the kids are roasting me on reddit but i’m curious if anyone here disagrees. i played during the early years of magic and shivan dragon was always just a cool looking dragon. 🐲 why did it become iconic? why is it still remembered? cool looking dragon.

it took me way too long to realize that the menu includes "og favorites" because "og" is short for "olive garden" rather than "original gangster". (please don't make fun of me for being at olive garden it was not by choice)

to me, edh is wacky racers. one player is going to put a jet engine on a little red wagon. another will put tank treads on a fighter plane. those are both funny and desired outcomes, but in order for them to exist you also need to accept that somebody else will put a jet engine on a fighter plane.

garruk would listen to sun o))) on his beat up iphone 6 without headphones and shush you if you tried to talk over it.

BREAKING: Judge Called To Magic Potluck Over 7-Layer Dip commandersherald.com/judge-called...

i'm a staunch supporter of regulations, and i'm sure it was originally borne of out rational concerns, but i think we're at a point as a society where medication commercials no longer need to tell us not to take the advertised medication if we are specifically allergic to it.

grocery shopping in a video game would be so stressful, you’d walk five feet away and your whole fucking shopping cart would despawn mid-store.

If there's a change to the hybrid Mana rule for commander I think it will represent a fundamental shift in the philosophy of the format that I do not want

come back no changes. 🙇💔 no changes com back.

i want to believe wotc can run a fan format with integrity and restraint but honestly, i'm ready to be let down. many brilliant people have done a great job expressing why color identity, a core part of edh, shouldn't be haphazardly upended. if nothing else your effort meant a lot to me. thank you

edh is the format where bad cards are playable, not where unplayable cards are good. i feel like a lot of people never manage to make that distinction.

still waiting for wotc to complete this cycle (whatever that means) 👹

it's interesting that there are so few black energy cards compared to other colors. the jeskai/temur precons are to blame. black has only gotten 1 new {e} card since kld/aer. red was originally 2nd fiddle to simic but now rules the roost, which feels appropriate. ⚡⚡⚡ ☀️= 22 💧= 24 💀= 8 🔥= 31 🌳= 20

local legacy win-a-dual today. 💪 i’m on stock mono-g lands. haven’t played paper legacy in years. wish me luck!

WOBBLE ICE 🧊 🔨

crappy kansas day y’all 🌻😐🦬

we’re getting hot lore in the plush store. “Lumaret Phunny plush! Small magical creatures native to Titan's Grave[…] They are believed to be a chimera of plant, insect, amphibian, and magical energy, rendering them more spirit-like and sentient than most.” …eldrazi titan’s grave?? 👀

both the jhovall and the wumpus were introduced in mercadian masques, but while we haven't seen a single jhoval printed in the intervening decades, we have gotten two (2!) new wumpus cards. that's more than 10 times as many. without this natural predator the wumpus population is out of control.

what reading every alchemy card is like for a paper magic player:

the hyvee ice cream branding goes crazy. it doesn't even say "ice cream" anywhere on the tub...🍨 big 'the stuff' (1985) vibes.

i distinctly remember the 'you-make-the-card' process for three of the program's four cards but somehow always forget that vanish into memory was also created by community members. i would say that this is on brand, considering the card's name, but i never actually forget forgotten ancient.

yeah, ok, only 410 hp but it has ▶️▶️▶️ speed and costs ⚪⚪ so i think maybe...that's...good??

this feels almost intentional.

fyi: my limited noggle card review post is now up on the noggle subreddit. 🐴🐴🐴

the premodern deck pic technology remains unparalleled. 😵‍💫

this set is never beating the spiderman 2 allegations. 🫣

fireball with the xy. xy fireball my beloved.

you're playing in the spotlight series? you're playing in the regional championship? oh, cool cool cool... so who's your deck mascot?

when the conspiracy goes all the way to the top, but the hold music is also a bop. 🔴 🎶

another 2-1, this deck felt a lot better than the golgari elves though. went 16 lands like a bad boy. i love reaping willow so so much. the noggle also did not disappoint. 🐴 got solo’s by a loch mare match 3 but my first two were bloodbaths. 🟢⚪️👍

among…well…everything…one of the least appealing things about the siderman set was how it contained so many versions of spiderman. 🕷️ spiderdog, spidertruck, spiderfrank, etc. etc. etc. 😵‍💫 based on leaks it appears that the tmnt is similar with around ~20 cards for the core turtle characters. 👎

a very grindy 2-1 at prerelease with golgari elves. i could have splashed white but the payoff weren’t really there. lost to the giant that casts free spells on attack. a free removal spell every turn is tough to beat. figure of fable is incredible tho. 🖤💚🧝

when you go the lorwyn eclipsed prerelease and open up c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶n̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶g̶i̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ your prerelease kit you will be greeted by a̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶i̶r̶o̶n̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶ a card from the ninja turtles set. i guarantee it. 🙄

i have been a dreadnought sicko for a long time and i had NO idea that the little dude in the corner was taysir from rabiah??? i feel like my whole life has been a lie. 🫠

trying to build a biblically accurate edh deck and this shit is way more difficult than i expected. 😮‍💨

🐸 S M L U R F 😍

the story and world building in blue prince is surprisingly somber for a game where you can build a house with nothing but ten hallways and a rumpus room.

a lot of people think the comic with snoopy is called "snoopy" or "charlie brown" and a lot of people pronounce the word "peanuts" similar to "penis" so at least ONE PERSON out there got corrected at some point in their life and now thinks that snoopy is inexplicably from a comic strip called penis.

there are 5 stated typal themes in lorwyn eclipsed draft but the other pairs have secret archetypes. the uncommon hybrid cards can give us clues. 🔵🟢 vivid ramp 🔴⚪ blight stompy 🔴🟢 vivid stompy ⚪⚫ blight control 🔵⚫ flash typal blight seems like a limitation for boros but a resource for orzhov.

update: we got there. 😪 💤

we've seen every card from lorwyn eclipsed so let's see how many of my dreams came true: 1️⃣ a demigod aura this mega-cycle of hybrid auras from eventide and shadowmoor imparted two color-conditional blessings from the planes spirit avatar demigods. there are no hybrid auras in eclipsed. verdict: ❌

the noggle creature might be gruul but the noggle spells are izzet. 10/10. no notes.

evershrike mentioned 🤙

when you need someone to preview the most iconic card in the set, nobody does it like emma partlow, noggle poet laureate. 🙌

i'm curious to know if the chunky truffle kelpies are being replaced by the new look or if this is the lorwyn version of the same creature? new typing also. 🌊🐴

impulse drawing 3 for 3 mana is a great rate. hard to say whether this is an effect you'd want to scale up or if the 2 for 2 versions simply fit better into most game plans. the blight cost feels pretty trivial.

with so many changelings in the set i feel like they could have just reprinted cache grab and called it a day. maybe they didn't want to add food to the token sheet?

they grow up so fast. 😭

any edh player excited about a new version of rampant growth should be twice as excited about a new version of fertile ground. while only seeing a tenth as much play, fertile ground can generate mana the turn it is played and combos with untappers. ⤵️ you should run land auras over rampant growth!