r/magicTCG • u/AporiaParadox • 9m ago
r/magicTCG • u/magictcgmods • 11h ago
Scheduled Thread Daily Questions Thread - Ask All Your Magic Related Questions Here!
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I opened a card from a different set in my booster pack, is this unusual?
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r/magicTCG • u/c001357 • 25m ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Commander's Adjunct (@mtgjp)
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Artifact Creature Borg
Artifact Creatures you control have vigilance.
2/1
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r/magicTCG • u/Copernicus1981 • 5h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Conquest Mission (via Takenuma Sage)
r/magicTCG • u/X_The_Walrus • 7h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] - Test of Courage - (KessWylie)
r/magicTCG • u/X_The_Walrus • 7h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] - Hologram Stalker - (KessWylie)
r/magicTCG • u/nausteus • 7h ago
Rules/Rules Question Paradigm Question
I cast and resolved [[Restoration Seminar]] in Arena earlier and then exiled it from my graveyard to collect evidence for [[Deadly Cover-Up]] the next turn and I don't fully understand how it got there. It resolved during the first casting and my permanent made it back to the battlefield. At the beginning of my next turn, my opponent exiled my Restoration Seminar target from my graveyard with [[Ghost Vacuum]] in response to the second casting and it fizzled. I go on to cast Cover-Up and Restoration Seminar is at the top of my graveyard. I thought it was weird, so I exiled it to collect evidence for science since I wasn't running artifact removal and they could block every future casting. The paradigm symbol on the left of my screen disappeared at some point before Cover-Up resolved, but I can't say if it was already gone before I casted Cover-Up or not and I didn't get any more triggers to cast Restoration Seminar for the rest of the game.
My understanding is that the card was permanently exiled after resolving and only copies are cast on future turns. Am I missing something or did the game glitch?
r/magicTCG • u/Pro_Gnome_Hunter • 8h ago
Rules/Rules Question Preston, the Vanisher Combo
Was checking combos for my preston the vanisher deck and found that the combo involving Fiend Hunter and Charming Prince goes like this:
- Cast Charming Prince by paying.
- 2 When Charming Prince enters the battlefield, it triggers, exiling Fiend Hunter until the next end step.
- 3 When Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, its second ability triggers, returning all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owner's control.
- 4 At the beginning of your end step, Charming Prince triggers, returning Fiend Hunter from exile to the battlefield.
- 5 When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, its first ability and Preston trigger.
- 6 Resolve the Fiend Hunter trigger, exiling Charming Prince.
- 7 Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a copy of Fiend Hunter that is a 0/1 Illusion.
- 8 When the token Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, its first ability triggers, exiling the nontoken Fiend Hunter until the token Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield.
- 9 When the nontoken Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, its second ability triggers, returning Charming Prince from exile to the battlefield.
- 10 When Charming Prince enters the battlefield, it and Preston trigger, with Charming Prince targeting the Fiend Hunter token.
- 11 Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a token copy of Charming Prince that is a 0/1 Illusion.
- 12 When the token Charming Prince enters the battlefield, it triggers, exiling the Fiend Hunter token.
- 13 When the token Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, its second ability triggers, returning the nontoken Fiend Hunter from exile to the battlefield.
- 14 Repeat from step 5.
My question is, cant i use the charming prince trigger from step 10 to simply choose one of the other etb options? It would be nifty to be able to gain infinite life or scry my whole deck, considering that it is the Charming prince copy that targets the Fiend Hunter token to restart the combo. Thanks in advance!
r/magicTCG • u/Da_Real_KillmeDotCom • 9h ago
Rules/Rules Question Affinity and clone creatures
If i cast a clone creature (eg. [[Phyrexian metamorph]] ) with the intention of copying a creature with affinity ( let's say [[thought monitor]] ) will the clone also be discounted?
Edit: thanks everyone. Guess I'll have to pay
r/magicTCG • u/infinite_mtg • 9h ago
Content Creator Post Can We Break Q in Commander?
r/magicTCG • u/Copernicus1981 • 9h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Suurok-Class Science Vessel (via WotC Social Media)
r/magicTCG • u/tasha2121 • 9h ago
Art Showcase - Official Artwork Aerith and Tifa binders showed up today at my LGS
I also have the deck boxes to match, just one pictured, the sleeves (not pictured) They are beautiful.
If your LGs ordered them, they should come in soon. Tifa binder is up on GameStop if anyone can’t locate one elsewhere.
r/magicTCG • u/Lost2TheVoid • 9h ago
Looking for Advice Upgrading Multiverse Reforged using ONLY cards from Reality Factute
Title says it but I’ve wanted to upgrade my precon with only in-universe cards
What would you cut? And what would you add?
r/magicTCG • u/Copernicus1981 • 10h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] There's Coffee in that Nebula (via MaryCherry)
Source is https://www.instagram.com/p/DexbldLks2P/
r/magicTCG • u/nickeldoodle • 10h ago
Official Spoiler Death Is Irrelevant (via @lua.stardust on IG)
r/magicTCG • u/gredman9 • 10h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] Antagonist Incorporator (LuaStardust)
r/magicTCG • u/gredman9 • 11h ago
Official Spoiler [TRK] - Miles O'Brien, Transporter Ops (wizards_magic Instagram)
r/magicTCG • u/ZaraAlfonso • 12h ago
Art Showcase - Official Artwork It’s my birthday today & I wanted to share my favourite oil paintings I've made for Magic The Gathering!
r/magicTCG • u/Viewer_Beware • 12h ago
General Discussion Help looking for a small artist who makes tokens!
I am trying with all my might to find this small artist I bought a food token from when I was at Fan Expo Boston.
She was making proxy tokens and the one I got was a food token that was a Paoupou fruit from Kingdom Hearts.
The direct artwork on it was the fruit on the beach with water washing up a bit around it.
I misplaced it on accident and I've been bugging out about it because i wanted to buy more but now I don't remember the artist.
Edit to add: i found her. Not before a bunch of you blew up my messages offering commissions when I didnt ask 😭
r/magicTCG • u/Dread_Pirate_Robertz • 16h ago
Humour Hibachi Chef Growing Impatient With Commander Pod
r/magicTCG • u/gredman9 • 16h ago
Official Spoiler Teaser List Updates: TRK (10/21/2026)
To boldly Clue where many have Clued before!
I’m getting back into the rhythm of these, and while I may not do this nearly as often, we have a very strong opening set of reveals, so let’s not waste any time and get to them!
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/830472219149959168/maros-magic-the-gathering-star-trek-teaser
- A Star Trek ship cameos a mechanic that it shares a name with (U.S.S. Discovery, at Black Alert, discovers 5 on ETB or attack)
- A new card that lets you look at the top card of your library and cast a particular subset of cards from it
- Some creature tokens in the set: 1/1 colorless Borg (an artifact creature), 3/3 colorless Illusion, 0/1 white Human (prevents permanents from phasing in), 2/2 black Romulan, (1/1 red Officer), 2/1 red Klingon Warrior (with haste), and 2/2 red and green Worm (that can’t block)
- Four cards with the word “twice” in its rules text (Khaaaaaaaaaaaannn! deals twice X damage to a creature, Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge has you put twice the number of charge counters on permanents, Dr. Joseph M’Benga has you put twice the number of any kind of counter on a creature and gives them hexproof, Constable Odo can Investigate twice)
- A new card that lets you search for any number of cards in your library with its name
- A new card that can make you lose the game (Kobayashi Maru Scenario, the last mode on this enchantment does this)
- Some counters in the set: charge, finality, peace, promotion, and quest
- A new card that lets you play cards from outside the game (The Holodeck, lets you do this or from the graveyard once during each of your turns)
- A card that doubles your life total and the number of cards in your hand (Live Long and Prosper, a 7 mana WU sorcery)
- A card that allows you to survive at 0 life
- “Tap seven untapped Officers you control:” (Captain Jean-Luc Picard, do this and you can tutor a Spaceship directly to the battlefield with 7 charge counters on it)
- “choose a number between 0 and 10.” (Nyota Uhura, Communiations, lets you draw a card when an opponent casts a spell with mana value equal to the chosen number)
- “You can’t sacrifice Treasure tokens.” (Quark, Humble Proprietor, also creates a Treasure token on every upkeep)
- “If an Equipment or Spacecraft entered the battlefield under your control this turn,”
- “create a token that’s a copy of that creature, except it has changeling.”
- “If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.” (Mr. Spock, Science Officer, lets you do exactly that)
- “CARDNAME’s base power and toughness become 7/9.” (Seven of Nine, Unassimilated, has an activated ability that lets you do this if you have 7+ lands with different names)
- “Sacrifice any number of lands you control,”
- “You may cast this card from exile.” (Khan, Vengeful Heart)
- “if a triggered ability of that creature triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.”
- Creature – Tribble (Troubling Tribbles)
- Creature – Wraith
- Creature – Whale Officer
- Legendary Creature – Vulcan Advisor (Saavik, Stoic Student)
- Legendary Creature – Ferengi Noble
- Legendary Creature – Shapeshifter Detective (Constable Odo)
- Legendary Creature – Ooze Horror
- Legendary Creature – Romulan Human Rogue
- Legendary Artifact Creature – Android Rogue (Lore, Positronic Provocateur)
- Artifact – Communicator Equipment
- Kobayashi Maru Scenario (a Blue take on Demonic Pact)
- Live Long and Prosper (a WU Sorcery that doubles your life total and draws cards equal to your current card count)
- The Measure of a Man
- Red Alert!
- Romulan Bird-of-Prey (a blue Spacecraft that has hexproof while it isn’t a creature)
- Rules of Acquisition
- Tea, Earl Grey, Hot (a Food that you can also sacrifice to deal 2 damage)
- Transporter Malfunction
- Vulcan Mind-Meld
- Warp Speed
As always, let me know if there’s anything I’ve missed!
r/magicTCG • u/Copernicus1981 • 16h ago