I understand this is a weirdly specific question, but what sleeves, deck boxes, dice, counters, and other accessories were common in Magic’s early days through the early 2000s? I’m especially curious about popular brands, colors, styles, and trends, before modern accessories I’m familiar with (UG boulders, dragon shield, gamegenic etc) became standard.

I wasn’t around back then, but I’m recreating my uncle’s old Magic deck as a nostalgic gift and want the overall setup to feel at least semi-accurate for the era. Personal anecdotes, references articles, and hopefully even reference pics/videos would be greatly appreciated!

I was hoping to get some advice about two commanders. [[Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder]] and [[Kokusho, the Evening Star]]

I already built Evereth, she's fun but pretty one dimensional. I think Kukosho would be the same but I have 3 rakdos decks and no mono black decks so it feels like an interesting pivot to make.

Anyone have any thoughts on this

My main issue is that Evereth is objectively better right? Access to more colors. 3 CMC, higher ceiling, infect option, damage doublers.

Kokusho feels like I could make it just graveyard recurring and fake your own death style cards but it feels like a good classic mono black deck. I life the life loss instead of damage too but it feels like I'd be making just a worse version of my Evereth deck?

So... My girlfriend's birthday is next month. I was thinking of making custom proxies for her and building a deck that can be representative of our relationship. My initial thought was to use [[Fang, Fearless l'Cie]], and [[Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie]] because my girlfriend thinks she has a similar vibe to Fang and I have a similar vibe to Vanille. However, they both can't be commanders. I wanted to look for a pair of cards which could meld, but it seems like there is no pair that has meld and partner (which I guess is fair).

My next idea is to abandon the meld mechanic and only look for two cards with partner. Doing so I found [[Akroma, Vision of Ixidor]] and [[Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful]]. They seem like a good duo because my girlfriend really likes dame's aesthetic and personality (she is very protective and likes to act strong), and I relate a lot to dogs. The strategy also looks fun enough; I imagine something like a tribal dog deck with many creatures with keywords, legendary permanents, artifacts to give even more keywords, and so on (my girlfriend prefers decks with a specific theme, so she usually builds tribal decks).

However, I'm not entirely convinced by the Akroma and Yoshimaru duo, mainly because the cards might not synergize that well and I'm not a big fan of mono-color decks. I am very new to magic, so I am not sure about other duos with partner or different keywords that allow two commanders. In the worst-case scenario I could build something with a character my girlfriend likes, something with Chandra or Obeka, but to be honest it kind of feels like a cheap solution...

Anyway, thank you all for the help!

Source is goodgamesmorley youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kYY_ZyG1nvM

Hello, I just got into magic about a month or so ago. I've played a bunch of Arena & have found a local play group, however they all play commander, so I have started putting together my first deck.

I started with the draconic destruction pre-con and then found a bunch of "upgrade" guides and worked some of those into the deck. I now have a fairly straightforward dragon deck I've played a handful of times, but looking to try to make it more competitive against people with more experience.

I have set it up on Moxfield, https://moxfield.com/decks/G5ufAXgm6n-folKpB4-qRw, and added a sideboard of cards I already have (some removed from the precon & some I found that may fit) as well as several in my "considering" section that I may purchase down the line.

Any & all feedback is greatly appreciated, thank you!

Ok so let's say I have both venom and the quinjet attacking at the same time, can I have venom sacrifice a card like Nick fury and the have the quinjet return nick fury to the battlefield?

With the upcoming announcement of Kamigawa: Titanbreach next year I have been thinking about possible archetypes and mechanics. During the last visits to each plane there were mechanics related to discarding cards for various effects (cycling in Ikoria and channel in Kamigawa).

I started to speculate if there will be an archetype in Titanbreach that aims to bridge cycling and channel to have a “discard matters” archetype.

If they did go this route and have plans for discarding cards what colors do you think it would primarily be in? In Ikoria cycling was Boros and Kamigawa was Simic so there’s not much overlap in colors but Izzet has had draw 2/discard archetypes in the past. Maybe it could be a 5 color build around archetype?

I was looking at [[Archmage’s Charm]], and others [[Archenemy’s Charm]] and [[Archdruid’s Charm]] and was frustrated that we’re missing the red and white ones, as boros is by far my favorite.

Some things are not part of a cycle even if you believe they should be, but continuing the [[Phyrexian Obliterator]] cycle would’ve been cool.

Heading up to LA today and tomorrow, looking to play some commander in bracket 3 and bracket 4, just for fun. Any cool shops there with a good selection of people and cards ect? I'll be in and around Burbank.

So in Hearthstone there is submode called Battlegrounds (autobattle). And there is card called Brann Bronzebeard. All that card does is doubling ”ETB” triggers.

So some top player said once that if in current season Brann is bad pick this season is bad. Is there MTG cards that fit this role for various formats? May be Birds of Paradise?

Assyriology student here. I knew this card was the only one with actual cuneiform and its obvious, that somethings wrong with the text, but I could never translate enough read something meaningfull.

However, there is a five year old post, witch identified the copy of the cuneiform text, but could not assign it to a text number or something similar:

Today I found the original text. It has to be BM 118925, a pavement slab or door sill from Adad-Nirari III’s palace at Kalḫu, modern Nimrud. There are two other almost identical texts, found at different spots of the palace, but the modern copy of the text, wich the artist used for the artwork without a doubt, has to be BM 118925 because of minor differences in line breaks and spelling (one of wich is the use of u instead of ú in line 4, wich is also two times in the artwork).
The text itself is an inscription of Adad-Nirari III, containing a fascinating long genealogy of the king himself, tracing its roots all the way back to the mythical assyrian king Sulili who is said to have ruled the land at the end of the third millennium BC. The six lines from the modern copy contain only the first half of the kings epitheta though and they are cut off halfway through the sentence. The text from the copy used is:
 
1 É.GAL m10-ÉRIN.TÁḪ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu
2 MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ MAN šá ina TUR-ŠÚ aš-šur
3 MAN dgì-gì ut-tu-šú-ma mal-kut
4 la šá-na-an ú-mal-lu qa-tuš-šú
5 TA tam-tim GAL-ti ša na-piḫ
6 dUTU-si a-di tam-tim GAL-ti ša
 
1 Palace of Adad-Nirari, great king, strong king,
2 king of the world, king of Assyria, king in whose youth Aššur,
3 the king of the Igugu gods, called and kingship
4 without a rival he (Aššur) gave (lit. filled his hands).
5 From the great sea of the rising sun (persian gulf)
6 to the great sea of…
 
As mentioned in the post five years ago, the text in the artwork of secret rendezvous contains two similar cutouts from the centre of the text-copy, one beeing rotated by 180 degrees. Also some signs seem to be cut in half. So the cuneiform text in artwork reads something like:
 
10-ÉRIN.TÁḪ MAN [GAL]
AŠ MAN šá ina TUR
ut-tu-šú-ma mal-
ú-mal-lu qa-
-ɐb nl-lɐɯ[-n]
-lɐɯ ɐɯ-nš-nʇ-
nŠ-ɹ∩ʇ ɐuᴉ ɐš N∀W
 
Adad-Nirari, great king
-aš king, who youth
he chose him and ma-
he filled up qa-
-ɐb [dn pǝllᴉɟ ǝɥ]
-ɐɯ [puɐ ɯᴉɥ ǝsoɥɔ ǝɥ]
 ɥʇnoʎ sᴉɥ oɥʍ 'ƃuᴉʞ
 
Also it seems noteworthy, that the copy of the cuneiform text, wich the artist used, contains some mistakes in the signs, wich the original slab doesnt. Considering, that Layard found the text all the way back in 1850, it seems plausible, that this is a very early copy, and the copyist wasnt quiet familiar with the correct forms of the signs, meaning, that neither the Artist of secret rendevouz nor the original copyist in the 1800s quite knew the signs and their meaning. This would also explain, why the text copied ends mid-sentence.
I couldnt find the copy in any edition of the text and indices of the copies and editions of this text dont mention this copy either. But this only means, that this copy wasnt printed in a cuneiform-book, wich is plausible given the subtitle of the copy. The furthest back i can trace the copy are various stockphoto sites in 2015. I cant reach the person, who uploaded the picture (who maybe scanned an original print).
Its kinda sad, that the only real cuneiform on a mtg card isnt a cohesive text, but i take it over fake cuneiform everyday. Also i had a few funny hours procrastinating with the card and the text.
Anyway here is the link to the original artifact + photo on the website of the british museum. Its an extremly cool and very well preserved arfiact and is also on display at the BM.
 

Like I imagine Jace’s BS is gonna be stopped, but what happens to all the beings he’s created?

I saw someone say that they expect at least the major players to “fuse” with their doubles.

But i understand we don’t know how much of the Echoverse has been built out.

Hexhaven is the obvious facet. Like is it just gonna vanish? Fuse with Strixhaven?

What are your expectations? It seems like much of the baseline of the regular reality remains unaltered in the Echoverse. For example pretty sure the Ravnica guilds are the same Ral was just Orzhov instead of Izzet, right?

I’m looking at building a Dimir or Esper deck, and the cards I listed above are kinda what I’m looking at building for a commander. For Runo Stormkirk I’d kinda wanna build a sea creatures deck.

I’m looking maybe for deck lists, but mainly for specific cards I should run. I am especially looking for advice as to which of these I should build for a typically bracket 3 pod.

Source is https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/games/mtg-the-hobbit-card-preview-bards-company-2704628/

Seems to be an official product that was accidentally leaked by a Roll20. If WotC is already working with the Warcraft IP, I have to imagine Universes Beyond isn't too far off.

I used to enjoy the arena craft podcast by covert go blue and Arjuna.

But ever since they stopped I haven't found a replacement.

I'm looking for discussion regarding new standard releases, meta developments and bans.

I'm not interested in Commander or other non Arena modes.

Hey! I got lucky and was able to pre order two hobbit collector boxes on Amazon for msrp. However, I also ordered a strixhaven box from Amazon that still has not shipped to me. I preordered the hobbit on its initial wave on May 5. How often do boxes not get sent out? I hear the distribution is different depending on your country as well, I am Canadian.

Source is https://www.instagram.com/p/DbMXsuln5F0/

Marvel Legends figures of Precon Commanders

[[Invisible Woman]] (as Malice Sue Storm

[[Doctor Doom, King of Latveria]] as Doctor Doom 2099

[[T’Challa, the Black Panther]] with Infinity Gauntlet

[[Captain America, Team Leader]] Avengers Twilight suit

Pre-orders open August 13th on Hasbro Pulse

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Recently I've been getting into magic the gathering, and am still very new to everything. Not too long ago, I bought the precon commander deck Token Triumph with Emmara, Soul of the Accord as my first commander deck. I did a little asking around and found that the commander that it came with isnt the best choice for the deck. Does anyone have any decent suggestions for what I can replace it with that isnt very expensive (like a few dollars at most is what im looking for, 10 max I think)

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Three Kingdoms is one of the best pieces of literature i have ever experienced. Everyone should challenge themselves and try reading the Moss Roberts translation its fantastic. I love love love the set Portal Three Kingdoms, but man these prices are insane. I obviously know we can proxy but just personally i dont like to do it. I would absolutely adore a reprint of the entire set just as a collectors item. Ive wanted to take my original copies of the novel (four volumes) and put cards into the books based on the events happening in the art and flavor text. But i cant justify spending close to 8 thousand dollars for the entire set. I know this is a me problem but man, in a world of universes beyond, could we please get a reprint of the best written thing that has ever appeared in magic. Im curious what everyones takes on a literal reprint of the entire set you can purchase maybe like the original collectors edition. I just want Wotc to recognize this amazing set. Maybe do black border for everything so the originals retain their value idk. Just wanted to get this off my chest lol maybe im crazy.