#shabraz

[frogzftw]

A set to be used as counters in a shabraz and brallin magic deck. The person really liked the glow on some my dice so I added it to his.

[reuxben]

Here’s our MTGinktober for “Celestial,” starring Giada, Font of Hope; Yorion, Sky Nomad; Falling Star; and Shabraz, the Skyshark! Full of promise, destined to be The One.

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More MTGinktober here.

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Reuxben

[quaksi]

google how do you not get a massive bout of existential angst anytime you spend more than 15 euros

[markrosewater]

So this is obviously a very biased question but are there any thoughts of new legendary sharks coming to the game? I love Shabraz as much as the next gal but also sharks are awesome

I assume we'll make more legendary Sharks one day.

[favoritemtgcard]

Quick you nominate a card

Shabraz, the Skyshark

[birbo7]

favorite kind of bird in magic?? that you admire??

Hmmm. That's a tough question. Here's a list in no particular order!

Birds of Paradise — it looks like a heron :3

Gilded Goose — it's in my first arena deck and I have the top 8 flavored one. also, shiny!

Balmor, Battlemage Captain — I made a wizards deck on arena and Balmor's really fun

Yorion, Sky Nomad — very cool borderless art

The Goose Mother — you get more bird per bird! that's what I call efficiency :3

Shabraz, the Skyshark — blahaj with wings!

Owlbear — it's more bear than owl, but it was in my first ever deck so I like it :3

Ledger Shredder — birdman is here to nibble your taxes! I think that's silly

Porcuparrot — it looks so startled and confused

Roc Egg — is egg and eggs are funny

Thieving Magpie — magpies are cool and the flavor text compares it to urza

Slickshot Show-Off — he's a cowboy bird! with throwing knives!

Rukh Egg — is egg and I think it's funny how they goofed up the wording in the first printing

Storm Crow — Storm Crow

Chicken Troupe — the chickens be snazzin n jazzin!

Silumgar Scavenger — I like vultures and Sylumgar won me some limited games

Welkin Tern — I went to a puffin research base with a bunch of terns once and I really like them. these ones have built-in hats!

Moon Heron — herons are cool and this one glows!

Rainbow Crow — very cool art

Squirrel Dealer — I think it's very funny. not quite sure why it's a bird tho

I didn't mention most of the ones that are just real bird species but on magic cards cause there's a lot.

[esiyae]

this card is soooo pretty I love it so much

For those who don't know, a lich is a creature (often human) who locked his soul in a phylactery to achieve immortality. If the phylactery is broken, she dies. In the artwork we can see a person who performed the necessary ritual, killing someone, in order to become one.

This is a great card because this is the perfect incarnation of the mechanics of the color black in magic: the power at all costs, taking the risk of losing a lot to gain even more, the importance of sacrifice...

And there are so many cool combos to do with this card. [Queza, Augur of Agonies] or [Shabraz, the Skyshark] are good examples (but Sheoldred is the best tho) I could write a book about this card the design is so perfect

[twinhearted]

i am a dw fan that knows almost nothing abt mtg but i am looking over the cards and you seem the person to ask... vislor turlough has doctor's companion but you can't actually pair him as a commander with any doctor bc he's black & none of the doctors are, right?

nope! any card with doctor's companion, including turlough, can be paired with any doctor as commanders of a deck. i can elaborate a bit on that under the cut

but i also want to add this in the main post because it's funny: since there are 26 cards with doctor's companion and 15 doctor cards, there are 390 different doctor/doctor's companion combinations. so you could play a new deck every day for over a year

when using more than one commander, you don't have to match their colour identities. as long as all of a deck's commanders have some sort of connection -- whether that be doctor's companion, partner, choose a background, or some other thing wizards come up with in the future -- they are all viable to be commanders alongside each other, and the deck's colour identity includes all of theirs

otherwise, to use an older example, shabraz couldn't be paired with brallin, because shabraz is white and blue and brallin is red

[thejankengine]

Ring-a-ding!!

Sorry about the potato quality, I could not get the lighting to cooperate lol. So;

Paper deck roll-call for the beginning of 2023!

Ashling the Pilgrim "Disco Inferno"

Brallin/Shabraz #teamskyshark

Malcom/Breeches "Pirate Time"

Siona "Oracle"

Obuun "Tears on the Rain"

Yahenni "Disco Eclipse"

Dihada "Tantrum"

I have not done one of these in a while, and I figured I would show everyone the nonsense i may or may not take to commander tomorrow (Friday) night.

Look on my works, ye mighty, and giggle!

[menofcolorinfantasyart]

Brallin, Skyshark Rider and Shabraz, the Skyshark by Paul Canavan

[magicartcodex]

Shabraz, le squale céleste

Lore externe :

« Je n'envie pas les gens. Ils sont brutaux, cruels, et destructeurs, laissant peu de valeur sur leur trace. Aujourd'hui, j'ai vu un homme survoler la terre sur un requin ailé. C'est agréable de découvrir constamment des perspectives nouvelles. »

- Vivien Reid

[lucys-borough]

My current commander decks, some new, some old. I love them all. Super down for discussion of each deck, I love talking magic and EDH.

[antique-symbolism]

DINOSAUR CAT, BELOVED CHILD OF GAVI!!!

I have Gavi's card in one of my decks which means I get lots of dinosaur cats when she's on the playing field :D

So I saved a cool thing on Pinterest and apparently it was from magic the gathering and now I'm seeing art for it all over my board recs and like these are some cool designs they've got going on?? I know nothing about how it works to like play it anything but they really went off with the art. Anyways I felt the need to tell you that because it made me think of you

aaaaah yes the art and design of MTG is just so incredible, it is what got me into playing the game, actually! What piece did you have pinned? I must know!

May I also suggest looking up paintings by Johannes Voss, Magali Villeneuve, and Seb McKinnon? They're my favourite MTG artists! Rebecca Guay also has some really choice pieces.

hfjfjdksks I could talk about MTG art ALL day long, for real

[askkrenko]

Krenko’s Guide to Creature Types: Human

Art by Mark Rosewater

What is a Human (flavorfully)?

It’s actually pretty poorly defined. Humans are a race like Goblins, Elves, and Dwarves, but they’re varied to the point of incoherence. Humans exist in basically all classes and on all planes, and their cultures often barely resemble each other. While Elves always have that naturalistic bend and Vedalken are clearly the smart ones, Humans do a bit of everything. Perhaps that’s they’re gimmick- huge versatility- but the fact is that they’re good enough at everything to be muscling in on all the other races’ territories, so it’s just not interesting.

What is a Human (mechanically)?

Humans are a race that can go in any color with any class. They tend to be small, but there a few with large power, including one that’s an 8/8 for no apparent reason. I think maybe he’s supposed to represent an entire human battleship, because he can only attack people who control islands, but it’s not really clear. 

Actual Human reward cards are primarily in White but appear in all five colors. White and Green Human rewards make your Humans stronger, Red and Blue simply reward you for playing or controlling Humans, and Black wants to sacrifice Humans or reward you for letting your Humans die.

Can I make a Human deck?

Making a Human deck is trivial and you’ve probably already done it. Go ahead, look at your decks. I’m sure at least one of them is mostly humans.

Humans are the most populous creature type in Magic: the Gathering by a wide margin, to the point that it’s actually kind of depressing. At over 2500 cards, there are more than 3x as many Humans as there are Wizards, the second most common creature type. Reminder here that this game is made by a company NAMED “Wizards.”

You can make a Human deck in any format. Sure, sometimes they’re better or worse in Standard, but they’re always going to be great in everything else, because there’s so many of them that all you really need is cards that say ‘choose a creature type.’ The actual Human rewards are just gravy.

For Commander, there’s a frankly absurd 360 Legendary Humans to choose from at the time of this writing, though only a few are designed for Human Tribal.

General Kudro of Drannith, Jirina Kudro, and the partner pairs of Tyrnn and Silvar and Shabraz and Brallin  are all designed in Ikoria specifically to lead Human tribal decks. Bruna, the Fading Light, and Sigarda, Heron’s Grace, though not humans themselves, are Angels that reward playing a deck full of humans.  Of these options, Jirina Kudro is probably just the best for Human Tribal. Making tokens and giving your creatures all +2/+0 is a serious buff that will help win a game, and three colors gives plenty of options.

There’s one other Legendary Human for human rewards, but due to the circumstances surrounding that card, I’m just going to say that if you choose to use it in a Humans deck before its proper reprinting, I’m going to judge you for it.

Pictured: Not that human

Is Human a good creature type?

Human is one of the worst creature types in Magic. There’s too many of them, they’re not an interesting race, and the only place there’s an identity to them worth noting is on Innistrad. Humans on Innistrad are really cool, as they’re this group of inherently weak beings surrounded by monsters that want to eat them, and we get that on Ikoria, too, so it’s interesting to watch them have to band together to not be dinner, or see some turn to dark powers to get by. But in a place like Ravnica or Dominaria, they’re boring. They’re just another species, but they’re one that doesn’t bring anything to the table. 

Human rewards can be cool and interesting, especially in limited, but the problem comes in older formats. While a card like Thalia’s Lieutenant or Champion of the Parish is solid in Draft and Good in Standard, the sheer volume of humans in older formats means it’s trivial to fill your deck only with cards that trigger them. Goblin and Merfolk rewards tend to come with the inherent drawback that you only have so many Goblins and Merfolk to play. There’s so many humans that any human reward is automatically, well, five times as good as a Goblin reward, because there’s five times the number of humans as Goblins.

Look, I get that for some stupid reason, people ‘like’ humans. They want them, and they want lots of them… but they’re not good for the health of the game in the quantities that we get them. Many sets have something like 20% of the creatures being humans, and some have even more. That’s just too much. A quick skim suggests the average set these days has 150 creatures and 30 humans. Not a hard and fast rule, but that’s what I’m seeing.  And it’s not inconsistent with the fact that a bit over 20% of all creatures in Magic: the Gathering are human. 20%.  That’s absurd.

Also, have you met humans? They’re assholes. Every last one of them. Except Dave. And maybe Tom Hanks.  BUT THE REST OF THEM ARE. Seriously. Look, I get that I live on Ravnica, not everybody does, but I have to deal with Humans basically every day of my life. I don’t get the luxury of living in primarily Goblin territory. We’ve had sets in Lorwyn before, and it was great. I’d just like to see a few more sets that don’t have humans or, like BFZ/Oath, are really low on humans. 

[wednesdaynightmagic]

Game 3 - 10/30/2021. Winner - Elliot (Shabraz/Brallin WUR draw discard)

[mtgbracket]

Round of 1024 - Batch 2

The second set of 32 matchups is now live for voting!

Today we have two legendary Slivers and two Rat-lovers, Venser, Jhoira, and THRAXIMUNDAR.

Voting is open for one week right HERE.

Full list of matchups:

Sliver Legion vs Trostani Discordant The Mimeoplasm vs Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle Eight-and-a-Half-Tails vs The Haunt of Hightower Alena, Kessig Trapper vs Sliver Hivelord

Sima Yi, Wei Field Marshal vs Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile Llawan, Cephalid Empress vs Liliana, Heretical Healer Oros, the Avenger vs Erebos, God of the Dead Raksha Golden Cub vs Evra, Halcyon Witness

Alexander Clamilton vs Jacques le Vert Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant vs Reyav, Master Smith Venser, Shaper Savant vs Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran Horobi, Death's Wail vs Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter

Kenrith, the Returned King vs Kumano, Master Yamabushi Chevill, Bane of Monsters vs Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons Jareth, Leonine Titan vs Riven Turnbull Mishra, Artificer Prodigy vs Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion

Basandra, Battle Seraph vs Anowon, the Ruin Sage Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix vs Haktos the Unscarred Shabraz, the Skyshark vs Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose Vilis, Broker of Blood vs Jhoira of the Ghitu

Ascendant Evincar vs Miara, Thorn of the Glade Thromok the Insatiable vs Patron of the Nezumi Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper vs Drana, the Last Bloodchief Kokusho, the Evening Star vs Marrow-Gnawer

Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin vs Niambi, Esteemed Speaker Triad of Fates vs Rubinia Soulsinger Korlash, Heir to Blackblade vs Dralnu, Lich Lord Grumgully, the Generous vs Yorion, Sky Nomad

Lovisa Coldeyes vs Prava of the Steel Legion Grand Arbiter Augustin IV vs King Macar, the Gold-Cursed Thraximundar vs Timmy, Power Gamer Syr Konrad, the Grim vs Glissa, the Traitor