#MAGIC THE GATHERING

[dimestoretajic]

Alternate theory:

case for a world increasingly devoid of true forms

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Impostor of the Sixth Pride

The tribe was as strong as his longing, their territory as vast as his isolation. The changeling knew he had found a home, and a form.

Artist: Chris Seaman TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Magic the Gathering tip: reblog with your Gristmas wishes

[dimestoretajic]

This is super appropriate, as it was actually Gandalf the White that was coming, and that's a way better card

There is a group of people I play multiplayer mtg with, but as a competent deckbuilder who is not dating any of them I am cast into this role I have dubbed "The vizier". Meaning, I am, by this definition, the clear villain, but must advise players and alert them to the schemes my keen eyes spot across tables to survive.

"You must listen to me closely. I hold not threat to you. I am mearly trying to survive... I may be gaining counters, but he is one card away from completing his combo. You must fear the squirrels my lord, do not be deceived. They plot for your demise"

"Do not listen to his pleas of innocence. He carries with him the means for colorless mana. The stench of the eldrazi. You must end him before he becomes a threat not just for you, but the whole kingdom"

"think carefully with your target of banishment my lord. When have I harmed you? What is a single lifepoint between friends? But there across the board lies a much greater target! I ask you, what use would a man such as him have for double strike?

[alexanderwales]

I keep having this idea for a trading card story, and it keeps not quite coming together for me.

I played Magic: the Gathering for a great many years, with Friday Night Magic being a staple of my adult life until I finally got pounded into the ground by netdecks one too many times.

I always felt like there was something there, a way to take Mark Rosewater's psychographics and build up a good cast of characters, a way to take the deck archetypes and have those decks express something about these people. What possesses a man to play only control decks? Why does this kid always bring tokens?

And of course the fundamental issue is that if you have a book that's about a card game, you've got to show the card game at some point, and no shade to Yu-Gi-Oh, but the anime was filled with overpowered cards and illegal moves, and did not have a healthy respect for the game in and of itself.

But if card battles are a way of resolving things within the narrative, you have to do brush strokes, right? Because a full game with all its complexities is just way too much, and even just sketching it out seems like it would be difficult. You'd confine yourself to just the highlights, the card games that matter, that have something to say about these characters, the ones that have some kind of stakes. But even then, I don't know, it does seem like a lot.

I think the dream would be to come to Wizards of the Coast with it, pitch it as "like The Breakfast Club but everyone playing MtG", five characters who are very different from each other and take their inspiration from the different parts of the color wheel. But there would be so many problems to work out, not least of which is setting it within a specific time and place where there's something to say about ... I don't know, collectible card games, what compels us to play them, how games can/do serve as expression of the self.

I haven't followed MtG for quite some time, though I still have a dozen EDH decks that see extremely infrequent use, so maybe this just wouldn't be workable in the modern climate of the game, which would require me to make up my own card game, which would lead to all kinds of other problems with how to structure the "action scenes" that are about the movements of game pieces.

This is one of those ideas that I will refer to as "gestating" because I pick it up every now and then, rotate it in my head, then set it back down, slightly better than it was before. But I think I like it only because I have a lot of unprocessed trauma from the time I traded away a Tarmogoyf without knowing its value.

[googlyeyesonmagiccards]

Happy Boxing day

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Floral Spuzzem

Artist: Rob Alexander

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i made a self-mill glarb deck that is one of my favorite decks to play not because it's good, but because it's really funny to watch the table stare in shock when i mill half of my deck with a mirror-mad phantasm

Made this after talking to a friend d about my proclivity for bad decks in good formats

[thatdesusa]

Have some MTG Christmas hi-jinks, courtesy of MTG Japan's Anoa Design - https://x.com/anoadesign_mtg

Hope you all had a great Christmas so far (*￣▽￣)b

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[victusinveritas]

[lornagrimm]

Did this to my boyfriend's commander last night.

Witness Protection is now one of my favorite cards.

Today's Card Is: Legitimate Businessperson

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Today's Card Is: Trickster Elk

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Awaken the Ancient

Some days you stand to greet the horizon. Other days the horizon stands to greet you.

Artist: Jaime Jones TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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