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[harmlesschimera]

Some Custom magic cards i made based of the characters in season 1 of arcane since the show has filled my mind entirely.

(1/2) Undercity cards

[gregor-never-leaves-the-house]

It only took 4 different decks, about 8 losses, milling my entire library (except for two cards) and returning every creature to the battlefield, but I did it. Princess Twilight Sparkle made everypony win.

AND THEN I FORGOT TO PUT THE PONY ROBOT TOGETHER ARRRGGGHH

[lakefoundtheirexit]

Does this mean fursonas canonically exist in Magic the Gathering

[maybe-i-try]

Wasn't enough official art to finish it. Will return after the full set gets previewed.

[d1sc01nf3rn0]

I'm so glad they changed Gale's design on the finished game, cause the first one was awful; but the old design still appears on the Magic The Gathering TCG cards and they're so ugly 😭😭😭😭

[giftedpink]

I need help building a deck in magic the gathering on a budget and don't want to ask my friends cuz I want the deck to be a surprise - anyone on Tumblr willing to help a newbie out?

[dbarenzu626-mtg]

Perchance to a Introduction Post!

Artwork by Ryan Pancoast, "Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy", Strixhaven: School of Mages

Ahh, welcome to my humble grounds! If you're a Planeswalker or a fellow fan of the TCG game Magic: The Gathering, welcome!

My name's Dylan, or @dbarenzu626 if you know me from my main blog: Canadian artist, writer and hobbyist. And more recently, MTG player, specifically in the Commander format. I got started this year thanks to one of my cousins, which then spurred me to pick up my first Commander precon in the form of Timey-Wimey from a Wal-Mart. Since then? I have grown my arsenal of decks far beyond, even considering decklists I have in progress ATM.

I love this card game dearly, at a time when my life was entering a strange period, Commander came in and became a bastion of fun for me, whether it have been looking into what cards to build for or even what to add to the 99 of a deck or coming to a table with a new deck ready to just play and enjoy, it's been nothing short of refreshing.

It's worth noting that I'm no TCG newbie either, my first TCGs were Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! back in the day and currently in this day and age, I stuck to Disney Lorcana and Digimon before converging into MTG Commander. To say I always loved collecting cardboard would be an understatement and that obsession has helped me in my deckbuilding!

So why start this blog? To chronicle my adventures with this game, of course!

As this blog starts up, I wanna share what to expect from my cardboard hideaway! So here we go:

Decklists! I wanna share some of my decklists of Commander decks I've built or are currently in the process of building. These decklists may range from being janky to average to even higher power level, but ultimately, I make some of these just to have fun with flavour and build decks I love in the end. Decklists will be talked about with strategies and experiences and I will be sharing lists via Moxfield or ManaBox, to be decided.

Interactions/battles I've had within Commander! The archetype always welcomes new friends and new playstyles and something I love, win or lose, is just the unique energy everyone brings to their deck projects or to battles. It makes my own deckbuilding feel more fruitful and by all means, I wanna talk about experiences like that.

New product unboxings and/or pack results! With Magic, the idea of always getting new cards and/or projects is going to be a reality. So discounting bulk and singles I'm buying, I wanna post about new products I pick up too, whether they be bundles or boxes or even Secret Lair drops and the results that come from them. Sets like Final Fantasy and Spider-Man next year more than invite this for me (these are sets I'm going all in on) and I know with the other original sets like Aetherdrift and Edges of Eternities that I may partake in a few packs or even a Commander deck. Heck, I may even have a few Secret Lairs coming my way already I wanna talk about...

Potentially, a "Card of the Day" feature! It may or may not be daily as I don't think I personally have the capacity to keep up with daily posts, but with so many cards in this game, I'd love to feature some of my favourites, be them for art or for treatments or even for powerhouse abilities. And yes, I may do this at length like with the decklists too, I like talking about certain things or combos you could pull off with a card.

Lastly, questions! These'll be open always, so if you wanna swing a question for me, whether it's a card you want my opinion of or a decklist I'm currently building for or a favourite card treatment or set? You can feel more than free to fire away, this is something I will always respond to (within reason, I probably won't be responding to any hateful comments, be them directed at how I build decks or at my choice of cards regardless of normal or even the hot topic of Universes Beyond sets. Ask and ye may receive!

Hopefully I can meet other players, connect here and have fun with this blog! For now though, let's get his Planeswalking hike going, shall we? Allons-y~! <3

[eightiesfan]

[wizard-mp4]

I still think it's hilarious the people that invested into crypto trading card games. I'm talking thousands of dollars when that first became a semi popular idea. There were a couple I remember considering investing into like 50 bucks worth of cards. But there were people that invested tens of thousands of dollars, because you could, because it was kind of a scam. Like they clearly didn't have long term plans set.

Anyways, I don't know what it is about crypto bros and their exclusively bad ideas because of like a bunch of different factors. Because if they had just taken all that money and invested into a card game that is already established and has long term goals for their future business, they could be sitting on a massive profit. Not that i would ever condone investing into magic the gathering cards. Ever. This is not financial advice, I am not a financial advisor of any kind.

I think a lot about cards I couldn't afford as a kid because they were hundreds of dollars. Now I still can't afford those cards because they're thousands of dollars.

So basically yeah magic the gathering prices keep going up and up and up forever and crypto bros still had to take the bait for something ridiculously stupid. Hilarious.

[thecrowinggriffon]

Nicol Bolas Compleated

[jm--bueno]

Custom Magic: The Gathering set project

After making hundreds of custom cards and seeing how low the game has fallen in personality due to the Universes Beyond sets that are being announced for 2025, I thought it was time to put some effort and turn a tacit design theme in some of my cards into a set.

I don't want it to be a difficult and long project, so one of the driving forces behind it, it is that is already half-done, as I can repurpose or retool custom cards I have already made.

So without further ado I am going to post the design document. and some of the first cards.

RAVAGES IN SWILFTEN

SETTING DESCRIPTION

In Swilften, the magic that was long forgotten attracted the attention of scholars at first researching in secret, then it lead to a novelty that turns these scholars into a class of performance wizards, that for a fee, demonstrate their abilities to the nobility and the urban classes. Not anymore, with an empty Imperial throne, factions and armies have risen throughout the land, and the budding sorcerers have attracted the interest of the warring leaders. The unleashed power of magic is behind the creation of powerful war machines; magic turns the once thriving farmlands into wastes. Displaced refugees turn to crowded and crime-ridden cities on the verge of Revolution, or go deep into the wilderness, where they mercilessly fight the wannabe tyrants that try to raid this hostile environment. To make things worse the increasing power of the wizards of Swilften has created tears in the surrounding planescape and magical creatures from beyond the Veil have begun to appear. The wild beasts and the horrors of land, sky and sea are a danger to armies and cities; but the more cunning wizards have found allies in the planes beyond the Veil. A capricious Fae queen has delivered aid to those who have asked for very little in exchange: for a modest relic the Fae Queen has given these generals hundred strong slave-soldier warbands of fierce semi-intelligent creatures. The interest of the Fae Queen in Swilften is mystery to all. And from the forests that haven't fallen to the axe of the shipbuilders, the long lost elvenfolk has offered their protection to the weak and starving rural population; the elven preachers roam the land teaching a message of peace, while behind them, their assassins seek to destroy those that misuse magic. The warning of the elven preachers has reached the cities, transformed by humans that speak of prophecies of doom for Swilften, that turn the ailing population to faith in hope of a newfound peace. Will someone hear their pleas?

MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION

An experimental and complex small set (210 cards).

Multiple mechanics both official and custom mechanics. Warfare is an important element to the setting and mechanics like armies and squad will make appearances. A custom pseudo-banding called war band will appear. Cards will also feature military tactics and deception, battles will be fought. Soldiers will be present in 4 colours (WBRG), blue will have pilots and pirates instead, as blue will have sea battles instead. The devastation that comes from warfare will take a prominent role in cards: survivors, refugees and rebels will play a role trying to survive or trying to fight violence with violence Wizards as a tribe, will reflect the evolution of magic in the setting: from researchers, to performers, to cunning battle wizards trained to outwit their opponents. It will be a U tribe with GWR as accompanying colours. Swilften is a human plane but the invaders of the planes that have collided with it are going to be balanced to make being human or not unimportant. Professional types are more important. As Swilften has had its lands untapped for mana for eons, its basic lands give a crisper mana than other magic planes, and so a Basic land matters is also a theme of the set. No legendaries. For a proper limited experience to boost the size of the set to about 300 cards a "special guest" type list of cards will be designated. There will be no reprints in the set.

Custom Mechanics

Warband: a token that is used to attack to which creatures that are able to join it, will grant them their PT and abilities. Relic: a new type of token artifact with exalted. It will be created on the death of a creature. Entomb: a custom mechanic that has a side deck of seals (like an attraction deck) that need to be broken one by one to transform the card. A specific action that happens in the game can break a seal, the breaking does not use the stack. Battles: new types of battles Landmark: a subtype of land that doesn't make mana, it allows for an additional basic land drop on the same turn it entered. Consort: a pseudo (original) companion that requires you control a type of creature.

COLORS

The setting is monocolored focused, with each color delving in several themes and priorities. Color pairs can have associated themes, but the amount of multicoloured cards will be low, and some color pairs will probably not be appearing at all.

White

The strength in numbers theme of white will be important thanks to war bands and squad. In the country spontaneous militias will be fighting for their land, and their defeats will make refugees. In the cities the refugees will find solidarity and turn to fanaticism. The veneration of holy figures will create relics and attract the aid of angels.

Blue

The wizardry color. The evolution of wizardry will be showcased, with an established main academy being formed. Counter magic will be the battlefield of the wizards from opposing armies. At sea, warfare maybe more gentlemanly but beware of pirates. At the top of the creature mana curve, traditional creatures like sea monsters that have broken through different planes will appear. Faeries won't be a big theme, as they seldom fight and all their conflicts are fought by proxy.

Black

Famine due to burned crops and pillaging will be tied to a -X/-X theme. The black soldiers will operate at night, and burn everything in their wake. Horrors from beyond the Veil, and ancient enemies will reappear due to careless research of wizardry. The peasantry has rediscovered, or maybe they never forgot their own types of magic, as they seek the advice of dangerous witches in desperation.

Red

Wizards in the battlefield will deliver direct damage, sometimes to friends and foes. When unopposed by wizardry cavalry will dominate the battlefield. Armies on the offence will resort to mercenaries and borrowed troops from outside the plane. The fed up peasants will revolt and turn to guerrilla warfare.

Green

The elves in the setting are very different from the usual elves in Magic. They are pious clerics, healers and caretakers, instead of nature attuned druids. They only seem to be pacific as a faction. In the recesses of the forest where the Veil has been consumed dryads contemplate the devastation of habitats and mourn fallen trees. The traditional anti-magic color will feature the importance of basic lands. At the top of the creature mana curve, borrowed troops from the fae and allies of the elves, and ancient beasts that were kept sealed in primordial jungles, that have been disturbed by curious magic researchers.

Colorless

Wizards that aren't fond of adventure have resorted to artifice to help their employers. Giant metal golems, that use power stones as fuel are being deployed to the battlefield with and without success. Ships fight in the sea.

Some pairings

Green-Blue: the colours of magical research White-Black: the colour of oppression and misguided Revolution Blue-Black: the colour of espionage and larceny Red-Black: the colour of the dangers that invade from beyond the veil

STATUS

Planning.

I've had the idea for this setting for a long time, and I have many cards that could have belonged to this set if I wanted to make a set instead of just working in random single cards. My approach is to compile all these cards and then start culling or retooling those cards that don't fit completely well with the set.

DESIGN AND GENERAL GOALS

The setting will have a beginning of XIX century Napoleonic era style. Some factions like the elves and the faeries will be more classical fantasy though. The art will be 100% AI generated. I will seek a traditional illustration style that is fitting to Magic cards. As I have already many cards that may go unmodified into the set, I will not focus on a single style, as experimenting with AI image generation also interests me, the style and quality will be changing throughout the development process. As the complexity of cards will tend to be high, I probably won't have ample room to add a copious amount of flavour text, instead I plan to write short stories as accompanying material to flesh out the setting. Release 2025.

Set symbol: An Arc de Triomphe

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It is kind of silly for me to post on tumblr, but I like this platform.

Wish cards are highly debated in the mtg community. Some say they drastically change the game and are way too flexible. And that is true! But on the other hand, they bring way more variation into a game! It's also a last resort. You could put something in your deck that is way more suited for your synergy as well.

[monorayjak]

Daily Answer 2090

Daily writing promptWhat principles define how you live?View all responses So, one of my hyperfixations has really helped me define my beliefs – Magic the Gathering. Long story short each color has different believes and values and when you put them together you get more complex systems. Personally, I am a base blue “Temur” – that is blue, red, and green. I’m going to list off some major beliefs…

[prokopetz]

Did you see that Magic: the Gathering now has a game state in which you need to prove that there are an infinite number of twin primes to win? I can explain it more if you are interested.

(With reference to this post here.)

By all means, please tell us about the Magic: the Gathering combo which requires proving the twin prime conjecture in order to win.

[baboon-87]

okay magic fans lets lock our answers in now when we still basically only have vibes to go off of

[pricklylittleloaf]

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