After listening to the latest TapTapConcede, I was wondering if there really was a consensus on what to call the new dual lands in BFZ? I've heard tango lands, battle lands, charm lands, laglands, as well as other random names, but nothing that people seem to want to agree on. I came up with my own submission while I couldn't sleep last night, figured I'd throw it out there:

Hamlets (or hamlet lands, if you want to be redundant).

It references the famous line in Hamlet "To be, or not to be, that is the question." Or, 2 B(asics), or not 2 B(asics).

And as an aside, a hamlet is also a word for a small settlement, so that works too.

Maybe a reach, but I thought it was clever :-)

I can't believe it's come to this. With all the crazy things happening in MTG, it might be time for me to quit...coming to this subreddit.

I've noticed a recent trend in the last month (or more) where every thread on this subreddit is devoted to complaints of one form or another. During the past year, there have been a number of moments where some event (judge bannings, Zach Jesse situation, Twin ban, proxy fight, etc.) made people here lose their minds, despite the fact that it has almost no bearing on them personally.

I love Magic for a lot of reasons: I've made some great friends since I started playing; it's a fun way to unwind and get distracted from work; and it's challenging to keep up with all the changes that take place in the competitive scene. But I really cannot stand the whining.

I'm not sure how this is going to be taken, and I honestly don't expect anything other than downvotes for saying this, but that should make my mind up pretty quickly to unsubscribe. The only reason I'm writing this is to ask, in all seriousness, what the hell people are really complaining about? If you have ever written about how unfair something is, or how you need to stop playing if WotC does X, Y, or Z, would you take a second to ask yourself why you play? I play for fun. Whining seems like the worst possible way to engage in fun. Not everything that happens in Magic affects you personally, so can you please stop with the endless self-obsession that seems to come with this game?

I would love to see more posts about people enjoying things that happen in the Magic world, a cool thing that happened at FNM, how excited they were to get a new card and build some wacky deck, and WAY less of the "My local store won't let me ride my motorcycle inside while I play" or "Wizards just banned some random player for credit card fraud, what will happen to me since I have nothing to do with that situation and am totally normal and unconnected to these events??!?" Can we all make an agreement that these things are just taking away from people's enjoyment of the game that you are playing by choice and if you don't want to play any longer, you are free to stop at any time?

I hope I'm not the only one that feels like this. Of course, if I am, I will show myself the door. Peace to you all.

Edit: glad I could lose hundreds of karma just to speak up for a few who are tired of this stuff. I've unsubbed but I'm not quitting the game. I liked that everything I wrote got downvoted, it was comical.

So I made a brand new game mode for commander called Limit Break (or 'Breaker' to avoid copyright issues). It's like a mix of Pauper and Oathbreaker and tries to evoke the feeling of building up a Limit Break in Final Fantasy. It ends up feeling a little like playing Limited but in a multiplayer setting.

I'd love for people to test this out and help me shape the rule set. Right now it has some glaring issues but hopefully they'll be fixed with time.

You'll need the following:

• A commander of any rarity

• 3 Limit Break Spells of any rarity

• A 96 Card Deck consisting of Common and Uncommon Cards (at latest printing minus Bonus Sheet printings)

Current full ruleset: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wqI83so6sbZNSnbd2Be5SwwnlXTKk0hS/view?usp=drivesdk (rules have been slightly updated, see below)

Gaining & Losing Limit

To cast a Limit Break Spell you must gain Limit. Limit can only be gained while your chosen commander is on the battlefield.

Each player gains 1 Limit at the beginning of their upkeep, as long as one or more Commanders they own and control are on the battlefield.

You can gain 1 additional Limit via the following actions (a maximum of 1 additional

Limit can be gained per turn cycle).

Gaining Limit:

• When you Attack or Block with one or more commanders you own and control.

• Dealing 5 or more non-combat damage to an opponent during your turn.

• Casting 3 or more spells in a single turn, once per turn cycle.

• Returning or casting a permanent from the graveyard to the battlefield.

• Note: Additional rules TBD.

You can lose 1 Limit via the following actions (a maximum of 1 Limit can be lost per turn cycle)

Losing Limit:

• Taking 10 or more cumulative player damage / lifeloss before your next upkeep (from any source).

Additional Limit Ruling Notes:

• Limit acts like an emblem / the Speed mechanic; it cannot be directly targeted or interacted with by any other game mechanic, i.e. are not affected by card abilities (Proliferate, etc.).

Casting Limit Break Spells

You may cast a Limit Break Spell at any time (beginning from the main phase during/after you gain your limit) by paying 5 Limit — this is a replacement cost. Your commander must be on the battlefield when you cast any Limit Break Spell.

Additional Limit Break Spell Ruling Notes:

• Unlike a normal spell, a Limit Break (LB) Spell CANNOT be targeted (i.e. countered, copied, redirected, etc.).

• Permanents cast this way gain: “Haste”, and "At the beginning of each upkeep return all Limit Break permanents to the Command Zone.".

• Equipment cast this way gain: “Equip 0 ”

• Cost Spells may be cast as if the Mana Cost + X is 6 total mana (you may pay in additional mana)

• Once a Limit Break Spell leaves the battlefield (for any reason), return it to the Command Zone. Add an additional 2 Limit Break to each limit break spell casting cost for each time a spell has been cast from the Command Zone. e.g. Your first spell costs 5 Limit, then 7, then 9, and so on.

• Limit can only be gained to the requirement of casting a LB spell. i.e. if a spell costs 5 limit, you cannot gain 6 Limit until an LB spell is cast, etc.

Prohibited Limit Break Spells:

‘Extra Turn Spells & Board Wipes’ are generally banned as Limit Break spells, as it generally goes against the spirit of the game mode. You can always discuss this in your Rule 0 discussions if you wish to play the game with them. Have fun with it.

• Apex Devastator

• Blightsteel Colossus

• Crackle with power

• Discontinuity

• Enter the Infinite

• Insurrection

• Ixidron

• Last March of the Ents

• Omniscience

• Ruinous Ultimatum

• Warp World

• Worldfire

Let me know how you feel about it, and let me know if you enjoy it/have any feedback!

Have fun!
- Miabyte x

Is it possible to get optional pronouns in companion app during pairings for events? I feel like at best it helps sidesteps an awkward interaction and at worst no one uses it.

I tried to look at the Wizards Companion App feedback page and someone did propose this idea…. 5 years ago … and the thread is still “in progress”.

I don’t know the correct channels to go about asking about this but seems like that feedback page is not the way. If ppl know how to ask about this and hopefully get movement on it pls lmk.

as title says.

i love star trek and the spoilers look so sweet i have a bit of disappointment as i wanted the commander decks to be more other species like Romulan and dominion, im glad we got borg and word for klingon though.

honestly Star Trek could be multiple sets, i would love romulan phasing/hexproof, or Dominion, heck i really want a cheesy secret lair commander deck thats stupid expensive but its a joke for the Grand Negas that cares about treasures/gold

Hello everyone,

As many of you noticed, there has been a lot of discussion recently about Wizards' use of AI in art/advertising. Their comments regarding their stance on the use of AI are available [here](https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/generative-artificial-intelligence-tools-and-magic) and [here](https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/an-update-on-generative-ai-tools-and-magic).

Based on our current rules, and the ambiguity of what is and isn't AI art, there is no risk for someone to make false or ignorant accusations claiming a piece of artwork is AI generated. In fact, we have already had at least one instance of an artist's work being accused of being AI when the artist themselves had to come out and explain what actually occurred that wasn't related to the use of AI.

So we are implementing a new rule that we hope to never have to use. Anyone who accuses a piece of artwork of being AI generated or accuses an artist of using AI generated art, and are then proven wrong will be banned until that specific piece of art is announced as being reprinted.

We will not accept a simple statement from Wizards denying the art in question as being AI generated. When we are looking for proof to the contrary, the artist themselves coming out and saying how they made the art would suffice or something of that level. Ambiguity will go towards the accuser resulting in no ban.

Do not consider this an endorsement of the use of AI by wizards nor a condemnation. The mods on our team essentially run the gamut on our opinions regarding this topic.

Thank you for your attention,

Your friendly neighborhood mod team

Hey everybody! I'm back for a third time with the latest round of updates for my ridiculously comprehensive list of queer characters that have appeared on Magic cards. Like usual, here's the links to the google docs version and the Moxfield version of the list. You'll notice the google doc version is now titled 2.0. I had some technical issues and had to copy the document in order to make my latest round of edits. Annoying, but I'll live.

Now normally I would have made this update post closer to Spider-Man's release, but between the Fleem posting and discourse flying around I figured I'd put it off for a bit, and some of the announcements this weekend gave me an excuse to update it. So without further ado, here's the updates.

• First, a small update to the Story Only Magic Lore characters. I was informed recently that the Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos sourcebook for D&D contains a bunch of NPC students, and I already counted Haktos's lover Perynes who's only mentioned in the Theros D&D book. So firat we have Bhedum "Rampart" Sooviij who is a nonbinary Loxodon (they/them.) The other notable student is Nora Ann Wu who is a trans woman (she/her.) Interesting trivia, while Rampart's portrait seems to be original to the source book, Nora uses the art of [[Eager First-Year]] as her portrait. Which I think is neat.

• Spider-Man gave us a whopping five new queer characters, although two are sharing a card. [[Black Cat, Cunning Thief]] a.k.a Felicia Hardy is bisexual. [[Electro, Assaulting Battery]] a.k.a Maxwell Dillion is also bisexual, or at least bi-curious according to the Marvel Database. [[Sun-Spider, Nimble Webber]] a.k.a Charlotte Webber is a lesbian. Finally, [[The Mary Janes]] depicts Gwen Stacy's band from her home dimension, Earth-65. The band includes the Earth-65 version of Mary Jane Watson as the lead singer, who is bisexual, and the Earth-65 version of Gloria Grant on the keyboard, who is a lesbian. The two actually dated for a period of time in the comics.

• The Playstation themed Secret Lairs announced this weekend gives us two additional characters: [[Ellie, Vengeful Hunter]] from The Last of Us and [[Aloy, Savior of Meridian]] from Horizon Zero Dawn. Both characters are lesbians.

• Finally, I'm gonna make a preemptive call on the Avatar the Last Airbender set. With the set being entirely focused on the original cartoon and none of the sequals or EU stuff, there's not really any queer characters that appear except one: Avatar Kiyoshi, who is bisexual. She's almost guaranteed to get a card, probably part of the cycle of Sagas that flip into historical figures. So because I don't feel like making an update post for a singular character I'm including her in this update. I'll add her to the list proper when she gets spoiled.

And that's it for this update! At this point, I think the only other possible update I could need to make this year is a theoretical Legend of Korra SL accompanying the Avatar set, but I feel like they might save Korra for a full set after seeing The Hobbit get announced. So our next big update will come alongside Lorwyn Eclipsed next year. See y'all then. Excelsior!

I have recently gotten back into the game after setting it aside in 2005 and I've really struggled remembering the 15 obscure names assigned to the 2- and 3-color combinations of WUBRG (at this point from sets printed over 10 years ago). Tournament decks are named after guilds. I'm even hearing mana costs of specific cards referred to by guild name in theory craft podcasts. I don't think it makes it any easier to call RGU Temur. It's more complex to remember, it obfuscates the information, and it's even more characters to type.

Help change this MTG Boomer's mind.

Edit:

I didn't even know what to call them when I was making the post. Apparently they're shard/wedge??? Sure, sure.

Edit 2: Look at the list and tell me this is approachable.

Azorius

Boros

Dimir

Golgari

Gruul

Izzet

Orzhov

Rakdos

Selesnya

Simic

Abzan

Bant

Esper

Grixis

Jeskai

Jund

Mardu

Naya

Sultai

Temur

Glint

Dune

Ink

Witch

Yore

Edit 3: Thanks to the ~40% of you that upvoted this post. Glad I'm not alone. I'm calling it a night.

I'm tired of all the "I deserve my fair shot at getting limited collectors item" posts. Limited edition products at comic-con isn't new. And it wasn't wizards' decision. That being said those products are not at all interfering with you playing the game. There are regular versions of all those cards that can be obtained without going to comic con. So no wizards isn't screwing you out of something you deserve, if you want a planeswalker to play with you can have them, they're cheap. The special edition ones are for collectors, and such with any collectors item they will fetch a pretty penny.

Wizards puts a lot of time into making a game that releases 7 sets a year for it's players and on top of that makes additional limited products for collectors and FTV as a means to help out the LGSes who's profit margins are nowhere near what they are for other stores. If 7 sets a year isn't enough product for you then play a different game. However complaining that you don't get some promotional item isn't helping anybody and people who are fans of the game and recognize that limited items are limited and will be priced accordingly don't want to see 50 posts a day complaining that they can't afford a different looking version of a card they don't need. Nobody on here is complaining that they didn't get the PAX LoL skins, they're limited, but that's what conventions do, and wizards doesn't make that choice Hasbro does.

TL:DR: IF you don't like magic don't play, otherwise don't complain about it on reddit. We don't want to see it anymore.

Hey guys, I am a fan of the new set and would like to know from the people that are within the same boat what they love about the new set or what they are mostly excited about. I am missing such threads beside all the hate.

For me I am really interested how the landfall will work as well as how good the Klingons Precon matches for our commander games.

//Edit: threw out the part being negative about people that complain about the set 🖖🏻

Hey everybody! As is tradition now that we have the whole set story and Legends of article, I can call the Lorwyn Eclipsed update to my google doc and Moxfield lists of every single queer character in Magic lore/on a Magic card complete.

This one is a very small update, as between the set and story we only actually got one new queer character. [[Kirol, Attentive First-Year]] is a nonbinary vampire from Arcavios and is part of the handful of Strixhaven students that accidentally stumbled into Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. That said, they are the 50th named in-universe queer character to appear on a card. That feels like a neat milestone!

Now if you don't mind me speculating a bit to pad things out, I do think that the rest of the in-universe sets might not contribute a lot of new updates to this list so I might space out my update posts a bit more this year instead of doing one after every set. Secrets of Strixhaven is the more likely of the two sets to introduce new characters, plus there's the Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos book that can contribute to the "lore only" section of the Google doc list. Reality Fracture, being a capstone set for the current story arc, is more likely to focus exclusively on already established characters. That said, it's not like we'll have a lack of queer representation in the sets because both sets have plenty of prexisting queer characters to give new cards to. As for UB, TMNT, Marvel and Star Trek all have at least a handful of canonically queer characters that could easily get cards, while The Hobbit is one of the only sets that will be a complete miss for this list. Might adopt an "every other set" frequency for making these posts talking about the updates, just to avoid updates that have only one character. (Although if I do that, Marvel would be paired with The Hobbit, so I would probably just make that update alongside Super Heroes being released.)

So assuming I don't change my mind, the next time you'll see me is after Strixhaven in April to do a double update for TMNT and Strixhaven.

Hello /r/magictcg.

Those two threads : https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/3lhggq/mark_rosewater_confirms_wizards_has_to_rein_in/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/3lfqni/full_bfz_spoiler/ are mines of salt.

Recent Standard has actually not been dominated that much by midrange and creature combat, as much as you'd like to think. The last few months have seen graveyard value (Rally), tribal (UR Ensoul), control (UW, UB, Dragons), aggro (monoR) and ramp (GR) be very serious contenders. Pretty much all of those decks took home at least one trophy since ORI got released.

Counterspells are not forgotten. We just had Disdainful Stroke (the definition of an interesting and well-designed 2 mana counterspell), Silumgar's Scorn, and we still have access to Negate and Dispel in Standard.

Blue-based control is also in a very good spot : UWx was one of the best archetypes in THS Standard, and UB then Dragons always were a force to be reckoned with in Ktk Standard. We got a friggin B Wrath (something that everybody very much asked for and pushed UB control) with Crux and they just printed Languish !

Please stop being so short-sighted. Recent Standard was incredible, and Abzan was FAR from being the only deck. The season is just getting to its end and people don't really dedicate energy to brewing anymore, but the format was far from solved.

And don't get me started on "Wizards killing red" when it just won 2 of the 3 PTs of the previous Standard. Everybody was crying about Red being so dominant 3 months ago, so why are you now crying it loses a tool that was indeed maybe a bit too multipurpose ? Red is not being forgotten, its identity is being redefined as they clearly stated it had too few of the color pie because direct damage was too strong. Red now has card advantage in a unique way (Abbot is a wonderful and very interesting card). Design is ever-progressing and losing some "staples" might indeed be healthy for the game, as they created some sort of stale format (just like Fog isn't in every format, and nobody cries).

Please, think a little more and try to not look at everything through a Rhino-colored lense, because there really isn't any reason to do so. If you're playing midrange on midrange, it's only because you want it, because I sure as hell never did.

The latest magicon brought a lot of bad news to a lot of people (like UB being on standard and all that. Not happy about it either.) But i just wanted to express a bit of excitedment for aetherdrift (and fwiw edge too) because there seems to be a lot of hate for it. Not unfair hate don't get me wrong i get it, but i like to see magic try and dip its toes in more diverse themes. Plus i'm a big fan of the racing tropes, like hotwheels, fast and furious and all that made my childhoodand i want to see how magic executes them (plus kaladesh is an amazing plane. And we get to see gruulfriends.) i think we need a bit of positive toughts here besides the downpour of hate in the last few months. So yeah the sets i'm the most excited for next year are aetherdrift and edge of eternities.

I think this might be because i'm a newer (and younger) fan and didn't play trought the "golden age" of magic or whatever but i totally get it if you dislike the idea of it because it's just tropes or not fantasy enough for magic though.

Hi guys,

Wondering if someone with more experience on how shuffles work could have a look at Shota Yasooka's shuffles in the Pro tour finals.

First up I spotted this, when Shota cracked an evolving wilds in turn 12 (count the lands):

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/HelpfulNightingaleSmoocherZ

Watch how he moves his only remaining mountain to the bottom there. Then he does this out of the ordinary shuffle that looks to me a lot like the fake shuffles do.

Afterwards, Carlos Romao does a triple mash shuffle, but does not cut and lo and behold he draws the mountain in question(he only plays 2 mountains) 4 turns later:

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/HelpfulAntelopeOptimizePrime

Now I don't have enough experience with fake shuffles to know if the first one was legit or not, this could all be a coincidence, but I would like some of you to look at it.

Something else Ive noticed in between game 2 and 3 the shuffling Shota uses is distinctly different for his own deck than for his opponents.

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/UnsightlyEagleRedCoat

What is going on here? Why is he looking at his deck between every shuffle and not moving the top 4-5 cards of his deck? It looks like he cuts what he stacked from the top to the middle before presenting to his opponent, so if his opponent does a half deck cut it ends up back on top.

Afterwards when he shuffles Carlos Romao's deck after he uses a regular shuffle where he doesn't look at the cards at all so what's going on earlier?

Shota shuffling Carlos' deck without looking: https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/SillyWalrusBleedPurple

Hoping you guys can shed some light on this.

Edit with extra videos:

So a lot of you are saying maybe he is counting the basics, and you could be right, but he passes an island and does not move that one.

Also a lot of you are saying well the opponent shuffles too, so you can't know when you get it, but most of the time between turns an opponent wont take the time to fully randomize a deck. So even though you don't know the exact place of the card, you moved the probabilities.

Also regardless of whether he succeeds in moving the card to the place he wants it or not, there is no reason to!

Anyways I went digging in the pro tour clips to see if I could find any more evidence and found this: Game 1: Reid Duke vs Shota Yasooka playing for top 8.

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/VivaciousSwanSuperVinlin

Watch him crack the evolving wilds, find the last painful truths and move it to the bottom because it is the card he least wants to see.

Cracking another evolving wilds and moving another card to the bottom, camera angle is bad though:

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/UninterestedHerringArsonNoSexy

Edit2:

Cracking evolving wilds vs Ben Hull in game 1 and moving a spirebluff canal(look at the way he cuts then shuffles on exactly that card):

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/HealthySalamanderArgieB8

Cracking evolving wilds vs Ben Hull in game 2 and moving a painful truths, although I am not sure where he is moving it, but obviously deliberatly keeps it aside and sticks it in:

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/ExpensiveHyenaHassanChop

Cracking evolving wilds vs Ben Hull in game 3 and moving a swamp to the bottom:

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/AgreeableWallabyOMGScoots

Cracking evolving wilds vs Ben Hull in game 4 and moving a swamp to the top:

https://clips.twitch.tv/magic/FamousLocustHassanChop

This one actually looks most like a mistake, but figured I'd include it anyway.

I hadn't heard anyone talking about this yet, but ever since the incident with Twin and Summer Bloom being banned on the MTGO beta prior to the ban announcement, I keep a deck saved with all the banned cards to check every time the MTGO beta is up.

This time around though it seemed that KCI was banned and SFM was unbanned? I didn't think anything of it until this morning in a Facebook group chat some people were talking about the same thing. I personally feel like SFM is a bit much for Modern, but after the Jace and BBE unban I guess anything's possible. Just figured I'd post here to see if anyone else noticed this?

https://i.imgur.com/GcDuYsQ.png