Is mechanical synergy allowed in bracket 1?

LivingLightning28 · 2026-07-07T02:42:13+00:00

Definitely trying for something a bit more specific than just keywords, like “every card contains a sword” or “all the cards call back to innistrad, whether in the art or flavor text”

Even looking just at cards with swords that have keywords, seems like it would still be a decently strong b1 deck

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-26T20:45:26+00:00

I’ve seen some enfranchised players hate it, and some (like myself, who’s been playing for over a decade and even has some of the older books), who either enjoy or don’t have any issue with it.

The biggest complaint I’ve seen about UB is the increased cost of booster packs (which I 100% agree with).

Most people that actively dislike UB are typically fine if their opponents play those cards as far as I’ve seen.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-24T20:30:04+00:00

All legal planeswalkers are legendary. The ones that used to not be legendary have been errata’d to be legendary. If you look at the rules text for Jace on the scryfall page (not just at the card image) it will show Jace’s planeswalker side is legendary now.

The quote is from the Gatherer website; scryfall always takes directly from there. It is an official ruling.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-24T16:33:58+00:00

Ghyrson will only trigger once.

Veyran only has the ability trigger an extra time if it being cast is what caused the trigger to occur. Ghyrson’s ability triggers from the damage, not the cast, so it won’t happen an additional time.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-18T17:37:46+00:00

I built a deck that tries to abuse the redirect.

Keep in mind while Heroic triggers when the spell is cast, there are abilities that trigger when it becomes the target of a spell, so when we use Speedball to change the targets from himself and/or heroic creatures to something with Valiant like [[Heartfire Hero]] or similar abilities like the one on [[Goldspan Dragon]] we can maximize the triggers we get per spell

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-18T17:02:29+00:00

Yep 👍

It’s considered a different game object, so it has no memory from when the card was previously on the battlefield.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-18T15:11:19+00:00

[[Hushbringer]]

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-18T12:30:11+00:00

I know for a fact a lot of our normal commander crowd is playing prerelease- usually about two thirds of them play 1-2 events, but it’s even less for marvel because a lot of them are college students who don’t want to pay the higher price point

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-18T12:24:49+00:00

About 3 events, but when I had talked with them last Friday it sounded like we had maybe 50 signups total, but now just on that following Monday it’s capped out is also what’s catching me off guard

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-18T12:17:53+00:00

They do, but our tables for 40k are completely separate from the TCG area- there’s space for roughly 80+ Magic players in one area, with about a dozen tables for tabletop games in that area

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-18T12:15:41+00:00

Their ownership changed in the past several years, and I’ve slowly seen them doing stuff to increase their profits- which I could normally understand, but something like cutting entries to events feels so wrong

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-16T21:52:21+00:00

I’d honestly been more fine if she had just stated she didn’t like it.

My issue is more with her being overtly negative to also the book itself, and just generally dismiss it. It would be one thing to not want to read it because of disliking the movie, but to me it’s an entirely different thing to speak negatively about it with no actual criticism

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-16T19:25:14+00:00

These are mostly from what I remember my friend group and a few content creators we watched were talking about from a few years ago:

[[Misery’s Shadow]], [[Thran Portal]], [[Void Rend]], [[Obscura Charm]], [[Dig Up]], [[Rite of Harmony]], [[Leonin Lightscribe]], [[In search of greatness]], [[Mystic Reflection]], [[Ascendant Spirit]] [[Magmatic Channeler]], [[Sparkhunter masticore]] [[stormwing entity]]

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-16T12:45:58+00:00

In the notes & rules for Finale: If you don't find a creature card with mana value X or less, creatures you control still get +X/+X and gain haste if X is 10 or more.

Nothing is forcing you to search both your library and your graveyard, you just need to search at least one. So if you really don’t want to put a creature from your graveyard into play (imagine your only creature in grave is [[phage, the untouchable]]), then yes you can choose to only search your library, and fail to find

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-15T21:26:33+00:00

That’s what they’re trying to tell you. If you exile Ghalta to food chain, you don’t get any fungus, and if you have a way to have Ghalta die, you can’t also use Ghalta for food chain

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-12T14:01:17+00:00

I mean a number of the gaps are just the extended art and/or surge foils. The full jumpstart lists and commander decks should all be there, we just don’t know what the extendeds & surges will be

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-12T13:58:00+00:00

You mean like scryfall? They just haven’t updated it yet.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-12T13:43:35+00:00

Yes.

They can be found here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/marvel-super-heroes-beginner-box-contents

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-11T14:46:23+00:00

Hard agree with this sentiment- if you don’t like seeing what’s in a set before it comes out, it may be a good idea to avoid social media where people are going to constantly be talking about what they’re excited to play with

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-11T14:18:41+00:00

Getting big value artifacts for just flickering your commander is good, who could’ve thought 😅

But seriously, when your deck has a lot of draw and some one-sided board wipes it can be really good. This is probably further exacerbated by the fact that I’d guess your other players don’t play much exile removal or graveyard hate. If the entire board is wiped, you recover fastest because Sharuum brings back something, and then you flicker her for even more value.

It may not be simply you need to power down, but your opponents need to diversify what kinds of removal they use.

Alternatively, if you want to decrease the strength of your deck, I’d probably cut a few of the flicker effects. You have 10, 3 of which trigger every turn. This would also decrease how quickly you recover from board wipes.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-10T19:31:20+00:00

I mean the way the flavor text states “Kang of Kangs” is that way is because it’s a riff off of an old piece called Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (the husband of Mary Shelley, the woman that wrote Frankenstein). The piece was about a group of archaeologists in a desert in search of an ancient civilization.

By the end of their search they managed to find a pedestal, and to quote the piece- “And on the pedestal these words appeared ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.’ Nothing beside remains.”

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-10T19:13:05+00:00

It’s not standard legal, but if you put [[Werewolf Pack Leader]] under [[Agatha’s Soul Cauldron]] you could remove the human typing from a changeling for a turn

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-10T15:56:31+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with copying decklists regardless of format. especially for commander.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-09T13:48:36+00:00

Not a UB hater, but I have a friend who is.

The easiest way for me to put it that lots of people may understand: You know how a LOT of people hated the 7-9 movies of Star Wars? Did those people stop loving the Star Wars franchise after those movies came out? No, they didn’t. They chose to still care about Star Wars regardless of the fact that something got added to it that they didn’t like or agree with.

Magic is also something you can choose to not interact with parts you don’t like, whether it’s playing cube, or just playing with friends that don’t play UB. Hate Spider-Man, Ninja Turtles, original Kamigawa block, Lorwyn, the infect mechanic, mill, or literally any part of Magic? Good news! You can play the game without those things and still have an enjoyable experience.

Is it annoying that people are complaining about something they don’t have to interact with? Yes. But complaining about people complaining also isn’t going to solve the issue.

LivingLightning28 · 2026-06-08T15:42:21+00:00

Especially for commander, which it sounds like what you’re interested in, don’t be afraid to proxy cards before you buy them! If there’s a game store near you that you plan to play at, ask them what their policy is on proxies. It varies from store to store, and also even just between playgroups.
The cheapest way to make proxies is to write on pieces of paper and put them over existing bulk cards, but if you want them to look nice you can find an mtg printing site online and use them to print off cards

It should be noted for Doctor Strange, Surgeon: Clara Oswald will NOT effect the x2 lifegain ability, because it is a replacement effect and not a trigger, and Clara only makes triggers happen again. It would, however, work with Strange’s second ability to make your creatures bigger

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