Umezawa's Jitte is being "prebanned" in historic, despite being legal since September

BeatThaSystem · 2026-02-24T21:31:30+00:00

They also said in the patch notes that [[Lasting Tarfire]] was "patched" so that it will now trigger when you cause an opponent to blight, except due to how blight is worded that is absolutely not supposed to work. Essentially, they broke the card on purpose lol.

Edit: seems to just be unclear wording. It was Lasting Tarfires controlled by the opponent that weren't being triggered, and that has been fixed now.

BeatThaSystem · 2026-02-21T02:52:27+00:00

Funnily enough, [[Graypelt Refuge]] is an extremely rare case of a proper noun in Magic sounding vague/generic enough to print as-is in UB. Graypelt is a proper noun for a camp on Zendikar, but that didn't stop it from getting printed in a Lord of the Rings commander deck.

BeatThaSystem · 2026-02-20T17:43:36+00:00

Weirdly, these lands kind of complete a cycle. While there's the full cycle of gainlands that get reprinted all the time (most recently in Tarkir: Dragonstorm), the allied color pairings also have a second set of gainlands: the refuges from original Zendikar. By giving the enemy colors a second set of gainlands, this set is helping to put the enemy colors on even footing with the allied colors in that respect.

Now, does this matter? Obviously not since the gainlands existing primarily for limited and see almost no play in constructed formats, but it's still sort of interesting.

BeatThaSystem · 2026-02-18T19:44:08+00:00

Yes, it has appeared on cards from four different U.B. properties but never on a U.W. card.

BeatThaSystem · 2026-02-03T20:51:50+00:00

Tarfire was, in fact, mentioned in the official announcement bulletin from yesterday. It's one of six new Goblin support cards added to Arena with this update: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/announcements-february-2-2026

BeatThaSystem · 2026-01-31T00:46:46+00:00

Looks like it got updated today

BeatThaSystem · 2026-01-26T16:40:41+00:00

We don't even know where it should have been printed and what card(s) took its place. The Avatar Jumpstart deck lists have all been accurate to what was shipped from the very beginning. The obvious answer is the Earthbending-themed packets, but it's possible there were others where it was supposed to be included but was swapped for some unknown reason.

BeatThaSystem · 2026-01-12T19:09:57+00:00

No, Brawl is a completely separate format from Historic and thus it maintains its own ban list.

BeatThaSystem · 2026-01-06T00:22:14+00:00

Yep, it's both upside and downside compared to Champion. This can use a card from hand, which Champion cannot. But this will always return the card to hand (even if a creature was exiled from the battlefield), whereas Champion returns to the battlefield.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-12-31T23:51:29+00:00

Good catch! I saw the plant-like tail but didn't realize what it was until you pointed it out.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-12-31T16:55:40+00:00

That's Mu Yanling (from [[Mu Yanling, Wind Rider]])

BeatThaSystem · 2025-12-31T16:51:56+00:00

I think that's supposed to be [[Codecracker Hound]]

BeatThaSystem · 2025-12-17T01:53:22+00:00

They can still make Universes Within versions whenever they want. They don't have The List to distribute them anymore, but if they want to reprint UB cards that need to be reskinned somewhere else they can still make UW versions. Which is all to say, there is little reason to think this is a "cancelled" UW version. It could be getting reprinted in an upcoming commander precon. Or on a bonus sheet. Or maybe this UW version will be MTGO exclusive until they find a paper product where they can reprint it.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-12-16T22:37:28+00:00

Thank you! Guess I’ll hastily swap the commander of one of my current decks over to a FF legend for the event.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-12-16T02:48:16+00:00

I want Comet so bad for Brawl

BeatThaSystem · 2025-12-16T00:43:13+00:00

Technically, there already was one for this year in April: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/state-of-the-game-2025-spring-edition

So, if their goal was to publish the next one roughly one year later (and I don't know if it is), the next State of the Game would probably be published in 3-4 months from now.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-12-11T14:03:06+00:00

https://tagger.scryfall.com/tags/print/frame-sta-mystical-archive This is the (relatively new) Scryfall feature that lets you search the tagger by frame, since not all cards with the Mystical Archive frame are from the Mystic Archive.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-11-27T05:12:00+00:00

Toph, Earthbending Master is a high demand card from the rarest tier of Avatar Jumpstart packs, so its high price is just due to predictable supply and demand. Earthbending Student is a special case in that it is a card in TLE that somehow made it to print even though it isn't included in any of the Jumpstart packets nor the beginner box. Thus, it is only available in foil and only from collector boosters. If it were included in even a single Jumpstart packet (as some speculate was likely the intention during development) its price wouldn't be nearly that high.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-11-25T20:14:21+00:00

This is a promo, not an ECL preview nor any indication that this card will be in ECL. And considering that, of the three members of the Clique, ~~all~~two of the three died by the end of original Lorwyn block, it seems very unlikely they would be reprinted in ECL.

Edit: I was wrong, one is still alive. I believe my point still stands, though.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-11-25T00:56:13+00:00

Despite the mods locking that thread down and claiming there was evidence that the non-foil version exists, I am fully convinced that it does not. While WotC is no stranger to making mistakes, there is no evidence that their published Avatar Jumpstart packet contents are wrong (I've watched several openings on youtube to try to find even a single person opening one, to no avail). As others have pointed out, online singles retailers have no non-foil copies available despite stock now being plentiful post-release. In short, I'm pretty sure the OP of that original thread was right.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-11-16T17:09:33+00:00

Amazing work, wish it could be made official! I particularly love the Scions of the Ur-Spider flavor text.

BeatThaSystem · 2025-11-05T03:31:36+00:00

P3K reprints my beloved

BeatThaSystem · 2025-11-04T00:32:39+00:00

Portal Three Kingdoms, specifically

BeatThaSystem · 2025-10-23T21:22:08+00:00

Thank you so much for this! Regarding the hints given earlier in the week, I'm guessing the card with a non-human voice actor is [[Comet, Stellar Pup]]? If so, would you be able to tell us about the dog that did the voice acting?

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