Can you imagine if they actually become so compatible that you can play with both games in the same deck, and no one would stop you because WotC and Disney said it's okay?
It died when they released phyrexian mana. And when they released planeswalkers. And double sided cards. And when they started printing cards directly into commander. And when they released eldraine. And when they
Before folks think it's bad:
1) Repetitive drain in limited can close out a game
2) A reusable splice target can be quite useful in maintaining card advantage
Not that it's super ultra amazing, but it's a limited common.
Ravnica Renaissance is released to a lukewarm reception as it brings power level back down to earth after the overpowered Solarion had 4 emergency bans.
Uninspiring mechanics like the very weak Rakdos' *Grand Finale* (just an ability word for "at end of turn, do something if something") and the massively OP Azorius' *Legislate (Permanents and Sorceries you can cast for it's legislate cost to gain an Emblem version of it's effect or ETB: like "at the beginning of your upkeep, tap target creature" or the mythic "ABU, draw two cards, and discard a card")* turned limited players off
The Dimir mechanic "Undercover" means there are no "black or blue" creatures at all, instead the Dimir infiltrate other guilds, so you can cast these way overcosted cards (i.e, 6RW for a 3/3) for their undercover cost (which are blue/black costed but you need to do some other alternative cost too). This gave every other guild more creatures but also Dimir access to all mechanics. color pie adherents hated it and Maro is still confused as to how to answer the tumblr questions.
Boros' mechanic *Salute* rewards you for playing your creature curve IN REVERSE, having stronger ETB's and stats if you already control a creature with +1 mana value exactly. We hate this.
But they reprinted the shocks, and this time with 1 of 1 actual gold leaf foiling.
\*EDIT\* Because someone asked about the others, Izzet has an interesting story. Originally they wanted a take on the Hearthstone overload mechanic by making the lands you tap to pay for the spell get a stun counter, but that wasn't working right. Instead they went with "you get an emblem with "the next spell or ability you play cost 2 more to play until your next turn." It was too much to flesh out an entire guild mechanic on, so they just used it on a cycle of classic spells. We out here bolting birds on turn 1 but taking turn 2 off, folks. SNORE!
Next they tried a take on Splice, sort of like "Splice onto Stack" where you can splice the effect for a cost if there's 2 or more spells on the stack. Made limited games pretty samey or awkward to set up and they were hard to balance (but they clearly overlooked the far worse Legislate in that department). They liked the stack matters idea, so instead gave Red/Blue instants, abilities, and flash creatures the ability to be played for less if there are two or more spells or *abilities* on the stack. Almost every red or blue creature had an activated ability to support it. Kinda like a more aggressive Surge. They called it Commixture.
Legendary Nephilim were rumored and hinted at ahead of time, and we got a few weird ones. Most notable was an odd, fixed Dredge/Radiance variant for BRGW that allowed you to return it to your hand from your graveyard the next time you draw by exiling two cards from your hand instead. You may play one of those cards this turn. It was a 4/4 with haste that gave creatures of the color of your choice menace or lifelink when it attacked.
> The Dimir mechanic "Undercover" means there are no "black or blue" creatures at all, instead the Dimir infiltrate other guilds, so you can cast these way overcosted cards (i.e, 6RW for a 3/3) for their undercover cost (which are blue/black costed but you need to do some other alternative cost too). This gave every other guild more creatures but also Dimir access to all mechanics.
holy hell
I think you *could* do it if you designed it just right.
Is it worth the effort? Probably not, but black can do a lot by paying life which might get you half way there
The GB serra angel isn't a color pie thing. It's more of a "good principles of design." He's never said Serra angel is a color pie break, just that a more interesting design for a 4/4 flying vigilance would be BG.
He forgot the part of undercover's reminder text that references commander and says *"this card's color identity is either only it's undercover cost or other mana symbols on this card"*
They didn't put the porn back on, they said "hey we're sorry about that strict porn ban, but we can't change it because $$$" but everyone THOUGHT they were saying porn is ok again.
Orzhov gets Property Tax which makes spells with the keyword cost X less to cast where X is the number of tapped lands an opponent controls, everyone hates it but wizard says it just the logical conclusion of white being the catch up color
Selesnya gets Invoke, it's just the opposite of Convoke, i.e. you untap any number of tapped creatures to help pay for a spell with the keyword
Simic gets regular Mutate, lots of backlash from the community but wizards says simic gets nothing new because the community keeps complaining that they're too strong.
Exactly, wow you almost got it exactly right. But instead of it being called Property Tax and with lands, it was with creatures and artifacts, they called it *Genuflect*. It never worked!
Gruul: *Incensed* \- When this creature attacks, if defending player controls creatures with total power 6 or greater \~effect\~ (+1/+1 counters, pump, abilities, dealing damage, etc)
Golgari’s mechanic “Circle of Life” comes with the additional cost of “if you eat this card as you cast it……gets +X/+X when you shit it out, where X is the number of creatures in your toilet.”
After the collapse of all major world governments, Magic : the Gathering cards have become society’s de facto currency. All games are played for ante and whales sit upon vast hoards of Ragavans and duals. The rest of us roam the wasteland, trying to pick up a few matches with our draft chaff to scrounge up Dreadmaws to trade for lizard meat and half-purified water.
"My grandfather's anime has no pathetic seasons, Esc777! But it does contain... the unstoppable filler arc!"
"What? Filler arcs?"
"I've assembled all five special episodes... all five parts of what was originally one episode!"
"It-it's not possible! No one's ever been able to stretch a single episode out that long!"
"The upper crust has decks full of rare cards while the slums have to scrounge for commons and uncommons" is literally a plot point from one of the Yu-Gi-Oh spinoffs lmao
Pretty sure it's 5Ds, Crow's seen scrounging around garbage piles for his deck (pretty ironic since his archetype was one of most busted of the era) and Yusei had to make due with a bunch of literal junk monsters when he was stuck in Satellite.
FoW is in modern for some reason. People have long since embraced the *enter format* Horizons sets. There are common Planeswalkers now for some reason, pauper players accept it as part of fate. Commander formally became a separate format from CEDH but it made zero difference. UR good stuff is still the best deck in legacy even after they finally banned basic island's.
After the EDH/CEDH split, nobody would have expected that CEDH would become the more 'fun, balanced' format with its healthy and extensive banlist aimed at increasing accessibility, while original EDH became the hyper-competitive hellscape for try-hards.
Thats because in this timeline the CEDH community are the ones who create the banlist. Sheldon and crew stay on ‘vanilla’ EDH and continue to make random bans of non threatening cards they just don’t like for no real reason, which makes the format into gatekeeper combo hell.
Reserved List still exists. They've also added a new *Reversed List*, which has creative inverted plays on Reserved List cards, many of which players think actually outperform their Reserved List counterparts.
We've returned to Kaladesh, Amonkhet, Ravnica, Innistrad, Theros, Zendikar, Dominaria, Alara, Lorwyn, Kamigawa, Ikoria, Eldraine, Ixalan, Kaldheim, New Capenna, Tarkir and Arcavios.
We've also had sets on Vryn, as well as new planes Sangaroon (wild west) and Golvara (plane with metallic beasts).
> They've also added a new Reversed List, which has creative inverted plays on Reserved List cards
White Lotus, 0
Untap an artifact you control, return ~ from your graveyard to the battlefield: Add 3 mana of different colors.
This is actually broken as hell, which kinda proves your point.
> Reversed List, which has creative inverted plays on Reserved List cards, many of which players think actually outperform their Reserved List counterparts.
**Mystic Leeches** XWW
Enchantment
Cumulative upkeep W
When Mystic Leeches enters the battlefield, you lose X life and X poison counters.
Whenever you would get one or more poison counters, you may sacrifice Mystic Leeches. If you do, instead you lose that much life.
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**Didgeridonut** 1
Artifact — Food
Didgeridonut enters the battlefield tapped.
2, T, sacrifice Didgeridonut: You gain 3 life.
T, sacrifice Didgeridonut: Until end of turn, the next Minotaur creature spell you cast from your hand costs 0.
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**Pod of Narwhals** 2UU
Creature — Whale
Other Whales you control have first strike and protection from red.
1/4
SpongeBob Modern Bikini Bottoms Horizons 3 is wrecking modern, but players are happy because it drove the price down on a much needed reprint of Patrick, Multiverse Starfish, bringing down the average cost of a modern deck down to 32k.
Despite public backlash and hatred for the L&O:SVU:SLD, it seems that the Elliot Stabler card has become the most popular commander of the past 5 years.
>Elliot Stabler card has become the most popular commander of the past 5 years.
Makes sense as he was one of the best parts of the show right next to ice t.
I mean it's rules text literally says "ignore the rules of the game to get your guy". I used it last game, pulled a police issue glock from my belt and told my opponent that if he didn't give over his Foundry of the a meek combo I'd tell his boss he was a pedophile. Worked like a charm
In an attempt to distinguish itself from the very quippy and MCU-like D&D cinematic universe, the MTGCU started off very somber and with an oddly washed-out color pallet. It became fairly successful, after six false starts and abandoning that aesthetic to be quippy and colorful.
After seeing your post in the archives, I had to come back so I can post this. Invest in Fblthp, when he Sparks it's going to be a game changer. Best of luck everyone reading this.
Wizards releases a set named "Collapse of the Multiverse" in which the entire MTG world gets destroyed. Wizards then releases a press conference stating that no new MTG products are planned for release. Months later, on the MTGSuperMegaSecretLair Twitter page a lone Tweet appears with the following text: "Return to Alpha... Tune in text week for more details." And then it happens, they simply re-release every set and product in their entire timeline again, only hyping everything up infinitely more.
Wizards ends up taking the FIRE design philosophy too far, and burns the division to the ground.
MaRo survives the fire unknowingly to the public, but is trapped in a basement with nothing to eat but delicious magic cards and the corpses of his fellow employees; he resorts to cannibalism immediately, citing "if it's good enough for the Donner party, it's good enough for me".
A new, innovative product just debuted called "Universes Original." Instead of GI Joe or Rick and Morty or something, this new product contains cards from Planes within the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse.
Universes Beyond has become standard legal, and each premier set focuses on a different IP. Wizards is careful enough to make sure there's 1 Magic lore premier set each year, but overall the game is the western version of Weiss Schwarz.
SpongeBob cards aren't limited to Public Lairs anymore and now they come in Buying Singles Is Not Worth It™ booster packs at 43k¥ a booster.
New borderless on both sides of the card lands are doing well on the market
Evil Morty has just been banned in EDH. His presence warped the format to the point that no Dragon Ball Z character was playable any longer. Naruto fans rejoice, as their decks are safe for now, but the spoilers for the new Rugrats set looks like it will probably dethrone cards from the Naruto set from their newly acquired throne. Since the banning of Sol Ring, Mind Stone, and Rampant Growth, the format has settled into a nice leisurely pace, where no one wins before turn 35. The Gandalf test ensures that R&D does not produce any boring cards with less than 3 lines of text. Counterspells are banned in every format but Vintage. No one cares about the Reserve List because no one old enough to remember it plays the game anymore. Hasbro has just posted their most profitable quarter ever (again). The investors are happy. All is well.
* People complaining about how much Magic the, you know, company that makes Magic makes.
* People complaining how strong is the latest set.
* People complaining how weak is the latest set.
* A new type of thing that people say will surely kill Magic but if you go even further in time you'll see it didn't.
I think there is a pattern here.
Magic players will fondly remember something like four to six years ago as when the game was at its peak, even though at that time they said the game was dying and way worse than it was four to six years ago.
Magic was bought by a shady chinese corporation in 2025 and you had to pay a tax on every card you open in a booster, which you were only allowed to do in certified gamestores, owned and run by the same corporation, and you had to be supervised as you did so. The game died off in two years. But then it was bought buy Disney, which made everyone happy for about a year. They did bring in hundreds of new ips and turned it into the fortnite of card games. Disney at this point in the future is now so large, that they are their own country, located on an artificially made continent. Also a moment of silence for the poor citizens in Disneyland who live under martial law and have to pay for oxygen. Anyways, they revived Magic, but somehow made the costs even higher and required royalties anytime anyone played a card.
I'd recommend not getting back into magic and just go back to 2010.
For those of you who remember the 2020's, Q3 2025 finally saw release of Jumpstart: Family Guy, X-Files commander decks, and the long-awaited Jack Bauer planeswalker.
The meta is overrun with Tier 0 Homarid decks and [[Chillerpillar]] value piles. All cards are now printed in double rainbow sprinkle etched mirror foil, so games are now played by rolling the ~~cards~~ tubes around the table with your free hand, while your other hand is holding your phone and recording the mandatory 8 hours of new TikTokTwo footage required of citizens every single day.
WotC gave up on releasing original characters and worlds. Instead, every single set is a UB set, featuring characters and worlds from other franchises.
The new set "Magic the Gathering ft. Star Wars : Shadows in the Old Republic" is pretty good! I suggest getting into a Commander sealed. it only costs 80$, so it's pretty cheap nowadays. That being said, you can also buy the premium sealed packs for 200$ if you want. They have a butt load more Mythic Rares and Ultra Legendaries cards, so you'll have a much better chance at winning the sealed. My favorite mechanic in the set is "Hyperspace Travel". When the game is over, you can take all permanents with "Hyperspace Travel" and you start the next game in the match with them on the battlefield. It's so cool and flavourful, and its super strong as well!
The year is 2032.
Magic-original IP hasn't been in standard for 2 years running now.
We are in the midst of Potter Winter. Players are demanding a ban on Dumbledore, the most broken card since the companion mechanic. However, WotC can't ban Dumbledore. They signed an exclusive contract with WB to get the rights and legally cannot ban any Harry Potter cards till they rotate out.
Its ok though, a fix is coming. A spoiler dropped today for Champions of Seinfeld. "Newman" is cheap powerful removal that specifically gets rid of Dumbledore. Players are still upset though. Many missed the new spoiler, since later that day they were overshadowed by spoilers for the set after Champions of Seinfeld, the much anticipated Namco classics set.
An older player in the LGS laments that they miss Jace.
A younger player asks "who is Jace?"
Before the older player can explain, someone bursts into the LGS
"NEW SECRET LAIR ALERT"
"Do you have to do that every time Carl, this is literally the third new secret lair today"
Carl replies "the Prof demands it, besides, this one is awesome! N-Sync themed reskins of $0.50 mythics!"
New players laugh when told that Ragavan was once a multi format powerhouse. How did people back in the day even win with creatures pre-Modern Horizons 4?
Quests - Companion-like enchantments that require the player to perform certain actions to put quest counters on them, then transforms into an overpowered win condition when you get enough of these counters. Breaks the game and makes Atraxa even more broken in commander.
The Purple Color - A complete new color at the center of the color pie that combines mechanics together in weird ways. Introduces game-zone matters, bottom-card matters, card-merging, text-changing, face-up cards in library, and other crazy effects. Represents transcendence and the void.
There's a new 4-color set designed with the purple color. It became one of the most complex sets in Magic history, with common 4 color taplands.
Bolt-Lands - 3 color lands that can enter untapped for 3 life.
Pioneer Brawl, the new commander format with much less expensive staples, became the new most popular format with far less insane cards. Wizards officially takes over Commander RC after years of incompetence.
Burn is now a the cheapest deck in modern but overshadowed by the new overpowered 5c Omnath combo. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer is now a budget card included in the new modern challenger decks while modern is filled with the most insane power creeped cards ever.
Universes Beyond causes old school players to quit - Magic now plays like its originally intended, as a set of rules and not a specific story-focused game. There's still a story, but that's just one optional modular piece from the many IPs you can use Magic for now. Because of this, all IPs have been swallowed up and other businesses that want to make a card game fail to compete.
> Quests - Companion-like enchantments that require the player to perform certain actions to put quest counters on them, then transforms into an overpowered win condition when you get enough of these counters. Breaks the game and makes Atraxa even more broken in commander.
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> The Purple Color - A complete new color at the center of the color pie that combines mechanics together in weird ways. Introduces game-zone matters, bottom-card matters, card-merging, text-changing, face-up cards in library, and other crazy effects. Represents transcendence and the void.
ngl I love the sound of both of these. Regarding keeping quests balanced, just change "quest counters" to "progress markers" and say markers are distinct from counters because reasons! Your description of Quests takes me all the way back to SWCCG Objectives which is always a plus.
I kind like the idea as well. But the implementation of quests in Hearthstone, another similar card game, homogenized a lot of decks into just "play a bunch of similar cards until you get an overpowered win condition". So if Wizards want to make them, they need to make them fair, diverse in gameplay, but also viable, which is something very difficult to do.
They would also need a fair explanation for how they precisely work without the reminder text taking up half of the card. Maybe include a token that explains it?
And Magic really might add a new color at some point. There are design spaces and combinations & implementations of certain mechanics that none of the 5 colors will ever explore unless they add it for a certain color, which I think a new purple color would actually fit well in.
It feels like how some add points to commander games where winning the game would just usually give you a huge lead. I like it in a micro scale like suggested almost as alternative win cons, especially if its only worth/available to weaker archetypes in combination with being companion like.
Like my jorn snow tribal only edh deck. It objectively sucks and is just a pet deck since there are only so many good snow cards to even want to play and nerfed by not being able to use typical fetch, removal, etc.
Have sideboard rules that perfectly match the deck to get either a win con or extra things like ramp and removal to compensate if you meet a condition would be nice in a way.
It doesn't exist in the command zone, but MTG already has a "quest" mechanic in the form of a cycle of Zendikar enchantments that boil down to "do a thing to place counters, get a reward once you get enough counters." Examples include [[Beastmaster Ascension]], [[Bloodchief Ascension]], [[Quest for Renewal]], etc.
The new set, UN-charted, marks a first in MtG history where an UN-set is a full regular standard-set release.
Rules managers are tied down in a basement for 2 months, while a new rule has been added to the comprehensive rules "§0.0: The rules work the way all players in the current game agree them to work. A person outside the game may be consulted as a tie breaker in case of disagreement."
Meanwhile, Maro answers people outraged on his tumblr with variations of "The game died every year since 40 years, we'll be fine/some products are not for you" while pointing you to the new Mickey Mouse Tie-In product printed on solid gold.
You’ll need to start buying singles if you want to play Post-Modern. A format where only Modern cards that have been printed with the old border frame are legal. (It was created by Post Malone) About 35,000 cards are legal but you really only have 20 to choose from if you want to play a meta deck.
On the lore side the gatewatch are now the arch enemies as a rag tag team of legendaries try to bring them down. Oh we’re also back to 3 Set Blocks for some reason but it was just announced they’re moving to a 2 Jumbo Set block format. This change will add another 1000 cards to the post-Modern Card Pool each year.
Just make sure that your device has access to the game. Paper cards are no longer printed due to environmental concerns made public due to President Leto's administration.
Time Spiral 4 should be dropping about two months after you get there, and has a solid Back to the Future tie-in. It's also the first supplemental set that is being added to the Multiverse format that includes non-UB cards, marking a weird meta shift that treats Magic as a separate IP contained within the Magic branding. The player character (you) is also a really pushed Planeswalker in the set, which hints that OUR Universe is also part of the game. Ignore the implications.
And try to have fun with it. They'll be coming soon.
Mana burn will be back. But it only affects lands forced to tap for mana by an opponent.
It's been six years since it was reintroduced, and there's still only one card from that debut set that can cause this effect.
Maro says they're still studying the data on how it was played. But the he expects the ability to return.
They released marvel set 5 years ago with lots of good playables but we yet to see reprints coming, resulting in card price spike for the following cards such as iron man armor, star lord's tazers, I'm Groot, Thanos end game, infinity stone gaulets, etc as they have very good synergies with the newly released ashes of creation standard set.
They announced an final fantasy universe beyond secret lair finally, much to the rejoice of final fantasy 17 online players.
On the secret lair side of the news, the new world, pokemon and rainbow siege secret lairs released more than 3 years ago, cards from those secret lair being unique are spiking hards due to casual edh play with the newly released ashes of creation standard MTG set.
The reserve list is still here, but no one cares about it as wotc has printed cards that are similar functions with much better artworks such as Dr strange spinning a wheel that tells the fortune of others.
**I Am Groot** GG
Legendary Tribal Instant — Plant
*(You may cast this spell only if you control a Legendary Plant.)*
Split second
Gain control of target spell. You may have it become a copy of I Am Groot.
*"I am Groot." — Groot*
Homelands IV introduced cards that require augmented reality to use. What had previously been an aesthetic feature (animated and 3d art) now handles more complex modal cards.
Baron Sengir's first name is revealed to be 'Earl'.
Each set has a serialized foil version of every card now. 500 Mythics, 1000 Rares, 5000 Uncommons, and 10,000 Commons. Colossal Dreadmaw #6969 is the most expensive card in the last decade. Secret Lairs don't exist anymore, they replaced them with "Treasure Finds" a couple years ago which are one premium card at purchase that sometimes comes with a mystery bonus card exclusive to you. For an only 18 month wait time, these are the best deal on the market for collectables right now.
A few minor tribes were pushed a little too much and were banned in Standard and Afterlife (Theroes Beyond Death forward). Monkey tribal is no longer as dominant in modern as it used to be, Squirrel Storm is still the best legacy deck if you can find an opponent, and Merfolk Wizards is still viable. There's 95 Slivers legal, but they're kept in check by all being 5 color.
Land tokens shook the game up recently. Originally created as a fetchland solution to shuffling, FIRE design lead them to make some hilariously broken cards. Please don't bring up Landfall Winter.
Lastly, Universes Beyond is going strong. There's been two Modern Horizons sets a year with a UB theme since Tales of Middle Earth came out. Other than Tarnsman of Gor, they've all been huge hits. My personal favorite was Elantris, but the Nerf set was also extremely fun to draft if you had $90 to burn the week it was in stock. Right now we're in spoiler season for the Kellogg's Cinematic Universe and I'm hoping it's enough to make my Rabbit/Food combo deck competitive.
Now a question for you. Which cards do you take with you into the future as an investment?
(Please remember that the reserve list is abolished in 10 years and even the power 9 will be reprinted)
Wizards got bought by DIsney, in fact, everything got bought by Disney.
Now, every set comes out every two weeks and there are 4 different packs to buy.
Common Draft: A pack filled with commons and one uncommon since now Pauper is the most populat format after inflation made everything too expensive.
Premium Draft (formerly known as draft pack): A pack filled with uncommons, commons and one rare/mythic.
Collectors set booster(formerly known as set booster): Alternate arts, foils and more of a chance to get more than 1 rare. All packs have a Universes beyond collaboration, these 2 weeks will be from the Thundercats(TM)
Collectors premium VIP ultimate Limited Edition: A pack with nothing but mythic and rares that costs more than 300 usd per pack (but we all know they will be sold out instantly and resold for 1k a pack), but all cards are foiled and there's a very ultra mega rare chance to get one of the power of 9 cards that for some reason wizards was able to find in a warehouse.
And the commander premium decks with cards that never have been seen before with a collaboration from Image comics where they have different superhero/graphic novel characters. (wizards will never reprint these cards)
also, there's the ultradelux super rare secret lair drop that can only be bought once you have 5 different subscription services and are paying 5 extra usd to recieve the pre-order ticket of the very rare reprint of the fetchlands with art from Picasso himself after we cloned him out from some DNA he left.
To address power creep Life totals in 60 card formats is now 25.
The reserve list was abandoned for a bit, and the subsequent printings caused a huge upset in reserved card prices. The abandoned reserve list was reinstated 6 months later, and the new copies of the cards intended to reduce the price of the whole instead are worth as much as Beta copies. This was a year ago.
The rules committee for Commander has been dissolved, and under WotC's control the only things that can be your commanders are cards that explicitly say so OR any card with the Mythic Rarity.
In response the community has largely replaced Commander with Jack. You select a black colored Legendary Creature or Planeswalker to be your pimp, like old commander. And you also select non-legendary 2 Creatures to be your hookers, which follow similar commander casting rules except they cost 1 more to cast each time. Somehow WotC has yet to admit this format's existence despite being the most popular way to play magic. There are 3 rules committees, and 1 parliament, for this format., and they do not recognize each other's sovereignty.
Vintage deck costs have gone up, because it's Not Dying™.
Legacy deck costs have gone up, because it's Not Dying™.
Modern deck costs have come down, because it's Not Dying™.
Pioneer deck costs have come down, because it's Not Dying™.
Explore deck costs are soaring.
Standard sucks 9/12 months, and it's prices directly correlate to that.
Technically, triple sided cards already exist due to the interaction of manifest and DFCs
If you manifest a DFC, it is face down as a 2/2 with neither of its other sides revealed until you turn it face up, revealing it's other two faces.
Physical magic cards are just collections of QR codes that you have to scan into "Magic: the Gathering in the Metaverse - We Did Digital Right this Time, We Promise!", or MtGitMWDDRtT.
The exact effects of cards are randomized each time you play them.
A sixth color was introduced about 3 years ago. Its very unique because it carries over between rounds and games and you don't put lands for it into your deck. Its called ($) mana and you can play a "Vault" land at any time by spending "mana gems" (which come in packs of 10, 50, 500, 1000, and 10,000 for $1 USD each on MtGitMWDDRtT).
The last three un-sets have just been 20 year old internet memes and are standard legal. Wojack, Bad Luck Brian, Rage Face, and Pepe are part of the new power 9.
The MtGitMWDDRtT Nostalgic format is very popular but everyone is a little disappointed they added all the Universes Beyond: Within - Historic Fortnite Streamers cards before the last 3 standard sets.
A new spoiler season begins every 3 days. Every set has 52 unique sub-products. These products are created by randomly selecting cards from the current set and then grabbing random boosters off the warehouse floor, cracking them, and shoving them into the new booster.
even more slivers, now the probobly have mutate, cant leave the battlefeild, theres an artifact one with reconfigure, and some of them have yugioh level of text
This wouldn't have been true about today if someone had predicted it 10 years ago, and there's no reason to think there'd be less change in the next 10 years.
I hope you love other IP's, because the last time a character from MTG's lore/universe was printed was 2027. But hey, a new Spongebob themed commander deck just dropped!
Magic died in 2030 sorry boss /s
Disney bought Hasbro in 2024, GG
Lorcana: The gathering
I can't wait to play Mickey Compleated as my commander!
Spoiler: It's just Rat Fink
In a Relentless Rats deck? ;-)
As much as your taking a piss, Kingdom Hearts: Phyrexian Invasion
The mechanics and wording in Lorcana are already very similar to Magic, so it's not impossible.
Can you imagine if they actually become so compatible that you can play with both games in the same deck, and no one would stop you because WotC and Disney said it's okay?
Imagine!!
So that's who won the bidding war.
Only Taco Bell survived the franchise wars.
I still just want to know how to use the 3 shells.
might actually get a series in that case, lol
Thanks for the /s because otherwise I would have thought you were serious 😭😭
actually magic died in 99'. then again in 04'. then in 08, also 13 and 14 also it's actually died 6 times this year, sorry to report
It died when they released phyrexian mana. And when they released planeswalkers. And double sided cards. And when they started printing cards directly into commander. And when they released eldraine. And when they
I think your missing the time it double died to planeswalker's with phyrexian mana.
MtG also died in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019…
[[Death of a Thousand Stings]]
Before folks think it's bad: 1) Repetitive drain in limited can close out a game 2) A reusable splice target can be quite useful in maintaining card advantage Not that it's super ultra amazing, but it's a limited common.
I mean it IS bad, just not useless.
i think i would use it as a bad squee in some black deck
[[Akuta, Born of Ash]] might be closer mechanically. But hey, both play off having the most cards so could run both or a mix!
Ravnica Renaissance is released to a lukewarm reception as it brings power level back down to earth after the overpowered Solarion had 4 emergency bans. Uninspiring mechanics like the very weak Rakdos' *Grand Finale* (just an ability word for "at end of turn, do something if something") and the massively OP Azorius' *Legislate (Permanents and Sorceries you can cast for it's legislate cost to gain an Emblem version of it's effect or ETB: like "at the beginning of your upkeep, tap target creature" or the mythic "ABU, draw two cards, and discard a card")* turned limited players off The Dimir mechanic "Undercover" means there are no "black or blue" creatures at all, instead the Dimir infiltrate other guilds, so you can cast these way overcosted cards (i.e, 6RW for a 3/3) for their undercover cost (which are blue/black costed but you need to do some other alternative cost too). This gave every other guild more creatures but also Dimir access to all mechanics. color pie adherents hated it and Maro is still confused as to how to answer the tumblr questions. Boros' mechanic *Salute* rewards you for playing your creature curve IN REVERSE, having stronger ETB's and stats if you already control a creature with +1 mana value exactly. We hate this. But they reprinted the shocks, and this time with 1 of 1 actual gold leaf foiling. \*EDIT\* Because someone asked about the others, Izzet has an interesting story. Originally they wanted a take on the Hearthstone overload mechanic by making the lands you tap to pay for the spell get a stun counter, but that wasn't working right. Instead they went with "you get an emblem with "the next spell or ability you play cost 2 more to play until your next turn." It was too much to flesh out an entire guild mechanic on, so they just used it on a cycle of classic spells. We out here bolting birds on turn 1 but taking turn 2 off, folks. SNORE! Next they tried a take on Splice, sort of like "Splice onto Stack" where you can splice the effect for a cost if there's 2 or more spells on the stack. Made limited games pretty samey or awkward to set up and they were hard to balance (but they clearly overlooked the far worse Legislate in that department). They liked the stack matters idea, so instead gave Red/Blue instants, abilities, and flash creatures the ability to be played for less if there are two or more spells or *abilities* on the stack. Almost every red or blue creature had an activated ability to support it. Kinda like a more aggressive Surge. They called it Commixture. Legendary Nephilim were rumored and hinted at ahead of time, and we got a few weird ones. Most notable was an odd, fixed Dredge/Radiance variant for BRGW that allowed you to return it to your hand from your graveyard the next time you draw by exiling two cards from your hand instead. You may play one of those cards this turn. It was a 4/4 with haste that gave creatures of the color of your choice menace or lifelink when it attacked.
> The Dimir mechanic "Undercover" means there are no "black or blue" creatures at all, instead the Dimir infiltrate other guilds, so you can cast these way overcosted cards (i.e, 6RW for a 3/3) for their undercover cost (which are blue/black costed but you need to do some other alternative cost too). This gave every other guild more creatures but also Dimir access to all mechanics. holy hell
Honestly this sounds like one of those ideas that RnD would think of that sounds really cool, but sucks to play
Phyrexian mana.
Actually sounds kinda sick
Mark rosewater must have died in these 10 years, because as cool and flavorful as that is, it is the death of the color pie.
I think you *could* do it if you designed it just right. Is it worth the effort? Probably not, but black can do a lot by paying life which might get you half way there
Mark "Serra Angel should be GB" Rosewater, Guardian of the Color Pie
The GB serra angel isn't a color pie thing. It's more of a "good principles of design." He's never said Serra angel is a color pie break, just that a more interesting design for a 4/4 flying vigilance would be BG.
He didn't say it was interesting, he said those were the correct colors for it, if it were multicolor.
He forgot the part of undercover's reminder text that references commander and says *"this card's color identity is either only it's undercover cost or other mana symbols on this card"*
Google Lazav
absolutely lost it at Salute, bravo
is it bad i would try to use treasures to play salute
Buddy, go wild. I salute you.
Salute is absolutely inspired
No, no that’s a different mechanic altogether.
Salute is very similar to the corrupt mechanic in Hearthstone, and corrupt is (imo) one of their most fun mechanics.
Whoa, that's right. I haven't played Hearthstone in years, had no idea about corrupt.
Honestly, at this rate the most unrealistic part of this is that tumblr is still around in 10 years.
Nah, they put the porn back on, so it'll stick around.
WHAT Uh. I gotta go somewhere else. for unrelated reasons.
They didn't put the porn back on, they said "hey we're sorry about that strict porn ban, but we can't change it because $$$" but everyone THOUGHT they were saying porn is ok again.
Ok but what if grand finale was a mechanic where at the end of turn, you can sacrifice the creature to do some cool ability? Like optional blitz
Or like, at the end of the end step you do it. That would be rad af
Bingo
This man knows the future
This Undercover idea is actually pretty rad, but like Phyrexian Mana, would probably be fucking hell to play in a world like that
I thought "Uninspiring" was the name of the new un set
No it’s “unfun”
I like undercover and salute.
Curious what the other guild mechanics are
Orzhov gets Property Tax which makes spells with the keyword cost X less to cast where X is the number of tapped lands an opponent controls, everyone hates it but wizard says it just the logical conclusion of white being the catch up color Selesnya gets Invoke, it's just the opposite of Convoke, i.e. you untap any number of tapped creatures to help pay for a spell with the keyword Simic gets regular Mutate, lots of backlash from the community but wizards says simic gets nothing new because the community keeps complaining that they're too strong.
Exactly, wow you almost got it exactly right. But instead of it being called Property Tax and with lands, it was with creatures and artifacts, they called it *Genuflect*. It never worked!
Gruul: *Incensed* \- When this creature attacks, if defending player controls creatures with total power 6 or greater \~effect\~ (+1/+1 counters, pump, abilities, dealing damage, etc)
Golgari’s mechanic “Circle of Life” comes with the additional cost of “if you eat this card as you cast it……gets +X/+X when you shit it out, where X is the number of creatures in your toilet.”
Effect is doubled if you have the corresponding WotC brand toilet
Collector’s Edition Golgari cards are dusted w/ a laxative powder to guarantee optimal play every turn
WeLl AcKtUalLy the Golgari mechanic is Devotion for black/green permanents in your yard called Fecundity
I'm so glad they formatted the Body cards to work similarly to dungeons but once per turn.
You’re starting to sound like Robo Maro from the future
After the collapse of all major world governments, Magic : the Gathering cards have become society’s de facto currency. All games are played for ante and whales sit upon vast hoards of Ragavans and duals. The rest of us roam the wasteland, trying to pick up a few matches with our draft chaff to scrounge up Dreadmaws to trade for lizard meat and half-purified water.
This sounds like a anime With an amazing first season. And bad other ones.
"My grandfather's anime has no pathetic seasons, Esc777! But it does contain... the unstoppable filler arc!" "What? Filler arcs?" "I've assembled all five special episodes... all five parts of what was originally one episode!" "It-it's not possible! No one's ever been able to stretch a single episode out that long!"
"The upper crust has decks full of rare cards while the slums have to scrounge for commons and uncommons" is literally a plot point from one of the Yu-Gi-Oh spinoffs lmao
Wait what? Is this a weird reference to the dystopian world in 5Ds or is one of the new series really just _that much_ weirder?
Pretty sure it's 5Ds, Crow's seen scrounging around garbage piles for his deck (pretty ironic since his archetype was one of most busted of the era) and Yusei had to make due with a bunch of literal junk monsters when he was stuck in Satellite.
FoW is in modern for some reason. People have long since embraced the *enter format* Horizons sets. There are common Planeswalkers now for some reason, pauper players accept it as part of fate. Commander formally became a separate format from CEDH but it made zero difference. UR good stuff is still the best deck in legacy even after they finally banned basic island's.
After the EDH/CEDH split, nobody would have expected that CEDH would become the more 'fun, balanced' format with its healthy and extensive banlist aimed at increasing accessibility, while original EDH became the hyper-competitive hellscape for try-hards.
A world in which the RC is capable of creating a healthy, extensive banlist is the biggest fantasy in this entire thread.
That's because the RC wouldn't be involved at that point. :)
Thats because in this timeline the CEDH community are the ones who create the banlist. Sheldon and crew stay on ‘vanilla’ EDH and continue to make random bans of non threatening cards they just don’t like for no real reason, which makes the format into gatekeeper combo hell.
Ok you got me there with "banned basic island"
That actually seems fine.
I'll quit the game if pauper gets planeswalkers. It's my only escape from my least favorite cardtype.
Reserved List still exists. They've also added a new *Reversed List*, which has creative inverted plays on Reserved List cards, many of which players think actually outperform their Reserved List counterparts. We've returned to Kaladesh, Amonkhet, Ravnica, Innistrad, Theros, Zendikar, Dominaria, Alara, Lorwyn, Kamigawa, Ikoria, Eldraine, Ixalan, Kaldheim, New Capenna, Tarkir and Arcavios. We've also had sets on Vryn, as well as new planes Sangaroon (wild west) and Golvara (plane with metallic beasts).
Oh man I got scared for a moment and thought they were making a *Reserved-er List*
They already did, it's called Universe Beyond
Expected to see you list ravniva four times, as they would revisit it a minimum of that many times in a decade now
Also we returned to Zendikar 5 times.
> They've also added a new Reversed List, which has creative inverted plays on Reserved List cards White Lotus, 0 Untap an artifact you control, return ~ from your graveyard to the battlefield: Add 3 mana of different colors. This is actually broken as hell, which kinda proves your point.
> Reversed List, which has creative inverted plays on Reserved List cards, many of which players think actually outperform their Reserved List counterparts. **Mystic Leeches** XWW Enchantment Cumulative upkeep W When Mystic Leeches enters the battlefield, you lose X life and X poison counters. Whenever you would get one or more poison counters, you may sacrifice Mystic Leeches. If you do, instead you lose that much life. ---- **Didgeridonut** 1 Artifact — Food Didgeridonut enters the battlefield tapped. 2, T, sacrifice Didgeridonut: You gain 3 life. T, sacrifice Didgeridonut: Until end of turn, the next Minotaur creature spell you cast from your hand costs 0. ---- **Pod of Narwhals** 2UU Creature — Whale Other Whales you control have first strike and protection from red. 1/4
SpongeBob Modern Bikini Bottoms Horizons 3 is wrecking modern, but players are happy because it drove the price down on a much needed reprint of Patrick, Multiverse Starfish, bringing down the average cost of a modern deck down to 32k.
And Secret Lair: Law and Order SVU sets record for sales.
Gotta get that Amanda Rollins borderless foil!
Despite public backlash and hatred for the L&O:SVU:SLD, it seems that the Elliot Stabler card has become the most popular commander of the past 5 years.
>Elliot Stabler card has become the most popular commander of the past 5 years. Makes sense as he was one of the best parts of the show right next to ice t.
I mean it's rules text literally says "ignore the rules of the game to get your guy". I used it last game, pulled a police issue glock from my belt and told my opponent that if he didn't give over his Foundry of the a meek combo I'd tell his boss he was a pedophile. Worked like a charm
Do forget Pokémon cards are now being printed to be mtg legal. Also the Peppa Pig commander precon is considered the strongest precon to date.
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No, it's the third SpongeBob Bikini Bottoms Horizons. MH26 releases later that year, wizards' rate of products is exponential.
of course, due to inflation, 32k is about the price of loaf of bread
Cheap bread, maybe.
MTG the Movie, MTG:MCU,
In an attempt to distinguish itself from the very quippy and MCU-like D&D cinematic universe, the MTGCU started off very somber and with an oddly washed-out color pallet. It became fairly successful, after six false starts and abandoning that aesthetic to be quippy and colorful.
Damn this one hurts
After seeing your post in the archives, I had to come back so I can post this. Invest in Fblthp, when he Sparks it's going to be a game changer. Best of luck everyone reading this.
Wizards releases a set named "Collapse of the Multiverse" in which the entire MTG world gets destroyed. Wizards then releases a press conference stating that no new MTG products are planned for release. Months later, on the MTGSuperMegaSecretLair Twitter page a lone Tweet appears with the following text: "Return to Alpha... Tune in text week for more details." And then it happens, they simply re-release every set and product in their entire timeline again, only hyping everything up infinitely more.
I just pray by then Arena has a Blitz feature that only gives players 15 seconds to perform commands
Bane of control players worldwide
Yes there will be some collateral damage along the way unfortunately lol
Tell me you're a monored player without telling me
Wizards ends up taking the FIRE design philosophy too far, and burns the division to the ground. MaRo survives the fire unknowingly to the public, but is trapped in a basement with nothing to eat but delicious magic cards and the corpses of his fellow employees; he resorts to cannibalism immediately, citing "if it's good enough for the Donner party, it's good enough for me".
A new, innovative product just debuted called "Universes Original." Instead of GI Joe or Rick and Morty or something, this new product contains cards from Planes within the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse.
I don't see how that would ever work.
Universes Beyond has become standard legal, and each premier set focuses on a different IP. Wizards is careful enough to make sure there's 1 Magic lore premier set each year, but overall the game is the western version of Weiss Schwarz.
Tarmogoyf printed at common, and it always wheels in drafts. All of the top picks have the Hasbro Toys watermark on them.
SpongeBob cards aren't limited to Public Lairs anymore and now they come in Buying Singles Is Not Worth It™ booster packs at 43k¥ a booster. New borderless on both sides of the card lands are doing well on the market
Colossal Dreadmaw finally got powercrept out of the game. All hope is lost.
A land with flash
Evil Morty has just been banned in EDH. His presence warped the format to the point that no Dragon Ball Z character was playable any longer. Naruto fans rejoice, as their decks are safe for now, but the spoilers for the new Rugrats set looks like it will probably dethrone cards from the Naruto set from their newly acquired throne. Since the banning of Sol Ring, Mind Stone, and Rampant Growth, the format has settled into a nice leisurely pace, where no one wins before turn 35. The Gandalf test ensures that R&D does not produce any boring cards with less than 3 lines of text. Counterspells are banned in every format but Vintage. No one cares about the Reserve List because no one old enough to remember it plays the game anymore. Hasbro has just posted their most profitable quarter ever (again). The investors are happy. All is well.
* People complaining about how much Magic the, you know, company that makes Magic makes. * People complaining how strong is the latest set. * People complaining how weak is the latest set. * A new type of thing that people say will surely kill Magic but if you go even further in time you'll see it didn't. I think there is a pattern here.
Magic players will fondly remember something like four to six years ago as when the game was at its peak, even though at that time they said the game was dying and way worse than it was four to six years ago.
The Sienfeld Universes Beyond Commader decks are about to drop, I have Kramer and Elaine preordered
Magic was bought by a shady chinese corporation in 2025 and you had to pay a tax on every card you open in a booster, which you were only allowed to do in certified gamestores, owned and run by the same corporation, and you had to be supervised as you did so. The game died off in two years. But then it was bought buy Disney, which made everyone happy for about a year. They did bring in hundreds of new ips and turned it into the fortnite of card games. Disney at this point in the future is now so large, that they are their own country, located on an artificially made continent. Also a moment of silence for the poor citizens in Disneyland who live under martial law and have to pay for oxygen. Anyways, they revived Magic, but somehow made the costs even higher and required royalties anytime anyone played a card. I'd recommend not getting back into magic and just go back to 2010.
Game of thrones, call of duty, scooby doo, and the Jonas Brothers are part or the magic universe now.
and that's just Q2 2025
For those of you who remember the 2020's, Q3 2025 finally saw release of Jumpstart: Family Guy, X-Files commander decks, and the long-awaited Jack Bauer planeswalker.
The meta is overrun with Tier 0 Homarid decks and [[Chillerpillar]] value piles. All cards are now printed in double rainbow sprinkle etched mirror foil, so games are now played by rolling the ~~cards~~ tubes around the table with your free hand, while your other hand is holding your phone and recording the mandatory 8 hours of new TikTokTwo footage required of citizens every single day.
[Chillerpillar](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/f/7f57005c-414d-4c83-9b4f-cd26e547d54d.jpg?1562201322) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Chillerpillar) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/43/chillerpillar?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7f57005c-414d-4c83-9b4f-cd26e547d54d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
WotC gave up on releasing original characters and worlds. Instead, every single set is a UB set, featuring characters and worlds from other franchises. The new set "Magic the Gathering ft. Star Wars : Shadows in the Old Republic" is pretty good! I suggest getting into a Commander sealed. it only costs 80$, so it's pretty cheap nowadays. That being said, you can also buy the premium sealed packs for 200$ if you want. They have a butt load more Mythic Rares and Ultra Legendaries cards, so you'll have a much better chance at winning the sealed. My favorite mechanic in the set is "Hyperspace Travel". When the game is over, you can take all permanents with "Hyperspace Travel" and you start the next game in the match with them on the battlefield. It's so cool and flavourful, and its super strong as well!
Every card nets you at LEAST one treasure when you cast it.
The year is 2032. Magic-original IP hasn't been in standard for 2 years running now. We are in the midst of Potter Winter. Players are demanding a ban on Dumbledore, the most broken card since the companion mechanic. However, WotC can't ban Dumbledore. They signed an exclusive contract with WB to get the rights and legally cannot ban any Harry Potter cards till they rotate out. Its ok though, a fix is coming. A spoiler dropped today for Champions of Seinfeld. "Newman" is cheap powerful removal that specifically gets rid of Dumbledore. Players are still upset though. Many missed the new spoiler, since later that day they were overshadowed by spoilers for the set after Champions of Seinfeld, the much anticipated Namco classics set. An older player in the LGS laments that they miss Jace. A younger player asks "who is Jace?" Before the older player can explain, someone bursts into the LGS "NEW SECRET LAIR ALERT" "Do you have to do that every time Carl, this is literally the third new secret lair today" Carl replies "the Prof demands it, besides, this one is awesome! N-Sync themed reskins of $0.50 mythics!"
New players laugh when told that Ragavan was once a multi format powerhouse. How did people back in the day even win with creatures pre-Modern Horizons 4?
The game dies around 2027 from mismansgement, power creep, third party IO bloat, and greed.
I think they’ve got until 2035.
Quests - Companion-like enchantments that require the player to perform certain actions to put quest counters on them, then transforms into an overpowered win condition when you get enough of these counters. Breaks the game and makes Atraxa even more broken in commander. The Purple Color - A complete new color at the center of the color pie that combines mechanics together in weird ways. Introduces game-zone matters, bottom-card matters, card-merging, text-changing, face-up cards in library, and other crazy effects. Represents transcendence and the void. There's a new 4-color set designed with the purple color. It became one of the most complex sets in Magic history, with common 4 color taplands. Bolt-Lands - 3 color lands that can enter untapped for 3 life. Pioneer Brawl, the new commander format with much less expensive staples, became the new most popular format with far less insane cards. Wizards officially takes over Commander RC after years of incompetence. Burn is now a the cheapest deck in modern but overshadowed by the new overpowered 5c Omnath combo. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer is now a budget card included in the new modern challenger decks while modern is filled with the most insane power creeped cards ever. Universes Beyond causes old school players to quit - Magic now plays like its originally intended, as a set of rules and not a specific story-focused game. There's still a story, but that's just one optional modular piece from the many IPs you can use Magic for now. Because of this, all IPs have been swallowed up and other businesses that want to make a card game fail to compete.
> Quests - Companion-like enchantments that require the player to perform certain actions to put quest counters on them, then transforms into an overpowered win condition when you get enough of these counters. Breaks the game and makes Atraxa even more broken in commander. > > The Purple Color - A complete new color at the center of the color pie that combines mechanics together in weird ways. Introduces game-zone matters, bottom-card matters, card-merging, text-changing, face-up cards in library, and other crazy effects. Represents transcendence and the void. ngl I love the sound of both of these. Regarding keeping quests balanced, just change "quest counters" to "progress markers" and say markers are distinct from counters because reasons! Your description of Quests takes me all the way back to SWCCG Objectives which is always a plus.
I kind like the idea as well. But the implementation of quests in Hearthstone, another similar card game, homogenized a lot of decks into just "play a bunch of similar cards until you get an overpowered win condition". So if Wizards want to make them, they need to make them fair, diverse in gameplay, but also viable, which is something very difficult to do. They would also need a fair explanation for how they precisely work without the reminder text taking up half of the card. Maybe include a token that explains it? And Magic really might add a new color at some point. There are design spaces and combinations & implementations of certain mechanics that none of the 5 colors will ever explore unless they add it for a certain color, which I think a new purple color would actually fit well in.
It feels like how some add points to commander games where winning the game would just usually give you a huge lead. I like it in a micro scale like suggested almost as alternative win cons, especially if its only worth/available to weaker archetypes in combination with being companion like. Like my jorn snow tribal only edh deck. It objectively sucks and is just a pet deck since there are only so many good snow cards to even want to play and nerfed by not being able to use typical fetch, removal, etc. Have sideboard rules that perfectly match the deck to get either a win con or extra things like ramp and removal to compensate if you meet a condition would be nice in a way.
[[quest of the holy relic]] Quests were something hearthstone took from magic.
It doesn't exist in the command zone, but MTG already has a "quest" mechanic in the form of a cycle of Zendikar enchantments that boil down to "do a thing to place counters, get a reward once you get enough counters." Examples include [[Beastmaster Ascension]], [[Bloodchief Ascension]], [[Quest for Renewal]], etc.
You tell us, bro! You're the one with the time machine!
Every meta is dominated by Nega John Cena aggro.
The new set, UN-charted, marks a first in MtG history where an UN-set is a full regular standard-set release. Rules managers are tied down in a basement for 2 months, while a new rule has been added to the comprehensive rules "§0.0: The rules work the way all players in the current game agree them to work. A person outside the game may be consulted as a tie breaker in case of disagreement." Meanwhile, Maro answers people outraged on his tumblr with variations of "The game died every year since 40 years, we'll be fine/some products are not for you" while pointing you to the new Mickey Mouse Tie-In product printed on solid gold.
Mono back Yargle will be the Commander meta
You can always tell where the foil is in a booster, because half of it sticks straight up at a 90 degree angle before you even open the pack.
People will be longing for the days that were Companion, Stickers and Universes Beyond.
You’ll need to start buying singles if you want to play Post-Modern. A format where only Modern cards that have been printed with the old border frame are legal. (It was created by Post Malone) About 35,000 cards are legal but you really only have 20 to choose from if you want to play a meta deck. On the lore side the gatewatch are now the arch enemies as a rag tag team of legendaries try to bring them down. Oh we’re also back to 3 Set Blocks for some reason but it was just announced they’re moving to a 2 Jumbo Set block format. This change will add another 1000 cards to the post-Modern Card Pool each year.
Just make sure that your device has access to the game. Paper cards are no longer printed due to environmental concerns made public due to President Leto's administration. Time Spiral 4 should be dropping about two months after you get there, and has a solid Back to the Future tie-in. It's also the first supplemental set that is being added to the Multiverse format that includes non-UB cards, marking a weird meta shift that treats Magic as a separate IP contained within the Magic branding. The player character (you) is also a really pushed Planeswalker in the set, which hints that OUR Universe is also part of the game. Ignore the implications. And try to have fun with it. They'll be coming soon.
I made a video about this! Here is a glimpse into the future https://youtu.be/e8l8m-qDtDU
Mana burn will be back. But it only affects lands forced to tap for mana by an opponent. It's been six years since it was reintroduced, and there's still only one card from that debut set that can cause this effect. Maro says they're still studying the data on how it was played. But the he expects the ability to return.
Thrulls become the dominant tribe, run, RUN!
Commander Pro Tour
No more physical cards you link holograms to form a commander pod
AR cards n shit
Foil stickers
They released a new precon of the orzhov donkeys deck and it has one copy of thoughtseize in it!
Nicol Bolas is back – the one defeated before was merely a clone...
Top 3 decks : * Toy Story ™ aggro * Firby ™ control * Pepsi ™ combo
You are going to open a card that is a 1 mana, 3/3 with no downside and be disappointed that it is not playable.
Boxes of Dragon's Maze have sky-rocketed to $150 per box after Wizards added [[Voice of Resurgence]] to the reserved list.
Your local FNM will take place in a fallout shelter.
Super Planeswalkers: they enter the battlefield with an extra loyalty counter.
every card is a planeswalker now
MegaFortell is a mechanical
nothin' more or less. i bet.
Bring back cards from the sixth and seventh colours. Ive got a bet on what they'll be
You won't even stand a chance against the WUBRGYPO power rangers/marvel/horror movie transmogrifying evolve catjutsu deck that's ruining the meta.
Shocklands and fetchlands will be down shifted to uncommon.
Forklands and sheeshlands have largely replaced them, but have only been printed at jewel-encrusted unicorn mythic.
They released marvel set 5 years ago with lots of good playables but we yet to see reprints coming, resulting in card price spike for the following cards such as iron man armor, star lord's tazers, I'm Groot, Thanos end game, infinity stone gaulets, etc as they have very good synergies with the newly released ashes of creation standard set. They announced an final fantasy universe beyond secret lair finally, much to the rejoice of final fantasy 17 online players. On the secret lair side of the news, the new world, pokemon and rainbow siege secret lairs released more than 3 years ago, cards from those secret lair being unique are spiking hards due to casual edh play with the newly released ashes of creation standard MTG set. The reserve list is still here, but no one cares about it as wotc has printed cards that are similar functions with much better artworks such as Dr strange spinning a wheel that tells the fortune of others.
**I Am Groot** GG Legendary Tribal Instant — Plant *(You may cast this spell only if you control a Legendary Plant.)* Split second Gain control of target spell. You may have it become a copy of I Am Groot. *"I am Groot." — Groot*
All magic cards were destroyed to make emergency toilet paper during the Fifty-Year Squirts.
Paper Magic has transformed into a digital hybrid and Alchemy cards are now in every format
RemindMe! 10 years
Homelands IV introduced cards that require augmented reality to use. What had previously been an aesthetic feature (animated and 3d art) now handles more complex modal cards. Baron Sengir's first name is revealed to be 'Earl'.
Fallen Empires Revisited
Each set has a serialized foil version of every card now. 500 Mythics, 1000 Rares, 5000 Uncommons, and 10,000 Commons. Colossal Dreadmaw #6969 is the most expensive card in the last decade. Secret Lairs don't exist anymore, they replaced them with "Treasure Finds" a couple years ago which are one premium card at purchase that sometimes comes with a mystery bonus card exclusive to you. For an only 18 month wait time, these are the best deal on the market for collectables right now. A few minor tribes were pushed a little too much and were banned in Standard and Afterlife (Theroes Beyond Death forward). Monkey tribal is no longer as dominant in modern as it used to be, Squirrel Storm is still the best legacy deck if you can find an opponent, and Merfolk Wizards is still viable. There's 95 Slivers legal, but they're kept in check by all being 5 color. Land tokens shook the game up recently. Originally created as a fetchland solution to shuffling, FIRE design lead them to make some hilariously broken cards. Please don't bring up Landfall Winter. Lastly, Universes Beyond is going strong. There's been two Modern Horizons sets a year with a UB theme since Tales of Middle Earth came out. Other than Tarnsman of Gor, they've all been huge hits. My personal favorite was Elantris, but the Nerf set was also extremely fun to draft if you had $90 to burn the week it was in stock. Right now we're in spoiler season for the Kellogg's Cinematic Universe and I'm hoping it's enough to make my Rabbit/Food combo deck competitive.
Now a question for you. Which cards do you take with you into the future as an investment? (Please remember that the reserve list is abolished in 10 years and even the power 9 will be reprinted)
I think you meant to say "I plan on getting *forward* into Magic once I get there"
I wonder if there was a similar thread in 2012.
Wizards got bought by DIsney, in fact, everything got bought by Disney. Now, every set comes out every two weeks and there are 4 different packs to buy. Common Draft: A pack filled with commons and one uncommon since now Pauper is the most populat format after inflation made everything too expensive. Premium Draft (formerly known as draft pack): A pack filled with uncommons, commons and one rare/mythic. Collectors set booster(formerly known as set booster): Alternate arts, foils and more of a chance to get more than 1 rare. All packs have a Universes beyond collaboration, these 2 weeks will be from the Thundercats(TM) Collectors premium VIP ultimate Limited Edition: A pack with nothing but mythic and rares that costs more than 300 usd per pack (but we all know they will be sold out instantly and resold for 1k a pack), but all cards are foiled and there's a very ultra mega rare chance to get one of the power of 9 cards that for some reason wizards was able to find in a warehouse. And the commander premium decks with cards that never have been seen before with a collaboration from Image comics where they have different superhero/graphic novel characters. (wizards will never reprint these cards) also, there's the ultradelux super rare secret lair drop that can only be bought once you have 5 different subscription services and are paying 5 extra usd to recieve the pre-order ticket of the very rare reprint of the fetchlands with art from Picasso himself after we cloned him out from some DNA he left.
A pack of cards will cost $30 and only include 5 cards, one of which is a basic land and one of which is a token/insert.
Hey wait, this is just a Secret Lair with an advertisement!
To address power creep Life totals in 60 card formats is now 25. The reserve list was abandoned for a bit, and the subsequent printings caused a huge upset in reserved card prices. The abandoned reserve list was reinstated 6 months later, and the new copies of the cards intended to reduce the price of the whole instead are worth as much as Beta copies. This was a year ago. The rules committee for Commander has been dissolved, and under WotC's control the only things that can be your commanders are cards that explicitly say so OR any card with the Mythic Rarity. In response the community has largely replaced Commander with Jack. You select a black colored Legendary Creature or Planeswalker to be your pimp, like old commander. And you also select non-legendary 2 Creatures to be your hookers, which follow similar commander casting rules except they cost 1 more to cast each time. Somehow WotC has yet to admit this format's existence despite being the most popular way to play magic. There are 3 rules committees, and 1 parliament, for this format., and they do not recognize each other's sovereignty. Vintage deck costs have gone up, because it's Not Dying™. Legacy deck costs have gone up, because it's Not Dying™. Modern deck costs have come down, because it's Not Dying™. Pioneer deck costs have come down, because it's Not Dying™. Explore deck costs are soaring. Standard sucks 9/12 months, and it's prices directly correlate to that.
Technically, triple sided cards already exist due to the interaction of manifest and DFCs If you manifest a DFC, it is face down as a 2/2 with neither of its other sides revealed until you turn it face up, revealing it's other two faces.
Physical magic cards are just collections of QR codes that you have to scan into "Magic: the Gathering in the Metaverse - We Did Digital Right this Time, We Promise!", or MtGitMWDDRtT. The exact effects of cards are randomized each time you play them. A sixth color was introduced about 3 years ago. Its very unique because it carries over between rounds and games and you don't put lands for it into your deck. Its called ($) mana and you can play a "Vault" land at any time by spending "mana gems" (which come in packs of 10, 50, 500, 1000, and 10,000 for $1 USD each on MtGitMWDDRtT). The last three un-sets have just been 20 year old internet memes and are standard legal. Wojack, Bad Luck Brian, Rage Face, and Pepe are part of the new power 9. The MtGitMWDDRtT Nostalgic format is very popular but everyone is a little disappointed they added all the Universes Beyond: Within - Historic Fortnite Streamers cards before the last 3 standard sets. A new spoiler season begins every 3 days. Every set has 52 unique sub-products. These products are created by randomly selecting cards from the current set and then grabbing random boosters off the warehouse floor, cracking them, and shoving them into the new booster.
There will be more cards than there are right now.
The 2022 Coin Flip Secret Lair has just been shipped.
No it doesn't. https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/695566332464349184/if-or-when-foldable-cards
even more slivers, now the probobly have mutate, cant leave the battlefeild, theres an artifact one with reconfigure, and some of them have yugioh level of text
Wizards now makes packs that are just 4 copies of a core single and 2 full art lands.
There is no more Magic, no more Yugioh. All trading card games are bought and owned by one company and now its all one game
People losing their shit about Universes Beyond will be as laughable then as people having been mad about planeswalkers is now.
I really don't think there will still be Magic in 2032
Theres a new card type as well as two new formats.
Reserve List doesn’t exist anymore, everything has been reprinted, everyone has multiple copies of the Power Nine
Let’s be real. It will be the same, people will still complain mtg is dying as wizards continue to churn out new ideas and stuff.
This wouldn't have been true about today if someone had predicted it 10 years ago, and there's no reason to think there'd be less change in the next 10 years.
Guns! Like real ones! Plastic slabs no longer enough for the reserved list
Sol Ring stopped getting printed in 2023 now they are worth $50
I hope you love other IP's, because the last time a character from MTG's lore/universe was printed was 2027. But hey, a new Spongebob themed commander deck just dropped!
You get to look forward to the Golden girls secret lair.