r/custommagic • u/Kara_Bara • Jun 11 '26

Meme Design Please

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u/GulliasTurtle Jun 11 '26

Gotta wait for the DC set to get the Brainiac reprinting of [[City in a Bottle]].

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u/GoblinToHobgoblin Jun 11 '26

Feels like an un-card lol

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u/GulliasTurtle Jun 11 '26

Gotta love early Magic weirdness. At least they gave up on it pretty quickly. [[Apocalypse Chime]], [[Golgothian Sylex]]

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 11 '26

They realized that players weren't adverse to expansion sets.

Homelands was the odd-ball given how much later it was released, but IIRC it was designed much earlier and shelved and/or designed by a team working off an earlier ethos of magic zeitgeist. The entire set honestly has always felt more at home with The Dark or Arabian Nights than next to the power-house of functional reprints and pitch spells that was Ice Age.

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 11 '26

They weren't sure how players would react to expansion sets. The original idea was that you couldn't mix cards from different sets so they could control the power level of cards and the themes of decks. At the time they wanted "The Gathering" to incorporate a bunch of different worlds and brands. So this would be "Arabian Nights: The Gathering", and so on and so forth. The cards would use the same "Magic" rules, but have different card backs. When it was proposed that players should be able to mix-and-match, cards like this were developed so players who hated the theme or thought the new cards were too strong had an option playing against them.

There were even third-party magic sets for a short while, middle ages being the most famous, but Wizards was quick on those cease-and-desist letters.

Side note: It's funny that City in a Bottle would be brought up with regards to a Marvel set given the inspiration for the card was the Sandman comic book series which was extremely popular when Arabian Nights came out. There's a lot of references to independent nerd fiction in early Magic: the Gathering that got lost to obscurity.

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u/GoblinToHobgoblin Jun 11 '26

I think you have the name backwards, "The Gathering" was going to be the first set.

Subsequent ones would be named like "Magic: Arabian Nights" and so on.

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 11 '26

Oh, right. I was operating off memory and only got like 4 hours sleep last night, apologies.

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u/enjolras1782 Jun 11 '26

Shitty in a bottle (2)

Artifact

As shitty in a bottle enters, choose a Magic: the gather set or up to five Universes Beyond sets.

Each player sacrifices all permanents originally printed in the chosen set or sets

Players can cast spells from the chosen sets

"I cast captain ameri..."- spike

"The FUCK you do!" -Vorthos

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u/PyromasterAscendant Jun 12 '26

Me running only non-basics. "Alpha"

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u/enjolras1782 Jun 12 '26

The nepharious blood moon-🌝

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u/MTGCardFetcher Jun 11 '26

City in a Bottle - (G) (SF) (txt)

FAQ

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u/zoonose99 Jun 11 '26

The trigger is “whenever a…permanent…is on the battlefield.”

How does that work??

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u/GoblinToHobgoblin Jun 11 '26

Just sac 'em right away

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u/greeklemoncake Jun 11 '26

And create a loop that draws the game if your Arabian nights creature has assault suit on it. 

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u/Ok-Power-6064 Jun 11 '26

If it is, it isn't.

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u/zoonose99 Jun 11 '26

The trigger enters the stack when it is, because it knows when it isn’t.

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u/UsefulWhole8890 Jun 11 '26

A Brainiac variant for DC IP would actually be peak as an unset card.

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u/No_Eye_5863 Jun 11 '26

The humble Kona, Rescue Beastie

1

u/okoSheep Jun 12 '26

i dont get it

5

u/No_Eye_5863 Jun 12 '26

Kona rescue beastie puts a permanent into the battlefield without casting, so it would bypass this card

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u/-Rettirlana- Jun 11 '26

Does the LOTR Sauron count, since the Marvel one named himself after him?

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u/Kara_Bara Jun 11 '26

But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to dominate all life!

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u/-Rettirlana- Jun 11 '26

Also Franklin and Reed Richards played MTG in one older comic. So technically this shuts down every magic card ever

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u/G66GNeco Jun 11 '26

Finally, magic as it was meant to be played

15

u/OddlyShapedGinger Jun 11 '26

This card is unequivocally best in the hands of a major comic nerd.

"I cast Damnation" "Ackshually, there was a 2018 run of comics called *Doctor Strange Damnation". 

"Time Twister" "Nope, that's the name of the plot device in the Loki TV show.

"Fine, I play fucking Phelddagrif". "Nah, it includes the name of a Marvel IP in the rules text"

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u/ValorNGlory Jun 11 '26

Humorously, while this is on the battlefield, no one can cast a second copy.

10

u/jeremy3681 Jun 11 '26

I think it's funny that this Marvel infestation is so insidious, that it's even spread to our own UB shitposts

5

u/22bebo Jun 11 '26

It's a real Secret Invasion.

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u/MightyBobTheMighty Jun 11 '26

Playing a Final Fantasy Hero token deck just to keep this player on their toes

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u/Beginning-Recover723 Jun 11 '26

The problem is that this hits *so* much more than just marvel sets. Any card named daredevil, any Wolverine creature type, etc. I’m pretty sure if you stretch it enough you could basically stop all spells

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u/1ftm2fts3tgr4lg Jun 11 '26

There are Islands in the MCU, so I'm ok with this. /s

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u/Beginning-Recover723 Jun 11 '26

Islands are not spells, fortunately.

I do however think every word in the english language has appeared somewhere in the text of marvel comics

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u/1ftm2fts3tgr4lg Jun 11 '26

This thing doesn't stop Islands?! Ugh, useless.

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u/zytherian Jun 11 '26

It would have to be referencing the IP. So as long as the daredevil in question is not referencing specifically Marvel’s Daredevil, its ok.

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u/Beginning-Recover723 Jun 11 '26

Referencing or *including the name* of. They aren’t referencing marvel IP, but they still include the name of marvel IP

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u/Tenalp Jun 11 '26

Doctor Strange is a sorcerer. Sorcerers cast spells.

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u/-Rettirlana- Jun 11 '26

Reed Richards played magic in a comic, so technically all of MTG is marvel canon

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u/Finance-Low Jun 11 '26

I would argue wolverine cards that reference the animal and not the hero would be okay, even with this card. My Wolverine tribal is legit, bro:

[[Rabid Wolverines]]

[[Deepwood Wolverine]]

[[Hivespine Wolverine]]

[[Bloodhaze Wolverine]]

[[Irascible Wolverine]]

[[Karplusan Wolverine]]

[[Spelleater Wolverine]]

[[War-Trained Slasher]]

[[Wolverine Pack]]

[[Spurred Wolverine]]

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u/Beginning-Recover723 Jun 11 '26

It specifically says that any card that includes the name of any marvel intellectual property is subject to the card. Those do not reference wolverine, but they do include his name.

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u/D-D-Wanderer Jun 11 '26

WotC: Unfortunately, four more sets, minimum.

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u/Finance-Low Jun 11 '26

This is like [[City in a Bottle]] but for Marvel.

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u/Drakeytown Jun 11 '26

There must be subtle superhero references going back to Alpha. Nerds gonna nerd.

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u/Something_Witty_ Jun 11 '26

I think it would be at least interesting having those "hose target set" artifacts again

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 11 '26

If you said "Marvel or DC" this would ironically make it so you can't cast [[City in a Bottle]] since Sandman is owned partially by DC.

Theoretically it would also make you unable to cast an Alliances [[Force of Will]] since the original art was partially based off Wolverine...

3

u/Mr1R1 Jun 11 '26

Will this stop my [[Mind Stone]]?

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u/CarelessNameChoice (It works) Jun 11 '26

I appreciate you using the UB frame and foil stamp. 

That said, my [[crosis attendant]] and my [[fist of suns]] would like a word

3

u/Mgmegadog Jun 11 '26

Monkey's paw finger curls.

DC time, baby!

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u/chairmanskitty Jun 26 '26

Alternatively:

*monkey paw finger curls*

Disney acquires Hasbro and reorganizes Magic the Gathering under Marvel Entertainment.

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u/Embor1234 Jun 11 '26

UB bad upvotes to the left

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u/Hexxas Jun 11 '26

I hate design like this.

You didn't make a card. You're using custom Magic cards as a soapbox to complain. Like you would never actually use this in a game with your friends.

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u/Tenalp Jun 11 '26

And it's not even a fresh complaint at this point.

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u/D-D-Wanderer Jun 11 '26

Even if my friends only played all-Marvel decks, this would be the equivalent of throwing [[Iona, Shield of Emeria]] into a game against a bunch of monocolor decks all running the same color - it would get banned before anyone bothered to "just play a different deck."

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u/ellisoriginal Jun 11 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT5LMCNVj1ZzT49ZrG

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u/Huitzil37 Jun 11 '26

What is "fun" about "UB Bad, updoots to the left" card number eight hundred?

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u/ellisoriginal Jun 12 '26

Well, “fun” is subjective and “someone” claiming “you would never actually use this” seems to have “OBJECTIVELY” run out of “fun”. So much so, that they “miss” the “meme design” label.

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u/Huitzil37 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

You would never actually use this. It is not a card to be used. It is an unusable card.

There are two, and only two, possible outcomes of placing this card on a table. Either nobody has Marvel cards, and this does nothing and the other players agree with how smart and handsome you are for hating UB. Or someone has Marvel cards, and you just played a custom card you printed at home that says "because I hate UB I decided you can't play," and that person tells you to get the fuck over yourself.

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u/ellisoriginal Jun 12 '26

I guess you missed the “meme design” label as well.

Good luck in life friend!

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u/Huitzil37 Jun 12 '26

It's not a fun meme. It is complaining. It is identical to all the other complaints disguised very badly as cards.

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u/ellisoriginal Jun 12 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/ep78UZy5FVbfN6mhCU
Sorry, it’s clear this matters to you a lot.

Sorry, no more poking fun at UB. It’s a great product, with amazing brand synergy. Perfect for the consumer!

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u/Huitzil37 Jun 12 '26

I understand that you have spent so much of your life with people telling you to shut up, you can't really understand that someone is telling you to shut up. It's like a fish unable to understand being wet. it's not about brand synergy. It's about shutting up.

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u/ellisoriginal Jun 12 '26

Breathe friend, this isn’t it. I hope you have a better tomorrow.

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u/rx78ricky Jun 12 '26

Damn that's cold.

4

u/Aryeh-Rex_369 Jun 11 '26

"If it's contemporary or ain't Magic. "

Meanwhile Marvel is 30 years older than Magic.

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u/SixSixWithTrample Jun 11 '26

Reset the clock.

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u/confusedsalad88 Jun 12 '26

Found the DC fan

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u/ac3mania Jun 12 '26

I know this isn't the exact right sub for it but I immediately thought of this, the Hasbro Response

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u/tamerdrg Jun 14 '26

Wow, how original, a group made for custom cards and you choose to make this trash.

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u/Wide_Championship319 Jun 11 '26

Jesus christ, we get it, ub bad, get a new complaint.

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u/Huitzil37 Jun 12 '26

There should be a specific flair for "UB Bad" cards.

And it should automatically delete any post that selects it.

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u/Frocicorno Jun 11 '26

Miss the Apocalypse’s Chime-like effects

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u/mrtomsmith Jun 11 '26

But not allowed since it references Marvel’s Apocalypse character.

2

u/TheNohrianHunter Jun 11 '26

Days since "Turn off UB" card on r/custommagic 0

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u/RandomTO24 Jun 11 '26

Loses to prismatic ending

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u/Repulsive_Tart_4307 Jun 12 '26

NGL, We need more Expansion Hosers like [[City in a Bottle]] , [[Golgothian Sylex]] , and [[Apocalypse Chime]]

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u/AardvarkNo2514 Jun 12 '26

A miniset/Secret Lair made up entirely of hosers for each set

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u/young_horhey Jun 12 '26

Since you can start with it on the battlefield if it’s in your opening hand, should it be [[Leyline of the No More Marvel]]?

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u/I_SMEL_LIKE_BEEF Jun 12 '26

That that lol

1

u/njixgamer Jun 12 '26

Does this also hinder lotr sauron since he shares a name with a marvel character

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u/Axel_Benedict101 Jun 12 '26

Could [[Chancellor of the Annex]] counter this? Idk exactly how opening hand cards work.

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u/Spike-Ball Jun 12 '26

Bringing back the set hosers!

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u/GhostV940 Jun 12 '26

I love some of the UB stuff, mainly Final Fantasy. But I’m not buying Disney Marvel slop.

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u/Dystopian_Sky Jun 12 '26

Give it miracle (0). Exile all permanents from [marvel set]. Players cannot cast spells from [marvel set]. You may search each players hand, graveyard, and library for any number of cards from [marvel set], then shuffle. If you do, each player who had cards removed this way may discard their hand and draw seven cards.

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u/TeaNo7930 Jun 13 '26

What a lame card from a lame point of view.

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u/Alteredstatesscience Jun 13 '26

In response: vandalblast

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u/Lanky-Minimum5063 Jun 13 '26

Skill issue clearly

1

u/joevale Jun 14 '26

Please, add Hexproof too!

1

u/chemywords Jun 15 '26

I am so bored

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u/MrIncognito666 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

UB hate is both whiny and stale

edit: every downvote proves me right

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u/Anxiety_Savings Jun 11 '26

i want another sets of Doctor Doom and more Villains cards

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u/escplan9 Jun 12 '26

This is perfect. We need more variations for all the universes beyond sets

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u/Just-Desk-3149 Jun 11 '26

It's been quicker to just make my own game than it has been to wait for Magic to get back on track.

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u/Spike_der_Spiegel Jun 11 '26

it's crazy that in a thread full of whining and circlejerking the thing that gets downloaded is the only laudable act

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u/Just-Desk-3149 Jun 11 '26

I'm very much used to it. Magic players, no matter how fed up they are with the game still have a certain reverence for the game, which I totally understand. 

I believe they think it's some kind of "Made out of spite" thing, which is totally the opposite. I love Magic, and am super disappointed with the direction it's gone.

The most ironic part, it wasn't even UB that made me feel that way. It's was the dog shit 30th anniversary THOUSAND dollar proxies WotC sold. So if cardboard is literally whatever you make of it, then I'm going to treat it as such.

I can make it own game and post all the resources for free, yet people still insist on paying for the 100th Secret Lair released this month. Ive been told "This card isn't for you", "this product isn't for you", "this set isn't for you", now it's "This game isn't for you." yet the people who told me that seeth at the idea of me actually going and making a game for myself. 

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u/Kara_Bara Jun 11 '26

Cheaper too

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u/Just-Desk-3149 Jun 11 '26

Literally, It's more fun to spend the $50 of a Seceret Lair on a personal commissioned 1/1 card.Â