. WOOOHOOO!

I am still panicking and looking at every lead I can in hopes of finding it. Checked everything in my house and such already and called the convention center lost and found.

White cardguard binder
Contents that I recall (I traded a lot so some of this stuff might not be in there anymore):
Double feature cultivator colossus
zendikar rising ruin crab
promo stamped nyxbloom ancient
augur of autumn from MID
brotherhood's end extended art
chord of calling m15 or rvr
cultivate from secret lair
retro promo fabled passage
etched lightning bolt from strixhaven
foil ikoria luminous broodmoth
special guest pitiless plunderer
staff of domination bro retro or CMR extended art

If anyone has any information on its whereabout please let me know, thanks!

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I went through every Modern Challenge since the release of MH1, and tracked what percent of the metagame was made up of each different straight to modern set (except ACR), and what percent was from standard sets.

Cards that were reprinted into modern by a straight to modern set count as being from that set. For example, Counterspell counts as being from MH2, but Scalding Tarn does not

This is based on each appearance of nonland cards in every deck in the top 32.

It's not a beautiful graph, but I think there's a lot of interesting information in it!

Source c*de: https://github.com/farm-zaq/modern_meta_share

(C*de is censored because the automod apparently removes posts based on the word c*de, because of Arena c*des. This is a repost, for that reason)

I've seen a lot of people expressing their disappointment and sadness with the UB decision in the past week. And I completely sympathise with these people and as long as they're not directing anger towards other players then they're completely within their right to express their sadness. But something I haven't seen talked about since the Foundations spoilers began is just how amazingly like Magic the Foundations set feels.

Foundations as a set feels incredible. The amount of nostalgia it's bought out in me with the cards they've chosen to reprint or the new cards that call back to sets I've played and loved since I began playing magic in 2016 is incredible. The amount of work and effort that has been put into this set is obvious and I've been glad to heaar about the amount of input from people within the community they got for all areas of the set from mechanical design to flavour text during development. Foundations really does just feel like a love letter to the past 15 years of Magic and really feels like the epitomy of what Magic should be.

I know a lot of people have many emotions from sadness to anger about the UB decision at the moment. And I think it's already been expressed a lot that if we want to demonstrate those emotions then don't buy UB product. BUT, one thing I haven't seen suggested is that to demonstrate our love of Magic itself and the universe OF Magic we should be buying into foundations. If Hasbro wants to use the sales as its argument for forcing UB into 50% of the releases then showing them that we want Magic to be Magic by buying into Foundations should be one of the best ways to counter this.

It's very obvious that a lot of time, energy and effort has been put into the Foundations set. In some ways it feels like one last big effort to make a quintessential Magic set to the highest quality. And we should reward this! Making Foundations one of the best selling sets of the year will show to Hasbro and the suits at the top that there is a real demand for quintessential Magic that it may mean a reversal of the 50% of sets being UB in the future. I doubt it'd be enough to reverse any of the upcoming 2025 sets; but it might make them step back and think about continuing it into 2026 and beyond...

Sorry if this is off topic - not trying to sell in here, just looking for advice.

I've got a new complete set of Legends. I've been filling out the final few cards so I can sell the complete set. One of the cards I'm buying currently is Livonya Silone. I'm seeing a crazy swing in pricing on eBay:

• Multiple "buy it nows" at $30-50 range
• An officially graded 8.5 at $225
• An officially graded 9 at $899

Are graded cards, even those not in huge demand really worth that much more, or is that just some shop taking a flyer that someone will purchase?

Hey there, I've never played, don't own any cards.

But I kinda want to buy the cards of the Final Fantasy collaboration.

Can someone give me an estimate on how much all cards will cost?

Will there be a "set" or is it just booster packs?

Hi guys! Long time player, really disheartened by the recent UB announcements. Wondering if you guys recommend any other TGC with a good consistent flavor / universe?

just mark my words, they made sure to make the title of the LOTR set "tales from middle earth" just so they could do other ones. They have the license for what, two years? three years? It'll be like "fables from the shire" or something like that just like how they did with eldraine, throne and wilds, just like ixalan, if its not coming q4 its definetly coming next year

I'm not type of guy who intereacts a lot here, but I felt like posting this.

I just watched the TCC Professor's video and I think he was wrong about one thing.

Magic: the Gathering IS NOT Magic: the Gathering anymore. And if it is, it feels like it won't be for long.

For the ones who don't know, in the begining, the name of the game would change with every set, from "Magic: the Gathering" to "Magic: Ice Age", "Magic: Arabian Nights" and so on.

Well, I feel like the name HAS changed in the last decade. Magic: the Gathering IS NOT Magic: the Gathering anymore. Now it's just "the Gathering" and we're only getting a few MAGIC sets next year. It seems we will have a Magic set in return to Tarkir and that's it. The rest of the sets that I've heard about will be Nascar: the Gathering, Marvel: the Gathering and Final Fantasy: the Gathering.

Maybe that's what they want. (and that's my personal conspiracy theory if it could be called that). The company wants to transform the game into a media for different IPs. Maybe that's bs, but it does feel like it.

When they released the Stranger Things SL my wife, who doesn't play Magic, said "So... Magic is not Magic anymore. It's everything else.". She had no idea how right she was.

MAGIC IS GONE. All that's left for us the Gathering. Maybe will have a Magic set next year, but I don't think it'll last.

Maybe you don't agree with me and that's ok, but I felt like posting this. Just a voice of a player that started playing in 2001 with 7th edition and fell in love with the game. The MAGIC game.

PS: I'm not against UB. On the contrary, I really enjoyed Assassin's Creed and the Jurassic Park lands. I started watching Dr Who after the commander decks were released. I collected all Godzilla cards from Ikoria and I think tthat was awesome. But I guess I miss that time when I could buy art books about Magic sets, with the story and the setting, and characters, but now that's long gone.

A few years ago, my husband and I had some financial struggles, and he sold almost all of his cards to keep us afloat. He hasn’t bought any new decks since, I think it might just be too hard for him to restart his collection himself. So for his birthday/Christmas, I want to buy him a few decks, but I never made it past very new player and have no idea what I’m doing.

He always played Commander and enjoyed tinkering with his decks. He’s currently really into Warhammer (his Orks are his babies) and loves Lord of the Rings.

What deck(s) would be good to consider?

ETA: My budget is ~$500, I’m hoping to get a few decks and some extra cards that he could add.

Hey,

I've just built an [[Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin]] EDH deck and I see a lot of counter intuitive rules (like [[Rakdos Charm]] being only one big instance instead of 1 per creature as written).

So I was wondering what happens if I have [[Gimli, Counter of kills]] in play and Ob Nixilis and I cast let's say a [[Blasphemous Act]] while there is 11 creatures on the opponent side, do I get 11 +1/+1 and exile 11 cards from the top ? Or just nothing because it would be "once 11 damage" ?

And side question, my Ob then take 13 but if he gets the 11 +1/+1 as opponents creatures die, does he survive with 1 toughness or is he already dead by the time it resolves ?

Sorry if it's not well written I'm not a native speaker.

Thanks in advance.

I have been playing with landfall decks and made a huge mossborn hydra with over 4k p/t which I think is cool. I used innkeepers talent and lumra to do this.

This is the deck list: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/5MVVuK2kH0CNsKVOmZU0Gg

I'd just like to start a discussion on landfall decks particularly with the new hydra. I am recently returning to MTG, landfall is a new concept to me and I love it. Could it be competitive?

Background: I've been playing Mtg for basically 2 decades at this point, and don't have any interest in tournaments or official play. I have thousands of cards from basically 8th edition and up, but probably not tens of thousands. I play mostly kitchen table rules, 60 card decks, no more than 4 of a kind, no ban lists, barely any errata, no net decking. We're fine proxying cards that are too expensive. I use to buy 1 of the Challenger decks every year, but they stopped making those, and I don't care about Commander.

For a while now, I haven't felt like WotC has been making products for me... which is fine, I'm just not their target market. At this point I mostly play MtG like a board game, so I really liked the Guild Kits, the Game Night boxes, and box sets like Explorers of Ixalan or Archenemy: Nicol Bolas. I don't like buying random packs and prefer to know what I'm buying, but I've bought booster boxes a few times in the past when I thought it would be a particularly fun limited environment, like Unstable or War of the Spark. They didn't really make products where you know what you're getting anymore, except for Commander, which I don't play.

Enter Foundations. Now Wizards is making play boosters, jumpstart boosters, the beginner box, and the starter collection, and I'm wondering what to get if I want to play limited kitchen table with it.

I have no interest in play boosters, since I don't want the randomness and the chase.

Would it be worthwhile to get the beginner box if I'm also getting a jumpstart box? I know the themes are different, but will the power level be comparable? There's so many themes, and variations on those themes, is it worth getting 2 jumpstart boxes?

The starter collection looks like a good "core" set, made entirely of a fixed set of cards. Would it make sense to get 2 of these as limited boxes, and then have players build decks using only those cards, so that both players have the same resources? Or I could combine 2 boxes together, since it doesn't come with any more than 2 of a kind. What about getting the beginner box and a starter collection for each player, would that provide good variety, or is the beginner box 10 half decks going to feel redundant if I have the starter collection?

What would you fine folks recommend for someone like me that's interested mostly in playing this game like a board game?

Husband and I have spent the past few weekends searching “card stores” but it’s all just luck if they have any Magic let alone new or old or bulk cards.

I know online is an option but I miss the nostalgia of searching through physical stock.

Open to any tricks or tips.

Im currently trying to build a necromancer commander deck, my commander is Muldrotha, the Gravetide, and im building around reanimation from mine and other player's graveyards. I originally built the deck as a standard so it had well over the 100 card limit, and was also focused a bit on deck control. now im building it into commander and im having trouble slimming it down while keeping a good balance while keeping the objective.
Im looking for advice on how i can slim it down making a strong deck. I dont have many mtg cards so im working with what I got and trying to build with it so most cards are old and probably not too good
ive compiled all the cards I'm considering into a deck here. Thank you to anyone who can help me.

You can now preorder Innistrad Remastered Play Booster box in EU and I wondered why it is so expensive (169,99 €).

I started playing magic mid Blooms Burrow, hence the question.

Thanks

A prospective MTG collector and player here. I want to be a collector first and player second. I want to collect complete sets (I will not collect all sets, just the sets that pique my interest) starting with Foundations. What are the variations of cards that are possible? I understand these;

1. Default

2. Foil (adds a multicoloured shine, for a lack of better words)

3. Full Art (no bottom box with card explanation)

4. Borderless (no borders)

What are the others?

Just for reference, the most common wording for spells/abilities that are written in this format is: "...target creature card in your graveyard...", although some may substitute e.g. "artifact" for "creature", or "a" for "your".

However, I haven't found anything that leaves out the word "graveyard".

So my question is: have any cards been printed that don't follow the above pattern? Any "target [whatever] card" that can actually target cards outside of graveyards? Asking mostly because if otherwise it seems like a surprising gap between rules as written and actually gameplay possibilities; in theory, nothing stops something that just says "target card in exile" or "target card on the battlefield" from being printed, but in practice I can't find any examples.

Hoping someone can prove me wrong lol!