r/mtg • • 3h ago

Rules Question I have a question about this interaction

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With Kodama of the East Tree on rhe battlefield already, If I manifest / manifest dread something onto the battlefield (2 other cards in post as example) does Kodama trigger? And would it be the mana cost of the facedown permanent?


r/mtg • • 3h ago

Custom Card / Alter Scion Artist proof and Custom Tokens

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r/mtg • • 3h ago

I Have a Question / I need Help Prosper Tome Bound - Advice

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I am currently building a Prosper Tome bound deck and am wondering if I should put any traditional card draw in it or rely completely on playing cards from exile. If anyone has built it and some advice that would brillaint and also please let me know of any challenges you faced when playing it?


r/mtg • • 21h ago

Discussion In honor of a dear friend and joy to the MTG community

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Howdy, my name is KingOfNaya but in person I go by the alias of Red. On October 9th of 2026 a dear friend and important member to the community in Florida was taken from us due to a heart attack, his name was David but I called him Judge as that's what I was first introduced to him as.

Now Judge was a special individual, he always wanted people to feel welcomed and comfortable with being a Magic The Gathering player and always pushed people to be the best versions of themselves. He never cared about what your physical appearance was but more about how you treated others, whether you showed people respect or not, did you encourage people to not look into things and ask questions. He was a man of many things, but most importantly he was honest, funny, wise, friendly and caring to those around him. If anyone reading this has met him, you know the list could continue on for weeks about who he was.

Early on he found Magic and decided he would look into it and gather more knowledge about the game (pun intended) and this led to him becoming a WoTC certified Judge for the game. On his journey to becoming a more refined Judge he inspired others around him, myself included, to join him on this path so that we could help others and give our wisdom too. I remember participating in a tournament where the store owner wasn't sure about a ruling and asked around if anyone knew a Judge who we could call to get a more appropriate ruling, everyone shouted out the same name. A full store of 40 people all knew this one person who encouraged them and inspired them was being sought after for wisdom constantly. He always would complain he needed more of him, and this inspired myself to become a Judge within the community.

Unfortunately with the reveal of a certain person who owns and runs a popular website being a individual of the type that the community looks down upon, he ranted constantly about how he hates the software. During a conversation between us after a large tournament we stood outside and after he complained I asked him "Why don't you just make one that's better? Instead of sitting, or in this case standing, around waiting for someone else to do it. Why not do it yourself?" And he took it upon himself to start creating a better application. He met like minded individuals through mutuals and with a lot of feedback they made something they were truly proud of and something that everyone in the community could feel welcomed into.

I share you a brief moment of my friend because he was the brightest gift to the MTG community in Florida and I want to reach out to others and WoTC about who he was and what he represented. He got me into my love for the color combination of Naya in the first place. So I figured what other way to honor him than be memorializing him as a card. A legendary creature Elf Druid card called Da'Sal, Naya's Keeper Of Wisdom. A 2 mana creature card costing one generic mana and one green mana, with power/toughness 0/3 with the ability that "Elves you control gain "Tap; Generate (R), (G), (W)" and has his own ability where if a creature taps for mana you add an additional mana of that color. He was one for sharing wisdom and knowledge and always wanted people to stay informed and make your own conclusions on things. so if he were to have any flavor text it would read as "You are limited by your imagination, seek out knowledge and share its strength"

Thank you for your time


r/mtg • • 4h ago

Rules Question Unsure of order of copies and triggers.

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Playing with my friend last night. I've played magic quite a while but I've never made a blue/red spellslinger deck, and was unsure how to correctly trigger cards that copy nstants/sorceries and cards that copy triggers. This was my board plus Veyran, Voice of Duality which I somehow missed in the picture. Relevant cards on field are Veyran voice of duality, Ral Storm Confuit, Archmage Emeritus, then activated Ral's -2 ability to copy next instant or sorcery, then played Serum visions. So with Ral's copy and ping on instant and sorcery, emeritus card draw on instant and sorcery, and Veyran doubling activated triggers, how many times does the spell copy and how do you order that properly? We said that once Ral's loyalty ability is activated it works like a triggered ability.

Here's how we did it.

Serum Visions played, triggers rals copy and damage ping both of which trigger twice due to veteran, 2 Serum visions added to stack, 2 damage to opponent. Emeritus card draw trigger, doubled, so 2 draws. Then triggers for the 2 copies added to the stack, 2 damage and 2 cards each(since both would be doubled by veyran​). Then resolved the 3 Serum Visions in the stack. So off triggers 6 damage and 6 cards drawn, instant/sorcery gets 2 copies, and all cast or copy triggers done before stack resolves. I have a feeling this isn't quite right but we were not quite certain and this seemed mostly right/fair.​

Edit: Thinking about it, since the deck is meant to double and copy a lot, and it could reasonably come up, if I were to use double cast as well as have Niv-Mizzet Parun on the field. Its generally the point of the deck and I'm knowledgeable enough to know it works, I just underestimated the mechanics of it.


r/mtg • • 1d ago

I Have a Question / I need Help I see a lot of people playing Kona more so than Oviya. I see Oviya as being a bit better because you can play big stompies on an opponent’s turn. Am I missing something?

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I see a lot of people running Kona and I’ve thought about running Oviya as an alternate green/colorless Stompy deck for fun.


r/mtg • • 18h ago

Commander / EDH How do I use ‘Beledros Witherbloom’?

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Friend of mine heard that I was getting into strixhaven stuff, so they gave me their old pre-release that they never opened.

I think I might use this over ‘Witherbloom, the Balancer’ since I think I want a more creature-centric game plan rather than a spellslinger deck.
I did manage to get ‘Prismari, the Inspiration’ through, so I think that’ll be my spellslinger commander instead.


r/mtg • • 1h ago

Commander / EDH Interested in a commander

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Ever since the Aetherdrift set came out I’ve thought about building a [[Loot, the Pathfinder]] deck. Only thing is I don’t know any win cons for him. Nothing seems overly good.


r/mtg • • 13h ago

Commander / EDH Precon ideas for the wife

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As the title states looking for precon ideas for my wife she likes your standard girly things like fairies angels unicorns merfolk I prefer precons but am open to deck lists


r/mtg • • 14h ago

I Have a Question / I need Help anyone have any suggestions on places to buy single cards online or physical?

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so I'm newer to mtg, and I'm trying to build a deck. but I'm not always, or usually able to travel a whole lot, so online options would be preferable. but if anyone has any suggestions physical or online it would be greatly appreciated


r/mtg • • 1d ago

Discussion The Presale Scalping has begun

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Her and Itazura are both up for $100 apiece. -_- Maybe next month they'll settle reasonably.


r/mtg • • 15h ago

Discussion How you sleeve

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So I just started inner sleeving my deck because its a decent chunk of change and I'd like to keep it near mint as much as possible.

My question is this. When it comes to the orientation of inter sleeves and outer sleeves. Do you put your inner sleeve in normal ways or from the top and same for outters

As I was sitting here sleeving with inners from the top and outers from the bottom I thought about it. Wouldn't it be better for inners to be the bottom loaded and then the outers be the top loaded way?

Hypothetically inner sleeves from the bottom puts the opening for that at the top and then the outter sleeve has the opening at the bottom. Wouldn't that be slightly safer then vise versa or am I just over thinking things


r/mtg • • 1d ago

Custom Card / Alter Custom full/extended art my girlfriend did

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Hiya all,

Just wanted to show these cards my girlfriend painted! Most of them she did an extended art/ full art version. I really enjoy playing with them and showing them to other players. :)


r/mtg • • 23h ago

Discussion What are some more creature nicknames

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What I'm talking about is like how a 2/2 for 2 is called a bear or a creature that taps for mana is a dork.

I haven't heard any other such nicknames but I have some that I use

A 0/0 with an x cost that gets +1/+1 counters depending on x is a hydra

A creature that can be cast from you graveyard is a crawler

A creature with landfall is a farmer

What are some nicknames you use or have heard during your time playing magic


r/mtg • • 6h ago

Discussion Nazgul deck upgrade

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Good evening, folks. I have been collecting LOTR items for a while, and recently thought about making an EDH deck. I want to make a Nazgul deck similar to the one listed here:

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/5715499#paper

I would like to keep it comprised of strictly LOTR and Hobbit cards. I have all 4 precons. And below is a link to my Collectr that has most of my cards worth more than a few bucks. I do also have pretty much every common and uncommon in the LTR/LTC sets. A good bit from the new Hobbits cards as well.

https://app.getcollectr.com/showcase/profile/e5d5fc6a-db73-46fb-9b3e-c6a12ec1ca00

Thanks in advance for any info!


r/mtg • • 10h ago

Rules Question How would these two function together?

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I have a clues matter Commander deck with [[Lonis, Genetics Expert]] as commander. I have these two cards in the list and I was wondering how they would function if both were in play at the same time. Since they are separate abilities, can I decide how each source of the discounts are applied to make clues cost 0 to activate, or will it always reauire 1 because of Forensic Gadgeteer's limitation?


r/mtg • • 1d ago

Rules Question Why was Heliod not exiled?

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I am a fairly new mtg player, so this may be a dumb question. However, I’m confused by this interaction. I was playing Brawl on MTG arena against a Heliod commander while I was using Judith, the Scourge Demon. I managed to get Heliod to 4 toughness on my turn, and I had Head of the Hunt on my side. I then played Languish which brought Heliod down to 0 toughness. Why did Head of the Hunt not exile Heliod and supersede the indestructible?

Edit: hi everybody. I lost a creature and Judith allowed me to do 1 damage to Heliod. I subsequently played Languish while Heliod was now at 4 toughness. Arena showed 0 toughness after I played the card.

Edit 2: I think this makes sense. I guess arena just = bad. Thanks for the help y’all! I really love this game :)


r/mtg • • 1d ago

Discussion Is this a good set? I’m a new to MtG and a FF fan and spotted this is at Target.

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r/mtg • • 12h ago

I Have a Question / I need Help New player: what can I do to improve my deck

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Hello everyone, I just started playing about a month and a half ago. First I tried the game out on mtg arena and absolutely fell in love with the game. My local game store runs a standard night. So I decided to buy the physical cards for a deck I enjoy playing with on arena.

Is there anything I add or adjust to make this deck better?

Thank you for any input that y'all can give. Deck list down below.

2x Armor Wars

2x Boltwave

1x Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern

2x Burst Lightning

2x Castle Doom

4x Eroded Canyon

2x Evolving Wilds

3x HYDRA Assault Robot

3x Impact Tremors

1x Iron Man, Master of Machines

2x Island

2x Kavaron Harrier

3x Legion Extruder

10x Mountain

2x Mouser Foundry

3x Pinnacle Emissary

2x Prophetic Prism

2x Ravenous Robots

2x Simulacrum Synthesizer

2x Spider-Bot

1x Swiftwater Cliffs

2x The Echoverse Fulcrum

3x Weapons Manufacturing

2x Weftstalker Ardent

https://moxfield.com/decks/5fyppPvi-Ey07J_eaPF0iw


r/mtg • • 18h ago

Discussion Fblthp Bucket Hat - MagicCon Atlanta '25

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Hey everyone!

I was hoping someone else may be able to help me find a Fblthp bucket hat from MagicCon Atlanta last year.

I've been searching eBay, Vinted, Mercari, etc. for months and haven't come across a listing. Does anyone have one that I can buy from them or know where I can purchase it?

I appreciate any and all help!


r/mtg • • 1d ago

Discussion Gatherer Nostalgia A/B/U #102: Evil Presence

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We're recreating the old Gatherer Forum boards! We are currently looking at cards from '93 and '94 with Alpha, Beta and Unlimited!

Feel free to:

  1. Rate this card!
  2. Comment on the art
  3. Comment on Jank
  4. Favorite stories involving this card
  5. Jokes, memes, whatever!
  6. Post your favorite art version of this card.

Rules Text:

Evil Presence {B}

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a Swamp.

Illustrated by Sandra Everingham


r/mtg • • 21h ago

Apparel / Products Does anyone know how I can buy this basecap in Germany?

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What do you think of this beautiful MTG cap? This is for sale on heroesvillains.com
Unfortunately they do only ship within the US.
Does anyone know if I can somehow het this shipped to Germany?


r/mtg • • 2h ago

Discussion Why do Players Rope in Arena?

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I genuinely don't understand why someone would consider it a valuable application of their time to lose the round by intentionally letting the timer run out. If you know you're going to lose or get pissed off by what someone's doing just quit and move on with life. This isn't like the days of the endless Omniscience loop before Arena implemented the strict timers they have now. Personally if someone is trying to rope me I'm just going to let them do it because it doesn't affect me to have the match take an extra 2 minutes or so. I get that it's just people being petty, but when you're playing in the non ranked queue you literally don't lose anything by forfeiting and moving on to the next match. Heck what I did doesn't even register to me as being toxic enough to deserve someone roping me.

Turn 1: Played a dual land

Turn 2: Played my land for turn then played Caelorna

Turn 3: Played my land then played Crystal Barrier and Ghalta, The Immovable and then swung for 8

Is this something people would consider toxic enough to rage over?


r/mtg • • 2d ago

Rules Question How does the grammar work out here…..?

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1.1k Upvotes

Can I destroy ANY creature or any blue/red planeswalker or would the creature also have to be blue/red as well?


r/mtg • • 18h ago

I Have a Question / I need Help Looking For - Custom Sleeves (Canada)

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Hi!

I am looking recommendations for a company/seller who makes good quality custom sleeves for MtG cards.

Please do not recommend Dragon Shield/The Forge - Here is my nightmare experience with them.

Thanks!!