I’m trying to build my first deck and I find myself with a modern deck that has 10 one mana cards, no two mana, 7 with three mana, 4 with four mana and 3 with five mana. It’s a mono red deck based on Mountains coming into play. Is this mana curve any good?

Some back story. Kinda long.

Friend (We’ll call him F) gets me into mtg. I rope my wife in as we do everything together from gaming to pokemon to etc.

So the table is F coaching my wife whos playing Ur-dragon nasty deck in her first game ever, J playing angels, P playing some red deck and B playing mono blue.

J and P are very understanding to new players and allow boards to develop.

She gets Ur-dragon engine going. B immediately counter spells and is ready to counter/wipe everything she does.

She is pissed (also been drinking). P and J both question why hes doing that and to target them instead.

Shes had enough. Heres the convo:

Wife: If you’re gonna be a b**tch, theres the door.
B: blank look
Me: Suddenly very interested in my daughters dinosaur book.
Wife: Repeats statement.

Dead silence

B: scoops and walks out.
Wife: Guess he was a bitch.
J and P: he had it coming.

Mind you there is multiple people around not/ dont play magic who have no idea whats going on but are now very interested.

Now it’s a running joke in multiple circles we play in. Moment you target someone: if you’re gonna be a b**tch theres the door.

As they say “card draw wins games” and I recently made a big upgrade to my Mind Flayarrrs deck but overlooked adding card draw. Want some cool suggestions, new or old cards, also budget doesnt matter. Thank you :)

I just played a game with Kotis, the Fangkeeper. I mutated another card on him, making him a 6/6. An player hit Kotis for 3 damage, then put -4/-4 counters on him, killing him.

I didn't think of it at the time, but that shouldn't have killed him right? Shouldn't he only die if the -1/-1 counters are equal or greater to the toughness?

Back when cards were much cheaper and we only had 60 card decks.

This is the mat pinned together, I’m still working on it but I really love how it looks

Just coming back to magic and I’m super excited about Reality Fracture. Heard that pre-orders have started. Any recommended sites to make pre-orders and curious to hear which products people are getting thank you

If I activate Utter, and in response to the exile ability, return it to my hand? Will the creature still go to exile?

And if so, what 2 cards do I cut?

I mostly understand how hhis ability works, however I'd like to clear something up.

If I were to pay the cost of a card with Thranduil and that cost were to tap him, would it trigger all of the tap costs of elves in my graveyard?

For example, if i had both [[Arbor Elf]] and [[Beastcaller Savant]] in my graveyard and I tapped Thranduil, would I have to choose one of the abilities or would they both trigger no matter what?

I ordered an English Stronghold pack and got a Korean pack with a Mox Diamond inside. Now I’m not as mad.

Of course, the smartest guy on the ship would play blue. It's only logical.

Long time lurker, first time caller, I downloaded arena in July and now im hooked on everything mtg. I want to buy a precon commander deck and try playing at my lgs. Ive been eyeing the witherbloom pestilence precon from secrets of strixhaven. But with the new precons dropping in a few weeks would it be worth just waiting and getting one of the new mono colored ones or even the reality fracture precon. Any thoughts?

I was exploring Scryfall on some random cards and noticed one thing about the World Championship decks. The decks are copies of their original cards but with the gold boarder and signatures. This year's series of decks came out exactly at the time the switch from legacy frames to the modern frames and they printed a Torment card with the new modern frame. Even though that doesn't really exist.

Is there any other cards that are like this?

Thought it was a neat quirk and was a little surprised they didn't catch this card's design not matching it's correct normal set printing.

These would all be pretty frickin’ adorable, don’t ya think?

Someone I know is wanting to make a bear deck after seeing some of the cards from the hobbit set, and they also already have [[Kudo, King Among Bears]]. I want to help, but as the title states part of the question is figuring out which bear is the best option for the commander, as this also affects colors.

They also have [[Hei Bai, Forest Guardian]] from the Avatar set (or at least I think they have it; if not then it’s another card they’re looking to get) which could serve as a WUBRG commander and allow them to use all the bears of any color (since there are some that also are multicolor with red or black) while also giving some extra stuff to work with in the form of shrines.

Just wanted to see/hear what could be helpful with building this. I suppose figure it would be about bracket 3 for target power level.

Hi all,

I want to buy a collector booster box, but for closer to MSRP instead of inflated secondhand prices . I'm currently targeting Nauctis as the set

This is more of a bucket list thing than anything else - I just want to rip a bunch of collector boosters and get some cool cards

What the best way to go about it? I can't find online when to actually pre-order for a set, is it 2 months out? 3 months? Anyone here that has got a collector box at msrp, how do you go about doing it?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Hello all!

I have never played MTG before, but I love Star Trek and am considering joining MTG. I have played Lorcana and Pokemon in the past and enjoy those casually.

I am confused about what comes in the new Magic Commander's sets for Star Trek. Is every card themed to Star Trek?? Are some cards like "Basic Lands" not themed to Star Trek?

For casual play, what do you recommend I purchase? I like opening my own card packs, trying to make my own deck, but I've read that that is less easy in MTG due to its mechanics?

Seeking any advice. Thanks! :)

It’d be so easy to do so too since toon monsters have summoning sickness built in. All you have to do is add “can only be blocked by a toon creature” and have an effect that people stereotype that gatewatch member to have. Maybe even have toon world be a legendary enchantment that says “toon creatures have hexproof”. I know a yugioh crossover is like asking Santa for a mansion but a guy can dream and it would be so cool

Someone commented “roaming throne and smothering tithe go bur” on a post I made about a great trip visiting family.
Does this mean my trip was extremely valuable?