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@andrew
I immensely dislike WotC's focus on commander over all other formats. EDH is not interesting to me anymore, every set has new staple or busted commander to chase.
Additionally the color pie is slowly being eroded for the sake of the only format with the "color identity" restriction. All the other formats now need to live in a world where any color can get any effect.
Fortunately limited is still good most of the time, except when they print sets that cost $75 to draft once.

It's good to see a new MTG community for after Reddit did away with decent 3rd party mobile apps. While I almost never post, I do post links from threads on this community to my friends as a means of exposed to the new community and Lemmy.

I recently built a deck with [[Hokori]] as commander and me and my friends love/hate it 🤣

There were a couple of cards that I submitted to the custom cards subreddit that were later printed almost exactly like I posted them. I mostly remember Foundation Breaker (mine was 2GG cost and 3/2) and Damn (mine was 1BB // 3WW for the costs)

Here's a fun fact - I still play Magic with friends that I played magic with back in 2002. 21 years and going strong, baby!

Draft is hard!

There's just no game that satisfies the itch quite like mtg. Been playing for over 20 years and will still be playing in 20+ years.

As an extremely casual commander player, I always feel like a noob even though technically I've been playing MTG for over half a decade at this point. My commander decks have all been precons and I've mostly just got cards through drafting with my friends, but this year I've been trying to build my own deck from scratch and it's... exciting but frustrating.

Does anyone have any tips for taking a (commander) deck from the "theoretical pile of cards" stage to a functioning deck? By that I mean, I've done the preliminary research (scryfall searches, EDHREC most used cards for the commander, etc) to find possible cards, and I've read some high level theory stuff about deck building (ramping, threats, etc) to categorize my possible cards... But can't really find any articles/videos showing workflows to actually build the deck.

Currently I'm trying to use tags on Moxfield but it's mostly a confusing mess as I try to trim down ~200 possibilities into a lean, functioning deck.

The most satisfaction I ever got from this game was building a deck entirely of artefacts and black enchantments, then using it to wipe the floor with my best friend who taught me the game. He then had to build several iterations of a deck designed to take it down, even then only maybe getting a 50/50 win/loss ratio.

Hey thanks for doing this giveaway!

I played for years when I was a teenager and got back into MTG during the pandemic. Discovering commander was a complete game changer for me. I just love the way it's played lol!

Thanks for the giveaway! I really enjoy the cards from the LOTR set. My dad doesn't know much about Magic, but is a big LOTR fan and has had a lot of fun looking at the cards for the art and flavor text.

Thank you!

Currently getting back into MTG. I'm working on an Atraxa Commander deck. Any tips for improvement would be greatly appreciated!!

I’m excited for the commander masters decks, I ordered the sliver deck for myself and my wife the eldarazi one.

I'm new and I've got two decks already. I built a goblin dwarf equipment deck from scratch, and I bought a firkraag precon and I'm building treasures and more goad into it.

So I've just casually played MTG, mostly online because it's a costy hobby and I'm a broke student. But a thing I love about the paper version is: I was travelling, staying at someones place over an hospitality network, so we don't know each other at all except of the short profile description. Suddenly he tells they are going to play MTG downstairs. I ask if I can join. They were all so incredibly welcoming! Explained how their decks worked, the cards, the plays. It's an incredible community, really looking forward to get into it once I get a job!

A tale of playing Magic: I don’t play very much Commander. I either end up the archenemy or I end up entirely outclassed, and I really don’t care for those extremes. Last week I played with a group that had a really great balance. I played a couple of really fun games that made me think that maybe I can have fun in Commander again, haha!

Wish I got to design the LotR commander decks. I would have made one of them The Company of Thorin, dwarf tribal. Each of the 13 dwarves in the company would get a legend that buffed dwarves you control somehow (Kili would give them all reach, Fili would give them all double strike etc)

Ninjas are so much fun in so many formats. Can recommend playing ninjas to all lovers of a tempo game plan!

Clearly mtgzone needs to rebrand as ɱ

I love my bear deck!

Thanks for building this community, and I also hope it continues to grow!

I have a lot of fond memories of Magic, from picking it up at summer camp in the early 2000s (I think we drafted RAV?), falling out of it, then rediscovering it in college while playing tabletop jank with my roommates.

I’ve gotten a few coworkers into Magic now, and built EDH decks for all of them, and we’re hoping to schedule our first game soon (probably as a Friday afternoon “team-building” meeting).

I was a big fan of Merchant as a streamer back when he still did mtg content. It was nice to see some gimmicky decks, and the mtg d&d streams were very nicely done.

Currently I am a big fan of making decks focused on an aesthetic or theme as opposed to just playing for efficiency.

My favorite old card is Season of the Witch but I've only ever gotten it to work once. I managed to table wipe a 4 player game and win.

Good to see the community here grow. I've been playing on and off since Eldritch Moon and my current favorite deck is EDH [[Wort, the Raidmother]] token storm.

I just got into Pauper and it's hella cool! Can't wait to organise Pauper events in my area (little to no sanctioned events)

Wow, honestly it's lovely to see so much engagement with mtgzone! The one thing I'd like to share is that o absolutely love Bard class and want it to be viable in pioneer. Do it, WotC, you cowards!

Thanks for nurturing this community into what it is today, the best MTG space on the web. I would like to remind everyone, [[Norin, the wary]] is NOT a coward, he’s just a very smart warrior. I’ve always thought he might be related to Rincewind the wizzard.

Bond lands are the best lands.

I first started playing 25 years ago and now I am trying to come back and I am having a blast playing Commander in my LGS and with my friends. I see lots of precons in my future, do you think I can still get a good deal for the Strixhaven precons or did that train leave a long time ago?

I miss playing chord of calling decks in modern.

Pet card: Serra Avatar. Showing my age a bit, I remember reading a spoiler for it IN A MAGAZINE. Scry I think. It blew my mind. Still a cool card, but not the powerhouse I envisioned.

Thanks a bunch of doing this and for hosting this instance!

I recently built a [[Jon Irenicus]] deck and am excited to use it.

[[Gingerbrute]] is a favorite cute card of mine. Looking forward to more silly food creatures. Edited: added another set of brackets.

[[bruna, light of alabaster]] is the best angel