#moxen

[beatsandskies]

deePRECONnaissance: Party with Power!

If you were handing out awards – as you’d be doing for a Game Award event – for the wildest decks to feature on Magic Arena then the following two are strong contenders. Probably the only contenders, really, though a lot of Arena’s history is surprisingly hard to find information about. Which is what prompted this series of posts. Screenshot time: Now that we’ve celebrated at The Game Awards,…

[grim-crypt]

This is the beginning of my story called poppy seeds, yarrow oil!!! This is one of the ones I've been working on most recently, aside from my oc Aurelia's story!

Please excuse and spelling mistakes or grammar mistakes, and please do let me know if you enjoyed!! CCC:

This is in the pov of my oc Moxen Lance :33 also fuck me i forgot to tag it the first time (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠)

Since moving house, I haven't interacted with any neighbours much aside from one living most near to me. He was the only neighbour to welcome me when I first came to town, so I talked to him more and we became friends. aside from him i've hardly seen any other neighbours. until today.

I was out in my front garden planting some seeds for an annual flower that did not produce many last year. I was doing this when I felt a weight on my back and tail. I soon realise it is a small human child climbing on my back. I turn around and gently reposition them so I'm holding them properly in my arms. I glance around and look for their parents, quickly spotting a human walking down the road. assuming this was the child's mama, I wave. She glares at me. I put my attention back to the child, who was almost falling out of my arms trying to pick a flower, “Do you want a flower?” pointing to the flowers in case he was too young or did not speak common. “You can have one if you'd like, hm?” I said with a smile. they nodded, giggling and making grabbing motions towards a particular flower. My eschscholzia californica– peach poppies. Among all the other poppy varieties I have growing in my garden beds, those ones are some of my favourites too. I pluck a flower that looks alright. I make sure no bees are on it, handing it to the small human child. once i had done this, “is that your mama?” I asked. motioning toward the woman. The little boy confirmed this, waving at the woman, who now had a suspicious look on her face. she is staring at the abundance of poppy straw I have in my hand. I planned on offering the seeds to hypnos later today.

“Why don't you go show her your pretty orange flower, huh?” gently prompting them to go back to their mom, I set the child down on the floor.

I wave him goodbye when he turns back for a second. I look at him showing his mom the flower– “Mama look!” –His mom yanks his hand away and starts walking away with the small child dragging behind her. I frown. This disheartens me, but I know I cannot do anything about it.

I go back inside, walking up the stairs of my small cottage. I stand in front of my shrine dedicated to hypnos. I carefully pour the poppy seeds into the cottonwood horn I have on display. I offer a quick prayer to hypnos, as well as demeter and hermes. I usually just give prayers to those three. a part of me thought back to that small boy and the way his mother pulled him away oh so harshly. I offer a prayer to artemis.

[starlit-mansion]

i think i saw this when i was on my posting fast, but the funniest mtg listing i saw on shopgoodwill was a little stack of cards that had a few laid out and a few closeups, and the the closeups were like. shit ass throne of eldraine uncommons worth pennies but there was a visible dockside extortionist (approx $80 card) in a single pic of the whole deck. i still wonder if that was intentional lmao

[thatoneluckybee]

Moxen

linguistics side of Tumblr I need to settle a debate, what is the plural form of "moose"

[markrosewater]

RE: powercreep. i find it odd that people think cards are getting too strong when many of the best cards are still those from the original set. not even just the moxen and black lotus, cards like lightning bolt have simply never been outclassed and still see play in the most powerful formats.

I asked R&D what was the most powerful card I ever designed. As a group, they agreed Tinker. That came out in Urza's Saga back in 1998, which means I designed it in 1996 or 1997. I've been designing Magic cards for twenty-nine years, and my most powerful one was designed just under thirty years ago. : )

EDIT: I don't have the full list, but we made a Top 10 of my most broken cards, and all of them were from the first five years of Magic. The overall power level of early Magic is significantly higher than today.

The one exception is creatures, as early creatures were mostly weak, but the differential between today's best creatures and early creatures is not close to the differential between today's noncreature spells and the best early noncreature spells.

[revelens-light]

Moxen P9 alters. Still can't believe people let me smear paint on these things.

[cotton-candy-crow]

I got bored so I ranked how strong the mana rocks in Commander are (including mana crypt and jeweled lotus)

mana crypt.

sol ring with no downside

sol ring.

mana crypt with downside (costs 1)

Mox Diamond

mana of any color can be added, puts a land in your bin which can be good

chrome mox

always taps for a color you want, but imprint can be rough later

mox opal

requires more set up than chrome and diamond

mox amber

i'd personally put amber tied with opal, but i think opal is just slightly stronger

arcane signet

its goated

the guild talismans

flexibility is great

paradise mantle

like if mox amber and arcane signet had an unwanted child

Mind stone

the fact you can sac it to draw a card makes it better than #13

thought vessel

we've all been there

all of the guild signets

i'd say these cost like 2 and a half mana, but at least they're untapped

everflowing chalice

the child of paradise mantle if they allowed it to breed

the tapped diamonds

these are bad, they're effectively 3 mana

What i didn't include:

jeweled lotus

this is a ritual

mana vault

this is a ritual

medallions

cost reducers are better than rocks in most cases, but arent rocks

monoliths

these are combo pieces

rocks that cost 3

i'd be here all day

Negative 6 billion: mox tantalite

the forgettable suspend moxen. suspend is bad

sol talisman

sol ring with suspend also isnt good

This is just my opinion, I am open to discussion.

[sexhaver]

trying to get into cEDH deckbuilding is so frustrating because i keep finding commanders that combo out in cool and unique ways, but then realize (in this order) that:

wait, that combo costs like 4/5/6 mana, how do i get that much mana by turn 2/3?

oh right, by proxying spending literally $1000 on various Moxen, duh, why would i think i can get into a new competitive format without selling my kidney to afford a manabase, silly me

[if not running blue] ah shit, wait, even if i do get the Magical Christmas Land draw and go off on turn 2, i have no interaction and fold to 20 different common answers that everyone knows to hold onto as soon as i tell them who my commander is. why am i not picking a commander that can just run Thoracle?

[if running blue] wait, why am i jumping through all these hoops when Thoracle is faster + more consistent?

why am i even trying to build a combo around my commander when picking some random UBx commander and building around Thoracle + Consultation + tutors + counters is so much more effective?

why am i even trying to get into cEDH if every decklist is solved and most of them aren't as good as a generic wincon not even tied to a specific commander?

why am i even alive?

[forever-running]

H - Torture chamber AU

(Blade x Jenny)

Why did this always... Always always happen to her . She had just moxen up and was looking around the darkened chamber . She was currently suspended by her wrists . Legs separated and chained to the floor "fuck " she muttered as she tried to get free. But it came out muffled as she had a gag in her mouth .

[space-wizards]

As I try to make sense of "losing" >$100 on a card I was unlikely to ever sell (I opened a Mana Crypt from a Mystery Booster draft in March 2020), did you know that Mana Crypt is now one of 5 cards that are banned/restricted/illegal in every format and not on the reserved list?

Also, did you know that the Canadian Highlander point system values Mana Crypt (5 points) higher than the Moxen (3), but below Thassa's Oracle (7)? Perhaps I should get rid of any errant Oracles before the next announcement.

[thebestofoneshots]

OK SO I LOVE FOXSTAR BUT FOR REMUS AND READER I LIKE THE LUNARFOX ONE AND FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THE NOTE WHERE READER KEPT REFERRING TO REMUS AS “LUNA” AND I THIUGHT IT WAS SO CUTE

so my ideas are

LunarFae (if i did this right Fae can also be referred to as fairies but i don’t know for sure but reader is part fairy so i want to incorporate on that too)

LunaVix (vixen and luna idk)

and wolfsfae (so kinda like wolfsbane but wolfsfae again hinting at reader being a fairy)

OK IM STILL COMING UP WITH IDEAS NEXT IM THINKING OF ALL OF THEM

AGAIN PLEASE GIVE US SUGGESTIONS I LOVE SEEING THEM!!!

Ahhhh! We've got so many new options guys! AND so many creative ones too, I'm thinking I may make a poll or something for you guys to choose because I feel like you are the ones that should make this choice.

"The fandom chooses the ship name, Mr. Potter"

Anyway, some of the the best so far ahead:

Sirius x Vixen: Foxstar

Remus x Vixen:

Moonfox

Redmoon

Bloodmoon

Wolfshine

MoonShine

Lunarfox

Moxen

Lunarfae

Wolfae

All of them are super creative, although I must agree with @cometsghost that the fact that Wolfae sounds like Wolfbane is almost perfect because the entire drama in the forest happened because she wanted to help Kles with the potion.

Remus x Vixen x Sirius:

Cerberus

Love Puppies

Redmoonstar

Vulcanis

Celestial Trinity

Cosmic canines

Tagging some of you guys that I think might be interested: @starchaser-lily @cometsghost @warcelia @loving-and-dreaming @jaylienpotter @blacksgarden @themarauderswife7 @lampthemacarenagod @msblacklupin @imdoingbetternow @chellyrps @bobthefrog @sseleniaa @keira-kaz2y5 @xluansstuff @kissmeunicornbaobei @remussbitch

Read Gilded Constellations

[gemthegerm]

The year is 20XX. With the printing of Universes Beyond: Garfield and Friends, the lowly Food token is now the best card in Magic: the Gathering. The remaining Treasure players are hunted down and forcibly made to eat the delicious cards. At the yearly Spoiler Panel, President MaRo announces Unfinity 2 Ft. Ring Pops (tm), with the original five Moxen being reprinted as Ring Pops. Jace still hasn’t reappeared in a story article, but Fblthp has been in every single one.

[bittenrabbit]

I'm doing research into earlier mtg metagames! (thought it would be neat to look into :3)

1994-1995 was the first year where they ran an MTG championship. Everything was legal, which tbf was like soooo few sets but that included the power 9! (restricted to one) 😨

The metagame revolved around the Channel Fireball combo, which could win on turn 1 with a good hand of lotus channel and fireball. 💥

Even without the turn 1 kill through lotus mana, any health lead turns channel fireball into a lethal combo from any point of the game! To capitalize on this, the fireball decks of the time ran a pretty cohesive red green aggro shell around the combo to try and force through quick damage.

Losing a game in grands to WHIRLING DERVISH BEATS must've been fun, what a dated card lmaoo

The tournament winning list (a control list with a lot of what we'd now call stax pieces) ran a bunch of artifact ramp (moxen!) and a few different lifegain pieces to try and stave off the aggro (and the fireball) in the early turns (Zuran orb, Ivory Tower) and aimed to slow the game to a halt after getting an advantageous board state through stasis and winter orb!

The list:

The 1994 Championships wikipedia article has a pretty wonderful writeup on the matches if you're interested. The last game of grand finals was decided by a Stasis with Karma on the field for lethal (what a funny line!)

Which makes perfect sense! The control deck beating combo would become a core tenet of mtg in the years to come :D

god mana draining a fireball mustve felt fantastic

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[starlit-mansion]

one of my favorite somewhat unhealthy coping mechanisms is online shopping but for maximum time wasted to money spent outcomes, i use shopgoodwill to really get some good time wasting in

anyway... it's funny that in the not even very long amount of time i've been scoping magic product for weird deals on there, moxen and dual lands show up WAY more often than you'd think

it's like... on given week, it's random boxes of draft chaff with no goodies ever going for $30, actual huge collections (almost certainly cases of someone died and their stuff got bulk donated) going for a few hundo, the occasional actually very valuable single, never fewer than 8 copies of the arena of the planewalkers board game, and sometimes a chandra funko pop

[markrosewater]

Re:Re:Powercreep - outside of vintage cube, most players will never play with cards like tinker, black lotus and the moxen. If you look at e.g. the modern card pool, I don't see how you argue powercreep isn't happening - virtually all of the most played non-land cards were printed in the last 3-4 years.

Because all the most powerful early cards are banned?

[fnord888]

Been watching LRR magic streams, and I think I'm starting to get the point of Canadian Highlander.

Obviously, it's still an ridiculous format to buy into: power 9 is legal, original moxen are common, there are decks that straight up play Black Lotus.

But it seems like it does a surprisingly good job of being "vintage, but not degenerate". Facially, 100-card singleton sounds like a terrible setup for a serious competitive format (and definitely draw RNG is a big deal), but actually the effect of diffusing the most broken parts of magic across a deck that size is seemingly something resembling a fair game, most of the time.