The General Magic the Gathering Thread

Crimson vow pre release is the 19th i thought? Does it vary by region?

Maybe my store is weird, i can’t pick up my pre release kits till the 19th.

Release date is the 19th; pre-release is this weekend.

Got to play in a Mystery Booster draft tonight. It’s effectively chaos draft since there’s like 1500 possible cards in those boosters, plus the playtest cards. Ended up going green-blue with my first pick, Form of the Mulldrifter, although I think the Squidnapper won me more games. Good prize support from the store, ended up with a pretty decent haul.

There’s a Van Helsing card? They have Dracula in the game now?

It’s a crossover variant of a regular Magic card (the original card name is shown in smaller font).

So is there a Dracula card? I think a standalone Hollywood Monsters MtG deck would be fun.

Yeah, there was a small set of existing cards done as Dracula.

Like @Scotch_Lufkin said, they’re different skins on regular cards. Here’s the full list for Dracula. They’ve also done similar things for some other IPs, including Godzilla a few sets back.

Have we talked about MTGRemy around here before? If anyone likes Magic and/OR likes musical parodies they should be checking this guy out. Here is the latest:

https://youtu.be/xxnVl4nx-lI

He’s incredibly talented, very charismatic and just a fucking delight. Go through his video backlog rabbit hole.

Here are some of my personal favorites:

https://youtu.be/pQsG_25Wxxw

https://youtu.be/5nwtHai3fMc

And so many more.

The non-video ones are also incredibly entertaining. One of the best things is his videos tend to be about 90 seconds long, it’s just perfect.

Guess I’ve been a little checked out on MTG news. Didn’t see this one coming.

Standard :

Alrund’s Epiphany is banned.
Divide by Zero is banned.
Faceless Haven is banned.

Don’t really mind about Epiphany, but Divide By Zero is gonna hurt.

LR recently put up their Ice Age + Alliances retrospective pod, and no lie it hit me in some pretty good feels.

Not saying, just saying that Marshall tells a story about an old deck of his that he unearthed titled, “Ach Hans Run!”

Not as hilarious as the Fallen Empires one, but Fallen Empires is nonpareil when it comes to comedy so fair play.

Someone in WOTC development is compensating for sure. They even made the art purple.

Sigh.

+4/+0 is enough to make one copy worth the drawbacks in limited with evasion, sure. Absolute pantsing when the bearer gets killed though, assuming a limited environment somewhere on the normal part of the tempo bell curve.

Yeah, it’s not great - even in limited, I suspect, but I don’t think we’ve seen an abundance of removal yet so the jury’s out.

https://youtu.be/dGVI8mlHNNA

I hate YT thumbnails so much.

Even I thought to myself “Okay, boomer” when I read that, LOL. Did you shake your fist at the heavens!? :)

On the daily, my man. On the daily.

Basically an 11% price increase starting in July. Not terribly surprising, given the overall economic situation.