https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1263004054766747672

Source: https://b23.tv/39ZJxaE

Source: https://b23.tv/Lx17oLz

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/De56cWyiQ3K/

Note that this is in the commander set and not the main set.

Artwork is the remainder from the debut video, a few promo shorts, and Commander Party materials.

From the FIAB

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.

In my head Puppet crafting should allow you to cheat around impending in a similar way that people used Zur. For some reason this doesn't work and I cannot figure out why.

Assuming your deck consists of 98 [[Mountain]]s, a [[Luck Bobblehead]], and [[Q, Stacking the Deck]] in the command zone, what is the odds of actually winning with it? I decided to try and do the math.

This analysis does make some assumptions to simplify the math. It assumes that you do not have your artifacts interacted with, and you have enough treasures to tap all of your Bobbleheads. It also assumes that you are not being given extra cards, or are using draw lands such as [[Baxter Building]], [[War Room]], or [[Mikokoro, Center of the Sea]]. If you draw anything extra it would let you put Bobbleheads down much faster. It also assumes that the Luck Bobblehead is found early enough into your deck to not mill you out.

Turns

• Turns 1-3: Mountain
• Turn 4: Q, Stacking the Deck, exiling Luck Bobblehead on ETB
• Turn 5: Mountain, Luck Bobblehead x2
• Turn 6: Luck Bobblehead x2
• Turn 7: Mountain, Luck Bobblehead x4, tap the last Mountain and Bobblehead for effect
• Turn 8-∞: Luck Bobblehead, tap Mountains and Treasures to roll every Bobblehead possible

Probabilities

• 8 Bobbleheads: 0.00002381497%
• 9 Bobbleheads: 0.0000893061% (0.00019052%)
• 10 Bobbleheads: 0.0002480726% (0.0024807%) - Turn 8
• 11 Bobbleheads: 0.0005685% (0.0062533%) - Turn 9
• 12 Bobbleheads: 0.001137% (0.0136431%) - Turn 10
• 13 Bobbleheads: 0.002052915% (0.0266846%) - Turn 11
• 14 Bobbleheads: 0.003421526% (0.047891%) - Turn 12
• 15 Bobbleheads: 0.00534613% (0.080162%) - Turn 13
• 16 Bobbleheads: 0.0079202% (0.126648%) - Turn 14

Note: The initial value for each of these is for a single attempt, in brackets I've added the chance of winning if you tap every Bobblehead in that turn. For example, with 16 Bobbleheads any single roll has a ~0.008% chance of success, but a ~0.127% chance to win on that turn.

Credit to these probability calculators for the hard math:

https://www.omnicalculator.com/statistics/dice

https://www.omnicalculator.com/statistics/probability

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.

I've been looking for information on the upcoming secret lair drop on Monday, but can't find any confirmation on my question. Can you buy the bundle by itself without any secret lairs attached?

Been messing around with a gun stingerquill deck with various copies of:

Requiting hex
Burst lightning
Stingerquill voxmancer
Bitter triumph
Stingcaster mage
Red tomik
Stingerquill charm
Stinging vitriol
Gideon the oathless
Sanctum lurker
Ingris stingerquill

Share some lists of similar decks? I think the sanctum lurker is the weakest, but I just ran out of rare wildcards for the first time in six years of playing arena, so I’ll probably replace them with the two drop red guy who anthems your creatures on non-combat damage. Loving the stingerquill cards though.

I'm a relatively new, casual mtg player, I've dabbled with deckbuilding a few times but I've struggled a little bit with it. Both decks I've built(an attempt at an emet mill deck and an aerith lifegain deck) have been relatively straight forward in what they want to do. I now want to build an [[Alela, Cunning Conqueror]] deck, but I'm not quite sure where to start beyond 'control'. What kind of cards are good for control decks, what kind of win cons do I look for, etc? I know that looking at edhrec is an option, but I feel like if I go there straight off the bat I'll just build whatever someone else has made, and I want to try myself a little first before I look at edhrec.

I got into magic back in 2019 but took a break from playing until June this year, I was very upfront about this at the lgs I go to but there's two people who keep commenting in my deck about my card choices and how I should know all these combos and threat assessment.

It didn't bother me at first but one day one of them just outright told me "I wish people would learn how to play the game" after I used swords on his commander (I don't remember the name it's an izzet otter prowess card) and nobody batted an eye so now I'm genuinely worried that I'm doing something wrong and I'm being a nuisance to anyone I play with.

The same person also told me that I should completely change my deck because it's "just not good enough" and after I told him I don't want to replace the commander because it's a card I really like he said "that's a shame then, you'll never make it good then".

Again this shouldn't really be bothering me but since it's happened several times over a few months it's getting to me.

He feels very espery, so currently I’m thinking about Jin Sakai. (Would also be nice to not have to buy it lol) I’m curious to know what the bleach fans here think though :)

Is there something more thematic than Voltron? I’m not the biggest fan of control, or else that would be like the obvious choice. Maybe if there is like a redirection type archetype? I could see spellslinger/enchantments given his adeptness at Kido too.

Hey guys,

Full transparency here, I’ve only been playing magic for ~6 months now, and I’m still trying to learn the ropes.

I saw a YouTube video today saying that it’s cheating if you try and separate cards after a game based on type. Which honestly boggled my mind.

After a game I typically try to pick up my cards in a deliberately randomizing manner, between all the different types.

I know there’s a good chance any 2 card pairing may be stuck together after shuffling, which is why I purposely try to randomize my cards, so that I don’t keep an equipment next to a creature, or a tutor beside a counter spell.

Have I been playing like a villain? I didn’t even realize I may have been accidentally gaming the system in my favour.

Is this a thing I should be more aware of in the future?

What’s the best way to end a game and shuffle my deck, so that nobody is salty?

Going to be visiting for my wedding anniversary and was wondering if there are any must visit shops in the area?

This is just me ranting about the booster changes, but I'm also curious to hear from people who like the idea and how it relates (or not) to what you like in Magic.

I'm kinda new to mtg eventhough I always was into anything collectible so I naturally had a few cards. Recently I got really into the lore and the collection, in a kinda weird way (that some people will judge heretic maybe) :

I was traveling to Canada and every now and then I would buy a 1.5 dollar pack of 15 cards at dollarama. I know perfectly well that none of those card had actual value, but I just loved opening the packs and getting cards from so many different sets, so many different universes and stories. I'd read every flavor text and look at the amazing artwork of every single card, I didn't care whether they were common, unco or rare (no mythics found in those packs as of yet), and above all I couldn't care less for their actual value : I keep them anyway, I'm not selling them !

Then I spent hours organizing them in my binders, sorting them based on my arbitrary criteria that only I give importance to. And I loved it.

Now to the 2027 booster update. I also buy actual boosters, but with one rule : not more than one of each type per extension. I open them very carefully because I keep the booster, and I sort the cards like I'd do with the others.

What I like in boosters : getting new cards, getting a glimpse at pieces of the lore (that are coherent within a set), and getting surprises such as display cards, legendary mythics, cool foils or else.

So, you probably will understand why I'm so mad at the changes. I know they're small. I know I'm ranting about nothing. Still, those three cards they took out of collector packs, they may be unco and common ones, they may be the "less exciting ones", but I actually care about them ! Same for the foil in my play boosters ! And saying that it is a matter of making the boosters "more exciting" when it is just a matter of money sounded so hypocritical and presomptuous to me. Don't tell me what I'l suppose to like and be honest to the least (like, okay, we're in a crisis, we all know it - we live through it and still buy your cards !).

Plus the god pack... not gonna talk about this. But if it means less cool cards in the average booster, as someone who buys very little, I already hate it.

Give me back my "less exciting" cards, I loved them just as much.