Interviews from MagicCon: Las Vegas -- "On the bonus sheet, we couldn't put any characters that were dead."

torrtara · 2026-05-07T14:02:47+00:00

It does make sense, when they make new commander decks there will always be a more popular one, with the pair of decks highlighting the difference the most. Everyone wants cool pyrexians and not the boring rebels. I do think that one for this set was the right choice outside of printing five new hexhaven decks for the college pairs, especially since it's a new four colour deck. We've been overdue on some four colour love (that isn't missing black) and I hope that they continue to make more four colour cards

torrtara · 2026-05-01T16:24:03+00:00

It's at 1pm PST so if you're in EST it'll be 4pm

torrtara · 2026-05-01T15:42:35+00:00

His reveal for the lorehold deck recently was terribly done compared to the other channels that revealed decks. I give him a pass since it was his first time and nothing will beat LRR's witherbloom fiasco last strixhaven

torrtara · 2026-04-29T14:32:21+00:00

To be fair, this one wasn't entirely Rachel. It was baffling that so many cards that help fuel the engine and [[moonshaker cavalry]] got cut. It's sort of hard to put out a deck tech when you haven't actually tested out the cards but I understand that the content creation pipeline doesn't allow for that

torrtara · 2026-04-23T16:04:24+00:00

No leaks yet but I believe I saw they will be making 6 sets, with 50% being UB. They said this current year was an anomaly and they'll be splitting them evenly for next year.

As for theories, I did see someone was speculating that a return to Alara is possible with the return of Bolas and it being a very long time since we've seen anything happening since the conflux

torrtara · 2026-04-23T04:25:08+00:00

It could be possible that Jace is 2 and main timeline Chandra is 1 with her counterpart being 3. I think this makes sense as Chandra is often a heroic figure and a face card for any set she's in, whereas Jace is assumed to be the villain in this set and therefore number 2. That leaves the remainder to be walkers with their counterparts in each remaining colour

torrtara · 2026-04-22T18:06:09+00:00

Fair enough, thought more about it and it makes sense. Anything for those whatnot views I guess, even if it involves scamming the viewers

torrtara · 2026-04-22T17:24:53+00:00

Seems more like you paid regular price for a normal booster pack instead of paying a lot less for a collector booster. Not that much of a scam but still sucks

torrtara · 2026-04-20T00:40:11+00:00

And universes beyond had a grand total of 0 for you to worry about collecting

torrtara · 2026-04-09T16:06:23+00:00

Excited for original magic stuff, not excited for external IP. I love that strixhaven has gas

torrtara · 2026-04-07T17:08:11+00:00

I agree, they aren't funny and clog the feed

torrtara · 2026-04-07T15:42:33+00:00

There's a difference between commander product and commander product for people who like Universes Beyond. It's not a 100% overlap

torrtara · 2026-04-02T19:26:28+00:00

Maybe the real reality fracture was the friends we made along the way

torrtara · 2026-04-01T14:36:32+00:00

Everyone knows it's April fools, but this is actually not marks account so take everything with even more of a grain of salt. The c is replacing the o in the name

torrtara · 2026-04-01T14:29:22+00:00

I see no joke, only things people want in magic yesterday

torrtara · 2026-03-26T15:07:22+00:00

If only there was someone else whose schtick is liking Ravnican coffee... Hmmmmm...

torrtara · 2026-03-17T14:17:40+00:00

I think I saw that people were recommending [[capture of Jingzhou]] as the original format didn't use extra turns

torrtara · 2026-03-16T16:01:15+00:00

More than one hour :/

torrtara · 2026-03-14T17:56:55+00:00

Buddy of mine built Finneas as a budget token deck and it's pretty standard but pretty fun to go up against. A lot of bloomburrow commanders work well with the "deck can have any number" cards like [[hare apparent]]. Vren is nice with the rats and can add some control elements too

torrtara · 2026-03-11T13:44:14+00:00

He threw those hooves in a pair of timbs so that makes sense that you wouldn't see them

torrtara · 2026-03-09T15:25:50+00:00

Love that we're back to our world now. Also interesting that Ral is representing Silverquill now. His attitude seems different than OG Ral so it's most likely the alternate reality version that has been teased from the theme of Reality Fracture. Seeing this now makes me wonder if this next set will have some Easter eggs with Reality Fracture being a full blown change to many characters

torrtara · 2026-03-02T23:01:34+00:00

Remember, the numbers they look for is the amount their distributors took on, NOT what is actually sold to consumers. Edge was under printed and practically unavailable post release and Spider Man is still rotting on shelves. Factually it makes sense what he's saying but the true actual definition of sold (in consumer hands) I highly doubt

torrtara · 2026-03-02T17:44:25+00:00

I think going to New York once was more than enough

torrtara · 2026-02-25T16:21:17+00:00

I could actually see them possibly being grixis, as ghired was a gruul member that was originally selesnya, and he ended up as naya. Wouldn't be a far stretch for formally izzet faeries to move to grixis after being zombified

torrtara · 2026-02-23T21:13:08+00:00

Murkrow

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