In This Thread We Talk About Magic The Gathering

[Nemo]

In 1993 Richard Garfield invented a small game called "Magic the Gathering" and we are still feeling the aftershocks of this wicked act even today.

30+ years later, Magic has changed a good deal but ultimately most of the gist remains the same. Build your 60 card deck with various sites of power, summoned creatures, magick spells, race cars, lasers, aeroplanes, and whatnots, with the aim of reducing your opponent's life total from 20 to 0, bringing them great shame and sorrow. I wasn't kidding about the race cars, lasers, or aeroplanes by the way, like I said things have gotten a little different while mostly staying the same.

[space reserved for more details on the game, like Standard, Modern, Legacy, Commander, Magic Arena, Spelltable, Secret Lairs, the Guilds of Ravnica, the Other Guilds of Other Places, the Importance of Storm Crow, the One Thousand Dollar Booster Pack, the Time Post Malone Spent Two Million American Dollars On A Magic Card, and of course Yargle the Most Important Character]

There has likely not been a better time to start playing or return to the game, with the Redwall-esque "Bloomburrow" set releasing last year and the Final Fantasy-esque "Final Fantasy" set releasing earlier this year. Yes you too can combine the power of adorable otter people and Vivi from FFIX and smash through piles of demons to achieve victory, in this the year of our Lord 2025. What a time to be alive.

Do you play this horrible money-eating game of millionaires? Do you play this artistic game of creative expression and wits? Do you know where my got dam lands are? I put 26 of them in this deck I know they're in there.

[Ja'aran]

I think Ajani Goldmane is handsome

[Enbyeon]

I play Commander almost every week with a group of friends via spelltable. I tried Arena, but without the social aspect, MTG gets toxic very quickly.

I have a lot of decks, so I'm gonna post like two at a time to not clog this thread.

Gyome's Bento Beatdown (link)


This is a Ninja Food deck. I use cheap deathtouch creatures to go in on the attack, and when players leave them unblocked, I throw in ninjas and then recast the cheap deathtouchers. This leads to a lot of food tokens via Gyome and that in turn has multiple payoffs in the deck to finish opponents.

Squall Hits the Road (link)


Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite FF and as soon as the card was revealed, I knew I had to make a Squall deck. I already have other voltron and mill/graveyard decks, so I made a landfall deck with Squall instead. It turned out to be very effective in my group and it's a lot of fun to play.

I actually got my start in MTG back in the original Kamigawa block and I still love that set, despite its flaws. Neon Dynasty was a banger through and through though. I also enjoy some sealed gameplay, but since I play whatever people play in person, which in this case is Commander, I just have EDH decks now.

Would love to get into pauper though.

[Jelly]

magic was my Thing for a long time; at this point i've resolved not to spend any more money on it, though with some of my ff14 raid group looking into the game and having Forge on my phone as my preferred time-killer game away from home, i'm still lurking mythicspoiler and occasionally tinkering with updates to old decklists. my favorite format is draft (and i have opinions about it), i don't really care for commander (because i have opinions about it) but i do keep two decks around for it; jaya ballard, task mage, a mono-red control-ish deck that i've been fussing with since, what, 2009? and lonis, cryptozoologist "i'll just use your deck lmao". and i also keep an unchanged osgir the reconstructor precon around just in case i play against someone completely new. i played d&t in legacy up until it got stolen from work with the rest of my backpack; serves me right for not leaving it in my trunk i guess, though i live in the desert and i get nervous leaving sleeves in my car outside all day. every once in a great while i dust off MSE and fill out a bit of my custom xerex set, though i'd be pretty surprised if i ever actually got it into a draftable state. i keep an original innistrad cube around, though i don't think i've ever used it, which is a shame.
back in the day i was trying to get an in-person pauper scene going in my hometown and playing mono-blue mono-counterspells (decklist lost to time, but yknow, it was every good counterspell circa ~2014 [+faerie trickery], think twice, spire golems, deserts, you get the picture); i found a place nearby after i moved that was doing pauper and enjoyed running rakdos madness for some time.

[EmmyPup]

oh HECK yeah I love brewing random commander decks, two of my faves are my Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm dragon copying deck and my Renata, Called to the Hunt devotion deck which just wants to throw out big beefy dorks and smash face

[ausgoth]

GOLGARI NUMBER 1



anyway i have somewhat recently as of mid last year gotten way more in to magic in a big way, as opposed to kind of casually observing it and playing very little.

i especially love sealed formats!! i wish i could play prerelease 2 headed giant every week. i have so much sealed product in my house specifically for playing with and its all just sitting here. please come to my house.

[SlushieCat]

My wife is absolutely obsessed with commander and I tag along and enjoy myself quite a bit. We tend to get either a bundle or a booster box every time a set comes out. It's a hell of a money sink but it's also kind of all we do unessential spending on.

I've got quite a few commander decks, but only 3 physical ones. My favorite is my Roxanne, Starfall Savant deck. I drop rocks on people then I drop Etalis on people. It's very fun and she's a pretty cat lady.

Roxanne card img

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Most of our playing is done in Tabletop Simulator, but she's getting started with spelltable soon.

[flatwood]

Used to play a lot of the Pokemon TCG but after getting a little bored of it and being introduced to the Commander format, I haven't looked back. One of my favourite decks to play is Gev, Scaled Scorch as I've wanted an excuse to make a lizard themed deck for ages. Viashino became errata'd to Lizard a somewhat recently so that helped beef up my deck. I've many other ones but I always have to play this at least once. And it's relatively easy to do so.

Hurt players before playing lizards.

Play lizards.

MMM beefy lizard creatures with a potential of +3/+3 on entry.

Currently trying to build Kuja from the Final Fantasy set at the moment. Friend of mine bought a couple of pre-cons from the set and is gonna toss me a couple cards he has plus a few more to help out.

[JenniferSkunk]

I've been playing Magic since 2010, when an ex gave me a Ravnica preconstructed deck. I've been pretty helplessly addicted ever since!

My constructed format of choice is Legacy. I really enjoy the depth of lines of play, the decision trees, the huge choice of viable decks and playstyles, and the ability to play with cards going all the way back to the beginning. I'm particularly fond of Show and Tell, and also try to pilot High Tide (badly).

I've also got a vintage Cube, including the Power 9. If anyone's curious, my current 540-card cube is catalogued online at https://www.cubecobra.com/cube/list/cqz.

I also play Commander, though my true heart lies in 1v1 formats.

[GnollandVoid]

I'm honestly surprised at the number of Golgari fans on the forum more than anything.

[Enbyeon]

I only have one Golgari Deck, but I mostly play black or green colors, so felt the most appropriate vote.

[EdenCoven]

We voted Izzet because fun mad science dragon nerds.

[Ragepyro]

I'm honestly surprised at the number of Golgari fans on the forum more than anything.

In my head I'm Mono red, but in my heart, in my heart I know I'm Golgari.

I picked up magic in 2010/2011 cuz I was in a bookstore and saw the intro deck with Sunburst Angel as the front and was like "WAOW, pretty art!" and then the descent into madness began. Black is where I usually hang out, first standard deck was desperately trying to make mono black discard a thing, in a meta with cawblade and jtms.

Primary commander right now is
The Most Dangerous Gamer (Link)

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I don't know why, what started as a silly fun deck became the most tuned one I own. My favourite quote from someone unknowing of what I was about to do is "I don't know what your Tunnel of Love does, and I'm scared of it"

Idk magic is really fun and silly and I'm consistently frustrated at how Wizards handles it.

Oh also I help manage Scryfall tagger as of a few months ago, the community sourcing project that is why you can type art:hat into scryfall and get every magic card with a hat in its art. (There are more useful uses, but that's my go to example)

[Enbyeon]

Primary commander right now is
The Most Dangerous Gamer (Link)

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My favorite thing about this card is that it gave us the "Gamer" creature type, so whenever I want to declare a creature type for silly reasons, I can pick "Gamer."

[Ragepyro]

My favorite thing about this card is that it gave us the "Gamer" creature type, so whenever I want to declare a creature type for silly reasons, I can pick "Gamer."

All changelings are and always will be, gamers

Technically they could print Amass gamers, #riseupgamerarmy

[Enbyeon]

My Kelsien deck is kind of gamer-themed... I have some cards with specific art to make him RP a pro gamer. Like Mother of Runes being the mom that cheers her son on, the Stunning Reversal being the "clutch" moment and the animal partners being MMO pets.

[GnollandVoid]

I'm honestly surprised at the number of Golgari fans on the forum more than anything.

In my head I'm Mono red, but in my heart, in my heart I know I'm Golgari.

I tend to stalk Golgari, and, when feeling indulgent, I might venture into Jund. I believe in honest Magic, though, so no blue or white.

[Duskymew]

I mostly play commander these days, Mairsil the pretender being my favourite legendary creature but recently having fun playing a squall reanimator deck

I also have modern merfolk built

[Al Baron]

I don't have nothing to add that's productive (yet) but I do have this:



(Also I want Ashcoat in Arena; my rat deck craves digital Rat Warlock.)

[Al Baron]

Well EOE is looking pretty cool I wonder how the Spider-Man Set is doing

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Hmm. Well not exactly feeling it from the current spoilers but there's still some nifty stuff here like The CEO of Sex getting in (though not Legendary) and Bill Sienkiewicz coming back for art on not only Spider-Man but Magic too (last time was way back in '96.)