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I’m not sure it says it anywhere but Mood Swings First Edition is $25. That’s for a 45-card deck. Everything you need to play for 2-4 players.

I think the idea is that you don’t need all of the cards to have a full experience, so the $25 price point is aligned with other tabletop games. That said, I’m annoyed that it’s a Secret Lair first edition and will be eaten up by scalpers and collectors. I’ll probably buy it if it eventually ends up on the game shelf at Target.

the past tense of bread is brode

That’s the past tense of bride, silly.

"Don't be silly, of course the school lockers aren't haunted. It's just that the cafeteria underneath is haunted by a very tall ghost."

It’s the boiler room, of course. Like in Buffy or Heathers. That’s where the bad stuff happens in a school. (Do schools actually have these? Not any school I’ve ever been to.)

like dont get me wrong i love pauper i think pauper is awesome. but i think one of the reasons commander is such a big hook for new palyers is the commanders themselves. as someone with no or little pre-existing magic knowledge it is very easy to look at something like kaalia, or gishath, or niv mizzet, and say "oh, that looks cool and exciting, i want to play with that!" and it is a lot harder until you are really deeply invested in magic's rules and systems to see the excitement in a deck based around lembas and glint hawk

there's a lot of things that work against commander as an introductory format: complicated board states, extremely deep card pool, normalized color pie breaks. but you just cannot underestimate the "stickiness" and raw appeal the game for new players gains simply from Having A Guy who's Your Guy

Having A Guy who's Your Guy is actually a VERY common mechanic in other TCGs, and leads to what I consider the biggest divide between the two primary types of TCG: Hero Combat and Creature Combat. There are games with both, certainly, but there's a certain immersion of saying "I'm Ryu" or "I'm Spider-Man" that even "My Commander is Ryu" or "My Commander is Spider-Man" can't actually quite reach. No commander will ever feel as close to me as DBZ's Gohan, simply because of the nature of "I, Gohan, am attacking" being so different from "I, the player, am casting a spell while Heliod, my commander, hangs out right there."

Pauper seems like a pretty bad introductory format. It’s missing the excitement factor that rares bring, but at the same time it’s still extremely complex. The only thing it really has going for it is the price tag of a competitive deck. For introducing new players, you’ll do better to have some exciting rares in the deck, and they still don’t have to be expensive.

arena is very specifically prohibited from using Marvel characters in art, Wizards does not have license for Marvel digital card games, just paper

This is about the TTO version of cards

Didn't drop anyone from naming their daughters Allison.

"Andrea" means "manliness", but thanks to grammatical nonsense, it is a feminine word. Nobody is beatig that one.

Are people still naming their kids these names? I thought all those McGirls are in their teens and 20s now.

you can lift an angel up by its halo btw

If you place an angel upside down to balance on the halo, will the head descend to touch the ground?

Now I am imagining an upside down angel that can’t flip over because it is stuck like a turtle.

Reblogging because this person was nice to Mark Rosewater, and what are everyone’s favorite ice creams anyway?

Kind of sucks that it's so simple it doesn't really provide a compelling direction to take the deck.

Rule Zero deck where you can play any number of Colossal Dreadmaw.

I expect the word “The” is going to be doing a lot of work in Universes Beyond sets. 😊

This is one where roll a dice then you have to do the corresponding loyalty ability is both novel, fun, and seems like something black border could potentially handle. So I'd be ok with it if the design was mechanically more similar to the acorn version somehow. But if it ends up more as a normal planeswalker or just a space dog creature then it doesn't seem worthwhile to me.

FYI sweet survey. We’re going to find out what people consider to be Magic cards.

Shot in the dark for the MTG example: a Token-spam deck that can copy card abilities or effects can turn Heartfire Hero into a boss monster, or just destroy it for an OTK, making Progenitus's immunity to all effects and endless ability to return to the battlefield seem tame by comparison in competitive play.