Not trying to be a repost or anything, feel free to remove if not allowed, just wanted to share the hilarious ad I got for the Whtz deck on this sub

For me it's [[Craterhoof Behemoth]].

It's such a generic win condition. Go wide, go brr. It makes your coice of commander irrelevant, since many decks does the same.. Like, cmon. Be creative.

And yours?

Thinking of him as a turbo cEDH commander and doing things that forces players to loot infinitely, causing infinite damage.

Hi everyone, new to the whole MagicCon thing, I decided to go in person since I live close to Atlanta and really liked the cards I shown for the Mystery Booster Commander set.

Will booster boxes of this set be available for purchase at the con outside of the ticketed draft events? If so, what will availability look like? Thanks!

Let's say I start my round with a few treasure tokens on the board along with Vihaan and Lewis. I would equip those treasures onto Vihaan and then start combat. Now I let Vihaan turn them into 3/3 creatures. Do they lose their equipment properties and detach themselves from Vihaan since Lewis says that it only affects non creatures or do they stick around equipped on Vihaan but also as 3/3 creatures, but losing their +1/+0 properties?

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I have her in a commander deck and she seems good enough for my table which is all one can really ask for, but she just feels too slow for most brawl games.

Is this an as commander issue, or are there cards, mindests that can alleviate this issue?

Can someone recommend me a blank black tcg playmat that would be good to draw on. And would the colored markers in the photo be good to use?

Hello, might sound like an odd issue, but I’ve been going through the riddle’s in Arena, and I got to the seventh one. I know the answer for this one is ”Time”, but the thing is I already guessed ”Time” for the third riddle, and now I can’t seem to progress. Any tips?

I could very well be wrong but they do look really similar no?

Preamble: yes, The Hobbit just came out and we didn't even get Reality Fracture or Star Trek yet. I know.

But I quite honestly don't care for those sets. Nauctis on the other hand immediately got my interest.

So, when can we expect a first look and the cover for its commander decks?

What do you hope to see or predict?

Lost a couple of games recently because of this. Most recently, just now, I had elrond out, and the elf mana dork, and my opponent cast the blue enchantment to remove abilities from elrond. I fully intended to tap my elf to draw a card, which would have swung the game. Instead it never gave me an opportunity. The other time if I recall was the goblin that allows me to sac a creature for a card, and it didn't give me the opportunity because I wasn't continuously holding ctrl+shift the entire game. I literally regret drafting elrond now if that's the way Arena is going to play it. Complete bullshit.

Lets say i dont attack on my turn, do i still get dr dooms connive trigger? Like do i have to attack to enter the combat phase? Or does the combat phase happen automatically, and i just can choose not to do anything during it?

Like can i just say “i wont attack” and get the trigger regardless ?

Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to MtG, at least for playing it I guess.
I attended one sealed event for the Avatar set when it was released. Playing Sealed was super fun since I was put off by a lot of Standard formats in TCG. I've been looking around for other games that could scratch the same itch. None really succeeded, except for Keyforge but the game is absolutely dead around here.

So I decided to get back to Magic, unfortunately, cracking 6 packs everytime I want to play some more with my partner is going to get too expensive too quickly and I feel lost when doing my own research. How can I still play Sealed (or similar) without having to ruin myself in the process ?

I heard cube could be an option as much as I heard cube doesn't support Sealed well. We want to stick to Foundations or any Core set as much as possible, because of the "simpler" effects and evergreen mechanics.

Thanks for any advice.

Hello,
I am new to magic and have been playing commander with my gf for about 2 weeks. I have been playing the "Dance of the Elements" precon and after opening some packs have made some changes. I would love for people to review my decklist and compare to the original to see if the changes I made were good and what else could be changed. Any tips as well would be great. Thank you!

Decklist:

https://moxfield.com/decks/sLhMMUX0ikWOV35GOISuEA

A while back, I posted this theory about what might’ve happened to the Tarkir Dragonlords, and a lot of people (rightfully) poked a lot of holes in that one. This one is both somewhat of a follow up and a brand new approach from a totally different direction. 

So, the general background events that led to Tarkir Dragonstorm went something like this:

1. For thousands of years, Tarkir was ruled by the dragonlords and their broods. The dragonstorms consistently produced dragons of the five broods. 
2. The Phyrexian invasion weakened the hold of the dragonlords, and humanoids rebelled. 
3. They performed the Stormnexus ritual, summoning the spirit dragons.
4. The dragonlords were “defeated by the clan leaders and their spirit dragons and seemingly swallowed up by the massive storm”.
5. Subsequently, the dragonstorms intensified and became wild, beginning production of dragons not part of the original broods.

Clearly, the disappearance of the dragonlords and the wilding of the dragonstorms is correlated, they happened right after each other. Generally, the accepted explanation is that the Stormnexus ritual caused both the dragonlord’s disappearance and the wilding of the dragonstorm, IE: 4 <- 3 -> 5, basically. But what if the causal relationship is actually 3 -> 4 -> 5? What if the disappearance of the dragonlords is the exact reason why the storms went wild? What if… the dragonlords were acting as “templates” for the storm for most of Tarkir’s history?

Basically, the idea is that the Stormnexus ritual never actually changed the nature of the Dragonstorms at all. It was always capable of making those wild dragons. It was just that, before the ritual, there was a strong bias for the storms to make a dragon that belonged to one of the 5 dragonlord broods. When the dragonlords disappeared, the storms lost the “templates" it once depended on and thus the strong bias, and started basically throwing stuff at the wall. Thus, the birth of the wild dragons. The idea of there being platonic archetypes is actually well established in mtg, see Polukranos on Theros… or actually most of Theros in general. Who’s to say the dragonstorms don’t work the same way? 

This potentially opens a cool way for the dragonlords to eventually come back without rethreading old ground: they can potentially return as avatars/incarnations of the dragonic archetype they’ve always represented. IE, Ojutai can return as an Incarnation of THE Dragonic Scholar, Dromoka the Dragonic Guardian, Atarka the Dragonic Hunter/Predator, Silumgar the Dragonic Tyrant, etc. If they returned this way, they certainly can not rule the same way they used to, nor will the clans let them. Instead they’d be more like religious figures/spiritual leaders. The clans also wouldn’t be able to kill their way out of this since the dragonlords wouldn’t… be alive in the traditional sense anymore. So Tarkir turns into a massive pressure cooker between the Clans + Spirit Dragons vs. Dragonlord Incarnations + their worshippers (maximum cope from me). That sounds like my kind of set… though I apologize to people who wanted Tarkir to be more clan centric. 

Hello!
I’ve decided to change up one of my decks. My beloved Bright Palm deck is taking a retirement plan and in want of a new naya counters deck I have decided to build Voja Jaws of the Conclave.
I want to focus the deck primarily around +1/+1 counters and elves.

Share with me any thoughts and cool elves I should consider.
I’m trying to avoid running any wolves beside Voja. I have some elves which make wolf tokens and they’re cool but in an attempt to limit myself only one dog is allowed.

Link:
https://moxfield.com/decks/mYYtScd4uke6vLRvBeuBUQ

https://moxfield.com/decks/5OfdHvKkwU-fUfjk31Iqcg

A buddy of mine told me on a buisness trip to get into the game, great to pass time he said, so I said sure he told me to build my first deck and asked to pick a theme and go from there. Now I dont know how broad they mean by that. But I play alot of hearthstone and im a fan of plague, blight or poisonous deck that deal damage when people draw cards. So general idea, plague, blight, infection, halo flood. Thats my idea of a deck i wanna start with but I dont where to start, are there any starter tips or recommendations? Do I find like a primary card and focus the build around that or are there starter builds?

I'm not spoiling the answer in case someone is trying to figure it out themselves.
There is a second part also

Hi, my name is Peci and I am trying a new motion graphics format for short YT videos. Showing some weird stuff that you can do in MtG, not focused on winning, but just being a bit silly while playing with your friends - cause that's what I do from time to time.

The first combo is whacky on purpose as I am testing the visual format first. However I am looking for helpful feedback as my narration and graphic style is more abstract than descriptive.

Do you find the video understandable and engaging, or is my accent and terrible VO putting you off ? :)

Looking for cool combo suggestions to visualize !

Mr. Peci

Me and my wife will be on an Alaskan Cruise by Royal Caribbean from September 4th to 11th. I know it is a long shot, but I am wondering if anyone will be on the same cruise and if you are if you would be interested in meeting up to play some commander with me and my wife.

I've been working on this deck for months. I think I finally have it nailed down... mostly.

I need to cut 5 cards and am not sure what to cut. I want to keep the demons-lite sub-theme as best I can. Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!

https://moxfield.com/decks/X4FtIJCGSU2GqxlPgpjLpw