Bookmarks tagged with: magic

EDHLAB - The easiest way to play Commander online

2026-06-15T21:49:54Z

EDHLAB is a free website that allows you to play the Commander format of Magic the Gathering with friends. No webcam required.

First To Draw The Game Wins! | Commander Clash - YouTube

2026-06-05T20:48:36Z

The next week the Commander Clash group had a discussion about how the “worlds” is becoming a problem in Magic. Yeah, I appreciate that. 🙏🏻

United Wizards of the Coast

2026-05-02T11:08:17Z

United Wizards of the Coast.

United Wizards of the Coast is the union of workers behind Magic: The Gathering Arena, organizing in partnership with the Communications Workers of America.

Curiosity Format – The Best, Most Affordable Magic: The Gathering Format

2026-01-15T10:07:11Z

Curiosity is 40 card set-constructed (it’s not BYOB; every deck in the tournament needs to come from the same set) with three singleton rares, eight two-of uncommons, and the rest three-of commons. It’s not clear to me whether you’re allowed to have fewer rares and uncommons. Either way I love it. This is what I’ve been looking for for a long time. I’ve had the idea of singleton rares, two-of uncommons for many years (inspired by the old Wizard’s Chess format from The Duelist.

I’d love to play fifth edition Curiosity. I don’t have nearly the same nostalgia for 5th as I do for revised and 4th so I’d be using other printings but the cardpool is huge. Or even better: 4e+Chronicles or other old sets like Ice Age, Mirage, or Tempest. I mean I would love to. (I’m just so incredibly off constructed right now. The feelbad when losing is just so much worse with constructed. But with these lower-budget formats maybe there’s more room for experimentation.)

Value Vintage – A Brewer's Paradise

2026-01-15T10:07:07Z

I know I said the other day that I don’t wanna play constructed Magic anymore, and that’s still true, I’m not getting swayed by these two new formats but I’m sure getting tempted!

Value Vintage is like Vintage (same banned/restricted list) with the added limit that the cards can only cost $30 total. You look at the cheapest printing on TCG Player so you can still use your bling SLD printings. I love how it’s sorta like Canlander but the point list is dynamic—the more popular a card is, the more points it automatically takes up in your deck.

Interview with Alan Moore - by Roberto Bartual

2025-07-14T13:00:52Z

His relation with magic, psychedelic substances, ghosts and a chilling account of his friend Steve Moore’s last goodbye. (May/June, 2025)

Treat Illusions As You Would Any Other Lie: No Rolls – Ward Against Evil

2025-03-08T08:53:01Z

I agree 100% with this approach to handling illusions in D&D.

The MTG Wiki is now at mtg.wiki, hosted by Scryfall · Scryfall Blog · Scryfall Magic The Gathering Search

2025-02-22T06:50:46Z

Okay, this is great! A complete fork of MTG wiki that’s not on Fandom.

(The not so great part is that they use Cloudflare.)

Announcement: The Highlander Accessibility Rule | 7 Point Highlander

2025-02-14T13:01:04Z

OMG what a great idea! Extra points to decks without restricted cards.

(URL says “announcement” but post is three years old; still new to me though!)

Intet - MTG Wiki

2025-02-13T18:45:31Z

This is my general in EDH.

She only existed in the alternate timeline 😅

What Are Commander Brackets?? System Rundown and Q&A! | Magic: The Gathering MTG - YouTube

2025-02-12T06:58:59Z

Oh, Gavin has a video also. With extremely annoying “music” blasting throughout making him hard to hear.

Introducing Commander Brackets Beta

2025-02-12T06:36:02Z

This looks like a great system.

I need to make changes to my deck since it awkwardly straddles all five brackets (it’s just really unfocused) but that has been a problem and this system is a guide I can use to alleviate that. Probably gonna aim for bracket three.

name:/^tr[^ ]* mage$/ power=2 game=paper not:playtest · Scryfall Magic The Gathering Search

2025-02-10T19:11:19Z

From trinkets to treasure.

(art:jace or lore:jace) (art:vraska or lore:vraska) · Scryfall Magic The Gathering Search

2025-01-28T15:18:09Z

I don’t care—I ship it!

The Future of Ward! | Magic: The Gathering Outlaws of Thunder Junction MTG - YouTube

2025-01-07T20:44:30Z

Fun video by Gavin last spring on how ward in Magic kinda got out of hand.

Avishkar: Why We Changed the Name of a Plane

2024-12-11T10:58:37Z

I’m not Desi but I know enough that the original name was a WTF when the first set came out, and I’m glad they changed it. But I always wondered how the original name came about. Were WotC trolled from within? But apparently it’s from a sanskrit word for “tomorrow” or “art” that’s romanized similarly but pronounced differently.

Magic: The Gathering Foundations Mechanics

2024-12-07T16:53:45Z

Magic removed the “conga line” rule.

Revising the earlier example under the new rules, my 5/5 attacker gets blocked by your 3/3 and your 4/4. It’s now the declare blockers step, after blockers are declared, our last opportunity to do anything before combat damage is dealt. I pass priority. You have that Giant Growth in hand. You can still save the creature of your choice. We’ll say you want to save that 3/3, probably for the same reason I wanted it gone, so you pump it up to a 6/6. We move on to combat damage, and now I get to assign my creature’s 5 damage any way I want. Most likely, I’ll take out your 4/4, as it’s the best I can do. But maybe I have, you know … plans and would rather deal 3 damage to the 6/6 and 2 damage to the 4/4. That’s okay, too.

So now double blocking is even weaker than it was. And some of my favorite cards (tricks that give one toughness or prevent one damage) are now unplayably weak. But they’ve apparently playtested this inhouse for a full year.

Twenty Years, Twenty Lessons—Part 2 | MAGIC: THE GATHERING

2024-09-27T09:15:18Z

Maro.

It’s not the players’ job to find the fun. It is your job as the game designer to put the fun where the players can’t help but find it. When the players sit down to play a game, there’s an implied promise from the game designer that if they do what the game tells them to do, it will be fun. So most players will do whatever the game tells them to do to achieve the desired goal (usually win), even if that thing isn’t fun. When the game is done, if the players didn’t enjoy themselves, they will blame the game—and rightfully so!

It’s your job as a game designer to make sure that what it takes to succeed at your game is the very thing that makes the game fun. Fun cannot be tangential; it has to be the core component of your game experience. I can’t stress this enough. You can’t hide the fun and expect your players to hunt for it. That’s not their job. It’s your job as a game designer to lead the players to the fun.

RichardCGarfield comments on We're Richard Garfield, Skaff Elias, Christian Kudahl, and Marvin Hegen, the Designers of Mindbug, AMA.

2024-08-01T06:51:11Z

Magic as Garfield intended.

Magic was intended to be hugely varied with lots of different avenues for play, which changed over time. It was not meant to be simply creatures forever.

There has been conflict between this view and reality for a long time — cards that destroyed mana, or forced discard, were hated but I wanted them to be part of the environment — I wanted cards people loved and hated rather than cards people thought were “all right”.

Xen's Subclass Compendium - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

2024-02-23T09:19:39Z

I’ve said this before but I really wish WotC woulda used the name “witch” not “warlock” for the class in both D&D and MtG, with a note saying that “some witches call themselves warlocks instead”.

This goes back to sexism of the 3.5e era (warlocks were introduced in Complete Arcane). Here’s a heartbreaking example of what this has led to:

Someone’s compendium of homebrew subclasses that has separate witch and warlock classes.