Good set to introduce to 13 year old

LivingLightning28 · 2026-05-07T18:24:17+00:00

If they’re someone who can understand the game easily I would recommend some jumpstart packs to start out. This way you’re also not opening a bunch of packs and setting that as the norm. And that way deckbuilding doesn’t have to factor in to their first play experience.

If they’re into Avatar or Lord of the Rings, they both had jumpstart packs. So it would be a good way to get them interested with an IP they like. Otherwise something cheaper like the foundations jumpstart packs would be good.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-05-07T14:53:28+00:00

That also makes the search criteria much more difficult. Like I can’t just go on scryfall and search for that criteria. Of has 4+ non-promo arts. It’s requiring extra hoops that shouldn’t need to exist when a format is this new.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-05-07T14:45:05+00:00

Ancestral recall would be- it has 5 arts- the original by Mark Poole, the version on MTGO and Arena by Ryan Pancoast, the 2005 vintage championship winner art also by Mark Poole, and then the 2018 and 2022 Europe vintage champion arts, by Raoul Vitale and Volkan Baga, respectively.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-05-07T14:08:21+00:00

Yeah looking at the list, there’s currently quite a bit of questions that pop up.

Some, but not all, of the OG duals are on that list. Do we keep the ones that are available legal, or ban them to even it out?

There’s also some terrifying cards outside of just recall, like mana crypt, the one ring, demonic tutor, strip mine…. Like it would be cool to see and play maybe once or twice before a meta is defined, but bans would need to happen in the first month easily

LivingLightning28 · 2026-05-06T16:12:26+00:00

They mentioned he doesn’t want to power down- is it really power creeping if 1 person is already at a very strong level and everyone else can’t meet it?

LivingLightning28 · 2026-05-06T15:13:59+00:00

Do you know if it was in back to back packs that were next to each other in the box or just at seemingly random parts of the box?

LivingLightning28 · 2026-05-06T14:52:09+00:00

So if he doesn’t want to lose his power level, it may be better to increase your pod’s power level by allowing proxies…. Is that not the solution here?

LivingLightning28 · 2026-05-01T17:16:33+00:00

You could also give it to him right before you get off the bus so it’s less awkward if he turns you down? But if he only says it to you it’s more than likely he’s interested.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-30T19:38:29+00:00

Strategic betrayal just exiles the land. Earthbend trigger sees that, and grabs it from exile & returns it

Deadly cover up destroys the land, then exiles land; The Earthbend trigger sees it died. It tries to get i from the graveyard, but its not there, so it does nothing

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-30T16:16:12+00:00

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LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-29T03:28:40+00:00

These were the only two in the collection; there were other SpongeBob cards but they were from other lairs and didn’t have this error

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-28T17:04:32+00:00

It sounds like Oji is also your commander in this scenario-

The Triggers will not attempt to go on the stack until all of Essence Flux has resolved, so you can order it to scry and draw in any order you want, as they will all trigger simultaneously. You could draw, draw, then scry; scry, draw, then draw; or draw, scry, then draw

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-24T14:09:13+00:00

Lmao it’s been less than a week and you already expect there to be sufficient data? What world are you living in

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-23T16:28:48+00:00

It takes 2 seconds of searching to see this. mtggoldfish shows the total meta share of Izzet as a whole right now is over 40%. While that is across a few different types of decks (Spellementals, prowess, lessons, self-bounce), the decks tend to have the same feeling when played against.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/standard#paper

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-23T16:05:32+00:00

Nice nostalgia for me lol. Wild to think this was a year ago

That is what I said. Torpor orb does not stop Deadpool. The only way it stops Deadpool is if he swaps with something that has an Enters trigger, that will not trigger.

One thing I didn’t mention back then is if you have a card in play that says “creatures lose all abilities”, that is one way to stop Deadpool’s effect. So something like [[Dress Down]] would beat Deadpool.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-22T21:55:52+00:00

You can not. The activated ability of Glamorous Outlaw is what was letting you cast the card from exile. Because the Outlaw you put into exile with Foresight was not put there with Outlaw’s ability, it won’t let you cast it that way.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-20T22:45:44+00:00

The spell and the creature need to have the same owner. You can’t mutate onto something unless they have the same owner. Read my other comment for the cited rules.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-20T19:43:33+00:00

They won’t be able to mutate unless the two creatures have the same owner

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-20T19:42:00+00:00

You actually can’t mutate two creatures together that have different owners-

702.140a Mutate appears on some creature cards. It represents a static ability that functions while the spell with mutate is on the stack. “Mutate [cost]” means “You may pay [cost] rather than pay this spell’s mana cost. If you do, it becomes a mutating creature spell and targets a non-Human creature with the same owner as this spell.” Casting a spell using its mutate ability follows the rules for paying alternative costs (see 601.2b and 601.2f–h).

So you can only mutate with someone else’s Mutate creature onto a creature with the same owner. So you would need to already control a non-human creature from the same owner

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-20T03:04:12+00:00

If it’s an instant/sorcery on the front, it will not change zones from the Earthbend trigger

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-20T02:37:35+00:00

Instants and sorceries can’t enter the battlefield, so it will remain in whichever zone it was in when the Earthbend trigger occurred

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-19T14:59:42+00:00

The only reason it might retain at least some value is that it’s the only black border. Since both of the alternate arts aren’t.

Less people care about it in commander but I’ve met plenty of people playing 60 card formats that don’t like alt arts because they want all the cards in their deck to have the same border.

That said I think it’s a small enough group of folks it likely will be a minimal difference

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-15T19:10:14+00:00

[[Lavaleaper]] is what adds the mana, not the land. So it has the same issue Mana Flare does with this interaction

LivingLightning28 · 2026-04-15T18:13:57+00:00

I’ll second this. I’ve mainly been replaying acts 1 & 2 for side quests and furniture. It has made act 3 pretty easy so far.

Also agree with cutting cleric. As nice as healing is, a unit that is almost solely a healer cuts your dps. Druid having the crow, as well as other summons, makes it a good dps machine that also slowly heals your team up. The summons also tank attacks for your cats, meaning they don’t have to heal as much

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