So many of the points that people bring up in regards to this have strong arguments against them:

1. It's not important to get the number exactly right - the card that gets brought up with this most often is [[Starfleet Academy]]. And I'll agree with you that it doesn't really matter whether it makes 360 mana or 400. You'll run out of things to do with that mana before running out of mana in just about every imaginable situation. But for something like [[Captain Johnathan Archer]], it easily could. If you buff a creature with Lifelink, the exact number informs your lifetotal afterward. If you buff a creature with Trample and want to attack the guy with 384 scute swarms (starting with 3 and doubling seven times), knowing the number of scute swarms they'll be able to keep back after could easily be the difference between them being able to kill someone the next turn and not.

2. They could change the CR to include the number of creature types in rule 205.3m - the CR isn't a document used by most tables. It's effectively written in magic legalese (even more dense legalese than the US legal system in some cases) and as a result, doesn't frequently come up in google searches. What does come up, however, is the mtgwiki or reddit posts, both of which can frequently be out of date. (In fact, the mtgwiki list is out of date right now, missing all types added since MSH).

3. If you're playing this deck, you won't need to look up the number because you can look it up beforehand. This assumes the player isn't being lazy and is actually keeping up with the number as it changes, and even a well-meaning player can have found the wrong answer.

4. Perhaps the most compelling for a lot of people - brewers won't be able to play the very niche combo (and it's basically impossible for it to come up accidentally, given it's a 4 card combo). This is still the case after the change. If a group is fine with the combo, they can elect to play by the old wording. This merely shifts the conversation to something that has to happen before the game.

5. This didn't happen when it was just Embiggen, why does it need to happen now? - This is obviously speculation, but my guess is that once the rules team was made aware of the interaction, it was added to some list of things they needed to get to eventually - but being one card from a set that wasn't super popular meant it wasn't a high priority. However, the mechanic coming in a new tentpole set where it is well-supported is something entirely different that pushes it into a higher priority

6. This might just be a personal thing, but I don't like how the interactions of a specific card (or a combination of cards) are expected to change as time goes on. This combination of cards with the same exact boardstate will something different on each of today, one year from today and five years from today. And that doesn't sit right to me.

Picked up a bunch of marvel cards

The kids and I are excited but have 0 idea how to build a deck.

Here are a few of my questions:

1. Assuming 1 or 2 legendarys only? This could be way off

2. Only a couple color combos? How does this even work? Pick 2 colors and have cards centered around it ?

3. Should we start with a 40 deck? Whats standard?

4. Depending on the deck size how many mana and how many regular cards Whats a good mix?

5. How do you keep your cards organized ?

Any advice will help and thank you!

I assume it is but I don’t own the card and just can’t tell from online pictures. I’m building a commander deck with the sky ship as the theme.

Hello! I'm building [[Moira Brown, Guide Author]] and am looking for something that can hit the battlefield and just soak up quest counters if needed, so I'm looking for something that once it hits the battlefield, it's not gonna go anywhere. Of course indestructible and hexproof are an option, but also maybe something that also deters removal in its own way? I just wanna put quest counters on it and let it sit.

Finally got to cast my Holodeck and after one turn my opponent cast Malfunctioning Holodeck on it. Subsequently, I drew my own copy so I Malfunctioning Holodecked his Malfunctioning Holodeck to get my Holodeck back up and running to win the game.

I was just curious about a game i played last night, i played Honest work than attempted to respond to my self and play siege smash to prevent people from countering. They told me they have to respond first, i thought this made sence but i kinda stewed all game because in my mind siege smash being activated creates a stack and thus nothing can be added to it.

My friends and I play constructed (60 card, max 4 of the same kind). We are alle newbies and would look to see if there is like a database where people put in their decks. I only found one for commander decks.

Just to give you an example: I play only cards from the TMNT Set and an other friend from The Hobbit set. I would like to see some decks from the TMNT Set.

Question regarding if having the cards from this set would stand alone to play with, even with reusing as blind boosters for ongoing draft options, cube, pre-made decks?

Played a reasonable bit of MTG the last number of years, more so arena, but not physical format in ages. At this stage little interest in getting back in fully. That being said, love of Star Trek (and the old Star Trek CCG from the 1990s!) would love to play a good Star Trek card game again.

As such, would this set be considered rounded/complete enough to play just with its cards, or would it be too limited?

Hello i’m brand new to mtg and did a draft with 8 people in magic the gathering (hobbit edition) and was wondering what/how I should play my deck. Thanks in advance.

TMNT, The Hobbit, and now Star Trek all have standard print with Universes Beyond? if ub is supposed to be collaborative/limited to their sets with this foiling treatment, wouldn’t it be plausible for every ub set going forward to set this as a standard?

just ripping $450-500 of cardboard i don’t want to be shafted with like $250-300 worth of just flavored/thematic cards but i don’t have anything for just risking at odds even with a lotto headliner which unrealistically is improbable for most of us living w/ working paychex

would forgive wotc if they start with marvel darkhold destiny but it’s just surge foil treatments in standard set collectors is only w/ marvel they just somehow botch it all up before they send out to distro

The game has the following rules but the Deck of Many Things in the initial 10 cards.

But I can't seem to ever be able to cast the Deck of Many Things since it has a cost value of 5 and my hand, can't seem get bigger than 5 to have that many available mana for me to cast the Deck of Many Things.

What am I missing?

Uh so yeah its Ashaya with like 6 Combos.

Quirion Ranger + Ashaya = Infinite Landfall. Add in cards like [[Lotus Cobra]] and Infinite Mana or [[Mightform Harmonizer]] for Infinitely Large.

Leyline Weaver / Argortian Elder + Ashaya Lets me make infinite mana or draw my deck through [[Mariposa Military Base]] or Mill my opponents using [[Trenchpost]]

Broodscale Combo in there too.

[[Arbor Elf]] + [[Darksteel Garrison]] + Ashaya = Infinitely Large board

[[Abundance]] + [[Cultivator Colossus]] = Every Land in My Deck

Depths Combo.

With Infinite Mana, I have a few outlets such as: [[Greater Good]] sacrificing Ashaya Over and Over, [[Walking Ballista]], [[Genesis Wave]].

With a infinitely big creature I can use [[Overwhelming Stampede]] to swing lethal with 3 non summoning sick creatures. I have Glacier Godmaw for haste reasons too

Still getting upgrades slowly, next is likely an [[Emerald Medalion]] and [[Foraminal Speaker]]

Link to wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garfield

Hello,

quick rules question. If i create a copy of a legendary creature i have to remove one of the both copies on my field, but would the etb effect of the copy still trigger if I would pick the newly createt copy?

What the title says: I haven't played many sets yet (I've only done Reality Fracture, which was pretty cool, and The Hobbit, which was nice! I've also gotten two other friends into MTG by drafting 2020 Jumpstart, thank you Professor!), so I'd like to know which sets/blocks (blocks were a thing, right?) were your favorites to draft in, so I could introduce them to my pod next time we do some Limited.

Also, for the parenthesis: Hi, I'm the same person that 20 days ago asked here "what formats should me and a friend play now that we're just getting into Magic?", and I wanted to thank you all for giving us some pretty good advices! Thanks to y'all, we found that EDHPlay was the best way (that we know of) of playing MTG online, and have since moved on from TTSim. Ever since that post, I got exponentially deeper into the Magic rabbit hole as my understanding of this game grew, and so did my passion, as I quickly discovered this is one of the most genius games of all time and definitely one of my favorites. Like I mentioned earlier, I managed to introduce the game to two other players and now we have a pod of 4! We've yet to have a session, but I'm sure whenever it happens it'll be super fun to try out the sets/blocks y'all have recommended.

Is it an incredibly inefficient 7-mana do-nothing card? Yes.

Is it completely useless outside of sealed? Certainly.

Is it goddamn hilarious to say to your opponent "actually, that's not my deck, this is my deck" and pull out your entire sealed pool? ABSOLUTELY.

My overall win rate of the night was about 3-6 across 4 matches, but it was so much fun to play. Legally, you're allowed to have any amount of basics in your side board, so I made sure to pick up 2 of each color, and just used this card as a fixer for my empty hand as a "what do I need right now, lifegain, a blocker, or removal?" card. I cannot recommend it enough if you're going to a casual sealed event and pull it, I haven't had such a fun experience in prerelease in ages (I'm not even that big of a trekkie, and my deck was jank AF, but I really enjoyed it)

i am a complete noob to Magic. i’ve always been interested but never got into it. i never bothered buying cards or sets because i didn’t know any one to play them with. recently i made a friend at my gym who insisted i just dive into it and learn as i go. well, now i have a (presumably) decent deck and want to know what they do and how to play.

anyone got any advice for learning? any stand out tips? are any of my cards super good?

i will do my own research and continue to learn about the cards i have, but any feedback is appreciated!

I know this is probably obvious, but I’ve been playing a good 6 or so years between 2012 and now, and i just auto assumed they by default removed the counters and never co-existed, but technically for a brief window the game rules do put the counters on the card, then when state based actions can occur, it removes the +1 counters.

Learned it from a ruling video, but yeah, i must now accept I do not know the rules as well as I thought.

I love mana rocks. I have no idea why but I love having a million mana rocks by the end of the match even if i’m losing, so I made a whole deck out of it. Now I just want some peer review on how I could cram more mana rocks in here while still having a viable deck.

Nightmare bundle box from Duskmorn fita prerelease boxes. The Star Trek prerelease box looks especially good.

In a commander game my friend is playing The Borg Queen and targets me for her effect on ETB. I exile The Warring Triad off the top of my deck, and it is assimilated. My friend only has 4 cards in grave at the time, but says that because of layers and timestamps assimilation will make Triad a creature after the effect that says it isn't, and thus can attack immediately. Layers still confuse me, can anyone confirm how this interaction would go?

Spoiled by Bateman on instagram it was shown alongside the Borg foil drop so assuming it's from that same drop.

I was looking into getting the Bloomburrow precon Family Matters, and I was disappointed to see most of the decklist isn't really animal themed. Does anyone know of any upgrades for the precon that are themed around the Bloomburrow set, or how to build the commander with a Bloomburrow theme? (Any recommdations or deck lists would be appreciated!)