#scryfall

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]

In case anyone missed it, Scryfall's April Fools

[mycosynthgardens]

Apparently scryfall treats Phyrexian as a language and gives you rules text in it (for cards that have Phyrexian text)

[luna--flare]

Every MTG card that is also a Yugioh card Part 1 - Acid Rain - Demotion

According to the English card name. There are 91 in total.

I wrote this script in like 5 minutes so my methodology probably isn't perfect - in particular, I probably missed stuff like back sides and Adventures. I also ignored spaces and punctuation, figuring false positives were more interesting to include than to leave out.

Data and images are from Scryfall and YGOPRODeck. Presented in alphabetical order, since that's how I have the images. Apologies for the lack of image descriptions - there are 182 of them, and it would just be "the [game] card [name]".

Acid Rain

Backfire

Ballista Squad

Bat

Blizzard

Breakthrough

Burnout

Ceasefire

Change of Heart

Cloak and Dagger

Command Performance

Crackdown

Crystal Seer

Dark Deal

Demotion

[ashioksdaydream]

Hey i think the tagger on scryfall had a type... and by type i mean.... just dack huh

[mariamagdalenaposting]

First time entering a scryfall search keyword into a regular search bar. Is this how it ends

[sinkingtime]

so, I just made a search that I now feel compelled to share

[shrubseph]

I feel like Tumblr would appreciate this month's scryfall theme

(for reference this was last month)

[smilinsisyphus]

here we see just two examples of websites i would die for

[scryfall-sotd]

2023-11-08: Simic cards to make a Xolatoyac deck axolotl questions

ci:simic (rhystic or "tempt with" or o:/((will of the|secret) council|council's dilemma|villainous choice|player may|unless that player pays)/) from RVides's reddit comment

[carbonphosphate]

so Scryfall (magic the gathering card database tool) always has a set of cards on the home page like this and they change every month

An like they usually have a theme like Pride month or new set releases (or yu-gi-oh cards for last april fools) but I absolutely could not work this one out so I googled it and

it's the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny! like:

"Then Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White And Monty Python and the Holy Grail's black knight And Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie And Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie"

whoever makes the scryfall card themes I love you this is so clever

[gemthegerm]

this is the best thing scryfall’s done yet

[yoshifawful64]

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[magicwithclass]

Emberwilde Djinn

Emberwilde djinn is somewhat interesting. It is an undercosted flyer in red that is not a dragon. Red does not get that often and something is telling me that the djinn creature type might get support when we return to tarkir. This card is from mirage though and although we get creatures of these stats in all colors back in the day this card had to come with a drawback. Magic the Gathering is a game with almost 30,000 cards and drawbacks are really advantages that you have to use synergy to produce. So, what decks have a want for a card that can switch control. You might immediately think Karona, false god or zedruu or kharn the betrayer. Any deck that benefits from donating permanents or wants to switch permanents may take a look at this guy. I especially like it in a deck that focuses on switching control of things because you can pay the mana or the 2 life to get your djinn back and then donate it all over again. This card is also decent in a goad deck. Giving your opponent a 5 power flyer but knowing that damage is not going toward you is pretty strong when. If you can give him vigilance or untap him during each turn then this card can attack 4 times in one turn sequence. That damage adds up fast and this card has evasion! This card has limited and niche use but donating is a strategy that gets a card here and there every couple of sets. Its a somewhat popular strategy in commander so I can see more commanders built on this premise. I was surprised that this card does not see more play in Blim comedic genius commander decks. You can either use the commander's ability to force emberwilde djinn to your opponent or your opponent may choose to take it but that would only fuel blim's ability. I feel like this card would see a little more play but not many people know it even exists. That is strange to me as the average person can not identify these bulk reserved list cards. That is part of the reason to look at each one individually and study it from the lens of 2024. Why do even expert mtg players not know a majority of the cards on the reserved list? Are these cards doomed to be forgotten? People who do not believe in the pedigree of the reserved list believe that cards like this have no value despite their age and remaining quantity. Am I preserving a history that just does not matter? I do not think so. I believe that when the game turns fifty years old the reserved list as a whole will spike again. In twenty years the number of reserved list cards will have shrunk but the number of unique cards in the game will have skyrocketed. Niche reserved list cards, like this, may find multiple homes or even one specific home in which it is the lynchpin of a deck. What will the quantity of the reserved list look like in the year 2045? Will even slight demand cause cards to become unobtainably expensive because there is no supply? After all, if no one knows or cares about a card like emberwilde djinn than copies will be lost. This card is not being preserved and my goal is to change that. Reblog and save these reserved list bulk cards from being lost to time. Buyouts have happened before and they will happen again. The culture, economy, and overall zeitgeist is not favorable to older cards in the moment but nostalgia sells. Eventually, through true demand, or through hoarding, or fire, or simply the reality that time destroys all things, the reserved list will shrink. My estimate is that in twenty years over half of the currently bulk reserved list will be above bulk. By that, I mean above 5 dollars for a near mint copy. This is not financial advice but if a reserved list card spiked in the next twenty years and I can make a 10,000 dollar profit or more selling off all excess copies above a playset I probably would. However, I will always keep at least one copy of each reserved list card no matter the price. I want the cards. I want to hold history in many hand. The reserved list is not a means to make money for me, although I may choose to profit off the market, but a game that I love.

[jaebird88]

I call upon Scryfall to summon autumnal weather 😩

[bored-trans-orchidsexual]

I'm not good at this game.

[genderstormwrites]

I think Scryfall might be broken