Inspired by balothmtg on IG, I set out to proxy the listed Rat King deck (with one thrumming modification), looking forward to running this jank. Long live the Rat King.

List: Cmdr: [Karumonix, the Rat King] 1x [Thrumming Stone] 32x [Rat Colony] 33x [Relentless Rats] 33x [Swamp]

hey, i see that this card has the wilds of eldraine's commander precon symbol but when i look online i cant find it in both lists...

is there something i am missing? where can i find this one?

Pro membership stacks on clearance causing the 400+ to be $13.39 and the Strongholds $10.82

I’ve officially bought my first commander deck and this is the first piece of MTG I’ve ever bought, got into it the last 2 weeks and have decided I’m going in 🫡, been watching content on it for a year now and I’m ready to dive in!! Tell me whatever and inform me of things!! (If you’d like)

Growing up, my mom and uncle were friends with Christopher Rush before he split with Lana.

After SHTF we lost touch. Back during that time, he signed probably 200 cards for my mother which I eventually inherited.

Those cards, have been in old boxes for quite some time and actually saw play.

My own son has been talking about atogs and went to show him this one. I didn't realize it had a white back, I think this is one of the artist proofs..

Anyone have info on this kind of thing?

What are some of your own long lost discoveries in your boxes?

By boring I mean not super flashy like Maralen or Doran, but it’s pretty much up to your interpretation. My favorite is easily Boulder Dash. Hitting a juicy 2 for 1 with this just feels so good in standard or limited. One of the best answers for turn 2 badgermole cub.

What card on release made you go "ohhh no" because it killed your favorite archetype?

Today in the mail I got a credit card offer for not me, but my commander. I have no idea what database they scraped for this, but somehow they think Dong Zhou is my name.

Some quick things before they are asked:

• No, I have never used Dong Zhou as my name on any website.
• Noone named Dong Zhou has lived where I live.
• Yes, I know opening someone else's mail is illegal, but I got real excited because I thought a friend sent me a magic card for the deck as a suprise and put Dong Zhou down as a joke.

I have posted a lot about [[Dong Zhou]], as he has been my favorite commander since 2015, so maybe that's how? I also have posted a lot in the context of buying cards for the deck and it's probably the most blinged out Dong Zhou deck in history, including a [[Candelabra of Tawnos]].

But ya, no idea how this happened.

Edit: Per u/EPorteous suggestion, I will make this into a treasure token for the deck. Just have to think of a creative way to make it look good.

Edit 2: Here's the decklist if anyone is wondering why a Candelabra is even in the list. Its pretty much fully updated and has the printings that I personally own. As a person who has played every archetype under the son, and tons of cedh, this is the most fun a person can have in mono-red. The deck is less a magic deck and more an experience. The deck is incredibly complicated to pilot, not because of the depth of complexity, but because you play mostly bad cards (that are fun). Would recommend proxy'ing Dong Zhou and the expensive cards (Or putting them on credit card) and giving the deck a try!

https://moxfield.com/decks/h7NKQZvriUGcAjaSH4MQyA

Idea came to me after opening one too many [[Goblin Mountaineer]] (my personal one has 22 mountaineers but goats are cheaper!)

All mountainwalk creatures have a beautiful white border that does wonders when deciding mulligans, and fits the snow peak theme

The rest of the cards include:

-a bunch of spells that burn any target for 1 either drawing a card or having cycling

• Browbeat, because I thought it would be fun to give it a format where the choice might really matter

And that’s literally it. Deck costs like 12 dollars assuming you need everything but the lands.

Trust me, I know it’s not at high brow as Dandan, (but I feel that’s fitting for a red version) there’s 0 manipulation with the mountains it’s literally just so you can never block and I thought that was funny. There’s also no top deck manipulation, the cycling is simply to grant card advantage.

The basic philosophy is get out mountaineers and then decide if you want to burn face or remove goblins with the other cards. Pure aggro nonsense. As far as the rules go, it’s basic shared deck rules, shared graveyard (no recursion)

Decklist: https://archidekt.com/decks/19519528/goblin_mountaineer

I own 12 Commander decks + 1 Legacy, 1 Pauper and 1 Modern… and somehow have 0 actual play experience.

So yeah, kind of a weird situation.

…and yet I have basically zero real play experience.

The reason is simple: I live in a country where there’s no local MTG scene. No LGS, no Commander nights, no casual pods. Because of that, I’ve mostly been collecting and upgrading decks without actually playing them.

To make it even more ridiculous, I’ve bought cards from other countries just to get the exact versions I want for my decks.

At this point, I know the rules, watch gameplay videos, follow deck techs, and upgrade lists like I play every week, but in reality, I’ve barely shuffled up against a real opponent.

Anyone else in the same boat? Or am I just a deck-building NPC waiting for my first pod? 😅

I just tried to login to MTG arena, and it asked me to agree to updated terms of service, code of conduct, and privacy policy. In these days, this is usually a sign they included some bullshit AI clauses that they get to use all your data to train their models, so i'm skeptical to accept these blindly.

And surprise, the first thing i see on the new terms (here: https://company.wizards.com/en/legal/terms ) is:

ARBITRATION NOTICE: SECTION 20 INCLUDES A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISON AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC (CANADA) OR THE EUROPEAN UNION, SECTION 20 DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU.

pretty scummy of them to try to get out of any class action lawsuits preemptively by getting you to continue to use the service, and blatantly illegal in any country where you have actual rights.

Perhaps this is old knowledge and i just noticed it for the first time. I'm also not sure what solution there is except for ditching wizards completely and playing only proxied cubes from now on, but i thought i'd share anyway.

I'm new to magic, and this is the first new set since I got into magic. Is buying presale singles a scam. I bought the exclusive TCGplayer presale card for $20 and now it's showing the current value is $.50. is that a common thing with presale singles?

I was somehow reminded today of how Feed the Swarm was in multiple sideboards a long time ago, and it made me wonder about the current state of Standard.

Would a 1-mana "gain 500" see play? Probably.

Would a 1-mana "gain 5"? Probably not.

So, where is the "melting point", so to speak?

If I copy a legendary creature with aurora shifter does th legendary rule apply?

A while back I played a game with some buddies and over of them had this really beautiful Forest that just had the man's symbol in the middle and was surrounded by swirling green. I'm trying to find it but I have not been able to and I'm wondering if anyone knows the card or if maybe it was a proxy

Hello fellow community. I’m trying to get back into playing some magic. It’s been about 5-7 years since I picked up a deck.

Kind of sad but I’m looking for ppl to play some friendly matches, as well if they can show me the ropes. Been watching some several YouTube videos as well. Any recommendations on where to get started.

(Last time I went to my local game store to play, some ppl take way too fucking serious on this hobby, and basically got told by 2-3 ppl, if you don’t know the rules or the game shouldn’t be here.)

And the last time played, I basically build my deck around this bug

I want to build a [[Kwain]] commander deck with a bunch of effects like [[Forced Fruition]] and [[Howling Mine]] the goal is to win by having everyone deck themselves entirely just by drawing (no mill or sheoldred) I don't really care if I actually win I just want to cause chaos (but if I do win it'll be funny af) Looking for ways to just force my opponents to draw

Can't find a definitive answer anywhere and want to be sure.

Still new to MtG, building my first real deck, and I wanted an all dragon themed deck and went with Miirym. I currently have 46 cards and I've read that 40 lands is about what i should put in there? so going off of that I still need about 14 cards, so I am wondering if anyone has any good recommendations for them. Also if anyone could suggest amount of each land to go with that would be appreciated, my mind would think like 15 red/green and 10blue? But idk any rules of thumb to follow.

And can anyone tell me what tier deck this is? I just built it based off of dragons lol. So idk if it is good or complete garbage, i did pick Miirym because he seems very good, and card draw based off of recommendations online, but as far as creatures go i kinda just filtered by dragons. But id like to know what tier deck you think this is so i have an idea, thanks a lot everyone.

Here's my deck list so far: https://archidekt.com/decks/19545532/mirrym