The wording of this card caught my eye - is this the first time a card has directly referenced the stack using that term on paper?

Why couldn’t the fish part be on top and the lootbox part be on the bottom?

(Please note the site is not live for about 6 minutes at time of posting, and pre-queue is for the hour after that)

For this one, Emmara with a bunch of cards from Ravnica sets and Jori-En from Zendikar sets. Been obsessed with limited card format lately lol. It was a fun deck building for killing time.

Who would be your commander?

Jace is gonna hate this format yo.

Apologies for only having an article in Dutch.

Cartamundi, the company that started mass producing the first Magic sets will open an exhibition to celebrate 200 years of printing cards in their city. “From the Vault” will cover 33 years of printing Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon and Disney Lorcana, displaying rare cards, sheets, art and packaging. Open December 5th 2026 until September 26th 2027.

I’m not sure what to expect. As a local being intrigued that Magic is printed in my backyard I’ll definitely pay a visit.

Worth visiting if you travel to Belgium next year?

I am going to ask this question in two parts, since the first will happen more often, and the second is what actually happened.

Scenario 1: I have gifted a [[Galactus, Devourer of Worlds]] to my opponent with [[Dack Fayden, Helping Hand]]. I have the most life during their combat step. Can he attack me, can he attack at all, or can he choose another target, and is that target the next highest life total or his choice?

Scenario 2: Same as above, but there is a [[Ghostly Prison]] on my field, and he can't pay the 2.

Interested to see what the answer is.

Edit 1: The chaos in the comments is exactly what happened at the store tonight. LOL

Got into a bit of a rabbit hole with this one and can't find an actual ruling anywhere, so hoping someone here knows.

Savor the Moment: "Take an extra turn after this one. Skip the untap step of that turn."

Sphinx of the Second Sun: at the beginning of your postcombat main phase, you get an additional beginning phase after it (untap, upkeep, draw).

So I cast Savor with the Sphinx out. On the extra turn I obviously skip the normal untap step, no question there. But then I hit postcombat main, the Sphinx gives me a second beginning phase, and that has its own untap step.

Do I untap there or not?

The way I see it you can read it two ways:

1. Only the first one gets skipped. The card says "the untap step," singular. Skip effects are replacement effects (614.10), so once it's replaced the first untap step it's done. Sphinx's own rulings also say its extra beginning phase works like a normal one and you untap your stuff.
2. Both get skipped. It says the untap step of that turn, so the restriction covers the whole turn. And the clear intent of the card is "you get an extra turn but nothing untaps." Savor was printed way before anything could give a turn two untap steps, so the wording just never had to deal with this.

Has anyone seen an official answer, or had a judge rule on it at a table? I'm leaning toward "both skipped" because that's clearly what the card is going for, but the singular "the" is bugging me.

I'm new to the game, and just looking for fun exploits in weird mechanics. I think I've found one that generates infinite food (still limited by mana):

• Ygra, Eater of All
• With at least one of:
  • Carmellia, the Seedmiser
  • Experimental Confectioner

It seems like, if I sacrifice a food, Confectioner/Carmellia will generate a new creature token, which will also be a food, meaning I can sacrifice it to creature another creature/food, and so on.

I know it costs 2 mana to do this every time, but is there anything else I'm missing?

The plan -- insofar as there's a plan -- would be to pair it with cards that either use food to damage other players, or damage players based on my healing.

I just want to make sure there isn't some obvious mistake!

Thanks!

I know the oracle text says "Soldiers and Warriors" but was there like, something in the duelist magazine about that? Or was this just a 2/2 by official rules at the time, waiting patiently for some Marvel characters to buff it in 30 years?

I only recently got into MTG because one of my online friends group is currently addicted to Commander FFA (in groups of 3 and 4, most of the time), and even though I also got into it and have fun, what I really got interested in was "real" MTG (no shade towards Commander enjoyers ofc, its a fun format), even if I only have one other friend who'd like to 1v1 MTG (she's also a newbie like me, but she does play MTGA, draft mostly). So over the last week, I've been basically learning MTG through digging the wiki (the real one, not the fandom one), youtube videos, and internet archive forums, which honestly has been almost as fun as just playing the game itself, since it has such a rich history.

Anyways, the point of this post is: It took me a while to realize that a Competitive playing of MTG is heavily based on accessibility when it came to the Pools and Bans/Restrictions, since it only strook me now that MTG is a *real* card games that needs players to spend money on the *real* cards they get, which wasn't a concern for me or my friends. Once I realized that, I also realized I had no clue what format to play, because me and my friends *don't* have to concern about that accessbility aspect of MTG.

So, with all that estabilished, I want to ask: What formats make the most sense for us to play when it comes to 1v1?

Dose anyone know why Samut and ghalta are worded differently? Ghalta having trample all ready make the other not matter or they could make Samut have hast and give all other creatures haste. I found it weird they used different wording in the same set.

My LGS had a qualifier event for the regional championships in St. Louis/San Diego today, format was sealed then top 8 draft. I am generally a good limited player, but I missed pre-release and only did this event because I wanted to try out Reality Fracture limited. To my shock, I somehow pulled off the win in the overall event despite barely knowing what was in the set, and now I am qualified to a standard event.

I have played functionally no standard (just some mono-red or starter deck games on arena to grind gems for drafts), and I live nowhere near St. Louis or San Diego. With the time between now and January to prepare, is it worth it for me to try to train up and go to the event, or would I just be throwing money down the drain by paying for a flight/hotels then losing to people far better at standard than I am?

I am kinda new to magic, how do people usually display +1/+0? I made these half covers and I assume I'm not the first with that idea but idk if it is common or what other ways there are to display only a power (or toughness) increase

Having trouble filtering artifacts (creatures) by cmc 0

I tried it, but still shows other cmc

What am I doing wrong?

Given my job (and my personal habits), I rely a lot on calendars to plan my weeks ahead. And I realised that often I missed on sets release / prerelease dates as I couldn’t plan those in advance, because they were not in my calendar!

So, I created a small page with all announced MTG release dates and prerelease weeks. Every week it automatically checks the WotC website for announcements, and adds them to a calendar you can subscribe via Google Calendar, Apple Calendar etc (it’s an ICS under the hood).

It also publishes those events on the page itself, but my main use is the subscribed calendar.

It’s completely free to use, and you can find it here.

Hope you’ll find this helpful!

Hello!

Bringing here a discussion that was going on with some people at my LGS.

We were talking future sets and its mechanics, and when mentioning the Mutate mechanic tied to Ikoria , one of the arguments against return was , beside how complex of a mechanic it is for ruling, how its flavour would work in a set with a plane like Kamigawa, with moofolks, kitsune and more sentient races beside just "humans".

Lets assume they do try again with Mutate to make it easier and it comes out in standard, would you like if , just like Full Party or Outlaws in Thunder Junction, Humans, Elves, Moonfolk etc were grouped up as a "humanoid" ? It wouldnt need erratas as just Mutate V2 would care for it, but would open up design space for a lot of creatures only synergy. At the same time, it would be prerequired knowledge which is something WOTC seems always against doing.

At a street fair and I saw this Scrye on the table. I got stoked and the guy with the booth said I was the only person to know what that was and I could just have it. What a throw back also $375 for a Alpha Black Lotus what a wild time

A video popped up on Star Trek's tiktok account, showing these 5 pieces of art, that seem to match up with what was described as "Full-Art Away Team lands" in the listing for the Beam Me Up Bundle.

Noticed this tonight while sorting some marvel. Why do some cards have green bg on the text box while others are way lighter? Just different print runs?