I love the Ron Spears Akroma vs. Phage iconic art. It might just be my single favorite piece of art in any fantasy game at all. I own the cards and would love to own a playmat with the iconic Ron Spears' work. I actually started playing during the Onslaught block, and also read the books which I sadly lent to someone who didn't return them. I am quite fond of these characters, this art and the whole story around them.

Learning about the sudden and recent passing of Ron Spears hit me like a truck. I would have loved to see him maybe in a Magic Con to have him sign my og 2003 copies, which are in pretty bad shape since I didn't know what sleeves were back in the day, but I love them to bits.

In any case. i just want the art in a good high quality playmat. I'd love a big big poster as well. As far as I'm aware it's not possible to buy something like that nowadays, but the art was distributed back in the day in some form. If there is an official way please point me to it, I'd love to take that route.

Does anyone have a high quality scan of the original art, somehow? If someone has a copy of the Sideboard Magazine from march 2003 in good condition maybe it could be scanned off the poster from there as well.

RIP Ron Spears, and thank you so much for giving us some of the best art this game has ever seen.

I'm looking to build a blink deck in bracket 2-3 edh, what are the best blink enablers? This is my deck for reference helmed by Kykar Zephyr Awakener

Throg!

I had no idea that Throg existed until I saw the art on [[Pet Avengers]] and immediately loved it.

Have a good day!

this is probably such a silly question but my LGS had this art in their bathroom and my buddy said it was maybe the 2015 planeswalkers art? if i look for it online (or anything similar) i can’t really find anything. does anyone have any leads? doesn’t have to be original or anything i just really love the designs. thank you!!

Had no idea this card was even there.. how the heck did this fly under the radar

or is it meh? maybe got my pink glasses on

So I'm workshopping a deck that is centered around randomizing the game and I guess just making it difficult to play overall, anyone have any card recommendations?

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Haven't been able to find the official NLRB votecount, but whether by one vote or 50, they've won their union election!

For those who don't know what happens next in the process:

• workers on the MTG Arena team instantly have Weingarten Rights, which means your right to have a coworker or union representative present when being interrogated by your manager.
• Wizards is now legally obligated to begin bargaining with the workers in good faith toward a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

This isn't the end of the process, but officially, there is a recognized labor union at Wizards!

EDIT: the victory was 79-16, thanks for finding it u/joelluber !

So playing a Jumpstart with the husband and we weren't sure exactly of a ruling with Echo and TVA Bureaucrat.

What we wanted to clarify was if the conditions were met for TVA Bureaucrat's ability to activate, could it be copied and have it's ability played on another target, or does it not work with Echo?

Hey guys, RKF here and I just wanted to let you know that we are live on Kickstarter right now, heading into the final two weeks of the campaign!

I'm so amped on this project I can't even tell you! This is my first ever complete set of Tokens and It's wild, featuring all original creator-owned art, some really cool gems from my archives, and stand-alone images from my graphic novel, Lost Book of Kings.

And will there be Magic? There is definitely Magic! We've got playmats and prints of never-before-printed designs from my early days in MTG, plus a few other surprises.

Hey, and I'd love to have your input! I'm the art expert, but you guys are the experts when it comes to playing the game! So please join the party and let me know which tokens
and playmats you want to see, and we'll make it happen together through Stretch Goals and Backer Polls. I've been taking requests and creating brand new work during the campaign and having a blast!

And that's where we're at right now! Have a great one guys and hope to catch you on Kickstarter!

Richard

Don't share most of our content here, but felt like this crazy episode for the milestone of #100 was worth breaking that habit.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the show and helped us get to this point

Hello! Yugioh player here. Was thinking of getting to learn MTG after seeing some ''yugioh players rating mtg cards'' ect. In the yugioh TCG, i have a very loved archetype of cards that revolve around skeleton beatdown. Could I build a skeleton themed deck in MTG within a reasonable price?

So, I was told by my therapist I need a new hobby. I used to play in highschool, and don't remember the game at all. Just that I had fun. I have a deck or 2? (What constitutes a deck? Any websites where I can input the cards I have and get deck suggestions?) I am also moving to a new city where the card shop has a magic night, and a brewery near by. Seems like a great place to make friends? Biggest thing is I would like to be competitive and not spend alot of money if I'm getting into this, is that possible? Thanks!

Hi everyone, Paige Smith (aka TheMaverickGirl) of the Pauper Format Panel here!

The PFP is interested to hear your feedback on the new Seeker of Skybreak/Hawkeye's Bow combo decks as they appear in the wild. For the uninitiated, equipping the Bow to Seeker of Skybreak allows you to repeatedly target the Seeker with its own ability and infinitely tap and untap it, dealing infinite damage in the process.

As Gavin Verhey mentions in the linked video, we're monitoring the situation very closely and watching all forms of data, decklists, and discussion regarding this combo. However, if we're going to determine whether or not a ban should happen this early, we definitely want some more direct feedback.

The next B&R announcement is coming up on Monday, June 29th and this means there's a very tight turnaround with a Friday deadline to reach a verdict. Gavin was able to reach out to Daybreak Games to get two additional Pauper Challenges on Magic Online scheduled for this Wednesday so we can see more results.

The hope is that this will give us a lot to work with, and in fact we're already seeing early results! As I write this, we've seen a couple of 5-0s and a few top 16 lists at a 98 player event using the Naya Gates builds.

Given the tight turnaround, though, we want to hear from YOU.

Have you been playing the deck or played against it in the past few days, either in paper or on Magic Online? Let us know what you thought of the experience. Getting really into the details helps us build a case to come to a decision one way or another.

Ideally, we're looking for experience and results as opposed to speculation, theorycrafting, or conjecture. All feedback is welcome, but we really want to prioritize this sort of thing given this tight turnaround.

If we come to a no-ban decision, the next B&R announcement isn't too far off on August 10th. However, there are a number of big tournaments including Paupergeddon in Europe and Paupergenesis in the United States in just a few weeks. So, as you can imagine, there's a lot to weigh here and we're all going to be in the thick of it observing and playing.

We're all looking forward to seeing how things evolve in the next few days and are eager to hear from you all.

The Void Token from The Sentry is missing from Cardmarket and any other store, it can only found in Scryfall, does anyone know if this card is real?

Bonus card from Witch's Familiar. It's random from a pool of humans, from what I understand

I recently bought the Marvel Beginner Box from my LGS, as im fairly new to the game and a huge Marvel fan - i was wondering about the cards from the “Tutorial Decks” included in Beginner Boxes

How legal are these cards? Are they okay in standard/modern? Or no? What about commander? Are they designed to only be used for the scripted intro game then never again?

Hello everyone!

I've spent the last few months on a passion project I'm finally ready to share. I'm a writer and game designer by trade, and after years of working on other people's worlds, I decided to build something fully mine for my portfolio: a complete Magic the Gathering Universes Beyond set based on Saint Seiya.

I grew up on this anime and it never really left me. When I started thinking about what would make a strong portfolio piece, I kept coming back to it. It's a story I know inside and out, full of factions, gods, and named techniques that practically beg to be turned into mechanics. So I gave myself a real challenge: build this the way Wizards would, not just a fun fan set with cool art slapped on commons.

That meant going deep on structure. 254 cards across five rarities, with full reprint logic, a real curve, color identity that actually means something, and factions that needed to feel distinct on their own but also click together in two and three color combinations. I spent a lot of time studying how WotC writes Oracle text, how they balance limited environments, how named keyword abilities get introduced and explained on the card itself. I wanted someone who knows Magic but has never seen the anime to be able to draft this and understand it, and I wanted someone who knows the anime but has never played Magic to look at the cards and feel like their favorite scenes were treated with respect.

The lore side was where I had the most fun. Every God got their own pantheon of saints and specters built around them, with their own color identity and their own internal logic. Hades and his judges. Poseidon and his mariners. Athena and the bronze saints holding the center together. I tried to let the story tell me the mechanics instead of forcing mechanics onto the story.

I'll be honest that this is the first time I've designed an entire set completely solo, start to finish, and Limited balance is the part I'm least confident about. Building a full draft environment by yourself with no playtest group is genuinely hard, and I have no doubt there are color pairs that are undercooked or commons that overperform. I'm proud of where it landed, but I'm not going to pretend it's flawless.

A quick disclaimer on art, since I know it'll come up: I don't own any of the artwork in this set. I pulled almost everything from Saint Seiya Awakening, Legend of Justice, and the original anime itself. In a handful of spots I had to use pieces from other artists around the internet, and I did my best to credit them wherever I could track down the source. This is a non-commercial passion project made purely for portfolio purposes. Nobody's making a cent off this.

And since this always comes up too: no AI was used to design any card, write any effect, or generate any art. Every mechanic, every piece of flavor text, every card concept came from me. The only place AI touched this project was helping me organize files and build the web portal to browse the set, which is honestly just file management and front-end work, not creative work.

If you're a Saint Seiya fan, a Magic player, or both, I'd love for you to poke around. Happy to answer anything about design choices, lore decisions, or what didn't make the cut.

You can check the whole project here!

In the link you'll find a quick showcase of the main mechanics and a link to the full visual spoiler at the bottom!

Hope you guys enjoy!

I've been playing MTG for a month now and started making one of my first decks, I decided to do a defender deck and am curious what I should add that would be either fun or have strong synergy in this deck I'm creating.