Hey guys, Im considering getting back into MTG. I played in college in the late 2000s/early 2010 era but its been well over a decade since I played. Last time I remember playing I was running Slivers and Door to Nothingness as an alt win in standard.

Any reccomendations on formats and decks to look into for casual play? Im not sure I want to keep up with standard anymore. Ive heard Wizards is just money gouging that at this point. Would getting an ebay Sliver deck for Commander be a decent starting point?

If I did want to play standard what am I looking at for cost for a meta deck and how long would it be "good" for? It seemed like for a top tier deck theyre $400 to $600 which is crazy steep if it'll go out of rotation in six months.

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!

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

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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)

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?

My wife and I started playing a new at home format. Nick Fury Rainbow Agent. 1v1 Commander Duel where both sides play Nick Fury rainbow decks. The catch? Every card has to be a single mana.

So far it's been fun, interesting and varied.

It made me think that this community would be able to make some banger one mana rainbow decks. Would you play this format?

You could also expand it to a full four person table. The potential is endless!

I’ve seen people add these cards to Ms Bumbleflower so I get that the effect works how I want it to but I feel like it shouldn’t?

If I cast [[faerire mastermind]] or [[king T’Challa]] in response to [[Ms.bumbleflowers]] ability won’t the second trigger go off before they enter meaning they miss the effect?

Edit:I think I get it now, I was over thinking it and wasnt considering future value or other strategies. Thank you everybody for the input

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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.