#tarmogoyf

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Tarmogoyf

Artist: Justin Murray TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[pokemonbattletournament]

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Round 1 matchup 128

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More information about Tarmogoyf:

https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=136142

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[reuxben]

Here’s our MTGinktober for “Boots,” starring Saffi Eriksdotter! Gotta Goyf fast!

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Reuxben

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Scrounging Deathclaw (Tarmogoyf) by Robin Olausson

[cardboard-crack]

[stuff-turned-tcg]

[alexanderwales]

I keep having this idea for a trading card story, and it keeps not quite coming together for me.

I played Magic: the Gathering for a great many years, with Friday Night Magic being a staple of my adult life until I finally got pounded into the ground by netdecks one too many times.

I always felt like there was something there, a way to take Mark Rosewater's psychographics and build up a good cast of characters, a way to take the deck archetypes and have those decks express something about these people. What possesses a man to play only control decks? Why does this kid always bring tokens?

And of course the fundamental issue is that if you have a book that's about a card game, you've got to show the card game at some point, and no shade to Yu-Gi-Oh, but the anime was filled with overpowered cards and illegal moves, and did not have a healthy respect for the game in and of itself.

But if card battles are a way of resolving things within the narrative, you have to do brush strokes, right? Because a full game with all its complexities is just way too much, and even just sketching it out seems like it would be difficult. You'd confine yourself to just the highlights, the card games that matter, that have something to say about these characters, the ones that have some kind of stakes. But even then, I don't know, it does seem like a lot.

I think the dream would be to come to Wizards of the Coast with it, pitch it as "like The Breakfast Club but everyone playing MtG", five characters who are very different from each other and take their inspiration from the different parts of the color wheel. But there would be so many problems to work out, not least of which is setting it within a specific time and place where there's something to say about ... I don't know, collectible card games, what compels us to play them, how games can/do serve as expression of the self.

I haven't followed MtG for quite some time, though I still have a dozen EDH decks that see extremely infrequent use, so maybe this just wouldn't be workable in the modern climate of the game, which would require me to make up my own card game, which would lead to all kinds of other problems with how to structure the "action scenes" that are about the movements of game pieces.

This is one of those ideas that I will refer to as "gestating" because I pick it up every now and then, rotate it in my head, then set it back down, slightly better than it was before. But I think I like it only because I have a lot of unprocessed trauma from the time I traded away a Tarmogoyf without knowing its value.

[violet-arcana]

Fun fact, it actually doesn't work like that with Muraganda Petroglyphs! By the time state-based actions are checked to destroy any creatures with lethal damage marked on them, Torrent of Lava is already in the graveyard. Since it's no longer on the stack, your opponent's creatures once again have no abilities and regain the +2/+2 buff. So while they might have lethal damage marked on them between when the spell deals the damage and when it leaves the stack, the game doesn't check for lethal damage in that interval, so they're safe!

[markrosewater]

Happy Birthday me! Could I get some trivia on my favourite mechanic, Delirium? Thanks for all you do.

Delirium was us trying to approach threshold in a new way. We were looking for something that would make you build your deck differently, and Tarmogoyf (a futureshifted card from Future Sight) opened us up to the idea of caring about card types.

Happy Birthday!

[sexhaver]

so i am 100% on your side about the yugioh having ridiculous rules about bluffing thing. but what do you think of probably the most infamous pithing needle bit where the guy named borborygmos at a modern tournie and his opponent argued and successfully won with borborygmos, enraged since that wasnt the card that was named. should he have been given that?

yes, imo, with the caveat that obviously the "patch" to tournament rules to stop that from happening in the future is good and necessary and should have been there since day 1. since it wasn't, though, he didn't break any rules, and he closed a loophole in one of the most bombastic ways possible. like he did what sovcits think you can do in an actual court

personally my favorite Controversial MTG Moment was when Pascal Maynard was drafting his deck at GP Las Vegas. drafting is a format where you open a pack, take a card from each, pass them to the the player sitting next to you, and then repeat this process with three packs until you have enough cards for a 40-card deck. since this was a sanctioned event, the cards in these packs also came with a unique watermark stamp to make cheating impossible and make the cards more valuable afterwards. Pascal is drafting a red burn deck, so he's looking for red burn spells. he opens his second pack, which contains Burst Lightning. this is exactly the kind of spell he's looking for.

the pack also contains Tarmogoyf, a two-mana green creature Pascal's deck has no way of casting.

a foil Tarmogoyf.

a foil Tarmogoyf with a unique watermark.

non-foil, non-stamped Tarmogoyf, at the time, was a $200 card.

he picks the Tarmogoyf.

while being livestreamed.

pros lose their fucking MINDS

i can't find many more tweets to screenshot here because a lot of them were deleted in the years since, but trust me, there was a sizable contingent of pro players who thought this signaled the death of competitive integrity in Magic. this contingent named the event "Goyfgate", which is the best name for anything ever.

Pascal ended up coming in third at the event, missing out on a potential first prize of around $10k (i couldn't find an exact number for GP Las Vegas 2015 specifically but this seems in line with other events at the same timeframe), in large part due to the absence of Burst Lightning from his deck.

he then turned around and sold the Goyf in question on eBay, and because of the controversy stirred up by Goyfgate specifically, it ended up selling for literally $15,000 instead of the $1000 people had predicted beforehand. Pascal then gave half the money to charity and still made more money than he would have by coming in second place. truly a story for the ages and a great barometer of how seriously people take card games

[pokemonbattletournament]

I know Tarmogoyf is absolutely doomed here but I know which of these I can basically recite the entire storied history of because it rules and I've seen Rhystic Studies' video essay about how much it rules like a dozen times. Guess I'll link it as propaganda?

https://youtu.be/i6sPPhlQqtk?si=aeF9uUEoJ_Ggu12z

[fairycrowbar]

Enchantment

Tarmogoyf

What doesn’t grow, dies. And what dies grows the tarmogoyf.

Artist: Ryan Barger TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[incorrect-mtg]

Flavor Text Highlights - Masters Sets

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This entry will feature cards from all Masters Sets except for Commander Masters

Cool - Tarmogoyf (Modern Masters)

What doesn’t grow, dies. And what dies grows the tarmogoyf.

Funny - Chaos Warp (Double Masters 2022)

Confused but undeterred, the butterflies charged into battle.

Worldbuilding - Mox Opal (Double Masters)

What crossed her mind defied Orthodoxy: could there be perfection beyond compleation?

Emotional - Ancestral Mask (Eternal Masters)

“I pass to you all we have ever been. Go forth and become all we never could.”

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[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Tarmogoyf Nest by Filipe Pagliuso

[mtgtips]

magic the tip: roll dice while drafting cards to confuse and arouse other drafters

Magic the Gathering tip: take. the. tarmogoyf.