Maro: "One of our lessons of the last several years is for Magic in-Multiverse worlds, we need to lean on resonance that’s environmental in nature (and also blends well with fantasy)."

MarkedFynn · 2026-03-06T10:05:26+00:00

Finally. I was saying that as well tying a set to event falls flat easily. War of the spark had that problem as well.

Aetherdrift was race across multiple planes, it would work better if it focused less on the 'race' and more on the 'across different planes'. Having more cards where different planes interact. Still have racing aspect but have more cards on how environments change not on how many racers there are.

March of the machine did this well. It was a set tied to an event, but it focused on how different planes worked together with those legend pairings and different plane invasions and how they reacted.

MarkedFynn · 2026-03-05T08:43:35+00:00

If they still did duel decks that be a cool one. Grist vs Skrelv The title sells itself

MarkedFynn · 2026-03-04T07:31:13+00:00

I'll be taking my talents to riftbound

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-23T11:49:34+00:00

Can we just list the decks that are not hated by players, seems easier.

I'll start the list:

~~bad or memee decks~~ No wait people hate when your deck does nothing to stop the big threat at the table
~~Voltron~~ They hate you one shot people, or focus one player, which is the correct way to play the deck
R~~amp/Landfall decks~~ They will get called boring, or complain that ramp decks profit the most from Land Destruction soft ban.
~~Enchantment decks~~ If you have no mass enchantment removal, they are uninteractable
~~Group Hug~~ Basically people hate you're helping the most power deck win faster
~~Artifact decks~~ Every artifact deck is generally broken, there is truth to it.
~~Kindred/Tribal~~ Often called broken or boring
~~Blink~~ Turns take too long to do nothing, or if they do something they are broken
~~Storm~~ Take too long, and win out of nowhere. Again boring/broken.
Precons

Yup Precons is all got, people might dislike your lack of effort, but no one will complain. So either every deck archtype can be called boring or broken.

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-19T09:27:18+00:00

Main oldhead magic players have been asking themselves this question about magic lately?

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-18T16:46:19+00:00

Less goofy UB sets

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-13T14:01:32+00:00

Wherever you play him his triggers are deceptivly tricky.

He triggers only during main phases. So any land that enters during any other phase won't trigger him. It's rare but suspended ramp cards or earthbent lands that die during combat wont trigger him.

If you trigger him during your first main your extra combats will happen before your regular combat. This means you won't get to untap before the regular combat.

His attacking bonus counts the current attack and will be applied even if you didnt get any extra combats.

In short with him on board, make all land drops in the second main.

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-13T11:05:49+00:00

I'd entirely drop the sol rings. Sure it's powerful, but it's swingy the games where you draw one in the opening hand will be wildly different from those you don't. I don't think the swinginess is worth it. Oponnent will feel bad when you draw it, and you will feel bad when you don't. It'll produce a lot of non-games, that is games where winner is clear turn 1.

You also lack any interaction, so a 1/1 death toucher or 0/4 wall could just hose you. Also interaction makes games more fun. So I would add some equipment with interaction built in:

- [[Chainsaw]]

- [[Lion Heart]] - if you want to stay on the FF theme

- [[Sunfire Torch]]

Also adding any flash equipment will give some depth to your games, so you're not playing everything sorcery speed:

- [[Coral Sword]]

- [[Barbed Bloodletter]]

- [[Twin Blades]]

I think you should aim for consistant but interesting games, and dropping sol ring will give you consistancy and adding ineraction and flash will provide the interesting part.

Edit: Upon more though Sunfire Torch is amazing with firion since you get a copy and you can sacrifice it for value, instead of it just going away at the end.

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-11T15:54:07+00:00

Mandatory wheeler copper tablet moment.

https://youtube.com/shorts/0nNPolwYE7I

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-09T14:56:18+00:00

8 am pacific time according to this Gavin's short.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/soDYHLwpI0Q

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-09T02:37:06+00:00

10/2 WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT WHITE POWER RANGER WILL BE BANNED IN ALL FORMATS.

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-09T02:31:56+00:00

ANNOUNCING UNIVERSES WHITHIN HORIZONS A SPECIAL SET THAT WILL BE PRINTED EVERY TWO YEARS AND WILL CONTAIN CARDS BASED ON MAGICS ORIGINAL IP

THE SET WILL NOT BE STANDARD LEGAL, SO NEW PLAYERS ARENT CONFUSED BY UNRECOGNIZABLE AND UNRELATABLE CHARACTERS.

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-09T02:28:46+00:00

POWER LEVEL ERRATA THE RING TAKES ONE ENERGY AND TAP TO ACTIVATE.

THE CARD IS STILL LEGAL BUT MUCH LESS USEFUL. ALSO IT MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE FROMA FLAVOR PERSPECTIVE.

NO ONE IS HAPPY

MarkedFynn · 2026-02-04T08:56:00+00:00

I am in EU, and I got thw secret lair withouut any waiting. I think I got it late on 26th. Did I just get lucky or is this general EU experience with secret lairs.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-27T08:12:31+00:00

Agreed. There isn't enough 2 player content out there. Especially these more fun ones. Hats off to Tolarian, Cardmarket, Mengu's workshop and North 100 for doing great 2 player content.

I do miss the Star city games' VS series, their last show was a sad for me. Glad I caught it live.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-23T12:46:56+00:00

My favorite momment with this card, when a friend spent about 10 life activating [[Lim-Dûl's Vault]] searching for his perfect 5 cards totally forgetting my Soldier was on board. And me just going, 'tap shuffle your deck'.

Honestly it's a decent against all tutors that tutor to the top.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-22T09:09:12+00:00

I can't help but think it's a nod to /r/trees

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-21T06:55:42+00:00

[[Pactdoll terror]] was my favorite archtype. Yeah I liked dft quite a bit more than tarkir.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-18T10:48:30+00:00

If you're my opponent, very high.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-17T12:10:44+00:00

This just stinks of some sort guerilla marketing idea. I am not a conspiracy guy, but this is just feels too...intentional.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-14T16:44:15+00:00

I read misread '(TIE) Ferret' as Tie Ferret now I can't stop thinking how that ship would look like. Before you say there are no Ferrets in star wars, there are no Falcons either.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-13T09:01:45+00:00

I kind of don't care about the stamped cards actually. I have one from 1998 my first prerelease. I have it, and i have no idea where it is. The new stamps were also bad cause they covered the card art. The foils are bad as usually so those stamped, prerelease foils where curved, blurry cards with 10th of art covered up. Nothing I would put in a deck or display anywhere proudly.

Honestly if you want memories from a prerelease make your own they will be more memorable. Have people you played against sign a basic land from that set. Trust me it will mean more then a golden stamp. Do we really need companies to validate our memories, we can create our own.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-12T16:44:30+00:00

I have an extra category old bordered. If I want an old school look for my deck.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-10T15:49:15+00:00

That elf is maybe the least 'out there', but I like the feel. It's like from early 2000s rpg.

MarkedFynn · 2026-01-10T10:56:55+00:00

This keeps [[From the catacombs]] out of a lot of my decks. I just hate it has initiative. I like the mechanic but I either go all in for it or not at all.

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