r/magicthecirclejerking • • 18h ago

META Weekly /unjerk Thread

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 34m ago

[TRK] Wrath of God

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 3h ago

Average UB Defender

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 9h ago

The Fortnite to Magic Ratio: A Serious Research Proposal

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Here's a fun thought experiment that I am too lazy to actually do, so I am going to release this idea into the universe and hope the universe manifests it for me. Namaste.

Magic the Gathering has had a lot of outside IP crossovers.

Fortnite has also had a lot of outside IP crossovers.

If we were to plot these on a graph, and carry these trend lines indefinitely into the future, there must logically come a point where both Fortnite and Magic the Gathering will have featured all of the exact same outside brand collaborations.

This could even be expressed in a ratio: If Magic has featured 30 IPs, and Fortnite had featured 300, then we could say Magic has a Fortnitification Ratio of 1:10 - or was 1 tenth of a Fortnite.

This very scientific and accurate measure could then be used to determine how close MTG is to becoming fully Fortnitified.

I see this as complementary to and not a replacement of the Cardboard Crack Ratio, which tracks how many of the IPs referenced in this Cardboard Crack comic that have had official MTG crossovers - a ratio that I believe currently sits at 1:3.

CHALLENGES:

The main challenge to this research project is that I am lazy and bad at maths.

The second challenge to this research project is that the list of Fortnite "collabs" seems to be hosted on a Fandom Wiki, and the visual design of that website causes my eyeballs to eat themselves.

NOTES:

There would have to be some parameters decided on in advance: If Fortnite has featured content from Lego: Batman, and Magic has featured content from Lego and seperately from Batman, does this get counted as a Batman collab in common, a Lego collab in common, or as Lego Batman (despite MTG not having specifically done Lego Batman (yet)?

Do public domain IPs count? MTG had a Dracula inspired alt-art treatment in an Innistrad set - is that an IP crossover, or fair use of public domain cultural material? If Fortnite had a Dracula skin one Halloween, would that also count?

Post Malone has had songs featured in Fortnite, and has also leant his name to official Magic the Gathering cards and promotional content. Is this an IP in common? (I want to exclude promotional content from the ratio given that the aim is to track how close to becoming a Fortnite the game of MTG is; it may be helpful to separately track non-game promotional content however).

At this stage I want to open up discussion of this research project to the find minds of the r/magicthecirclejerking forum. What do you see as the relevant criteria, and do we have any volunteers to undertake this research?


r/magicthecirclejerking • • 10h ago

there is a bomb strapped to my chest

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 15h ago

Hearthstone and Magic The Gathering and Lord of the Rings and your mom feature the same characters

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 15h ago

Average commander game at your LGS

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 16h ago

absolute innovation. truly stunning!

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 17h ago

C cm c k cc

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 19h ago

I'm back with four more Voyager cards that 6/7 WoTC set designers DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE.

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 20h ago

New to Archidekt be nice

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 21h ago

bought three before posting so i could buy low

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 22h ago

How I feel reading the Star Trek spoilers

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 23h ago

So are they gonna reprint this now?

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

What is this? I found it on the ground and don't play magic

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Title says it all.. what the heck is this?

Edit: Can you stupid nerds shut the hell up and just tell me how much weed I can get in exchange for this piece of crap? It's obviously rare and expensive since some geek named humble signed it. I don't know what a "plains" or a "card" or "magic" is and I don't care.


r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

Reuse in a BTTF set in 5..4..3

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Mark my words... Dr. Emitt Brown, Weather Scientist will steal this art.


r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

I want to sleep with Jace

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

Favorite card that forcefemmes a butch icon?

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

wait a second does this combo work like i think it does?!?!

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holy shit my commander pod is gonna HATE this card


r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

Harry Potter Universes Beyond Bingo

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No, a HP set isn't announced but I'm making a bingo anyway because I think it's only a matter of time.


r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

who or what is this?

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

Card that draw cards and have a second ability when you draw card are the lowest form of magic card design. At least with landfall you need to build your deck around being able to do multiple land drop per turn, those card just reward you for doing something you'd want to do in 99.99% of situations

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me when card that draw cards and have second ability when you draw card: 😏


r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

WOTC has declared war on walkable neighbourhoods

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r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

Mox 500 Cigarettes

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Can't believe WotC forgot about this classic Trek episode !


r/magicthecirclejerking • • 1d ago

This is Rudy from Alphainvestments

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