BLM, Trans lives matter. Learning to do better and not just be better. He/him. Alaskan gamer, MTG player, Talrand stan, Musician, outdoorsman, & mechanic
This tweet is going to become my pinned tweet, a thread involving my next project, and the only deck that I hope truly remains a forever deck.
I'm going to make an "artist friends forever" deck utilizing all the various alters I've acquired over the years, and the ones to come🧵
It finally happened.
Alchemy/Arena cards caused an argument within my playgroup as one person was positive that Queza had vigilance, even though I gave him the physical card that did not. Pulled up his phone & showed me what he was looking at, and I had to explain Alchemy to him
Okay so we have:
Creature
Artifact
Enchantment
Battle
Planeswalker
Am I missing anything? It feels like I'm missing something.
I wanna brew this lil fucker
Friendly reminder that the Reserved List is silly and outdated and if you think your collections value is going to crumble just remember that an OG printing of Sulfurous Springs is $10+ and the newest version is $1.50.
The more something is printed the rarer it's OGs get
Every once in awhile I see a post (usually from
@PleasantKenobi
) talking about how Baldurs Gate will go down as one of the greatest sets to come out in the history of MTG.
I used to disagree.
But every time I play a BG card, multiple people do the "wait what? 👀" reaction
"I'll take 'Cards That Should Have Been White' for $500, Alex"
I understand we just got a good mix of Selesnya humans in MID but man... this could have REALLY been a good white card. Or at least hybrid/Selesnya.
#MTGCrimson
#MagicTheGathering
#hottake
#edh
Alright. Everyone really showed the love on my Star Wars proxies, so here is my first ever
#MTG
#Giveaway
!
Simply retweet to enter!
One winner will have their choice of Gilded Ahsoka with Hoth snow basics and Ancient Tomb of Naga Sadow, or Gilded Anakin//Luke with Gilded basics
While I don’t love that cards are being previewed for a set that doesn’t come out until August, I do love this little critter and think this may be an Izzet commander that speaks to me FINALLY. I just love the combat step what can I say
MTG Facebook really coming out swinging today.
Context: someone said that saying "good game" and shaking hands after a game, even if it was a blow out, is 👍 and turning down a hand shake or a GG is poor behavior. Then this dude rolled up saying "don't compliment trash"
Magic can, and should, be accessible to anyone and everyone.
If they can reprint Blue Eyes White Dragon 65 times and still have its first ever printing be worth literal thousands of dollars, your Alpha/Beta cards will be fine too.
Anyway. Enough RL chat. It's Magic night!
@asdasdf293
@TorrensStan
@astropcr13
@dylan__hunter
Take it from YuGiOh where a 1st Ed BEWD from LOB is over $4k, unlimited is still $60.
1st Ed version from the Starter Deck series is $300, unlimited is $45.
Cheapest printing is 50 cents.
This card has 65 versions/reprints.
Your Alpha cards aren't gonna become zero dollars
Hot take:
Filter lands should not be as expensive as they are, and should be reprinted in Commander precons alongside Bond/CMR lands, Signet lands, and pain lands. Like, why is Mystic Gate $25? 🙃
Also, every precon should have the GD Talismans. Some are $1 and some are $10 😔
For those of you playing MTG Twitter Bingo this year, I'd like to inform you that the "free" spot was replaced with "Jimmy Wong takes an L by posting something heinous and utterly fucked up" and that you can claim that on your sheets.
It was still free, smh
I know the day and age of finding Magic collections at garage sales or storage unit sales and what not is pretty much all but gone, but God damn. Once in my life I'd like to buy some random $20 box of cards at a garage sale and find an absolute fucking gem in the midst
first you take a bit of the elk meme
then you take a bit of the scute swarm meme
then you sprinkle a little UB seasoning to piss off the purists
baby, you've got a stew going
Also last night, we had a player cast this (our group is typically anti-free spells) and I'm not gonna lie it was the most well timed and properly executed free spell that I couldn't be mad about it.
How do you and your group feel about free spells?
I might be a believer now
Magic players will tell you that Lavinia and Aurelia are evil because they're "cops" but then turn around and whole heartedly support a literal murderer, eugenicists, and people willing to nuke their own plane.
Yall some funny people
Every once in awhile I see a post (usually from
@PleasantKenobi
) talking about how Baldurs Gate will go down as one of the greatest sets to come out in the history of MTG.
I used to disagree.
But every time I play a BG card, multiple people do the "wait what? 👀" reaction
I can literally count on one finger the number of times I've played against Tymna//Thrasios or Tymna//Kraum.
I promise cEDH is not "the same 4 decks" that "win in 5 minutes."
I will absolutely fucking die on this hill.
Almost completely ditching commander to become engrossed in 1v1 formats was the healthiest thing to happen to my relationship with Magic this year.
I really do think we'd be a better community (and better players!) if we all dipped our toes into something other than EDH variants
I'm going to stop using the term "high powered casual".
Pretty tired of playing "casual" with people and seeing Vamp/Enlightened/Mystical Tutors and Mana Crypts in "casual".
Casual and "non-competitive" are not the same IMO.
Send fucking tweet
I feel bad for EDH ayers who can't find joy in *specific* colors/pairings.
The kind of people who think "anything with X color is bad/boring/the same/yadayadayada."
Youre telling me we got almost 400 legends last year and not a single XY colored legend piqued your interest?
I've been playing Magic with my brother-in-law who is still learning so he gets excited by everything that hits the battlefield and jams whatever card he can into a deck because it's cool and to be honest I've missed that feeling so so much.
Is this too much for a single giveaway? 🤔 A Star Wars themed, New Capenna Skyscraper framed Orzhov support package for a Gilded Ahsoka?
Includes the Sacking of Coruscant, Bogano from Fallen Order, concept art for Luke's Temple from The Last Jedi, some Hoth snow basics, and more!
I hate the phrase "5 mana is so much" with an absolute burning passion so don't mind me while I scream into the void every time I hear it on any given YT channel or read it here on Twitter😌💅
Some of y'all casuals are turbo-pilled and you don't even know it.
I thought commander players were bad.
I've been reading comments about Pioneer being a trash format because a deck that uses mostly bulk commons and uncommons and a couple of mid rares dominated this weekend.
Why are Magic players?
"I hate playing powerful cards."
"You literally just resolved a Seedborne Muse."
"Yea but I'm just playing Baru. It's not Thrasios or anything."
"YOU'RE ADDING 18-24 POWER TO THE BOARD EACH TURN CYCLE."
"Yea but it's janky 😇"
Today I: Revoked my IHYD Patreon membership, and sorted all of my N*ah Br*dley and S*b McK*nnon artwork cards from my collection. Valuable cards will get AlterSleeves, chaff will become proxy bases. T*rese Ni*lson is next on the list.
I like how all I said was (more or less) "let everyone have access to good mana bases" and a few people actually came out of the woodwork to say (more or less) "fuck the poors".
MTG Twitter is such a wild, fascinating place.
Oh. And uh. Abolish the Reserve List 😌 goodnight
Am I the only person annoyed by the fact that every other legendary creature these days either draws you a card or casts something for free?
I like value as much as the next guy but "draw a card if anyone does anything" is getting really, really old imo.
Am I becoming a boomer?
So my playgroup got together for Christmas and we exchanged some gifts, as well as our secret Santa meme decks and my girlfriend surprised me with a uh... quite the gift 🥺🤯🤯🤯
cEDH made me a better casual EDH player because I'll happily play worse cards and let the table do crazy things over constantly needing an answer for a threat.
I'd like to go on record and say that I -and I can't stress this enough- fucking love this card. I could probably do a video on why I think it /can/ outclass 2-mana ramp spells like Farseek and Rampant Growth without a second thought.
I wanted to make one more token before the end of the year so I pushed to make something outside of my comfort zone! 😬 inspired my the cool shit
@MisplayMental
is always getting done, I wanted to make a retro, horror movie poster inspired zombie.
Super lame tagline but w/e 😂
My greatest joy in Magic is resolving this beautiful boi at a cEDH table and having people go "uh what? 👀" and then making a bunch of mana/drawing a bunch of cards/smacking a bunch of face.
Win or lose, if I resolve this card, I'm happy and I've won in my book 😌💅
Aside from Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Spirits, and Horrors, what are some of your favorite MTG spooky-themed tribes/archetypes?
I could only really think of those 5
I'm just gonna say it:
We need more Blind Obedience effects in EDH. Make treasure players pay the consequences for their greed.
Which means we also need more Energy Flux/Kataki effects
It's been awhile since I've let everyone know what I'm about, so this one is for the new followers from the giveaway.
On this TL we believe:
Black Lives Matter.
Trans Lives Matter.
Women should have THE say in what to do with their bodies.
Trans Rights are Human Rights.
1/
Shared this with my close friends and IRL group first, now I feel confident enough to share it with the rest of the internet haha.
I present to you my very own token! 😬😱 Smolive Garden Saprolings! 🥳
Fingers crossed I made it the right size to be printable! 😅
Initiative is so much fun in Baldurs' Gate draft holy shit.
Also Backgrounds in the 99/59 is fucking great.
People who shit on this set need to touch grass, this is a blast
Yall don't understand how fucked up Ich-Tekik is.
Any artifact. Not just yours. Other people's treasures, clues, theaters, whatever.
This dude is super fun to build around
For almost a year now I've been using MTG cards done by TERFs and abusers as the base for my proxies. I've even been picked on for it.
The fact of the matter is these people don't deserve to have their names or work in our space.
You daily reminder that this card is under $2, hoses token decks and fast mana, ramps you like a MoFo, & is only 4 mana value. The floor of this card is pretty high, and the ceiling is just... stupid.
Play this card.
Or don't, so it stays cheap and I can buy a million, idc 😊
Good morning Twitter I made a token for my friend Beth (
@QueenoCardboard
) and doodled on the back and it's really funny and I hope you like it kthbxbai
Hey
@TheHermitDruid
and
@mrfitzyfitz
...
Whats the internet like in Canada? How hard is it to get a Canadian visa and abandon the US? Any idea?
Asking for a friend.
It's me.
I'm the friend.
And I'm tired of this shit show.
Last weekend I taught my niece how to play Magic with the 2022 starter kit and then she played her first game of commander with me, my brother, and her dad.
With a little help with rules reminders, she piloted my Baru deck to the win.
She's hooked and wants a cat deck.
I dont need to explain myself but:
I cant call myself an ally if im throwing artwork done by TERFs around in my games.
I cant stand behind survivors if I'm playing with artwork done by abusers.
If its that hard to figure out, there's an unfollow button around here somewhere...
Fuck it we ball. GIVEAWAY TIME.
- Like.
- Comment the format you'd like to try and the deck you'd like to play in that format. Standard, Pauper, Legacy. Doesn't matter.
Fully proxied 75 card list.
US only due to shipping.
Winner drawn 8/11
The next time I contemplate buying a collector booster of any set, someone please remind me to buy a judge promo Phyrexian Dreadnought instead.
THEY ARE LITERALLY THE SAME PRICE
I have compiled a list of all things deemed casual in EDH:
Extra turns ✅️
Infinite combats ✅️
Theft decks ✅️
Combo ✅️
Mill ✅️
Discard ✅️
Tribal ✅️
Forced Edict (sacrifice) ✅️
Treasure storm ✅️
Regular storm ✅️
Winconless Simic value ✅️
Hatebears ✅️
"bUy SiNgLeS"
My sibling in cardboard.
Yes. Do that.
But also, crack packs sometimes, because it's nice to get the 2 cards you wanted most in the set from the boosters your girlfriend buys you 🤣💚
I am prepared to lose followers:
I like 3 mana rocks in casual EDH.
Bonus points if they have no upside.
Re-embracing the jank and foregoing optimization is my happy place.
Instead of discourse, here's my first printed Smolive Garden Saproling token.
I do have some card stock inbound to try that method instead of the sticker method. They won't be foil, but they'll be 100% my own.
Might sketch on the backs of them 👀
"KiKi CoMbO's ArE sO bOrInG"
Listen here friends. I don't fucking care. I think they're cool, especially in this janky ass pile of 4c cards I just made where they only exist to do one thing.
Don't like the combo? Don't fucking play it.
But let me have my fun. GTFO
I painted my nails this weekend because it's something I've wanted to see if I could pull off. I'm not 100% sold on it for me, but one of my coworkers started to give me a hard about it and it's making me want to keep em. Maybe paint em pink. Fuck your fragile masculinity
I have a confession to make:
I hate building 3+ color decks.
They always look and sound fun but they almost always start to become good stuff decks. Too many cards, not enough space.
Plus, mana bases give me anxiety. Sure I could proxy them, but that still feels like cheating.
Friendly reminder that, while I lost last nights game playing Kitt Kanto, it's only because everyone feared cat daddy Jetmir.
Cards dope, decks dope, you should play cEDH 😊
FIRST ACRYLIC ALTER PLEASE BE NICE 😅
Major props to people who do this on the reg cuz HOLY FUCK is color matching tricky. I did have a LOT of fun with this though 😊 definitely gonna touch up the edges with either black or sharpie 🤣
#alter
#edh
#magicthegathering
Did you know I played Standard for like, a month when I first got into Magic?
Did you know Curious Control was kind of a thing in Standard?
I kinda miss this deck, ngl.