Magic Card of the Day: Cultivator Colossus Now this is a 7 drop! An immediate threat with a scaling power that can turn lands into cards and ramp you into the highest peak. Sure you can combo off but do you need to? Make your mana sources make your opponents green with envy! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Anax, Hardened in the Forge With the flame of red devotion, you too can build an incredibly resilient go wide deck that will smash the stars! With enough anthems , creatures death will double your power. Modify your creatures and show the power of the forge! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Dovin, Grand Arbiter Is he a nice man? No. But does he ultimate fast and make bodies? Absolutely. Dovin really represents the “value planeswalker” and in a flying deck, he can be a distraction or if ignored lets you refuel. Also who can say no to that title? #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: The Royal Scions Will and Rowan were close once! So close they shared card frames! Being able to loot or make a big creature incredibly threatening is great flexibility and both build towards a stunner finisher. Turn your big brain hand into big brain damage! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Ob Nixilis, the Adversary In my opinion the best planeswalkers in commander are ones that are a pain to remove, like the Adversary. Often he’s just annoying but quickly it gets out of hand. The real power is getting casualty over 7 so you can ultimate right away! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Basri Ket On paper Basri makes sense as a token deck card, but he’s great for Voltron too! Give your commander a counter and then you can cleanly Wrath of God while your beater is totally unharmed. If you ultimate, you can go both wide and tall! Or a chump blocker! #mtg

After an absolutely brutal end of con experience, I’m finally headed home . Ask me anything.

Magic Card of the Day: Vivien, Champion of the Wilds This card is a sneaky sleeper hit. Sneaky reach, sneaky card advantage, sneaky flash creatures. She does it all for a cool 3 mana. While she’s on the board, green plays like blue and even the stack isn’t safe from her volleys. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Vengevine 60 card all star, this elemental has an odd relationship with Commander. Still an effective attacker and brilliant blocker, it doesn’t represent the threat of lethal without multiple copies. However resilience is sometimes all you need in a a game of attrition. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Immortal Obligation This is such a bizarre reanimation spell. It’s basically a group hug piece to make an ally against their will but it’s hard to make effective. With so many good attack and enters triggers picking an effective target is a game onto itself. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Skyfire Phoenix Your commander is already awesome. Now just staple a 3/3 with haste and flying to it just for fun! For decks who are all about combat a free creature can warp the game a speed out a win! I love free value with little effort. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Body Double Why reanimate when you can become? 5 is the going rate for reanimating and being able to do it in blue and bypass a lot of graveyard hate reanimating flood gates. An incredible looping partner, you will wonder why you haven’t doubled sooner! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Desecrate Reality It’s never been a worse time to get even. Most players will have a great target for this spell and getting the three colorless mana needed to cast with Adamant is easy. With little effort you can get back a powerful odd card and cut down the evens. #mtg

Yall I lived! 21 games in 3 days. My brain is shot but I got to do all sorts of cool stuff! #mtg #commandfesttacoma

5 rounds of #Lorcana into a really fun Commander game with friends! 🥰 Great start to the weekend! #WOTCStaff

Magic Card of the Day: Dream Halls In my mind the best symmetrical cards are ones that fundamentally change what Magic is. This enchantment makes cards the only resource that matters and makes colorless cards a lot less useful. Now the challenge is what do you cast vs what do you discard? #mtg

My goal is 21 games at #commandfesttacoma. I think it’s ambitious, so please pin me down and play games with me!

I’m in Tacoma for #commandfesttacoma by @laughingdragonmtg.bsky.social and took Sound Transit :3 I love living in the northwest!

Magic Card of the Day: Aluren Free spells? At instant speed? Sign me up! Aluren is incredibly risky but with how powerful creatures are these days you can get some options that are difficult to stop. Likely you will need to build a combo that lets you cast into a storm to get the most value. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Spreading Plague Who needs creatures? With this enchantment you can turn each creature into a board wipe and all shared colors enemies. Never has it been worse to be multicolor. Pair with colorless Eldrazi for true devastation. Your only color identity is death. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Pure Reflection Truly a BOGO of a card, creature spells now do double duty, creating a reflection. Only one can exist at a time meaning in an aristocrats deck you can abuse those die triggers! And what happens if you start making opponents creatures reflections? 🤔 #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Possibility Storm This week’s theme is symmetrical cards! For cards like this, that force spells to be random, your deck’s job is to find a way to get more value and control the chaos. For example being able to cheat in larger spells or increasing storm count! #mtg

The best part of being a weird gremlin on the internet is making more ridiculous art and nonsense with my dearest friends. Tonight, @everiotartist.bsky.social , @teagrandarbiter.bsky.social & I are unleashing a new "super secret" game during Friday Tea at 6:30 PM Pacific youtube.com/@madameaskew...

Magic Card of the Day: Retaliatory Griffin The best defense is a good consequence. Turn each random damage into a buff for this griffin. This will quickly make a flying attacker that can get revenge for a lost life total. Combined with a source of lifelink, no one can safely attack you. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Etherwrought Page At 4 mana this is probably over the line for modern Magic but the diversity of effects can be quite effective. It’s whatever trigger you need at the moment and is innocuous enough to not attract removal. It can slowly gain a lot of value played early. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Finest Hour I guess additional combat steps are Red and Bant? The effect is very tied to Exalted so I can get on board. Take advantage of exalted twice and ensure your opponent is taken out. But done with chivalry.

My understanding of the mtg commander brackets is that they are not and cannot be built to address the actions of bad actors. It’s meant to reduce non-games and make folks have fun, but if folks are lying or betraying the spirit of the activity nothing can specifically prevent that behavior. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Madrush Cyclops Is there better haste enablers? Yes. Has this guy been power crept to death….. probably. But being on a creature in a deck containing black means that when you do mass reanimation you immediately get to smack back, going from no board to an alpha strike. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Unscythe, Killer of Kings This week is about Alara Reborn, Magic’s 100% gold set. Unscythe is unassuming as a fairly high costed equipment, but its secondary effect applies to all damage. Spells like Chandra’s Ignition can board wipe and make a zombie horde! #mtg

Had a great time with @commandzoe.bsky.social on their stream, check out my infinitokens for tracking Zoe as the target of my Curse of Oppulence and my “Vacation Day” Treasure tokens.

Magic Card of the Day: Retaliate Don’t let anyone attack you without consequences. In a deck with life gain you can egg people into overcommitting, take a big hit and then blow out that fool. It’s not a clean wipe but it does delete any creature who did any damage. Make folks fear combat. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Artificer’s Intuition I don’t always like tutors but when I do I love them highly specific and repeatable. I love that this card requires artifacts to likely get weaker artifacts but combining with graveyard strategies, it’s really only costing like half a card. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Cosmic Larva Okay…. I love this card. It’s just stats with a downside but trample is nice! But sacrificing 2 lands each turn is so brutal. Also….what was the prompt for this art? Like @jeffeasley.bsky.social how did we get here? Neat downside to manage tho! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Beacon of Unrest One of the premiere cycles of powerful Commander sorceries, the beacons are fun recursive spells that shuffle back in to reemerge later. Unrest in my mind is the most consistent per mana spent, but the fact it can recur an artifact can suprise folks! #mtg

Another week of charming, cheeky nonsense from @teagrandarbiter.bsky.social et moi! Friday, we have marvelous guests, @sharonskinner.bsky.social & @brickcave.bsky.social. And! My favourite book chat in all the universe on Sunday. (I may be biased) More at the link madameaskew.com/2025/10/14/w...

Magic Card of the Day: Etched Oracle I’m finding similarities between small UB sets and the last sets of blocks. Let’s talk 5th Dawn. Mirrodin as a block pushed colorless power but 5th Dawn emphasized colored mana. The theme WUBRG made for an odd last draft pack. But the cards were iconic #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Brawn Incarnations are my favorite type due to its flavor of a concept manifested. Brawn epitomizes graveyard effects, the effect only active if you have lost the creature but its presence is felt across the battlefield. With one of the best flavor texts, it inspired me. #mtg

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Magic Card of the Day: Stitch Together Reanimation for 2 is crazy work even with the “difficulties” of achieving threshold. I love threshold but modern graveyard shenanigans just can set it up too quickly with mill and fetches. Delirium is more work, but serves the same job. #mtg

I'll be joining Madame Askew & The Grand Arbiter for a virtual tea party this Friday (10/10) at 6:30pm pacific/9:30pm eastern. If you can't make it to my live on Saturday, maybe you can pop in for some tea the night before? www.facebook.com/events/14878...

Magic Card of the Day: Wormfang Manta Look, looping additional turns is obnoxious but I love cards like this that have interesting downsides. With modern magic design there are few of these problem cards that have interesting solutions. What would you do with this beast fish? #mtg

This was a great game last night but I couldn’t have closed out the game without my trusty @infinitokens.com ! My 12 golems and angels helped me close out the game!

Slight change in line up but at 10:30pm est be sure to come hang out with me @renothevast.bsky.social @teagrandarbiter.bsky.social and @notmydeath.bsky.social as sling some casual cardboard rectangles over on twitch.tv/trivialencounters

Magic Card of the Day: Browbeat I know it says draw three cards. I know it’s in red and that’s a crazy rate. It is never happening. But if you wanna watch three players debate who’s gonna take the 5 damage, it’s kind of a fun social experiment. Just know you are adding it for the mini game. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Nomad Mythmaker This week is about one of my favorite sets, Judgement. A bizarre set with more Green and White cards. This card gets better every year. Auras have become powerful and now sky’s the limit. Voltron should consider this as a way to rebuild after a wipe! #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Shapesharer This card is deceptively simple, but has so much depth. On the surface it’s a temporary clone, possible best in Kindred decks, but you can also change ANY shapeshifter making any shapeshifter/Changeling, into anything. For you, all forms are temporary. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Woodland Guidance I know it’s well past day now! This card was really improved by how many things are Forests 🌳 and of course Yavimaya. With a high mana value deck you can bring something back and then clash to untap to cast it this turn! Talk about verdant tech! #mtg

@strixhavendropout.bsky.social is an amazing creator and one of my favorite people I’ve met in the MTG content creation scene. An incredible empathetic writer and strong player, you should be following them already!!!

Magic Card of the Day: Hostility Incarnation is my favorite creature type and the “concept elementals” are the best part of Lorwyn. Hostility is fascinating because it effectively triples spell damage. With actual multipliers the values explode. A true hostile attitude. #mtg

Magic Card of the Day: Faerie Tauntings This enchantment ensures your disruption and value generated on other players turns whittles away their life totals. Saving your spells till the last moment can easily eat 3-5 life from each opponent. Just make sure your machinations aren’t disrupted! #mtg