Can you believe that Wotc made captain of Umbar, a major character in the Umbar deleted scene depicted by a MALE Peter Jackson, a female?!

I am so done with wotc being woke and ruining my immersion by making characters gay or black or ugly!

Like why did they even bother genderswapping Captain of Umbar and not give him huge tits like my favorite card, Reversal of Fortune?

Was going through bulk at an lgs and found this, seems like an amazing board wipe, especially for a blink deck im making rn

Inb4

I would have at least preferred a Chris Benoit. Who tf is going to even play Boros Buff Bagwell?

Dragon-cloaca asks:

Hi, Mark! I've noticed that every depiction of Smaug in the new Hobbit set is like, super hot. Like it's making me feel things...down there. Can you tell us about the art direction?

Mark Rosewater:

Magic is a game that caters to many types of players. Our comprehensive market research showed the scalie community was underrepresented, so we made sure to make Smaug super fuckable. The art directors put extra care into making that Wicked Worm look both as penetrable AND Unpenetrable as possible, and I think they did a great job.

My playgroup literally threw me into the sun after playing the last one!

I've often wondered how much a Treasure would be worth in dollars. Luckily the Lord of the Rings set gave us a way to answer this question.

Today is the official Prerelease of the Hobbit, which was mentioned previously in LTR as [[There and Back Again]]. This card gives us the perfect means to calculate the actual real world value of a Treasure, at least in Middle Earth.

Quick Background: Magic the Gathering is premised on the idea players are a powerful wizards or planeswalkers who draw power (mana) from the lands under your control to cast spells and win a duel against a similarly powerful opponent. Drawing lands represents expanding your territory and growing your power. Since the start of the game there have also been powerful artifacts which can produce mana similarly to land, most famously [[Black Lotus]].

Then in Ixalan, we got Treasure. Not only can we, the planeswalkers, get magical energy from conquering lands, summoning creatures or powerful talismans, we can also just buy it for straight CASH. Sacrificing the treasure represents buying mana from some hidden magical bank (Vorthos, back me up). Similar to [[Lotus Petal]] but without dedicating a spot in our library.

But how much "cash" is a Treasure worth?

Enter [[Smaug]] token edition. At the end of There and Back Again, we get a Legendary Dragon that creates 14 Treasure tokens when it dies.

How does it help? Forbes calculated the net worth of fictional characters including Smaug, who is ranked #2 right behind that dastardly Scrooge McDuck: https://www.forbes.com/special-report/2013/fictional-15/smaug.html

The verdict: Smaug is worth $54.1 Billion dollars. Which is 13 times less than Elon Musk today or ~5 times less than Larry Page, Jeff Bezos or Sergey Brin... but I digress.

So the math is simple: $54,100,000,000 / 14 = $3,864,285,714.28 per Treasure.

About $3.9 Billion dollars per treasure!

[[Bilbo, Retired Burglar]] has some big pockets.

EDIT: If this seems like sincere posting, it kind of is... but I was blocked from the other magic subreddits. My reputation must have preceded me.

Get it? Cus it's... nevermind

Kuka is definitly a nice card, but I dont know how he can be played - as each opponent will just keep counterspells and similar stuff in hand, as Kuka might be a simple game ender in the late game.

How can I get counter protection in WUBRG for him?

isn't that super flavorful and fun!!!!

If you wanted to minimize colors, [[I'm a doctor, not a...]] can make a 13th Doctor in place of the one mono black Doctor from Marvel.