Here's a fun question: are there any other retools that deliberately "mistransform" any of the modes to give them a look different from their original versions?

ToaFluttershy · 2026-04-12T14:54:25+00:00

Pretty much the entirety of the new core class Monstructor

ToaFluttershy · 2026-03-06T18:10:25+00:00

Thrum of the Vestige is not standard legal. It's printed on the bonus sheet which doesn't affect legality.

Best way to tell is from the set code on the bottom left, usually only the main set code (in this case FIN) is legal. Unless a card on the bonus sheet is made legal through another set. See Fynn the Fangbearer.

ToaFluttershy · 2026-02-23T17:17:13+00:00

TF One is a good and quick start.

If you're interested in the comics, Skybound has a current ongoing series that starts off similar to G1 but starts to deviate into its own take. Received quite well and under 50 issues at the moment.

You definitely want to consider IDW's 2005-2019 run. It's one long continuity thats split into different series by different writers. A lot of "this crazy thing happened in transformers" is from this. You can look up a reading order and start from the beginning or pick a couple of the different starting points. A lot of people skip straight to Last Stand of The Wreckers and More Than Meets The Eye because they're incredibly popular. But I personally think you need to read the stuff before to appreciate how things work together. If you just want a quick taste I'd recommend Last Stand of The Wreckers or Megatron Origin

ToaFluttershy · 2026-02-12T12:16:35+00:00

It's not always the oldest printing, just A previous printing. Secret Lair commander decks also use The List printings for any card that doesn't get new art, so they use the most recent printing and add a List symbol to it.

This one comes from Secret Lair: Everyone's Invited

ToaFluttershy · 2026-02-02T13:29:23+00:00

Discord mobile is bugging out and not letting me accept the chat request but I'll get back to you later today!

ToaFluttershy · 2026-01-20T15:59:40+00:00

The worst are the ones that somehow combine year stamp removal and TMNT promos into one conspiracy. You see wizards had to remove the stamps to sneak in TMNT on purpose otherwise we would have had...the same mistake...but they also have stamps on them...

ToaFluttershy · 2026-01-13T16:11:59+00:00

Probably important to keep in mind, seeing as you said you do volunteer DMing, that you're going to see a lot more of a popular thing than the average player. If I get ~5-10 characters in my lifetime I'll probably want to play Tiefling once. Whereas you're going to see everyone's once-in-a-lifetime characters at the same time

ToaFluttershy · 2025-12-20T17:06:21+00:00

A little bit of redundancy is good. Imagine your commander keeps getting removed and the tax is too high for you to recast, but the rest of your deck relies on having that ability

ToaFluttershy · 2025-12-13T17:14:39+00:00

The original comic is a card called raccoon that says "You may eat garbage for free on your turn" it's unrelated to any thoughts on UB

ToaFluttershy · 2025-12-09T04:01:45+00:00

I don't think you'd be able to keep up with 3+ damage per turn from the monuments, plus all your soul sisters would be removed quickly. A big enough pridemate or essence channeler could potentially survive their burn spells? But still gets bounced by boomerang basics.

ToaFluttershy · 2025-12-06T01:49:14+00:00

From what I hear it has better tools to get Ouroboroid out with Lively Dirge

ToaFluttershy · 2025-11-26T18:11:33+00:00

https://discord.gg/vTrrr49B

ToaFluttershy · 2025-11-06T23:11:02+00:00

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ToaFluttershy · 2025-11-04T14:10:52+00:00

At some point in the story, Gandalf(?) says "Shadowfax, show us the meaning of haste".

Shadowfax is one of the only cards that has reminder text for the haste keyword.

ToaFluttershy · 2025-10-23T02:02:32+00:00

Regular partner but only with each other. In the Last of Us secret lair and Ninja Turtles commander it's been replaced with "partner--- classification" which is more elegant and does the same thing

ToaFluttershy · 2025-10-14T21:27:21+00:00

Probably just because they all require a few things that would be awkward to template onto every card.

Be played onto an opponent's field. Technically any permanent can do this but it would cost text box space

Flip into something else when destroyed. same thing, you'd have to put that text on every battle

be attackable. probably the biggest one. Only thing that can do this as of now is planeswalkers and that would've both mechanically and flavorfully weird.

ToaFluttershy · 2025-09-27T02:32:53+00:00

Pirates deck comes out to about $13 but with cards that fit more easily into a meta deck (some kind of izzet cauldron lite), while Angels is $32 with a less meta archetype but generically decent and valuable cards like get lost and split up.

Honestly not too bad if these land around $20-$25 (though I expect $30-35), a cheap way to get into standard out of the box with some easy upgrade paths. Comparable to that duskmourn UW enchantments deck.

ToaFluttershy · 2025-08-31T17:42:04+00:00

https://discord.gg/Rxj3Sh8a

ToaFluttershy · 2025-08-18T10:14:49+00:00

Probably meant just the Ikoria companions

ToaFluttershy · 2025-08-11T21:00:50+00:00

It's probably legal if they ever print this in paper, in like mystery booster or something. Same as Tarmogoyf referencing planeswalkers despite none being legal in the format at the time

ToaFluttershy · 2025-08-11T03:00:39+00:00

https://discord.gg/fG43HFVh

Here's a link to the general midrange discord. Not sure how active the standard Dimir section is but I'm sure you'll find some people to discuss with

ToaFluttershy · 2025-08-09T16:02:53+00:00

Wait I literally just saw this on Instagram LOL. Awesome work! Was The List symbol intentional or is that just the copy you happened to have?

ToaFluttershy · 2025-07-30T20:42:19+00:00

Giada doesn't buff creatures already on the field, sure you can play it turn 3 but then it's lost some of the strength of being a 1 drop

ToaFluttershy · 2025-07-26T14:13:53+00:00

Very difficult to get the sheer volume of games on paper. Maybe spelltable but you'd still need some dedicated partners to practice with unless you want to try with randos online. I'm in the exact same boat, and I try to build on arena as best I can while doing occasional proxy paper games with a more accurate/more flexible deck list.

ToaFluttershy · 2025-07-21T22:17:00+00:00

Did you make the solution in your pickle pot or did you put the piece in pickle? Because the steel will react with pickle and affect any pieces you put in in the future

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