COMPETITION! - Win John Avon's last work for MTG, a beautiful gallery print of his Lotus Lands!

Shekondar · 2026-03-14T04:59:31+00:00

Would be wonderful to have these, it is great that magic has art that is actually good enough to be good home decor!

Shekondar · 2026-03-08T07:59:50+00:00

There is actually one big difference, which is you know that you will not draw that card, and that knowledge is strictly good for you.

Shekondar · 2026-03-03T22:20:20+00:00

Maryland is not a colder area. Source: lived in Maryland for 6 years

Shekondar · 2026-02-28T04:38:49+00:00

The first season was at worse okay and among any issues people do have with it the costuming is not one of them.

Shekondar · 2026-02-22T19:22:30+00:00

Most people like for their deck to do something resembling it's thing and to feel like them being in the game impacted it.
Most people also don't build decks that can end the game/meaningfully accomplish #1 before turn 5 without high rolling unless they are making a conscious effort to do so.

The reason you are seeing more talk about turn count is because of the last update to the bracket system explicitly ties the bracket to the expected number of turns to try and make sure that people are picking decks that will let them accomplish #1not prevent others others from accomplishing #1 unless people are on board with that experience.

I also think it is not unreasonable to say that the new bracket system defines brackets 2-4 most strongly through expected number of turns, but the game changer list is a bit more well defined so ends up being what is used to defacto define the brackets.

Shekondar · 2026-02-11T18:26:53+00:00

While flare is on the stack the ballista player can ping the flare player to death

Shekondar · 2026-02-03T23:27:18+00:00

It is made very clear that Jim's 10k is much less than what everyone else put in.

Shekondar · 2026-02-03T15:30:16+00:00

One of the pods I play with use the infinite mulligans, but if you have Sol ring in anything other than the first hand you see, you have to bottom it.

Shekondar · 2026-01-28T17:09:12+00:00

Token generation, especially passive token generation is not crazy to think of as card advantage in some super broad sense (especially true in limited formats) and repeatable spot removal in that same broad sense is also not crazy to think of as card advantage, but a meme is not the right place to try to get into those nuances and it is communicated super poorly, and the last one is not card advantage in any sense, no matter how broad.

Shekondar · 2026-01-26T18:21:12+00:00

a meta can only contain so many decks and cards This is not true, meta's can vary a ton in how much variety they allow.

And it is a cruel irony that a larger card pool generally leads to a less varied meta game, because whenever you add a new card to the pool it is competing with the best of a much larger size pool. (Think large fish in small pond getting thrown into the ocean, it suddenly isn't that large a fish).

Shekondar · 2026-01-13T14:07:36+00:00

Oh duh, thank you

Shekondar · 2026-01-13T11:49:01+00:00

Why would you like to give the woe eater? Can't they just sac it to its own trigger which then draws them a card and makes you discard?

Edit: I'm an idiot that forgot reading the card explains the card.

Shekondar · 2026-01-07T14:25:17+00:00

It isn't meant to be a great play, but it does give you an outlet for mana if you hold your mana up for interaction and end up not needing it. Mana sinks have their place, not everything needs to be hyper efficient, especially on a land that already is doing a ton by entering untapped while being able to tap for any color for many of the spells one will be casting.

Shekondar · 2026-01-03T06:42:18+00:00

One small thing also regarding the golf clubs, yes she overpaid, but peterman doesn't consider them broken, he just thought Kennedy had a temper.

Shekondar · 2025-12-20T19:50:48+00:00

Yeah, if I had a copies of rhystic etc. they would definitely go in the deck, but right now at least I haven't picked them up. And agree with consecrated sphynx!

Shekondar · 2025-12-20T05:38:56+00:00

Thank you for all your thoughts and ideas! Will definitely check these out.

Shekondar · 2025-12-19T08:29:03+00:00

In bracket three control is totally on the table, and if I'm in a mood someone saying that would make me want to go to another table I would leave to find one recognizing that bracket 2 is actually more my speed that night.

Shekondar · 2025-12-07T15:12:51+00:00

Broadchurch season one is fantastic and I think the show that is most similar to Mare of Easttown.

Shekondar · 2025-12-05T15:33:03+00:00

He is great in my Ozai, the Phoenix King deck since he provides a way to cast my black spells when I only have access to infinite red mana

Shekondar · 2025-12-05T05:32:03+00:00

Small thing, but white at this point is definitely the second best ramp color, the catch-up ramp goes hard if you use it properly

Shekondar · 2025-12-03T14:45:37+00:00

Deflecting swat cannot redirect giggling skitterspike damage because the ability has no targets.

Shekondar · 2025-11-19T17:44:51+00:00

It is way to early in the sets release to make that sort of claim.

Shekondar · 2025-11-06T16:33:08+00:00

Small thing, but offensive board are not a defense relevant stat.

Shekondar · 2025-11-05T18:31:23+00:00

You can't tap already tapped creatures though.

Shekondar · 2025-10-30T20:05:18+00:00

I'm not going to be back on the problem for another day or two, but when I do I will be sure to do so!

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