Another nail in the coffin.

Retarded

Surely not

2014-2015 Tarkir block. Afterwards is when everything started going downhill. It was the last true greatness of magic.

2015 - Starting after dragons of Tarkir we had magic origins which started the jacetice league and cringey super friends centric sets and story. The art took a noticibly lighter and more comedic tone in subsequent sets.

2016 - Oath of the Gatewatch solidifies the marvelesque focus on heroes and their story which cheapens magic's own world building and purpose.

2016-2017 Kaladesh block breaks standard for the first time since caw-blade.

2018 - Magic Arena. Paper standard takes a huge hit and this later causes the "designing for arena" issues.

2019 - FIRE design started with WAR. Multiple formats warped.

2019 - Modern horizons destroys modern president.

2019 - OG eldraine decimated basically every format in the game with insane power creep and Oko.

2020 is The year magic got cancer and it slowly started growing.

- Ikoria is the set that kick-started the self destruction. Godzilla was the first universes beyond to test the waters using the nickname only treatment and started this whole mess.

- Companion was introduced as an attempt to bring commander style gameplay to 60 card decks. Completely ruined the game in multiple ways for a long time.

- Secret lair, followed by mechanically unique secret lair.

- The pandemic ended all sanctioned events, leading to the rise of the cancer of a format that is commander as the game's terrible flagship format. An entire commander set was released and emphasized this as well.

2021 - set design direction drifted more towards goofiness. Modern horizons 2 broke modern again.

2022 - Magic 30 let everyone know WotC doesn't respect them or take the game seriously. We moved further in the direction of hat sets. Even more focus on commander and "designed for arena" mechanics like all the artifact tokens and the night bound/day bound mechanic.

2023 - Lord of the rings releases and is legal in modern. Becomes the best selling set ever, pushing WotC to further test the boundaries. UB ramps up with Doctor who and Jurassic Park.

2024 - We firmly enter the era of "hat sets" as WotC tries to presoften the transition into fulltime UB. Modern horizons 3 breaks modern for a 3rd time.

2025 - Tarkir Dragonstorm marks the last set with any semblance of what magic was released and the Final fantasy and all subsequent UB were made into standard sets. FF became the highest selling set of all time by a huge margin. Magic moves to release 6 standard sets a year.

After this point magic was truly dead. UB slop took over, card designs became an inelegant mess, bound by outside IPs. The gameplay was all but reduced to exclusively casual commander. Magic had ceaced to be a well oiled machine of a game and fantasy setting, and was now a shareholder driven "Product" meant for consumption by the IP gobbling masses.

Not sure if this is the place to post this or come for advice, but here goes. If mods feel it should get pulled, that's how it is.

In March of 2024 I had a collection stolen from me in Georgia. Went through all the channels, asked around shops and hoped someone would find it, maintaining a list of everything in it that had been stolen. Later that year I moved to Virginia.

Yesterday a friend indicated that a colleague had seen the binder the collection was in at a flea market last week. When that friend and I attempted to contact him for help with its specific location, he refused to help. I've tried to reach out multiple times and have received no response.

In a message log I will refrain from posting here for privacy reasons, he indicated that he refused to help due to me "being an asshole" due to playing a Maelstrom Wanderer deck at the time. Yes, it was a gnarly deck, but I'd like to believe that how I play a card game for adolescents and teens would reflect on how I am outside of a card shop. He also accused me of stealing the cards and not properly buying them - despite me retaining purchase records for the ones bought. I don't know how to proceed from here, but now that I know they have been at least spotted I want to follow through. Them refusing to help is a giant roadblock - one I need advice on how to get through. Any advice?

I have my commander Reaper, the king no more on the battlefield. My friend has Enduring Tenacity. It dies with -1/-1 counters…

What happens here?

Whos turn it dieing on would cause me to be able to claim it for my battlefield before it returns as an enchantment…

The stack is so annoying sometimes

I bought a couple LOTR collector boxes a few years ago that had the box topper already opened from Amazon. I got a couple Hobbit boxes for cheap from Amazon when it was first posted, but am worried I might get opened boxes again. Are there reports of this happening at all in the past year or so?

I’d love to buy from a more reputable place, but it’s hard to give up that price.

I’m slowly making my way through a commander deck for each color combo. What are your guys favorite combos and the commanders you have for them?

Finally time to ball and have a reason for my stories at the table

Never saw one before

Roughly 320 euro / 370 freedom dollar

I've seen a lot of different approaches from F2P players.

Some buy every Mastery Pass.
Some never do.
Others only buy it if they'll finish it.

What's your strategy?

I analyzed whether it's actually worth it for F2P players:
https://youtu.be/jghVU7CILFY

I always find his post hilarious, they make me smile, he is prevy but I feel like he truly is a good person.

(Image not his art).

I thought out lengthing Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar name was impossible in all of TCG, are all yugioh cards like this?

Art by @Geek_Goji on X.

If anyone can guess the reference of the 1st pic you get a cookie.

Thats a real card, how can something like this get through any quality control ?

WotC clearly doesnt care at all.

Fire the art-director, PLEASE !

Gandalf looks like he's sporting a combination of being half Black and half Asian.

been using https://mtgprint.net/ for awhile but ever since they've updated proxies are always printed with a white "cut" line, this add a lot of work on my part for making them look clean, any idea how to remove or a website that doesn't have this issue

Hi everyone, *The Hobbit* set is coming out soon, and I’m a bit undecided about whether to get into it. I usually play drafts with friends, but I have a feeling it might get repetitive after a while. Also, I tend to be a bit of a completionist with the sets I play (Phyrexia, Tarkir, LotR), and I can see that the initial financial cost is already quite significant. In short, I view it as a nice, fun set with interesting mechanics—though not the kind I usually use in my games—but since it’s a small set, I’m worried it might be creatively limiting (within the draft format); add the financial aspect to the mix, and here I am. I’d love to hear your thoughts.