Shouting into the void: Commander decks over the years have featured oversized commanders, which I don't get, and thick commanders, the same size as the actual commander card. But since they can do an alternate, not-legal commander, could we start getting some lenticular cards or something neat?

What's the most absurd hoop you've jumped through in a game of Magic, just for laughs or to style on the table with something amazing? I'm thinking back to an April Fools acorn commander game where my buddy pulled off Battle of Wits by bringing multiple other decks into the game and combining them.

Hear me out: for Universes Beyond, keep the ones that really don't have a Magic vibe like Spider-Man or Doctor Who to commander decks, scene boxes, and the like. While I don't *love* UB in standard, mostly due to the prices, I don't mind as much if we get, say, Elder Scrolls rather than Marvel.

I know this isn't a great card early game, but I'm still kind of surprised that this card doesn't see more play. I only ran across this because of its new printing.

A few weeks ago, I wrapped up MarcCon 2025, a mini Magic convention I organized for my 40th birthday. A secret goal I set for myself: dust off my CE Black Lotus and surprise slam it in its first in-game appearance… but only by copying a friend’s Garth One-Eye commander. I did it!

Rankle’s obnoxiously mismatched manabase update. Each and every swamp must tilt someone somehow. It has become an exercise in creativity. If 1 is “white-bordered”, and 10 is “Black Lotus but sharpied over to say Swamp”, I think I’m operating at like 2-6. We can go deeper.

Updating my spreadsheet

This is what you are funding @ultimateguard.bsky.social when you make HP licensed products A billionaire who uses her massive wealth & influence to bully, harass, & strip the rights of Trans individuals - who make up a sizeable amount of your customer base

I’ve been buying and recommending @ultimateguard.bsky.social deckboxes almost exclusively for a while, but with today’s shitshow I’ll be looking for alternatives. Anyone know of deckboxes with the same form factor as Boulder 100s?

Hey @ultimateguard.bsky.social are the marginals on these boxes post-licencing worth directly funding anti-trans policy? Or do you just generally hate queer people? Asking for my audience, & those of my other creator friends xoxo

Looking for a way to speed up your deck building on Moxfield? Just drag and drop them in from @scryfall.com! #MTG

Picked this deck box up from @ultimateguard.bsky.social and I was so excited until I flipped it over. Looks like my art was extended with ai. @magic.wizards.com needs to make sure their partners don’t do this. I would have happily extended this for a couple hundred $$. Instead it looks awful!

PLEASE STOP SHOWING SPIDER-MAN CARDS I just want one week with my silly little space ships. PLEASE.

Every time I see a Final Fantasy card I’m reminded of how much more I saved and how disappointed I’ve been. Collector booster boxes are $1,300+ or out of stock. I once again want to throw money at WotC but can’t. Looks like EoE will similarly outprice me. I can’t even whale here Jesus Christ.

Dandan… but Hedron Alignment 🤔

I imagine a specific subset of gamers would be interested in getting their hands on one of these playmats. ⛏️ 💎 More details later this year!

Good morning! Here’s a weekday bump for my extensive MTG x Final Fantasy explainer video that went up Friday. Who is Cid? Or a different Cid? Why is there Instant Ramen? Why does Edgar care about coin flips? youtu.be/LuiA-uLu_JI

So, acetone on foils, huh? 😁 I tried it on a few just to learn things and see what else I’d need to learn or buy. Do they make precision cotton swabs? Some of the lines are tricky even with tape. This is foil, foil, etched, galaxy, and turns out DFT yellow is just normal foil underneath.

I'm this deep into planning the next two quarters of MtG events at Mojang and think to myself, "Wait is this just work??" 😂

I’d love to meet some other regular Magic event organizers, especially unsanctioned or not tied to stores. Swap organization and promotion tips, that sort of thing. Know anyone? For my part, I run a small weekly EDH night, monthly drafts, a quarterly 16 person sealed league, and used to run cons.

No EU summer MagicCon + turning 40 caused me to run a 3 day Magic event for a bunch of friends. I figured I’d have “con merch” and commission a Magic artist for a playmat, which some thought was “overkill”. 🤔 Anyway, here’s the gorgeous MarcCon 2025 Stockholm playmat by @tituslunter.bsky.social!

New playmats turned out great!

I knew I had to make a Deadpool overlay. Now to get these printed on clear plastic tokens 😁

Lmao wizards continues to not want my money, despite trying to throw it at them. No FF secret lair or collector boosters for me, no commander decks. And aside from the events I run, no play boosters for me either. Was my most anticipated set of the year, too. Squeezed the joy out of this release.

I've spent a LOT of time tonight ordering 25 custom playmats. Finished at GamerMats, found out they don't ship to EU, despite allowing the address earlier in the process. Switched to InkedGaming, all of their shipping options are more than A MONTH. Does anyone have a good EU playmat printer? 😭

Assuming that you play Talion on turn four, you can play another non-legendary Talion on each of your following turns, and the game goes long... what order are you picking the numbers 1-10?

The world feels like it’s falling apart but all I want to do is play games with my friends and discuss the custom dice, tokens, and other gaming paraphernalia I use to add just a tiny bit more joy and understanding to our sessions. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hooboy, I am not loving the Final Fantasy cards that are both reskins and pre-existing screenshots from games. It’s good that we get more cards in a setting we might not return to, but everything being old makes it feel cheap, like you can see behind the production and remember it’s just cardboard.

@gavinverhey.bsky.social Hey Gavin! Brackets- good so far! But one thing I've found that might not work as well is the comparison to precons. I think I understand how WotC builds them (often doing two different things, room to add and grow), but not everyone can guage precons without owning one.

@moxfield.com Yo! Could we get a feature sometime that sorts by number of tags applied to cards? That way when you’re looking to cut, you can start with the cards with just one tag, and know to ignore cards with five tags because those cards do ALL the things your deck wants to do.

I want to find the team that made this and tell them what a good job they did. Mashing up two brands is hard, and the way this uses both and then flows from a realistic to a comic style is just great.

Friends, if you know anyone who pulls a serialized Aetherspark and wants trades… I have trades. And I need spark. ⚡️

Any Star Trek fans out there? 😁

Any way to make this intentionally upsetting manabase bette-, er, worse? 😁

Long shot, but do we know any artists who are great with city scenes and are open to doing a commission? I have a specific need to manifest an idea into a tangible object for an event I’m putting together…

This wizard card drinking game was being casually played by my friends. I started combining off but needed to take like five shots, so it’s a little unclear which one of us really lost… 🥴 Bringing Magic friends to a card game is certainly a vibe. 😂

Okay so Discord, Lord of Disharmony would be a pretty rough commander to manage… but I think I’ve made it a lot easier. My iPad now takes an arbitrary number of random castable cards and spits out a single image of that turn’s options. Add Infinitokens for permanents. Would you play against this?

Well you know what they say, you win some, you lose some. 😂 😭 All cards I had before bannings and unbannings. Is Mana Crypt even legal to play anywhere now?

Hey look, it's the Minecraft-themed zombie, treasure, food, and clue tokens showing up on Commander at Home! Thanks Serge <3 Since it's a fan project they're not for sale, but maybe folks would be interested in a giveaway? Awesome art by @ciberkoi.bsky.social and @vanillaburp.bsky.social!

Traded away two old Xboxes for some Magic cards today. Win-win in my mind. Also not the strangest thing I’ve traded cards for…

I could not be happier that wizards did this. A win from top to bottom

This website rules

Raise your hand if you would sensibly chuckle at this

Draft booster boxes moving to 30 packs instead of 36 is gonna really screw up my draft prize support and, more annoyingly, sealed league math. It all worked out nicely before.

All the best domain names are taken

Claiming my name here in case Twitter totally goes to hell and the Magic community has a mass Exodus. Or Invasion? Maybe Planeshift.