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Finally have the start of the Sephiroth limit breaker I want to build.

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Limit Breaker MtG

Limit Breaker is a singleton Magic the Gathering format themed around a Party Leader and their Limit Break spell. Each deck consists of 60 c

Did a bunch of work on my Limit Breaker set. You'll notice it even previews properly now! SEO scammers need not apply.

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I had my LGBT sausage removed and I'm much happier for it

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Watched the professor's best and worst of magic in 2025 videos and, while I absolutely get where he's coming from, I just ultimately disagree with his takes.

A lot of his complaints center around Universes Beyond, and particularly preview season. As a content creator, obviously preview season is a bigger deal to him than most of Magic's players, but it feels weird to be mad at WotC specifically for preview season issues.

FIrst of all, Spider-man objectively a bad set, and splitting the arena and paper sets between in-universe names and art due to licensing is probably the dumbest thing for the year. However, I feel like the preview season issues, where Spider-man (and Marvel sets coming out in 2026) are getting more preview are less WotC and UB issues, and more issues with the comics industry, fandom, and Disney/Marvel.

He even shows this in his screenshots of headlines about the Spider-man previews. The previews for Spider-man overshadowed the Edge of Eternities pre-release because it coincided with San Diego Comic-Con. Obviously, Comic-Con cares more about Spider-man than Magic. It's Comic-Con. Obviously Marvel/Disney/WotC are going to show up at Comic-Con with Spider-man previews.

It's not a WotC/UB problem. It's a Disney/Marvel/Comics industry problem.

I get that people really like preview seasons leading up to a new set, but I've become a much happier magic player having stopped pouring over every spoiler and trying to meta-game the set before it's even out. I bought a box of Final Fantasy, knowing nothing about the set other than "Hey. Final Fantasy has my friends' blorbos in it! Maybe they'll play my favorite card game with me!" And they did! And then we drafted it. And the discovery of the draft and individualized pod meta was so much fun to play out. It was an absolutely joy watching sleeper hits in the set get passed up in early drafts, and then snapped up turn 1 in later drafts. It was amazing, and still is amazing, pulling a pack and finding a rare/mythic/through the ages treatment that I literally didn't know existed.

The JOY of opening packs and discovering cards is, frankly, way more fun than preview season ever was.

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Originally, I'd have sworn up and down that surveil was just a worse scry. Why would you want to graveyard off the library, when you could be putting it back in the library. Delaying it coming back, by basically requiring a shuttle, but ultimately it could still come back.

The more I play Limit Breaker the more I really appreciate easily getting things into the graveyard. I just built a Noctis, Prince of Lucis Limit Breaker deck and I realize how strong Dreams of Laguna is for his limit break. Might as well read as draw two cards.

I do wonder how many casts of his limit break can be viable though. When does Commander tax make it not worth the cost? Is Resentful Revelation just better, because it's draw 1 and graveyard 2? Probably? But the mana base is far heavier leaning to blue over black. It's easier to hit a blue than a black in the early game.

Noctis, Trash Panda - Limit Breaker MtG

Noctis, Prince of Lucis is yet another graveyard abuse deck. There are several good Limit Break spells in the deck, but ultimately I chose D

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Built two new Limit Breaker decks today. Hildibrand was a joke deck that ended up being incredibly scary, and having an adventure creature as a Party Leader creates some really fun interactions and choices. You can play his adventure from the command zone, then play him from exile skipping the commander tax, then let him die, and cast him from your graveyard, once again skipping commander tax, and then cast him from exile, yet again skipping commander tax. The only time it's a risk if you end up not being able to cast him the turn after you go on the adventure. Meanwhile... Cloud's over here in drag. 'nuff said

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Why can't you design a (Insert UB set), then just make all the cards in-universe? Wouldn't that let you build the cards "you'd never otherwise be able to design", not pay huge IP fees, and make a UB-haters happy?

You’re missing the part where we make players happy because they want cards in that property. : )

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It continues to blow my mind that UB-haters refuse to believe that there are people who actually like UB sets.

Meanwhile I'm over here still obsessing over Final Fantasy that came out 6 months ago.

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We're up to 21 decks listed on the Limit Breaker website. There's at least 10 more that I know of in existence.

If you make a deck, share it with us!

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Girlfriend and I broke out our Bracket 4 commander decks to play against each other tonight. My Vorel of the Hull Clade squeaked out an infinite turn combo victory with Darksteel Reactor on the table... while I was at 4 commander life and 14 regular life and less than 20 cards in my library.

She was playing a Hope Estheim mill life gain deck and had 100 hp when I went infinite.

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It finally happened. The Phantom Train has been Suplexed.

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I legit feel bad for the UB haters. If magic is the one huge special interest you have, and you really want more of it, but everyone around you is falling head over heels for magic with pizza lands... Yeah, that sucks for you. The one thing that sucks the most, is that UB is absolutely a replacement effect. You are absolutely getting less content that you crave.

But it's not the UB that I feel bad about. I don't personally think that they are wrong or anything. I feel bad because watching people get angry on the Internet and then watching someone else joining in and also being mad on the Internet is exhausting. I feel bad because they don't have other special interests to fall back on. I feel bad because sometimes you just have to accept that not everything is for you, and that sucks.

I feel bad because I don't personally want to log into the Internet and seeing people mad all the time. I wish it were easier to engage in the parts of a specific fandom you enjoy, without having to be inundated with content that you don't. Unfortunately we live in a world where algorithms no longer let you filter out what doesn't apply. They want to feed you more and more and more. They want you glued to your phone and that platform so they keep giving you tangentially related content and you can't escape it.

But you can escape it. I've personally fallen out of Magic several times in the last 30 years. Sometimes the community around you isn't exactly what you want, but you have the power to curate your own communities. The FOMO is real. They want you to have FOMO. Don't let them. Enjoy the parts of the content that you like, and learn to accept and ignore the parts you don't. Life's too short to be angry all the time. Step away, touch some grass, and come back when WotC is providing you with the content that fuels you.

I've just accepted that sometimes what you want isn't what you get. WotC did this to me with D&D 4th. I didn't let my hate for 4th ruin my enjoyment of 3.5. I still have all my 3.5 books. I can just keep playing that. It sucked that everyone around me wanted more 4th at the time, but I found communities still playing 3.5. They're still around today. Sure they're harder to find, but they exist. And if they don't: you have the power to create them. You also have the power to not be mad on the Internet. Water off a ducks back.

Generic magic communities might not be for you anymore, and that absolutely sucks. You have my condolences.

Meanwhile I'll be over here making my blorbos from all over the multiverse fight with cardboard and having a great time. The Final Fantasy set has brought so much joy in my life. I'm able to enjoy my magic with my best friends in a way that I've never been able to before. It's an intersection of hobbies that brings us closer together, and we even made our own custom magic format just to squeeze ever more enjoyment out of something we might not ever get more of. I hope we do though. Final Fantasy UB Part 2 would slap.

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My friends and I have been playing our custom kitchen table format for Magic the Gathering for about six months now, and I decided it was time to make a website for it.

Join us! Build your favorite Final Fantasy blorbo into a Limit Breaker deck!

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Sangfielle 21 - At the Gates of Sapodilla - A Friends at the Table Fan Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyf5t4soCQ

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Taylor was phenomenal, but can we give it up for girl in red? She fucking killed it as an opener.

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