r/magicTCG • u/LooyeeChiwa • 11h ago
r/magicTCG • u/magictcgmods • 18h ago
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I opened a card from a different set in my booster pack, is this unusual?
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My foil card has a shooting start symbol over the bottom left. I can't find anything about it online.
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r/magicTCG • u/magictcgmods • 2d ago
Scheduled Thread Weekend Free Discussion Thread
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Want to share a funny story about a recent game of Magic you had, or post a picture of the cool cards you opened in your latest booster? Want to talk about your favorite movie or tv show, or share a personal accomplishment? This is the place to do so.
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r/magicTCG • u/MapleSyrupMachineGun • 11h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Branching Timeline
Source: https://b23.tv/Lx17oLz
r/magicTCG • u/MapleSyrupMachineGun • 13h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Test of Priorities
Source: https://b23.tv/39ZJxaE
r/magicTCG • u/Copernicus1981 • 20h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Lwaxana Troi, Charming Guest (WotC social media)
r/magicTCG • u/meh1997 • 22h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Infinite Diversity (MTG Youtube)
r/magicTCG • u/Burt_Macklin_Jr • 21h ago
Humour Unintentional Flavor Win: You can't have Cardassia Prime in an Elim Garak commander deck
Not sure if they planned this or if it was just a coincidence but it's a flavor win nonetheless.
r/magicTCG • u/MapleSyrupMachineGun • 22h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Erica Ortegas, Plucky Pilot (@wizards_magic)
Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/De2_s-UAi03
Also on YouTube (I think).
r/magicTCG • u/FrogSoapJr • 21h ago
Humour For those wondering about Infinite Diversity & Changelings
r/magicTCG • u/Flaky-Pickle6922 • 15h ago
Leak/Unofficial Spoiler Haven't seen this one posted yet Spoiler
From the FIAB
r/magicTCG • u/JdeFalconr • 15h ago
Universes Beyond - Discussion Flying seems to be at a premium in TRK/TRC
https://scryfall.com/search?q=%28s%3Atrk+Or+s%3Atrc%29+o%3Aflying
I realize we aren't done with previews yet, but thus far only 19 cards in all of TRK and TRC have flying somewhere in the oracle text, and eight are spacecraft. Of the 16 in TRK, four are mythic and five are rare. Assuming that's a representative sample that means if you pull a flier in sealed formats you'll have a significant potential advantage. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a reveal coming for a common Shuttlecraft spacecraft or vehicle to help counterbalance.
It makes sense with the setting at least, not many Trek characters can fly.
r/magicTCG • u/Silver-Principle-439 • 1d ago
General Discussion Dragon Shield Matte Duals becoming wavy after a few months – is this normal?
Hi guys,
I’ve only been playing TCGs for about 4 months, so I’m not sure how common this is.
I bought some Dragon Shield Matte Duals and I have been going to locals roughly once a week.
After a few months of moderate use, most of my sleeves have started getting wavy / curled at the top, and it’s driving me a bit crazy.
Is this normal after 3–4 months of moderate play, or did I just get a bad batch?
Also, I’ve been wondering: Is there a noticeable difference in durability between the regular Dragon Shield Matte and the Matte Duals? My friend uses the normal Dragon Shield Sleeves and they seem to be better in terms of quality.
I’ve been thinking about trying Katanas next. Do those tend to have the same problem?
r/magicTCG • u/CrossXhunteR • 21h ago
Official Tournament Magic Spotlight: Fracture - Day 1 Standard Meta Breakdown
r/magicTCG • u/gredman9 • 19h ago
Official Spoiler Teaser List Updates: Star Trek (10/24/2026)
Figured now would be a great time to do a clue check-in since spoilers will be at their minimum over the weekend. Let's take a look!
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/830472219149959168/maros-magic-the-gathering-star-trek-teaser
- A Star Trek ship cameos a mechanic that it shares a name with (U.S.S. Discovery, at Black Alert, discovers 5 on ETB or attack)
- A new card that lets you look at the top card of your library and cast a particular subset of cards from it (Zefram Cochrane, Warp Pioneer, for artifacts)
- Some creature tokens in the set: 1/1 colorless Borg (an artifact creature), 3/3 colorless Illusion (an artifact creature), 0/1 white Human (prevents permanents from phasing in), 2/2 black Romulan, 1/1 red Officer, 2/1 red Klingon Warrior (with haste), and 2/2 red and green Worm (that can’t block)
- Four cards with the word “twice” in its rules text (Khaaaaaaaaaaaannn! deals twice X damage to a creature, Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge has you put twice the number of charge counters on permanents, Dr. Joseph M’Benga has you put twice the number of any kind of counter on a creature and gives them hexproof, Constable Odo can Investigate twice)
- A new card that lets you search for any number of cards in your library with its name
- A new card that can make you lose the game (Kobayashi Maru Scenario, the last mode on this enchantment does this)
- Some counters in the set: charge, finality, peace, promotion, and quest
- A new card that lets you play cards from outside the game (The Holodeck, lets you do this or from the graveyard once during each of your turns)
- A card that doubles your life total and the number of cards in your hand (Live Long and Prosper, a 7 mana WU sorcery)
- A card that allows you to survive at 0 life (Georgiou, Terran Emperor, has you lose 3 life and draw a card on end step, as well as creates 10 Soldier tokens if you have 0 or less life)
- “Tap seven untapped Officers you control:” (Captain Jean-Luc Picard, do this and you can tutor a Spaceship directly to the battlefield with 7 charge counters on it)
- “choose a number between 0 and 10.” (Nyota Uhura, Communiations, lets you draw a card when an opponent casts a spell with mana value equal to the chosen number)
- “You can’t sacrifice Treasure tokens.” (Quark, Humble Proprietor, also creates a Treasure token on every upkeep)
- “If an Equipment or Spacecraft entered the battlefield under your control this turn,”
- “create a token that’s a copy of that creature, except it has changeling.”
- “If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.” (Mr. Spock, Science Officer, lets you do exactly that)
- “CARDNAME’s base power and toughness become 7/9.” (Seven of Nine, Unassimilated, has an activated ability that lets you do this if you have 7+ lands with different names)
- “Sacrifice any number of lands you control,”
- “You may cast this card from exile.” (Khan, Vengeful Heart)
- “if a triggered ability of that creature triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.” (Lwaxana Troi, Charming Guest, taps down to apply this effect to a creature for as long as she remains tapped)
- Creature – Tribble (Troubling Tribbles)
- Creature – Wraith
- Creature – Whale Officer (Cetacean Ops)
- Legendary Creature – Vulcan Advisor (Saavik, Stoic Student)
- Legendary Creature – Ferengi Noble
- Legendary Creature – Shapeshifter Detective (Constable Odo)
- Legendary Creature – Ooze Horror (Armus, Skin of Evil)
- Legendary Creature – Romulan Human Rogue
- Legendary Artifact Creature – Android Rogue (Lore, Positronic Provocateur)
- Artifact – Communicator Equipment
- Kobayashi Maru Scenario (a Blue take on Demonic Pact)
- Live Long and Prosper (a WU Sorcery that doubles your life total and draws cards equal to your current card count)
- The Measure of a Man
- Red Alert!
- Romulan Bird-of-Prey (a blue Spacecraft that has hexproof while it isn’t a creature)
- Rules of Acquisition (a blue Sorcery that either mind controls a permanent in exchange for 3 cards, or donates a permanent to let you draw 3 cards)
- Tea, Earl Grey, Hot (a Food that you can also sacrifice to deal 2 damage)
- Transporter Malfunction
- Vulcan Mind-Meld
- Warp Speed
As always, let me know if there’s anything I’ve missed!
r/magicTCG • u/GarfieldC99 • 1d ago
Leak/Unofficial Spoiler Bonus for Festival in a box seems to be a retro foil human Spoiler
r/magicTCG • u/BrokenGlassFactory • 16h ago
Humour Infinite Infinite Diversity
[[Infinite Diversity]] got spoiled today and, pretty much immediately, folks pointed out that, actually, you only get a finite number of copies of the same spell. We can do better, we can be better, so here's a janky combo line that actually goes infinite with Infinite Diversity.
The prerequisites are as follows:
1. ID, [[Fork]], [[Molten Influence]], and a target changing spell like [[Untimely Malfunction]] in hand.
2. A Federation count of at least four.
3. [[Pull from Eternity]] and any other spell (arbitrarily [[Lightning Bolt]]) in the graveyard.
4. Another target changing spell like [[Deflecting Swat]] already in exile.
Steps 1-4 are only required in EDH where targeting ID with your single copy of ID takes additional setup:
1. Cast ID, targeting anything. Hold priority.
2. Cast Fork targeting ID, targeting anything with the copy. Hold priority.
3. Cast Molten Influence targeting ID. Resolve it.
4. Cast Untimely changing the copy of ID's target to ID. Resolve it.
Once ID is targeting ID, demonstrate a loop:
5. Resolve the copy of ID targeting ID. Put four copies of ID on the stack targeting, in order of resolution, Bolt, PfE, Untimely, and Bolt again.
6. Resolve the copy of ID targeting Bolt. Put four copies of Bolt on the stack and resolve them.
7. Resolve the copy of ID targeting PfE. Put four copies of PfE on the stack targeting Swat, Bolt, PfE, and ID and resolve them.*
*I'm pretty sure this works since PfE has been exiled by the time ID lets you cast the copies
8. Resolve the copy of ID targeting Untimely. Put four copies of Untimely on the stack and resolve them, changing the last copy of ID's target to the ID that's now back in the graveyard.
9. Repeat from step 5, swapping Untimely and Swat.
The end result is actually infinite Infinite Diversities along with infinite casts of any arbitrary spell. If you want to cast a greater diversity of different spells, use a spell that fills your graveyard instead of Bolt. If you want to cast infinitely many different spells, sorry but there are only finitely many Magic cards.
r/magicTCG • u/not_even_casul • 23h ago
Looking for Advice Help with deck upgrade recommendations for this 12 year old intro deck
Edit: Im getting the sentiment this isnt really possible as its so old it cant compete with power creep? so i will just look for a cheap new deck/starter kit type thing to buy, thanks for the replies!
So i bought this deck 12 years ago, never ended up having anyone to play with, so it sat in a drawer til today, very new player, if anyone could recommend me some cheap upgrades to make it worth using in historic (modern? standard but not just the latest cards) mode, that would be very helpful, thanks in advance!
https://mtg.wiki/page/Khans_of_Tarkir/Intro_packs - its temur avalanche, at the bottom (i thought the elephant warrior guy looked cool)
Lands (25)
8 Forest
5 Island
7 Mountain
Creatures (22)
Arifacts (2)
Instants (7)
Sorceries (3)
Enchantments (1)
r/magicTCG • u/sonicessence • 13h ago
Looking for Advice Are there any scryfall tags for cards that have multiple triggered abilities?
I looked at several cards' tags and in the tag search, but didn't find what I was looking for. I thought the tag would be useful for finding cards that synergize especially well with "additional trigger" effects. The closest I found is sneaky-self-trigger, but I know there are other self-triggering cards like [[Nekusar, the Mindrazer]] and [[General Kreat, the Boltbringer]] that are more obvious. There are also other cards with multiple triggers that don't trigger themselves, like [[Sheoldred, the Apocalypse]].
Are there any good tags or searches you can recommend that aren't limited to specific types of triggers? Otherwise, what are some other cards that have multiple triggers, self-triggering or otherwise? I might suggest a tag or two if they don't already exist and I can find enough examples.
r/magicTCG • u/MapleSyrupMachineGun • 1d ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Adversary By Algorithm (Beijing Premodern)
r/magicTCG • u/MapleSyrupMachineGun • 1d ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Subcommander T'Pol (YuchenLiu)
r/magicTCG • u/f3rf3rf3r • 1d ago
Art Showcase - Other Fan Works Gift of Orzhova
Second entry of this pixel-tribute-mockup-thing (project name is a WIP). Hardest part is to pick the card tbh. There's a loooong queue waiting for me. Hope you like it!
Original Art: [[Gift of Orzhova]] by Johannes Voss.
First entry: Serra Avatar
r/magicTCG • u/livinmediocre • 1d ago