If your whole deck is printed someone might be a dick about it but otherwise fuck them if they have a problem with a bunch of fake cards. Most good decks (that other people would enjoy playing against) only have about a dozen of the expensive cards so it’s really not that many proxy cards anyway. Playing against a deck filled with a bunch of $100+ cards sucks ass.

I just tell them I have the real one in another deck (I don’t).

Just print all the expensive cards and buy the affordable ones online. I only spend about $50 a month on cards and I spend several hours playing every week. It’s not the best hobby for people who are prone to gambling though, probably.

Yeah Nadu definitely stole the spotlight. That is honestly the first Necrodominance deck I’ve looked at so far. I’ve really only been paying attention to the casual side of mtg for the past year so I don’t really know anything about the current competitive meta. That’s a bummer that they missed the mark again. It’s not really a great casual or commander card so I don’t really see it ever.

Dang this is a great history lesson, thank you! I didn’t make the connection to black vise getting banned and the necropotence popularity surge.

It’s funny, they are still trying to fix necropotence. Their latest attempt is Necrodominance, just released a few months ago (here are both prints, because I couldn’t decide which version to post):

It has the same cost and all of the restrictions of necropotence, plus a reduction in hand size, and the exiling of discarded cards penalty has been expanded to include any card or non-card (tokens) going to the graveyard from anywhere, not just from your hand.

I don’t think it’s seeing a lot of tournament plays atm but I’m not paying that close attention to the tournament scene right now.

If you built your deck to win with a certain combination of cards you can just sacrifice life until you have them all in your hand and then win, all in one turn.

It’s kind of a lazy deck archetype that typically doesn’t require you to pay attention to what your opponents are doing or interact with them in anyway. You just sort of play solitaire until you have your combo. Victories with this strategy feel cheap and hollow, and losing to it feels worse. The general strategy of sacrificing life for card draw is still valid though, but wotc usually designs mechanics like this to make sure the risk vs reward feels fair (a hallmark of black cards). However, this particular card was too easy to exploit and is no longer legal in most formats.

There are some cards that cause you to gain 1 life whenever you draw a card, which would negate the cost of this ability and let you draw your entire deck, which would also be bad for you if you ever had to draw another card for some reason (such as from your draw step) and would cause you to lose the game from the “not being able to draw a card from your deck” rule. unless you had a way to put cards back into your deck so you could keep drawing from the top of it, but at that point what are you even doing lol

That’s all the lore I have to dump out of my brain about this particular topic. I hope someone can find something in it that is useful or insightful in some way.

I just realized this was the dunk tank. Oh no my time

The key art they showed for the set looks so sick

Oh this image is missing the innistrad remastered set that’s coming out at the beginning of the year (including a reprint of Edgar Markov, an extremely good vampire commander)

Aetherdrift will never not make me laugh. A racing set is just silly. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t interested in seeing more. They created racing teams for each color pair and I need to know what names they came up with for them

Edge of Eternities looks rad. Tezzeret captaining a planar ship in the space between the planes and the blind eternities. Sounds sick af

Lorwyn pushed back to 2026

This is the behavior of someone who spends their entire day texting bots

This thread somehow got me thinking of Moscow Death Brigade and now I feel compelled to post this here: https://youtu.be/d4eqettF5qI?si=WF5rPblhhzZlLNEP

Thieves is such a good fucking jam. N.W.O. is a banger too. Thank you for the compilation of good ministry stuff

Ministry also rules

Hell yeah

European descended Jews are some of the whitest people in the United States no cap.

They’re at the top of the US foreign policy chart

You may proceed

We’re not allowed to like capeshit here, I’m sorry

One of my favorite songs

Same man. Chess sucks. I’m surprised Elon doesn’t love chess. It’s huge with all the roman sculpture people.