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markrosewater

Any comment on my theory that there's no RGW planeswalker because Ajani fills that niche?

We’ll make one eventually. It’s more circumstance than Ajani.

kaptain-kota

Is Huatli not Naya???

gigaguessmtg

In character, yes, mechanically, no.

Like Ajani, she has been printed Boros, and Selesnya, but not actual NAYA.

thenothingnessdoor

This begs the question, what would a Naya Ajani/Huatli look like?

mochaqt

This week’s @wizardsmagic sponsored Return to Dominaria tie-in is brought to you by tsunderes Liliana’s poorly hidden feelings. Nobody’s buying it Liliana, just give into the power of 🌈~friendship~🌈

It’s the second-to-last chapter in Return to Dominaria! Make sure to read this week’s chapter ⚡here⚡

thenothingnessdoor

Fatal Push

wolkemesser

;)

mtgaddicted

When they exile your only win condition

flavoracle

When you decide to switch to your Brago deck at the last second

tlatotem

When you’re playing Norin, The Wary

dasebeleren

when you get hit by door to nothingness

thenothingnessdoor

:)))))))))

mtgaddicted

O M G

for the first time of all years looking this card

I just realized there is a guy holding the door

THERE’S A FUCKING GUY HOLDING THE DOOR

W T F ????

thenothingnessdoor

I think this is the version in my 5c commander deck :/

ex0skeletal

Zodiac Angels by Peter Mohrbacher

1. Hanael, Angel of Capricorn:

2. Advachiel, Angel of Sagittarius:

3. Ambriel, Angel of Gemini:

4. Muriel, Angel of Cancer:

5. Verchiel, Angel of Leo:

6. Hamaliel, Angel of Virgo:

7. Zuriel, Angel of Libra:

8. Barbiel, Angel of Scorpio:

9. Cambiel, Angel of Aquarius:

10. Barchiel, Angel of Pisces:

11. Malahidael, Angel of Aries:

12. Asmodel, Angel of Taurus:

voiidstalker

Just wanna point out that this was a collaborative art and musical project between Xan Griffin and Peter Mohrbacher. You can listen to Xan Griffin’s full Zodiac album on his youtube page. It’s really good music.

mochaqt

It’s the second-to-last chapter in Return to Dominaria! Make sure to read this week’s chapter ⚡here⚡

thenothingnessdoor

Fatal Push

bace-jeleren

Hello everyone, it’s time to exploit a hot new meme

maris-solstice

*throws a goblin*

jolly-ob-saint-nixilis

azoriusrenegade

Yeah, this is done.

jolly-ob-saint-nixilis

More goblins!

azoriusrenegade

Stop that.

jolly-ob-saint-nixilis

azoriusrenegade

jolly-ob-saint-nixilis

azoriusrenegade

Fine, I lose, time to get hammered.

Okay, more hammered.

jolly-ob-saint-nixilis

pepperstrawberry

Okay… I know that this is just a silly back and forth, but I’m suddenly inspired to make a alter of Glorious End with a mini laying down, with crumbs all around her sitting in an empty Oreo’s package…

pepperstrawberry

@tempus-vulpes @misteryada @varrrraskas-buccaneer @jolly-ob-saint-nixilis @azoriuslicenser

nehebthewordy

In light of today’s Dominaria story…

loreleywrites

Basic land Grand Prix promos by Donato Giancola! They start at GP Vegas this year and goodness they are gorgeous. (Source)

dasebeleren

WHAT

m4n71c0r3

That Swamp sure is weird looking

lady-olynder-mortarch-of-grief

I think I have found my basics for Atraxa…

iamafireplace

Oh this is hot

thenothingnessdoor

hey tag your fucking porn

counter-target-spell

Duel Decks: Incels vs Chads

isharton

Guess what? R A T TIME

thenothingnessdoor

I can’t believe isharton is going to go to a gp with UB rats but I’m all for it.

thenothingnessdoor

Bant Beck and Call

Maindeck:

4 Llanowar Elves 2 Sacred Cat 3 Regal Caracal 4 Anointed Procession 2 Profit // Loss 1 Ready // Willing 3 Mana Tithe 4 Censor 2 Sandblast 3 Reciprocate 1 Pull from Tomorrow 4 Springjack Pasture 4 Boreal Shelf 4 Arctic Flats 3 Plains 4 Island 5 Forest 4 Beck // Call (Why we play this deck) 3 Alive // Well

Sideboard:

4 Negate 3 Selfless Spirit 2 Sandwurm Convergence 2 From Beyond 1 Eerie Interlude 3 Driven // Despair ————————————————————————————————- In my inability to sleep, I was scrolling through cool cards and I found this little nugget: Beck // Call. It’s a Fuse card, which means if you pay the casting cost of both halves, they both activate. Beck is a Sorcery for GU that says “Whenever a creature enters the battlefield this turn, you may draw a card.”. This is awesome on turn three to get card advantage out of a one-drop that you otherwise would be reluctant to play. Call is a Sorcery for 4WU that says “Create four 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying.” Flying is already a nasty, hard-to-deal-with ability and casting it by itself is also great, even if it may be a bit overcosted on it’s own. I love the card, so we’re running four copies. Since we’re talking about Tokens, and this is gonna be a token deck, let’s talk about our other token makers. We can’t have a token deck anymore without Anointed Procession which doubles the tokens we get from literally anything in our deck. We’re running four copies of this, and we have three ways to make tokens beyond the namesake card. We also have Regal Caracal and Sacred Cat in this deck. These make 1/1 cats, Sacred Cat activates Procession with it’s Embalm cost and Caracal makes 1/1s and buffs our cats, giving them all +1/+1 and Lifelink. This is a super nasty Turn 4 Turn 5 play. Turn 4 Procession, Turn 5 Caracal, make a 3/3 and four 2/2s with lifelink. Ew. Plus a Turn 6 cast of Call? 4 2/2s and 8 1/1s with Flying. Finally, we have a land that counts as a token maker. Springjack Pasture. You tap it for Colorless, and you can also make a 0/1 goat for 4 mana. This is awesome late game with Anointed Procession, since you can just make loads of goats and kill them for life and mana when you need. Our last creature spell is 4 Llanowar Elves (Sub in Birds if you have them or got the cash to pay 25$ for the playset). It’s a mana dork that gets us a turn three play on turn two, nothing fancy about it. Our spells are where the bulk of the deck is. We have a counter suite, removal, “go wide” spells and one more piece of main card draw aside from Beck. Our other draw spell is one copy of Pull from Tomorrow. It’s an XUU that draws X and discards a card. Great to refill the hand late game but we can win without it. Our Counter Spells consist of four Censor: 1U “Counter Target Spell unless it’s controller pays 1, Cycle U” and three Mana Tithe: W “Counter Target Spell unless it’s controller pays 1” It just protects our early game and makes countering our stuff more expensive. Our “go wide” spells include Ready//Willing and Profit//Loss, we run one copy and two, respectively. With the help of Springjack Pasture, we are able to still reliably make any color in our deck, including Black. This in turn gives us either a three mana protection spell in Ready, a three mana spell that gives our tokens deathtouch and lifelink with Willing, or a six mana spell that does both. Or we can pay the 3WB to buff our creatures and nerf our opponent’s creatures. It also works as a boardwipe against other smaller token decks like goblins. Reciprocate and Sandblast are our removal spells and they’re good for getting us back in the fight. With Reciprocate we can Path a creature that hurt us, or we can pay three to deal 5 to any creature that attacks or blocks us. We also have another “tokens matters” card to fight control with in Alive//Well. We don’t care much about Alive, even though it does give us two 3/3s with Procession, what we like most is Well. One mana, get 2 life for each creature we control. Going into the grindier games, this can be awesome to stabilize against a big opposing board. Our lands are easy enough. Taplands and Basics, but I included the Snow Lands particularly because they’re swaggy and cool. (I have a secret love for snow basics too, but those are not easy to come by and are kinda expensive.) SIDEBOARD Whoops I got too excited and built a sideboard. Three Selfless Spirit protect us from boardwipes. Two Sandwurm Convergence because it is a way to deal with fliers outside of our namesake card and it, again, makes Tokens for Annointed Procession that happen to have a really big butt. Two From Beyond are great to side in since it’s another Token maker for Annointed Procession. Four Negates are in the side also against boardwipes. Boardwipes suck. One Eerie Interlude to protect key creatures from targeted removal. Finally, Three Driven // Despair. We honestly could give two shits less about the despair half, we want Driven to give our massive board trample to deter chump blocking.

Finally, this whole deck surrounding a weird card from Dragon’s Maze of all sets is done. I absolutely adore this deck. It’s not too overpowered for kitchen table magic and relatively easy to combat, but it also protects itself well. If it had a way to kill quicker, I’d make this a modern deck, but there’s no way this can potentially come close to outpacing Jund, Death’s Shadow or any of the premier modern decks.

Stats:

Cost: $81.56 // 10.69tix Competitiveness: 2/10 Best At: Going Wide Worst At: Fast Kills. Format: Casual Constructed

————————————- End Note: Ideal version plays + 4 Birds of Paradise (+24$), - 4 Llanowar Elves

Naya Splinterbinder (Casual)

Mainboard:

1x Aurelia, the Warleader 4x Birds of Paradise 3x Felhide Spiritbinder 4x Thragtusk 3x Giant Growth 4x Lightning Bolt 2x Temur Battle Rage 2x Winter's Grasp 3x Evolving Wilds 14x Forest 5x Mountain 3x Terramorphic Expanse 3x Abundant Growth 4x Gift of Paradise 3x New Horizons 2x Nissa, Worldwaker

Sideboard: 2x Avoid Fate 3x Elvish Piper 3x Fierce Empath 1x Gaea's Revenge 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger 1x Primeval Titan 2x Spring Cleaning 2x Tormod's Crypt

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What do you get when a bulk Born of the Gods rare, Thragtusk and green ramp spells have a baby? You get a really nasty, consistant turn 5-6 kill combo list.

The optimal game plan is

Turn 1: Forest + Birds of Paradise

Turn 2: Mountain + New Horizons or Gift of Paradise on the forest

Turn 3: Land + Felhide Spiritbinder

Turn 4: Land + Thragtusk, swing Spiritbinder for 3

Turn 5: Untap, Target Thragtusk with Spiritbinder, Land + Aurelia, the Warleader then swing for 16, and another 16 to kill literally anyone not on a lifegain strategy.

The rest of the deck is intended to protect our creatures from damage-based removal ( Giant Growth )or remove our opponent's things and slow them down ( Lightning Bolt and Winter's Grasp ).

Sideboard plan uses the Elvish Piper and Fierce Empath strategy to cheat out Ghalta, Primeval Titan and Gaea's Revenge. Bring in Spring Cleaning vs Enchantress and other Enchantments that could be used to disrupt the main game plan if you don't bring in the alternate strategy instead. We also have Avoid Fate for similar things like removal and Pacifism effects. Tormod's Crypt against graveyards.

Stats:

Cost: $91.50 // 51.83 tix Competitiveness: 6/10 Best at: Being a janky combo deck that’s fun when it works Worst at: Playing a normal game of magic Format: Casual Constructed

#casual mtg #mtg #combo deck