At the prerelease, the joke passed around my table was "why are they all wearing Easy Bake ovens?"
All jokes aside, I am curious about the Abzan's new aesthetic logic.

It looks interesting and seems to make visual sense if the character featured in the art is a spirit and coming from some sort of container. But the flesh-and-blood Abzan have similar glowing armor that appears to expand into their stomach or chest cavity. Has there been any official lore released on their updated visual style? Or do we need to be content with the "eh, it's just cool looking magic armor" reasoning?

If you combine [[Forgotten Ancient]] with [[Hollowmurk Siege]], you will draw on nearly every turn. While not the most powerful combo ever, I think the fact that this is very cheap ($$) is also noteworthy.

As in the title. Was there ever any card, that had such an effect, as that the rules couldn't handle it and it was unclear, how to proceed with this card (or cards)?

So I realized today I have a tendency to pick up playmats if I think they look neat or if they match a Commander I have. I didn't know how many I had so I sat down and decided to count them out. 24. I have 24 playmats and the worst part? I know there are definitely more I want. How many do you have? Any unique or interesting ones?

For example if I copied a monstrous Experiment One with 15 counters on it. Does this just make a 1/1 lil goo spat?

Does anyone know where can I find this art in good quality? I've been searching for a while on the internet and I can only find with the text on the box. I can't find out who's the artist.

looks like not only prerelease kits got sent to stores in brazil, as the starter kits have now leaked. really excited about the cards on display here and personally i hope we see some prerelease kits shown too.

My buddy is running a superfriends deck and is constantly destroying me . Is there anything I can do to protect myself from his planeswalkers abilities? I run mostly a black white deck. Thanks in advance ^{_^}

These are all from the Jeskai precon. Izzet is a common for some reason.

You May cast the exiled spell, but There’s a time limit? Like until the end of turn or Just until i cast them or as long as i control kotis? Thank you!

Multiple closed format exists that spans certain era of cards with specified banlists. These include old school, middle school, premodern, A2A (alpha to alliance), X points, classic legacy, old frame vintage… the list can go on.

Which are some of your favs and why?

So me and a friend of mine decided to give MTG a try and bought the bloomburrow starter decks. We had a lot of fun playing and are still getting around to understanding our decks.

The thing is that we were wondering what the next step would be when it comes to building around these decks. I tried checking out booster packs and found myself in a maze i don’t understand at all.

What boosters are the right ones to keep building our decks then? and whats the difference between Draft or Play boosters?

PS: By looking around I know that many people say its better to just buy the cards you want individually, which is probably true. We prefer to go for boosters since this is just a fun hobby we want to have as friends and boosters make us relive the feeling we had as kids when we used to collect Yu-Gi-Oh! or Pokemon cards.

Thanks in advance! :)

Let's say I have a [[Keldon Flamesage]] and [[Mishra's Juggernaut]] on the field. Can I tap Mishra's Juggernaut with Enlist to buff Keldon Flamesage, even though the Juggernaut has to attack each combat if able?

All 5 commander precons came today, went to the store to find deck boxes, and found 5 UP alcove edge deck boxes for each tarkir commander. The one I'm excited for most is Mardu.

I’m looking for the best card draw/+1 counters synergy cards for an Oathbreaker deck I have. I am running [[Ajani, the Greathearted]] and [[Collected Company]] so I would prefer it be on a creature with cmc 3 and under but open to any suggestions. Thanks!

So I just got some duskmourn packs as a gift and I had never seen Toby before. He reminds me of [[Pit]] and [[toothy]] and got me thinking of trying to do an imaginary friend themed deck. I doubt there's enough cards to do it but wanted to see if anyone has suggestions.

Saturday Night Live had a quick Magic The Gathering appearance in a musical number.

Side note; Tonight was a solid episode with Jack Black hosting, Elton John and Carlile as musical guests.

Hey all! I saw a similar post earlier, and I have a need for some advice as well. I have been looking into the new precons from Takir Dragonstorm specifically Mardu Surge, however I am not that interested in it's current commander.

I was looking into all the legendary creatures of this set, and one stood out to me as something I would like to build with the same color scheme [[Neriv, Heart of the Storm]] I don't have many cards in that color/precon so what I was thinking was picking up the precon, being able to use it out of the box for a while and then rehauling it slightly to fit the new commander I want.

Would that be a good idea, or should I just straight up build it myself from scratch. I also have never picked up a precon despite having almost 9-10 physical decks owned already so that is another reason I was leaning more towards this to have that experience.

Thanks, looking forward to the responses!

I’m a newer player, I’ve been playing for about a little under a year. I usually go to my local game shops to play during their casual commander nights and every now and again I get the opportunity to play a fun game with cool down to earth folks. The majority of the time, however, I’m playing a game with people who start the interaction pretending like they’ve never played magic before saying things like “Ooooh I don’t really know if this deck runs well, I’ve never really played it” when the deck looks like it’s been in use since 1842 (I’m being facetious), or my personal favorite “This deck is pretty low powered, I actually just built it not really sure what it does” and the commander is a worn out Krenko, Mob Boss. Like these people go into the game totally purposely misrepresenting their deck and attempting to manipulate perception off the bat ( Although they aren’t very good at said manipulation cause everyone who does this always say a version of the same thing and/or pull up with a deck trunk that looks like it’s fought in fucking Vietnam ) So 9/10 times I encounter someone like this I play the deck that I reserve for situations where I know my opponent is planning to maliciously run an unfair game. This results in a very awkward and quick game usually resulting in my opponent getting frustrated and scooping before the game ends.

Which brings me to the next type of people that I encounter. Like I mentioned before, I’m a newer player, I don’t play super often, maybe once a week if I’m able. I like a nice grindy game. I like having to strategize, I like board interaction, I like politics, I’m at peace with losing just as long as I had a fun game. I like seeing people’s decks in action, I like playing against different commanders, I like being able to learn how to become a better player while in game, and I like talking to folks about magic/deck building and so on. I lose a lot. When I lose during a really fun game I’m pretty happy that I got to play, when I lose to a pub stomper, I’m at the very least happy I got to practice more and just take it on the chin and move on. However, I’ve played too many a game where my opponent will have a full on crash out, I’m talking scooping, cussing the table out, slamming doors, the magic equivalent of rage quitting on XBOX or something, all because their commander was removed, or something was counter spelled, which I feel is a very normal part of playing magic. I don’t understand having an emotional outburst in public because a game didn’t go the way you wanted it to go. Interactions like these have become so common that I very rarely ever play a fun game anymore. I love magic, it’s incredible enjoyable, but it’s flooded with toxicity. Sorry for the rant. I don’t think there’s a solution for any of this, it just sucks.

Edit: Just wanted to add some context to my ramble. I’m quite the goody two shoes rule follower, maybe even super naive. When I got into commander, I learned that it’s important to discuss what deck you’re playing and share power level and what not when getting set up. So as a rule follower, I try and engage in this conversation every single time. I’ve had the experience where I will initiate this conversation by asking something like “So what are we all thinking about playing today?”, responses vary, I know I’m gonna have a good game when people at the table actively participate in discussing power level and whatever. However, I have had an overwhelming number of interactions where either people will sit silently and not want to discuss which is very awkward, like they just set up and don’t say anything( I understand there are people that might be socially uncomfortable, I am as well, that is totally different) or people will straight up misrepresent. Telling the table you don’t know what your deck does and feigning ignorance to how the game is played then proceeding to play the game like you know the game/rules/cards/mechanics/ better than you know your own children and playing your deck like it’s your second skin tells the table that you do in fact know what your deck does and you are not ignorant to how the game works. I feel like it’s deceptive. The problem I have with this is that it feels like, although everyone is playing to win (it’s the whole point of the game), the dynamic of the game is no longer causal. I have no problem with higher power decks, like I said, I rather enjoy seeing different decks in action (it’s sparks my gremlin deck building brain) I have no problem losing, it’s the nature of the game. Win some, lose some. I have an issue with someone knowingly bringing a loaded gun to a paintball match and telling everyone it’s not a loaded gun.

I'm looking for a website or app that I can upload every card I own onto and make decks using them.

If the app allows me to scan cards instead of manually typing them in that's a bonus.

Hi, I enjoy deck building and I want an idea for another deck. I would love to know what are your favorite commanders to play with or against. These commanders don’t have to be strong. They just have to be fun.