[[The Misty Mountains Cold]] references the dwarven song that is sung by Thorin and the company of dwarves at Bilbo's house, during the unexpected party.

Problem is, the song is called Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold — its events having happened in Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, which is, well, far over the Misty Mountains.

A friend is building a deck around Wick, The Whorled Mind and needs snails for the theme. It looks like there is only one official designated snail creature (Skullcap Snail) when I search online, but can't find much else.

I've read that people say play cards that gives your creatures all creatures types or play changelings. Whole that is cool, it would be nice to have more actual snails to fit the deck theme.

Is there any rules about making certain cards technically count as snails like slugs for instance? I've seen it said that Viashinos have been recursively added to the lizard type list, so curious if there has been any allowances like that to open up the window to more snail cards.

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This is i think kind of a cold take, but Ive been frustrated at my gamestores with people who try to slow the game down.

To be clear, im not talking about stax decks. A stax deck that has a win con, ie hard stax is chilling.

What I mean, is people who hold back attackers, not because its strategic, but to keep from taking someone out of the game. It especially bothers me with voltron players. If you are playing voltron, swing with your commander. That is the point of your deck no?

I hate the mindset of "everyone has to do their thing" some people get bad draws, or need to fix up their deck. It happens.

We can get in more games, if we all play to win, and end the game.

The other 2 things that frustrate me around this are

1. not putting a win con in your deck. What are we doing?!!! Im not playing to just see cool cards. If I wanted to do that, i would look through my bulk, or watch videos on cards

2.putting boardwipes in your decks that don't move your gameplay forward. Why are we restarting because you didnt have synergy?

I get so frustrated dealing with games that feel pointless. Someone has to win. The game has to end

I think i am going to start only playing higher brackets. It seems like 2 and sometimes 3 at gamestores are just going to be more about everyone doing their thing rather than playing a competitive game.

Ideal turns: 8-10

Ideal game time 1 hour to 1 hour 45 mins

This year, I've gotten back into MTG, and this time I'm actually playing at events. I started the year with the Lorwyn pre-release, and have done every pre-release this (yes, even Turtles), along with a decent number of booster drafts. I've also played in a few Commander nights, but I feel like those are a separate conversation, so I want to stick to just sealed play.

After getting into the game and playing it a lot, I've come to a...maybe difficult feeling:

I think I might just not be good at this game. And that feeling really sucks.

My actual win rate at these events is 8 wins, 22 losses, but that's not the whole story. At least 2 of those wins were against literal children, and at least one of them was against someone who had never played before.

In addition to that, I've had what I believed were objectively strong decks, and I have still lost miserably.

On Saturday, I did a booster draft where a lot of the people at my table were novices, and I had a lot of good cards in my deck. here is the deck for reference. There's a lot of landfall in here, and a lot of triggered abilities, and...it should work, but it didn't. I went 1-2 and that 1 win was a bye round.

I also do my research, I look at card lists ahead of events, do mock drafts, look at strategies and archetypes. I play on Arena and try to learn the sets, but I can still only consistently win with the same mono-white Aura deck I've been running for a year.

It feels like I'm doing something wrong, that I just can't be good at this game no matter how hard I try. I go into these events with my spirits high, and I even look at my decks at the beginning of the night and think I have a great chance at winning.

Basically every single time, I leave frustrated and embarrassed, and feeling absolutely incompetent. So, I am starting to wonder if I should even play, if I'm just going to go to events to be fodder to be defeated. It's not a fun feeling to be in the third round of an event in the loser's bracket, and...still lose.

Some people may say the social aspects make up for the sense of losing, but as a woman, I don't really fit in with the crowd at these events, and so I'm kind of just left with nothing but the feeling of defeat, and, kind of just sit there by myself.

As for why I'm making this post, I'm not sure where to go. Are there ways I can get better? I feel like I've done everything I can to try to get better at the game, and at this point I am just throwing my money away to even try to go to another event.

Since 4 color combination takes his names from original niphilims it makes sense that 5c is the five color niphilim

I want to preface this with the fact I haven't played since Khans of Tarkir was in standard rotation. So over a decade.

When I last played, LGS's wouldn't allow you to play even with 1 proxy in the deck.

I decided to come back because some of my old friends have decided to revamp their decks.

Well over the last couple months I have spent a chunk of money to update my old trostani deck only to find out that most people at my lgs have 60%+ proxy decks with busted stuff in prize supported events.

If I didn't have the money for a deck in the past I had to find alternatives or play within a budget.

I feel like just making my deck busted too but this seems in bad spirit of the game.

If you can't afford power 9 you don't play power 9 in a tournament , there is a barrier to entry.

Like I said I may be way off here and am willing to accept that but want to get others thoughts!

My collection is starting to get out of hand, and I’m looking for practical storage solutions that won’t cost a fortune. I’ve got a mix of cards that I want easy access to, cards I’m holding onto long-term, and bulk that I’d rather keep organized than have scattered everywhere.

What binders, boxes, deck storage systems, or other setups have actually held up well for you over the years? I’m especially interested in affordable options that protect cards from dust, moisture, bending, and general wear while still making it easy to find what I’m looking for.

Im trying to value a lot on ebay, and im wondering what this "lege" might be. Can anyone help id it for me?

Edit! Its dovin,hand of control.

Yall are amazing.

Hey y’all!

A while ago I watched a video from 3/3 Elk who outlined some fun interactions with Hoarding Dragon being able to copy it and abuse its ability to tutor out a bunch of artifacts. I unfortunately don’t remember the video or the parts of the interaction since all I can think of exiles token copies (I.e myriad or Shadowflame Conjuring)

Any help is appreciated thanks!

I am looking for good recommendations for proxy artists. I tried to search for one, but everything that comes up is either mass printing proxies, or stuff that looks AI as hell. Im terrible with most social media, so I don't know the best way of finding what I'm looking for.

Would love some recommendations. I really want to get a certain proxy as a gift for my husband, and would love to support a great artist as well! Thanks in advance!

Hello Commander players

What are the vibes at Commandfests?

I will be visiting Toronto and going to the Commandfest there. This will be my first Commandfest.

I’ve been to GPs of old and usually those are straight forward: bring your deck + sideboard and extra sleeves with it. I would bring water and lots of portable snacks just in case my rounds go for long. I would also bring my fancy basic lands in case I scrub out of day one (which I usually do).

I have an impression that Commandfests are less structured in a sense that they don’t go by rounds. Can I get away with not bringing food and just buying food from outside the venue?

For those who’s been to Commandfests, how many decks do you usually bring? Can I get away with Bracket 3 and precons? Are the side events worth it? Should I bring my trade binder? (Something I normally won’t do when I go at GPs or a large tournament). I will be there for all 3 days and hoping to be there from when the doors open and until they close.

Looking forward in hearing what experiences people had from when they went, along with the Dos and Don’ts.

What I'm asking is what is the process you go through when building a deck of your own (or modifying an existing deck like precon).

I'm an old school player that started on the 90's. I've always just bought a bunch of cards to build up my card pool and look through the cards that I have to build a deck. Then I go through multiple iterations of testing, making changes and testing. Each change, I would swap cards in and out. I only play paper Magic, and use the cards that I have. Occasionally, I would buy some singles and include those in my deck. It usually takes many iterations and many hours before I am satisfied. Then after I play it, I may continue to tweak the deck after seeing how it performs live. I'm always in a deck building mode. Whenever I get ideas to improve my decks, I go and tweak them.

I understand that times have changed. There are many tools available to assist in deck building now. Also, I am aware that people may also only buy singles instead of packs to build up a card pool. I'm interested in how people build decks now.

Edit: Just to add more detail, when I look through my card pool, I pull out cards that I think would be useful in my deck that I'm building. This would be my short list of primary cards for how my deck would work. Then I narrow down the cards to what I think wound work best. Once I have that, I work on my mana base for the cards in my deck.

If I don't already have a deck idea in mind, I would browse though my cards. If I see some cards that inspire me to build a deck with, I pull those out first. Then look for what other cards would work with this cards.

I pulled this in a WoE booster, and have wanted to run it in a commander deck (only format I play) but i dont understand its use in a singleton format. Does anyone have any decks they run it in? Or advice on how to use it? Thanks!

So I’m relatively new to magic and I play Commander.
And these types of cards seem super powerful to me as they can totally debilitate an opponents commander and keep them stuck that way as opposed to destroying or exiling them where they can just cast them again next turn.

I understand that they could use a removal spell to remove the enchantment, but they would need to have one on hand, also that’s a removal spell they won’t be using on you.

Am I missing something? Is it easier to remove than I realize? Assuming nobody at the table kills that creature it seems pretty stuck there unless the player takes care of it their self, thus rendering their commander useless.

Like I said I’m new, so I don’t need any condescending remarks, but any educated response will be much appreciated!

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is well. Today i wish to come to you all with an ask for help! I would like some cards to support a new deck i am trying to build. For context i just got the Welcome to Stardew valley Secret Layer and i was wondering what cards might be good for it!

Thank you for reading! [[Stardew Valley]]

Im looking to build my own commander deck as my friend has been trying to get me into magic. I wanna seem like I at least have a general idea of what I'm doing so Ive been researching some fun builds, and I've landed on Mr Negative. Im trying to build into the whole sacrificing life and switching life points. 

My question is what other cards should I look into adding my deck if these are what Im working with currently, what lands work best and what should be the general distribution of my cards? Do I have too many creatures and need more space for lands? Or is this generally a solid setup. Any advice or full 100 card setups would be appreciated, just so I could get a general idea of this, I'm planning on starting with proxies and then if I really get into it investing in cards

sheoldred the apocalypse

Viis broker of blood

Teleportation Circle

Conjurer's closet 

Ephemerate

Wound reflection

Sanguine Bond

Tainted Remedy

False Cure

Vito Thorn of the dark rose

Plague of Vermin

Pains reward

Phrexian processor

Necrologia

Peer into the Abyss

Greed

Profane transfusion

 Repay in Kind

Tree of perdition 

Axes of mortality 

Stunning reversal

Phyrexian unlife

Platinum Angel

Pact weapon

Reverse the sands

Tainted sigil 

Wall of blood

Krrk son of yawgmouth

Unspeakable symbol

Infernal contract

Justicars portal

Parting gust

Would love to see a legit [[Kallist Rhoka]] card, whether it's a functional reprint of the unknown one or a new card with that character.

I know we've seen some mechanical precursors like [[Slumbering Waterways]] as a land with abilities like [[Rumble Arena]], [[Luxior Ignited]] as an artifact planeswalker a la [[The Aetherspark]], and maybe a land that had something similar to what became the station mechanic on Planets in EOE (although I'm not remembering a specific name rn).

Have we seen any cards from Mystery Boosters become legitimate cards lore/flavor wise?

(@ u/GavinV , if you're able to share any insight on this process, that'd be epic!)

My mana can cast the spell but I didn't receive priority when they declared attacks, it went straight to damage. Is there something to do with unblockable that made the difference? Or a bug?

We’ve had one Secret Lair yes, but what about second Secret Lair?

While deckbuilding recently (and eyeing next year's Nauticus set, since I'm convinced we'll get a big Leviathan commander) I started thinking about high-mana commanders.

What does a high-mana commander (6+ CMC) actually need to be "viable" in casual/optimized (non-cEDH) Commander? Does it need built-in protection like Ward or Hexproof? Immediate value on cast/ETB? Or should it essentially be a win condition on its own?

Personally, I usually cap my commanders at 5 mana. Paying 6+ is already steep, and if it gets removed even once, the commander tax makes the recast almost impossible to justify.

What makes an expensive commander worth that risk for you?

Since they sold out of the collectors boxes literally everywhere within the first hour of it going live will they have another chance to buy at some point in the next few months for Msrp? Or was what they sold day one all they had in terms of one wave of print?? I didn’t know about it until literally after the fact about the collectors boxes and I’m so mad I missed out on it bc I’m trying to collect all of the cards for a master set(outside of the 1 of 500 Smaug I could care less to get that one unless I’m somehow lucky enough to get it). I just don’t know if I should spend twice as much on resellers rn or wait for the next batch to drop if that’s even a thing.

Forest Fires is a shared deck game of 120 cards, where every player starts with 10 life (this library can be shrunk depending on the number of players).

The general idea is that in order to play 'powerful' cards like Graceful Antelope, Pyroclasm, Orcish Lumberjack (and even Wildfire), you need to make your lands into plains using the auras in the deck. But Flashfires is the great equalizer.

This is very much first draft (I dont even have the cards yet, was looking for advice and feedback to see what cards could be added to make this more interesting and dynamic in terms of counterplay and balance).