This place is great, thanks for all the hard work out in to it!

In the 90s I used to play mtg as a kid and listen to the Mountains Goats on cassette, and now there’s a Mountain Goats secret lair. Full circle.

MTG has been a fun hobby I initially never thought I'd get into. My first tine playing was tabletop edh borrowing a friend's Lord Windgrace precon. Now a few years later (and a hiatus or two) I've started competing in edh tournaments, participating in and running drafts, and making my own decks. It's a fun game that I'm glad to see gaining traction (although I do wish WOTC would slow down a little).

Started playing like two months ago. Working on my first commander deck, Dragon tribal, with Miirym. But I must confess that seeing the current products prices, even when I just buying singles, is kinda discouraging.

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.

@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.

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!

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.

Hot take: MTG needs more hippos.

I love my bear deck!

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.

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.

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)

Thank you!

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

Used to play when I was a kid and rediscovered it recently with commander. My brothers and I have been liking building up our decks with old cards that still hold value today.

I just started playing pauper and I love it

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.

Draft is hard!

I would like to see this community grow and be nice to each other. MTG has a certain eleiteism that made it difficult to comment on reddit.

I've been playing since I was 6. My dad had finally thought my brother and I were old enough to learn (he had been playing since the beginning). I've always enjoyed MTG casually. Never anything too competitive, but the one thing I always enjoy seeing is how creative everyone gets when making their decks, or win cons. It blows my mind and reminds me how great the game is.

I'm super glad there's a good MTG community on Lemmy. I've been really liking it here.

I'm having a tremendously hard time picking my favorite art and artist in MTG. There's just so many fantastic arts. Currently the art on [[Unbound Flourishing]] is really speaking to me.

I miss Cascade decks, lol.

(Thanks for doing the giveaway!)

Thanks for all the work you put in to keep this server running! Glad to see it growing and hope it grows even more.

I've been listening to a lot of Mark Rosewater's Drive to Work podcast lately, so here's a random fact from it: Faceless Butcher was original going to be released in a set before Torment, but when they got the art back for the card the character had a face and they had to change the name to something that made sense. They liked the name so much that they held onto it and during the making of Torment made sure to specially request art without a face.

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

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.

Thank you for this!!

I’ve only recently gotten into MTG but I jumped in hard and fast! Commander is the play style I enjoy the most and the community around it has been truly helpful and supportive when I’d ask for help in my LGS or on various forums! I say all of that to hopefully entice anyone new or curious of the game to jump in!! You won’t regret it!

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.

My hubs grew up with MTG and taught me how to play. We play every week now. I've managed to win a few games even!

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!

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!

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

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!

One of my favorite commander decks is 5 color mutate. It's tons of fun and generally underrated. Commander can either be [[ramos dragon engine]], or [[cromat]]. Recently me and my partner have also been working on baldurs gate background commander decks with the anticipation of BG3 coming out. We just finished up [[Karlach, fury of Avernus]] + [[Guild Artisan]] for a mono red multiple combat + treasures deck.

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 miss playing chord of calling decks in modern.

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

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

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!

Just going to blabber on about non-sense: I agree with other comments about disliking Wizard's focus towards Commander. I'm more of a Cube/Limited player and many of these cards just aren't conducive to my Cubing habits.

My favorite card is probably [[Painter's Servant]]. Just look at that cute little guy. Also, despite my general dislike for combo, Legacy Painter is just so much fun.

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.

I’ve just got back into MTG after not playing for more than a decade.

Been struggling on where to start (again), so I ended up getting some Phyrexia and March of the Machine boosters and scored an [[Elesh Norn]]!

Now I’m trying to figure out how to build a deck around it. Or maybe do a Toxic/Proliferate one? Too many possibilities 😅

I bought Fallen Empires packs frequently when it was the current set. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Bond lands are the best lands.

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).

Your Temple is Under Attack is an amazingly flexible card from BLD

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?

My first deck was a crow themed deck I bought online which I slowly upgraded, now [[Storm Crow]] is my pet card along with Crow 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)

Hadn't played until recently but one of my friends got a bunch of lotr boosters and it got our friend group interested in it. Started playing a bunch of MTGA and now we're now having a little draft tourney in a couple weeks.

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

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

I'm hyped for the Doctor Who commander decks and need to find time to rewatch the series before release

By far my favorite card is [[Confusion in the Ranks]]. The first time I layed my eyes upon it I just loved the mechanics of this card, and immediately started brewing a modern deck with it. Not the most competitive deck, but so much fun. Also stars some other cards that I think are awesome designs like [[Norin the Wary]] and [[Grinning Ignus]].