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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

And they get 79 dollars to eat a day. Snap people get about 6 dollars a day.

[Andrea Mengucci @Mengu09]

Now more than ever, announce Pauper Precons with a fixed €50 price for stores.
It would help stabilize the prices of cards in the best low entry competitive format and help Pauper spread across the world. Give players an affordable path into competitive Magic. #MTGPauper

[Joey Votto @JoeyVotto]

Sal Stewart ROY.

[DefCat MTG✝️ @DefcatMTG]

"Welcome To Universe Beyond"

MTG parody of Bo Burnham's "Welcome to the internet"

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

Is your life better now?

[#Doag @adam314159]

@SaffronOlive Love to see it!!! Do you think the banning of Cub in standard will encourage people to the folks who really like the card to play more (any) Pioneer where a Cub shell is one of the better decks right now?

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

always money for boots, never enough for books

[Saffron Olive @SaffronOlive]

I think one thing that doesn't get discussed enough is how much Magic's gameplay has changed in recent years. The effort to make the game more accessible seems good on its face, but the end result seems to be much less strategic gameplay and less player agency (i.e. your decision matter less today than in the past).

One thing doing the Best Standard bracket has reinforced to me is that the current version of Magic really is an aberration historically. The play pattern of two decks snowballing into each other and seeing who gets the better draw isn't how Magic was for most of its life.

Rather than being about Universes Beyond or the number of sets, I think this is actually a product of Wizards spending the last decade or two trying to remove "feel bads" from the game to make it more accessible or appealing to new players. Stax has mostly been eliminated, land destruction too, counterspells minimized.

As we've seen repeatedly on the Bracket, these "feel bad" cards actually do a ton of work balancing the game. Janky white weenie decks can compete thanks to Rishadan Port or Armageddon disrupting the opponent's resources. Sideboard hosers and color hate cards can swing matchups. This leads to, at least in my opinion, a lot of really interesting matches where you have to think about playing around sideboard cards, sequence plays to avoid the hate, sandbag lands to play around destruction, etc.

I feel like this strategic depth is often missing today.

When you add the elimination or minimization of "feel bads" to the spiraling power of creatures, you end up with a game that heavily incentivizes maximizing your gameplay rather than stopping your opponent's gameplan.

We've also seen a lot of steps taken to minimize variance - mulligan rule changes, card designs (like MDFCs), everything generating card advantage to make sure you rarely run out of cards (because being empty handed feels bad...) - which I think compounds the problem. Less variance also pushes you to maximize your gameplan rather than stopping your opponent's gameplan, since you'll execute your gameplan optimally more often.

The end result is an era of Magic that, at least to me, feels far less strategic than in the past. I still appreciate the game for what it is today, I still have fun playing it, but it's wild how good 1v1 Magic gameplay used to be. I wish there was a way more newer players could experience it, because it really is a lifechanging gaming experience and its super addicting.

[Commie Trucker @commie_trucker]

Pay us enough to live.

[𝖍𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔞𝔥 🗡️ @rvnefox_]

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[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Fact.

[Jim Buzinski @JimBuzinski]

Favorite sign I saw at San Francisco #HandsOff2025

[Sam Riegel @samriegel]

Congrats America!

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Elon, I’ll make you a deal. I’ll stop making fun of your stock when you take your hands off social security.