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Andrew

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  • Admin @ mtgzone.com, a Magic: the Gathering community
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  • Playing and collecting MTG since Mirage!
  • I ♥️ Legacy Lands, Premodern Parfait Oath, Modern Amulet Titan, and elf tribal

  • MaRo's teasers for Marvel Super Heroes

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  • Loving this one:

    Ward – Get five poison counters

    They've really leaned into Ward in their card design and I think it's pretty good to be honest. I realize we're not going back to Shroud and this is their "fixed" version but at least the designs are interesting.

  • Emmara Tandris by Mark Winters

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  • That’s so cool! Do you know Mark Winters as well?

  • Banned and Restricted Announcement – May 18, 2026

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  • I don't understand the reasoning on Lotus Field, and the complete lack of discussion about Stormchaser's Talent. The later was one I really wanted to see hit, regardless of UR's position in the meta. It just creates really unfun play patterns that I'm super tired of seeing.

    Lotus Field getting removed because of worries about Amulet Titan after the Phlage ban seems kind of premature too.

  • [FRA] Chandra, Torch of Defiance (reprint)

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  • Yeah very good question, my gut says that the UR decks just don’t want her sadly. She doesn’t seem to help the prowess or lessons game plan but maybe out of the sideboard.

    If the Jeskai control decks lean into red more with that new artifact I could definitely see her in that deck. That may even get me to play standard again!

  • [FRA] Chandra, Torch of Defiance (reprint)

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  • Love this card, always seemed like a really well balanced planeswalker to me if not a bit on the high powered side.

  • Metagame Mentor: Standard Gets a Shakeup in London and Tokyo

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  • While I think Standard's power level is way too high (with no end in sight), I've found I do enjoy watching it again. It just seems like some of the matches quickly get to the point of no return with all these value engines and high power cards.

    Splitting UR into 3 archetypes is pretty helpful for WotC getting the UR % down... Adding Izzet Prowess, Spellementals, and Lessons gets a whopping 37% of the field.

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    Donato Giancola's NYC-themed landscape paintings for each mana color, commissioned for LobsterCon!

  • [FRA] Bloodline Recollector

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  • I guess Prepared is more than just a Strixhaven ability? Ancestral Craving is nuts.

  • [FRA] Stingcaster Mage

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  • Wow a color-shifted Snapcaster Mage? I wonder if this sees a home in burn decks.

    Art is cool but honestly makes it hard to read the card.

  • MaRo on recent Secret Lairs selling out: "Most of the time you think of as 'print to demand' actually wasn’t. And that resulted in us destroying a lot of product."

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  • Exactly, and add on top the straight up lying that it was print to demand!

    Couldn’t even discount the extras instead of destroying them because they need to maintain the high price at all times. Crazy.

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    MaRo on recent Secret Lairs selling out: "Most of the time you think of as 'print to demand' actually wasn’t. And that resulted in us destroying a lot of product."

    markrosewater.tumblr.com /post/816531881242869760/could-you-explain-why-secret-lair-moved-from

  • Daily Deals - May 11, 2026: GOLD $TONK$! 💰 🙌

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  • This is how they get us back in 😜

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    Lucky the Pizza Dog

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    Testing posts and images on 0.19.8

  • Massacre Wurm by Jason Chan

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  • I never realized just how horrifying some of the art in that set was. Crawling Chorus is pretty messed up!

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    Some good news: WOTC has no plans for Universes Beyond: Harry Potter

    old.reddit.com /r/magicTCG/comments/1r12ed3/do_we_think_wotc_would_potentially_touch_the_fire/o4metfg/

  • Remembering Kai Budde

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  • One of the first decks I ever played competitively was an artifact/red deck during Urza's block constructed that I had seen from him. He of course won the 1999 WC with a better busted version of it too, which I also built for casual play. I loved that deck and still do, some of the most fun I ever had was ramping into Wildfires and Temporal Apertures! I will always think of him when I think of those days.

    I didn't realize just how much he was the GOAT too. 5 Pro Tour titles and 2 World Championships. Absolutely amazing career and a truly amazing guy.

  • [ECL] Hexing Squelcher

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  • Yeah each one of these gives the ability, so if you have 2 in play then all other creatures have essentially ward: pay 4 life (it’s 2 triggered abilities of 2 life each though).

  • [ECL] Bristlebane Battler

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  • This is fun with Melira, Sylvok Outcast! Just a 6/6 trample with ward:2 for 2cmc.

  • [ECL] Chronicle of Victory

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  • Seems like an auto include for any EDH tribal deck

  • [ECL] Lavaleaper

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  • Wow a reciprocal effect in 2026?? Love it!

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    Meek Attack

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    Spell Snare (reprint)

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    Hexing Squelcher

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    Vibrance

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    Oko, Lorwyn Liege // Oko, Shadowmoor Scion

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    Cube4Charity has stated! 48 hours of Vintage Cube

    x.com /JimDavisMTG/status/2003612847054454898
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    Quicksilver, Brash Blur

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    Captain America, Super-Soldier

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    Seth Manfield wins Magic World Championship 31 with UR Lessons

    magic.gg /events/magic-world-championship-31