#karlov

[littjara-mirrorlake]

there's a guy facedown in there...

[mtg-talk]

Some of the references in Murders at Karlov Manor! There's probably more that I'm missing, this set is chock full of everything from murder mystery to noir.

[cassieoctavia]

Slight fandom shift, but I love how MTG Tumblr took one look at Aurelia (a literal angel) arresting Massacre Girl (a literal mass murderer) and decided "They're definitely in lesbians"

To their credit, there is a collar involved in the actual WOTC published story, so they brought this on themselves.

[xantchaslegacy]

[tsarjozinzbazin]

guys I just found new photos of Peddie I am so sane

[gay-little-izzet]

Kaya: Phantom Detective

I’ve wanted to draw her in the Ghost Trick style for ages, and I finally did!

[niuttuc]

Come play magic: the gathering! You can run psychological experiments and game theory concepts through your fellow players.

[its-just-arti]

Attention: The Magnetic Snuffler. The Snuffler is here, it is going to Snuffle, and it's going to Snuffle Magnetically. Be prepared for Magnetic Snuffling. You will be Snuffled, and Magnetism will be involved. Magnetic Snuffler.

[incorrect-mtg]

Lots of people bringing up that the murder mystery is kind of silly when there's a literal serial killer in the promo art, but literally the one thing I'm expecting to see is a scene where Massacre Girl is accused of said murders and is offended that anyone would accuse her of such amateurish work, so she decides to find the killer herself to show them what murder is supposed to look like. Like...

Massacre Girl: If you need to interrogate me about it, clearly it wasn't me. When I kill a mf everyone immediately knows it was me that did it, because I have some actual standards

[markrosewater]

Maro’s Teaser for Murders at Karlov Manor

Before previews for Murders at Karlov Manor officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.  

  First up, here are some things you can expect:  

 • white gets a card that lets you play a subset off the top of the deck

• a new enchantment subtype Case

• a card with four different hybrid symbols in its mana cost

• a popular mechanic returns tweaked with a new name

• a green sorcery that you can have any number of in your deck

• a keyword mechanic not printed in a premier set since 2008 returns on a single card

• a creature that allows you an alternate nonmana cost for all your spells

• some creature tokens in the set: (note that some have abilities) 0/0 green Ooze, 0/0 colorless Thopter (also artifact), 0/1 green Plant, 1/1 black Bat, 1/1 white Dog, 1/1 red Goblin, 1/1 white Human, 1/1 blue Merfolk, 1/1 white and black Spirit, 1/1 colorless Thopter (also artifact), 2/1 black Skeleton, 2/1 black and green Spider, 2/2 white and blue Detective, 2/2 red Imp, and 5/5 green and white Wolf

• And yes, Murder is in the set

 Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:  

  • “Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.”

• “Choose any number of target players.”

• “Creature cards in your graveyard gain ‘You may cast this card from your graveyard’ until end of turn.”

• “Then sacrifice it if it has five or more bloodstain counters on it.”

• “you may search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named Magnifying Glass and/or a card named Thinking Cap and put them onto the battlefield.”

• “target opponent gains control of any number of target permanents you control.”

• “If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.”

• “As long as there are no cards in your library,”

• “If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a Clue token are created instead.”

• “Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target opponent gets two poison counters.”

 Here are some creature type lines from the set: 

 • Creature – Vedalken Artificer Detective

• Creature – Ogre Cleric

• Artifact Creature – Insect Thopter

• Creature – Lammasu

• Creature – Weird Detective

• Creature – Goblin Bard

• Creature – Viashino Assassin

• Artifact Creature – Clue Fish

• Creature – Elf Crocodile Detective

• Legendary Creature – Mole God

 Finally, here are some names in the set: 

 • Airtight Alibi

• Caught Red-Handed

• Deadly Cover-Up

• Eliminate the Impossible

• Homicide Investigator

• Innocent Bystander

• It Doesn’t Add Up

• Person of Interest

• Private Eye

• Scene of the Crime

 Follow the story each day this week and tune into the debut at 9:00 am PT on Jan 16 on twitch.tv/magic or youtube.com/@mtg to learn whodunit! Can you solve the mystery before detective extraordinaire Alquist Proft?

[neonjawbone]

magic the gathering has consumed my brain and my main deck is vampires

[akreon]

Tesak, Judith's Hellhound MTG: Murders at Karlov Manor AD: Michael Thomas

[baelor-breakspear]

So, obviously, since there is a murder mystery set coming out on Ravnica, a lot of people have been discussing the idea that "murder is legal" there, as lomg as it doesnt affect guild business. (Even though it isnt terribly relevant to this particular story) And yeah you could get around that by saying one of the living guildpacts has gotten around to updating that or Azorius added something to their lawcodes or whatever, but I think there's a more interesting option. See, murder is legal - as long as it doesn't effect guild business. Which can be interpreted to mean that murder of thr guildless is fine (and likely how it was meant.) But I would love a Ravnican crime show where the emphasis wasn't on finding the killer, but proving the victim's death affected guild business in some way. Some poor lowly Azorious lawyer trying to find justice for these guildless victims, not by proving the murderer's guilt, but by proving their usefulness to the guilds. This kind of juxtaposition between someone trying to pursue justice for humanitarian reasons, but having to use incredibly dehumanizing ways to do so. "Yes, they were guildless - But they ran a coffee shop frequented by Boros legionaries. Who's to say they weren't affected by this disruption in business?" You have to reduce these people to how they are useful, how they can serve the caste they are not a part of, in order to find justice for them and make the system care. I think that has the potential to say more than "nah actually its illegal now" could on its own.

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]

[xantchaslegacy]

[tsarjozinzbazin]

guys do you see the vision