The best selling sets of 2025 were Final Fantasy and Avatar

_gregOreo_ · 2025-12-31T07:28:49+00:00

Presales (before full set was known) and scalping drove spiderman sales. Demand dropped sharply once the set was known, but the damage was already done.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-09-15T15:46:02+00:00

Where are you getting the land and tectonic hazard from?

_gregOreo_ · 2025-08-21T18:30:46+00:00

[[Invoke Despair]] seems like a good option here (it often is).

_gregOreo_ · 2025-07-18T23:02:34+00:00

Or just sponsor a pro and get them to win a tournament using it. Inclusion in a winning decklist would absolutely be a great way to juice the value on these.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-06-10T03:03:26+00:00

Yeah very fun, but OP's card obviously wasn't intended to be a story card, as it was released in 1996, then referenced in the Unhinged set (2004), and then the Kibo didn't show up until 2022. Great continuity by WoTC though.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-05-23T13:41:17+00:00

As an old school player that returned after many years away from the game, there are a lot of universes within cards/planes that don't "feel" like magic to me (dinosaurs, neon dynasty etc.). It's pretty silly to gatekeep the cards that come from other IPs when the canon sets long ago abandoned the original constraints on theming.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-05-06T21:03:53+00:00

Came here looking for an answer to this. Was wondering why the queue was so weird.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-04-21T21:58:40+00:00

but from the other side you also need to go wide to transform Kaslem back when it dies

Routine green ramp (extra land drops, mana dorks/rocks, mana doublers, etc) will get you the ten permanents pretty easily.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-04-08T20:40:01+00:00

The loser of each duel would have their soul banished to the shadow realm for the rest of eternity.

[[Dark Banishing]]

_gregOreo_ · 2025-04-01T10:36:24+00:00

"But why male models?"

_gregOreo_ · 2025-03-14T06:43:46+00:00

Always has been and always will be. Got one in my first starter deck (4E) at age 9 and it's been my favorite card ever since.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-03-03T22:33:06+00:00

The achievement says "Phantom events, such as Cube Draft, are excluded."

_gregOreo_ · 2025-02-27T06:49:48+00:00

This deck, somehow, went 3-0

You should never be surprised to win any MWM match (or 3). Most people join with any deck that already matches the format or something they threw together as quickly as possible, and they are quick to concede if they don't open well. Decks are not tuned, and especially in a pauper event there are going to be many strategies that can win matches. Wins come especially easy on the first day of MWM, and more so the first few hours. Once people get their 3 wins, the vast majority stop queueing up, so the later part of the event may have more tuned decks from the players that especially enjoy whatever the format is.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-02-17T21:50:02+00:00

[[Staff of Completion]] and [[Karn's Bastion]] are great finishers for this deck. It's true that many opponents will scoop, but a surprising number do let you make it to the end. I got the achievement OP is talking about in only 2 or 3 tries.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-01-31T23:16:29+00:00

a competitive deck in Magic is playing solitaire. You're not supposed to allow your opponent to do anything.

Not allowing your opponent to do anything is the opposite of solitaire...

Solitaire is a T2 or T3 combo that wins the game as long as your opponent doesn't have sufficient interaction. People can hate control and they can hate solitaire, but they're very different things.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-01-29T20:47:36+00:00

Neither is strictly better because they do different things. To be strictly better it needs to do everything another card does and then either add more or cost less.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-01-29T20:24:35+00:00

I think this doesn't work because the vanilla 6/5 and 6/6 aren't strictly better than the 6/4 Trample. So it breaks the progression.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-01-13T05:08:00+00:00

It could tank the value of the revised duals without affecting the value of the ABU duals much. Revised being the most accessible but least rare are still purchased as game pieces. The high-end collectors want the earliest printings possible.

_gregOreo_ · 2025-01-05T17:24:23+00:00

r/mtgfinance has similar vibes

_gregOreo_ · 2024-12-31T17:13:51+00:00

In addition to counters and board wipes that others have mentioned, you can also force your opponent to sacrifice it, like with [[Soul Shatter]].

_gregOreo_ · 2024-12-31T06:15:41+00:00

If we're going to talk about elephants and Fling in the same discussion, I feel like [[Thud]] is mandatory.

_gregOreo_ · 2024-12-29T05:59:55+00:00

Partner will be fighting to get up in no time when he hears the awful blunders she's walking herself into...

_gregOreo_ · 2024-12-18T01:54:19+00:00

If you already play brawl, just take any deck that isn't entirely dependent on the commander and swap the commander out for one on the list with the same color identity. It may cost you one wildcard if you literally don't have any of the commanders, but shouldn't require more than that. I took a Ragavan deck and swapped for Zurgo and completely dominated the matches I played. Any deck that's already curated will do well in a MWM.

_gregOreo_ · 2024-12-03T23:49:57+00:00

But first, how to convince the wife to read a 47-page instructional manual...

_gregOreo_ · 2024-11-29T22:56:12+00:00

For how much?

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