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In Marc 7even's first verse there's a line that goes "Build you up to break you down like forgotten monuments", and it plays in my head whenever I see this card.

I say "every time I see Forgotten Monument go by" because I don't think that Caves is actually a viable draft archetype....

I primed Chat by asking it to make me a deck built around Lyzolda, the Blood Witch with a focus on token generation and sacrificing creatures.

"Certainly! Here's a basic decklist for a Lyzolda, the Blood Witch commander deck that focuses on generating tokens and sacrificing them for various effects:

Commander:

• Lyzolda, the Blood Witch

Creatures:

1. Blood Artist
2. Goblin Instigator
3. Krenko, Mob Boss
4. Siege-Gang Commander
5. Ogre Battledriver
6. Doomed Traveler
7. Sengir Autocrat
8. Myr Battlesphere
9. Hanweir Garrison
10. Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Token Generators:

1. Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
2. Hordeling Outburst
3. Dragon Fodder
4. Krenko, Mob Boss
5. Goblin Rabblemaster
6. Raise the Alarm
7. Mogg War Marshal
8. Goblin Instigator

Sacrifice Outlets:

1. Ashnod's Altar
2. Phyrexian Altar
3. Goblin Bombardment
4. Viscera Seer
5. Yahenni, Undying Partisan
6. Carrion Feeder

Card Draw:

1. Skullclamp
2. Dark Prophecy
3. Midnight Reaper

Removal:

1. Shriekmaw
2. Terminate
3. Chaos Warp
4. Bedevil

Utility:

1. Smothering Abomination
2. Anointed Procession (doubles token generation)
3. Impact Tremors
4. Purphoros, God of the Forge

Ramp:

1. Sol Ring
2. Rakdos Signet
3. Talisman of Indulgence

Land Base:

1. Command Tower
2. Blood Crypt
3. Dragonskull Summit
4. Rakdos Guildgate
5. Sulfurous Springs
6. Smoldering Marsh
7. Bloodstained Mire
8. Polluted Delta
9. Terramorphic Expanse
10. Evolving Wilds

Remember to adjust the decklist based on your preferences, available cards, and playgroup dynamics. Have fun building and playing your Lyzolda deck!"

Some notes:

1. This is not a legal commander deck. It has too few cards, and some cards do not fit Lyzolda's color identify.

2. The synergies a mixed bag. Some cards fit perfectly into the theme, like Endrek and Krenko, or Ashnod's and Phyrexian altars. Other's don't work as well, since Myr Battlesphere creates colorless tokens that don't jive with Lysolda's ability.

3. I want to play a match with ChatGPT generated decks to see how silly it gets.

Anyone else try this? Have your results been better (or worse)?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/5778866

I've been really enjoying this set, it seems a bit slower and more complex to me than the last couple. All the colors except green seem decent and even the aggro decks need a lot of synergy to function well.

I went 7-1 with this Dimir Descend deck on the back of [[Aclazotz]] and two Uchies. The playset of [[Echo of Dusk]] was really good - turns out a 2 mana 3/3 lifelink is pretty dece.

Posting for discussion. Personally I don't agree, aside from it being the most popular format on Arena, I think it serves as sort of a load-bearing pillar for Magic. Even if it doesn't seem popular right now I feel like removing it would have ripple effects that would hurt Magic overall

Tl:dr, they expect collector boosters to start arriving during the week after the pre-release and Commander decks will have limited stock that they expect to subside after Nov 17th

I want to improve my french skills, and thus want to combine MTG and the language. Also want some experience to play commander. Suggestions much appreciated!

We have a new Matrix chat channel!

We set this up for anyone in the community interested in more real-time discussion or to get to know other community members.

This post links to the space to join. Right now there's just one room, which you can access directly here: https://matrix.to/#/#mtgzone:matrix.org

All feedback welcome, as always!

cross-posted from: https://mtgzone.com/post/240277

New take on the color pie, hopefully easier to read.

So, I'm not a very experienced drafter, but I know you're supposed to return the lands you take from the land station. Recently though I attended a WOE draft (faeries, 1-2-0) and accidentally walked off with the 16 lands I borrowed. I know monetarily that's only a few cents, money that the store probably made back that night just off sales from the bulk box, but in terms of etiquette, just how bad is it?

Especially welcome comments from people who have worked in game stores.

Our mission is to provide a welcoming community for Limited Magic players of all skill levels to experience each set released throughout the history of the game! We play using the XMage game software.

We have 7 weekly pod drafts here - four chronological ones called Chrono Leagues where we draft an official historical WotC format every week, and three Bonus Leagues where our players themselves choose the formats.

Custom "remastered" sets are designed by members of our community which we draft on Draftmancer. Matches are played on XMage with a full rules engine, all for free!

I discovered this on Draftmancer's Featured Communities

xmage discord

Hi friends. Any news on when the next explorer anthology is coming? Is it this year? Cheers!

Wizards of the Coast announces a new collaboration with Marvel. Most likely multiple Universes Beyond sets including various Marvel superheroes.

Do you play tabletop Magic at your local game store (LGS)? Perhaps you prefer the convenience of Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) or Magic: The Gathering Arena on your computer. Or maybe you like playing on your phone or tablet with the Android version. Let me know how you play and what your preferred platform is!

I used to play MTGO on Linux through Wine, but it stopped working. Trying it in a VM was too laggy. So I finally bought a cheap Windows machine primarily to run MTGA and MTGO smoothly. Personally, the convenience of digital clients has won me over, but I have fond memories of Friday Night Magic at my LGS, specially a $1 entry format we played with crappy decks and store credit prizes because I liked the nostalgia of it being similar to when I started playing instead of the competitiveness of the typical standard format, where it seems like all the decks are similar netdeck copies.

Heirloom Format

• Inspired by the MTGO budget format Heirloom but with paper price limits

• Minimum deck size: 60 cards

• No more than 4 copies of any card, except basic lands

• Cards can be of any rarity

• The legal card pool rotates a month after each Standard set release based on card price thresholds checked on Scryfall with the following search:

f:vintage ((rarity:c and eur<=0.1) or (rarity:u and eur<=0.2) or ((rarity:r or rarity:m) and eur<=1)) and tix<=0.05

• Common cards under 0.1 EUR/0.05 tix

• Uncommon cards under 0.2 EUR/0.1 tix

• Rare cards under 0.3 EUR/0.2 tix

• Mythic cards under 0.6 EUR/0.5 tix

• Very low barrier to entry with decks costing less than $10, unlike Pauper where some "budget" decks still cost $60+

• If the format was popular enough to influence card prices, rotations would ban the most used cards, preventing the metagame from becoming stagnant

• Lets you play with cards that are bad in other formats but become viable here

• Encourages creativity in deckbuilding with quirky card choices

• Games decided by wits and luck rather than coin

I'm excited to hear your ideas for cheap MTG formats!

Announcement Date: October 16, 2023

There are no changes to announce for formats.

View the list of all banned and restricted cards by format.

FORMAT GOALS AND PLAY BOOSTER ANNOUNCEMENT

In keeping with our goal of greater consistency across our formats, we are making no changes to any formats.

We do have big news today, however: we've announced new Play Boosters, which bring changes to Set and Draft Boosters. Check out the details in Mark Rosewater's article "What Are Play Boosters?" and learn more about Play Boosters on MTG Arena.

"The Set Booster and Draft Booster are being combined into a new type of booster we're calling the Play Booster."

I pretty much only go to mtgdecks.net to find anything but lately I've found it all to be a little stale there. I'm not really sure why. I used to use mtgazone.com but that also seems to be updated infrequently or just not very diverse at all. I do love their writeups and sideboard guides.

I was curious where everyone else went to look for new deck ideas, theory-craft ideas, new brews or anything like that. I've found mtggoldfish.com and tappedout.net to be decent user hubs, but it's difficult for me to search effectively and it seems like there's so many decklists that it's hard to distill it down to what works well.

One thing I like about mtgdecks.net is that they also post the winrates that the deck achieved during the latest run. Twitter sometimes has some decklists with more some writeup about it which isn't bad.

All suggestions are welcome!