I was giving a newer player advice on building a Commander deck, and I had a thought. You could say that a modern (Bracket 3) Commander deck is made up of seven spells, plus lands and your commander.

(Bear with me here.)

Nowadays, every Commander deck is made up of:

• Sol Ring
• Opt
• Swords to Plowshares
• Fog
• A 2-3 card combo
• 0-1 pet cards

That's a deliberately provocative way of putting it. I think that it captures an important idea in an easy-to-remember fashion, however:

Commander games have become quite fast. The first 3-4 turns matter. At the same time, the card pool has become huge, and there are a lot of spells that do the same thing.

By turn three, you will have drawn ~10 cards. That gives you an even chance of seeing a card with 10 "copies" in the 99 (e.g., 1 in 10 cards in your deck is like that card). You want to run ~10 ramp spells (cards like Sol Ring), ~10 card draw/card selection spells (cards like Opt), ~10 pieces of interaction (cards like StP), ~5 pieces of mass interaction (cards like Fog), and 30+ cards that support or pay off your commander. Often that 30+ "plan" part of the deck is split into three sets of 10-12 similar cards -- a "three-card combo," where I'm using "combo" very loosely.

Your commander can stand in for one of the seven cards, allowing you to run more copies of the other six. Or it can add a fourth card to the "combo/pet" section.

This means that you can make a Bracket 3 Commander deck by laying out your seven spells, then piling cards that do basically the same thing on top of them. The shorter the pile, the less consistent that part of your deck will be. Piles taller than 10-12 cards are good candidates for winnowing. To up the Bracket of the deck, focus down the combo part, beef up the interaction part, and add a lot of tutors/mill. Bracket 1 & 2 decks get to run more than seven spells (what luxury!).

What do you think? Is that a useful way of framing deck building? Or a cruel, cynical breakdown of how un-Highlander the format once known as Elder Dragon Highlander has become?

Bonjour,
tout est dans le titre je cherche un lieu / une communauté de joueurs de magic aux alentour de Bethune (62).
Si vous avez des suggestions je suis preneur ! :)

What use would [[Stony Silence]] have in a deck with ~25 artifacts/equipment, unless I somehow draw purely for a while but my opponent doesn’t?

Hey yall, I would like some opinions on this Elsha Threefold Master list. Its a upgraded list from the precon, and all cards that have been taken out are in the sideboard. I’m open to any suggestions as I’m going to proxy all upgrades.

Firstly, which bracket do you guys think this deck should belong in? If it had no rhystic study and smothering tithe, do we think it could still fit in some b3 games or stay at b2?

Secondly, I am open to cutting any cards that you guys think aren’t a good fit/could be replaced by something better.

Here’s the list, don’t hold back!!

https://moxfield.com/decks/gil0i3fVEk--M-DIjtrxAA

Let me get this out of the way: I've never played Modern. I used to play Standard and a bit of casual "anything-goes" with my friends. I tried hard to get into Pioneer, but my local scene is non-existent. I play EDH/Commander with my friends, but I miss the thrill of 60-card Magic.

I'm a Red Aggro player at heart. The only time I've ever played a deck that wasn't Red at all was my Tails EDH deck, and that was purely because Tails is my favorite video game character, and even then it feels awkward not having burn/direct damage spells (e.g. Lightning Bolt).

So, I want to get into Modern. Not the high-end competitive level, but something like FLGS event level. Issue is, I have NO idea where to get started. Any and all advice would be appreciated, from card/deck suggestions to pitfalls to avoid.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

So does this confirm Jace will die in reality fracture? It's not terribly surprising considering his new love for lobotomizing himself but Jace seems like a character that wouldn't really be killed off considering how central he is.

Hi all, new to this subreddit and just now learning/getting into MTG. I have an idea for a deck I created, but am unsure on how to execute it and was wondering if anyone has done something similar or knows how.

I made a black/white angel tribal, but don't have tokens for my deck. I had an idea to take photos of my friends, edit them to give them halos/wings, and add power/toughness, color, and token type. I've never done something like this and didn't know if anyone had ideas. I plan to print it and add it into a sleeve, so it looks and is able to tap/un tap like any other token card.

I know there are mixed feelings on proxies/cards like this, I only play casual with friends and it isn't an issue in our circle. If anyone has ideas or can point me in the right direction, that is greatly appreciated. :)

I used to be BIG into magic but have slowerd down in recent years. I recently got into riftbound and created a live-stream plugin that shoes the value of the card in real time. I have buddies in the MTG scene but i wasnt sure if i should make a MTG toggle for the tool.

Is that something useful or dies this exist already? I made a video showcasing it. I didnt post it because i dont want to get banned. Thoughts?

Hello! I have created a website to save and track Cardtrader cards by price and conditions. The website is called ManaAlert and it works with user accounts, notifying you via email of the price reduction of the cards.

I have set it up for those like me who are interested in certain cards and like to take advantage of deals.

The website is not finished, it is still in a "beta" state. I promote it now so I can receive feedback and improve it with it.

All features are completely free and it has been created as a personal project. If you have any questions about how it works, I'll be happy to answer them :)

DISCLAIMER: I used AI as pair programming level.

https://manaalert.com/

Currently looking at [[Jaxis, The Troublemaker]] and am trying to find cards like [[Solemn Simulacrum]] that would make great tokens both coming in and going out

Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning illustration for Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit set.

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Dáin Ironfoot illustration for Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit set.

This one was an HMV promo so it seems to be hard to find a good image online.

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I have always heard that booster boxes are made for draft, but looking at the numbers it seems like prereleases are more worth it. I want to do a reality fracture draft with some friends.

A booster box is 30 packs for 170€ at 5.6€ per pack

A prelease is 6 packs for 32€ at 5.3€ per pack + promo + die

Is there a reason I am missing that makes a booster box worth it? It would be a prelease box for each 2 people

I’m mainly asking if I copy the synthesizer with mishra, (or any other artifact with mana value 3+) will the original synthesizer give me a construct?

I have 2 commander decks that I don't really know which bracket they are
I don't want to choose 3 because compared to my friends decks, they're too strong

And I'm not confident in bracket 4 because compared to almost all brackets 4 decks list. I'll lose almost all games

First one :
https://archidekt.com/decks/11753864/yshtola_control
Y'shtola control / spellslinger decks, mostly control

Second one :
https://archidekt.com/decks/19971270/tevala
Teval based on revive and landfall

The Sackville-Bagginses illustration for Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit set!

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I was trying to do a quick Scryfall search to see what the value of the R/M slot in SLZ looks like. That is - I want a list of all the cards that are R/M in SLZ, but that compares their cheapest prices across any printing.

If I search r>=r in:slz, it shows cards that have ever been rare or mythic in any printing, not just SLZ. If I instead search r>=r set:slz, it shows the specific printings of the rares and mythics in SLZ, but only lets me compare them by the price of their SLZ printing (which is currently null).

It feels like there's something easy I'm missing and there should be one simple parameter that should let me do this, but I can't figure it out. Is this sort of search doable, or is it not actually supported by Scryfall?

Prior to The Hobbit Pre-Release, Wizards of the Coast put out a press release stating that moving forward, 2HG pre-release events would only include ONE Pre-release kit per team, with 2 additional booster packs. Their explanation was that it creates more "balanced" pools of cards and aligns closer to tournament rules for sealed 2HG.

Regardless of my opinion on this being a bummer, and enjoying both myself and a friend opening a pre-release together and getting 12 packs to build from, it seems the local game stores have not at all been informed directly about this information.

With Pre-Release now going on sale, I am seeing stores still charge $35-40 per Pre-release sign-up, and requiring 2HG teams to spend $70-80 total to sign up their team for the Pre-Release event.

After speaking to one store owner, he mentioned they had no idea of these changes and intended to still give every 2HG team who signed up 2 full pre-release kits. I spoke to another store employee and they said they'd probably just go with whatever Wizards of the Coasts says, but likely they haven't updated their prices and weren't sure when/if they would.

I'm not sure what will happen with allocation of pre-release kits, and if stores are going to find themselves severely short on kits and have to resort to just using 1 per team, but this seeems like a disaster waiting to happen and I personally would be incredibly frustrated in paying $70-80 for one pre release kit.

What is everyone else hearing from their local stores? Are they still sticking to 2 pre-release kits? Have they discounted the price, assuming just 1 kit moving forward?

https://wpn.wizards.com/en/news/two-prerelease-changes-coming-with-reality-fracture

Quarrel illustration for Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit set.

Bilbo and the dwarves quarrel over some much needed food at the house of Beorn.

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I understand that as a mature game Magic inevitably sacrifices flavor consistency for gameplay, but I want to be indulged today.

• Players: powerful planeswalkers/wizards engaged in a duel (apparently no longer accurate?)
• Deck/library: collection of spells in our mind palace that we bring to battle (what about lands?)
• Drawing a card: gaining knowledge? accessing our mind palace?
• Playing a land: ?
• Tapping a land for mana: drawing power from said place?

I'd love to be directed to resources out there that help to answer the potentially endless list of questions. Preliminary digging yielded stuff like this but I was told that older stuff are no longer accurate or have become wishy washy.

Based on recent discussions, I have found that people see anything that is on a precon to be bracket 2. And that "if the infinite combo doesn't win the game then it doesn't count" for 2 card combos. As such, here are a list of things that these players find as bracket 2.

Trade Secrets and the collusion it represents (in precon, actually banned)

Dockside Extoritonist (initially in precon)

Any way to gain infinite life such as [[Spike feeder]] and [[Heliod suncrowned]] since infinite life doesn't actually win you the game.

Hard locks, such as [[Knowledge pool]] and [[Rule of law]]

Gamechangers like [[Jeska's will]] are perfectly bracket 2 legal if they have been in at least one precon. Doesn't matter how much you change the precon or even if that is the only original card from the precon, that is just an upgraded bracket 2 precon now.

Did I miss anything?

If I had [[Quintorius, history chaser]] on the battlefield and cast [[purify the grave]] from my hand and then from my graveyard, how many times would Quintorius's ability trigger? My understanding is that it would create two spirits; one after the first target card is exiled from the graveyard, and one as purify the grave and the second target card simultaneously leave the graveyard. is this correct?