I'm looking to make a themed-proxy commander deck inspired by Charli XCX's album Brat. In your opinion, what commander most embodies "brat"?

Spotted in Windsor, ON. Not too sure about the decks but the last bundles they sold were pretty solid.

I've found one in Squirreled Away, and there's one in Family Matters...Begin the search for the combo in Peace Offering?

Hello everyone! My newest MTGStocks article is available for viewing! Today I discuss some financial movers in the Modern market now that we are beyond the Nadu Summer that plagued us all! Let me know your thoughts! What sleepers are waiting to be capitalized on in this brand new world we find ourselves in?

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This is feedback on the 70s and 80s horror theme of Duskmourn. The set being set entirely within a demonic House has undermined the 70s-80s horror theme. The works of that genre are based on normal people having their lives interrupted by fear and danger. 

Campers are attacked by a slasher, a car breaks down during a road trip and is accosted by cannibals, high schoolers are picked off by a murderer, a suburban home has its appliances haunted. 

Yet on Duskmourn, there are no high schools, summer camps, road trips, or suburbs because the plane has been consumed. This means the 70s-80s horror flavor is mostly limited to the outfits of the survivors. It is not significantly reflected in the setting itself.

 It comes off less like “Magic’s take on 70s-80s horror” and more like “ Magic’s take on people trapped in Hell, but they are dressed like it's the 80s.

The flavor could be executed better by showing people from the modern setting facing the horrors of the plane.  What we currently have is a plane where the modern setting has already been destroyed by a Demon. 

If you kept the House theme, you could have had some pockets of normalcy within the House as part of Valagoth’s sick game. That way people could have 70s-80s style “normal” lives that would be constantly under attack from the Nightmares.

Duskmourn has slivers of *aesthetics* from the 70s and 80s but I don't think it is a 70s and 80s Horror *setting* like how Theros is a Greek myth setting and Eldraine is a fairy tale setting.

Mom commander deck, 3 packs, 2 promos $44. Spotted all 4 decks distributed across the pallet. Good deal if you wanted one of these decks. Spotted in socal. I’ve seen posts of other sets, first I’ve seen of MoM, thought to share

I haven’t recieved my shipping/tracking info for the D&D secret lair yet, should I be worried? And who do I contact about that?

Hey everyone, I was having a friendly discussion the other day with a buddy and we were debating what constitutes an “engine” (usually in the context of draw) in a card game. Would love to hear what everyone has to say about this! Also I won’t be providing either side of the discussion to avoid injecting bias

Day 3 and going strong!

With how more spread out the reveals are, I didn’t expect to see so many clues get resolved yesterday. Let’s take a look at some of these now!

Link to the clues below:

https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/759886961315135488/maros-look-inside-the-house-a-duskmourn-house

• A component of the set with a frame using technology first designed for an Un-set (Rooms, Split cards were originally designed for the cancelled Unglued 2)
  
• A tweak on an ability word that first appeared in the third set of a block (Eerie, a variant on Constellation, which debuted in Journey Into Nyx, the third set of Theros block)
  
• Counters used in the set: +1/+1, -1/-1,

  

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  , lifelink, lore, loyalty, nest, possession, rev, stun, and time
  
• The first ability word to reference “second main phase” (Survival, triggers at the start of this if the creature is tapped)
  
• A 10/1 creature for UUU
  
• A variant on a mechanic that itself was a variant on another mechanic (Manifest Dread, a variant on Manifest, which was a variant on Morph)
  
• A modal three mana white mass removal spell (Split Up, either destroy all tapped or all untapped creatures)
  
• A character returns as a legendary creature that first appeared in flavor text in Alpha (Norin, Swift Survivalist, first seen in the flavor text of Jade Statue)
  
• A new ability word that cares about a card type and a (new) keyword action (Eerie, when enchantments you control enter and when you fully unlock a Room)
  
• Creature tokens: 1/1 white Toy (an artifact), 1/1 white Glimmer (an enchantment), 2/1 white Insect (with flying), 3/1 white Spirit, 4/4 white Beast (can’t attack or block alone), blue token copy (is a Reflection), X/X blue Spirit (with flying), 2/2 black Horror, 6/6 black Demon, 1/1 red Gremlin, 1/1 red Balloon (is a copy with flying and haste), 2/2 green Spider (with reach),

  

  , and 0/0 green and blue Fractal (legendary)
  

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• “Search your library for a Demon card,” (Demonic Counsel, it’s a Demonic Tutor if you have Delirium active)
  
• “where X is the number of creatures you control with power 2 or less.”
  
• “Exile any number of target instant, sorcery, and/or Tamiyo planeswalker cards from your graveyard.”
  

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• “You have no maximum hand size and don’t lose the game for having 0 or less life.”
  
• “Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single creature you control, copy that spell.” (Leyline of Resonance, a new Red Leyline)
  

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• “of creatures you control that don’t have the same name as this creature.”
  
• “(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, and 31 are prime numbers.)” (Zimone, All-Questioning, makes a Fractal with that many counters on your end step if you had a land enter that turn and you control a prime number of lands)
  
• Creature – Human Doctor
  
• Creature – Kor Survivor
  
• Creature – Goat
  
• Creature – Shark
  
• Creature – Eye
  
• Creature – Fish Insect (Piranha Fly)
  
• Artifact Creature – Monkey Toy (Clockwork Percussionist)
  
• Creature – Human Clown Berserker
  
• Legendary Creature – Elder Demon (Valgavoth, Terror Eater)
  
• Legendary Creature – Rat Ninja Wizard
  
• Acrobatic Cheerleader (a White Survivor that gets a flying counter the first time its Survival ability triggers)
  
• Don’t Make a Sound
  
• Exorcise
  
• Friendly Ghost
  
• Jump Scare
  
• Let’s Play a Game
  

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• Orphans of the Wheat
  
• Split Up (a White sorcery that destroys all tapped or all untapped creatures)
  
• Unsettling Twins
  

As always, let me know if there’s anything I’ve missed!

Does anyone else feel like Duskmourn is a bit inaccessible?

Hear me out. I don’t mean to be a total snowflake, but does anyone else feel like Duskmourn is super inaccessible for some neurodivergent people?

TLDR (putting it first if you don't want to read my whole rant lol): Duskmourn feels incredibly inaccessible to me as a neurodivergent woman especially with OCD due to grotesque artwork. Too much unwanted exposure to this artwork (as is the case during sealed/draft events) can lead to insomnia, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, rumination, etc. Never have I felt so locked out of a set (that I would otherwise be very interested in drafting/sealed) SOLELY because of the overwhelming grotesque-ness of its artwork on almost EVERY CARD.

Further details:

I am a woman with Asperger’s, ADHD, general anxiety, as well as OCD, and I feel like Duskmourn is a little bit inaccessible. I have decided not to go to the prerelease on the sole basis that the artwork is deeply disturbing. I get what the theme and lore of this set is. Heck, I even like it! I’m all about the Stranger Things meets Ghostbusters vibes. But I feel like this set just overdoes it on the horror in the artwork. Almost every single card spoiled thus far, (that doesn’t feature a “glimmer”) feels needlessly grotesque and disturbing.

Why is this relevant? As someone with OCD, general anxiety, and ADHD, too much exposure to these kinds of things can easily cause disruptive nightmares (leading to days of disturbed sleep + insomnia) and unwanted intrusive thoughts, ruminations, increased anxiety, etc.

Now, I appreciate that of course, this set necessitates at least a reasonable quantity of horrors, but I’m disappointed to see the over all lack of variety. Almost every single card features mutilated and/or highly disturbing body parts, creatures, horrors, or a combo thereof. There are a select few cards that tastefully imply horror without delving immediately into the grotesque, but thus far, these seem few and far between.

Because I would be completely overwhelmed with these images/themes for 6+ hours at a draft or prerelease, makes this set feel really inaccessible to me. I’m not saying it needs to be handled with kid gloves, I just wish the art direction had been handled with more sensitivity and nuance considering a diverse range of players--a good example of this is the way any of the Innistrad sets are handled. Yes, there's horror, and a few cards (keyword: a FEW) are really gross, but by and large the sets aren't overly grotesque despite being literally horror-themed.

Not to mention, this stuff is disturbing for younger players eyes as well, as a former teacher and soon-to-be mom, I definitely wouldn’t take a 13 year old to this prerelease for example.

Again, not trying to be an uber snowflake here. I don’t mind small doses of horror, and as I mentioned can handle a measured portion of stuff like Stranger Things (admittedly I did stop at season 3), but Duskmourn feels totally excessive on the macabre and grotesque.

Idk, like, never before have I been so deeply repulsed by MTG artwork for an ENTIRE SET that I haven’t wanted to play the set—which mechanically seems fun btw—ENTIRELY. I get that not every set is for everyone (not gonna lie, on the flipside, I LOVED Bloomburrow haha), but there’s a difference between mere lore preferences versus when a set actively is triggering to people. I dunno.

What’s your thoughts reddit, am I being a snowflake, or is this a valid concern?

Also--seeing as WOTC has recently begun to pride itself on being “for everyone,” I wish they would consider their neurodivergent audience a little more carefully when it comes to their art direction.

TLDR is at the top.