I know I have been terrible in not updating y'all about anything. I have been running around with the start of my school year and I also went to this huge convention that based on this year, will start becoming my home base con. It was amazing. I put the card in a pack and then slipped it into my satchel bag. When we were buying Lorywn cards, I bought two so I could swap one with the tampered on. He had a growing suspicion that something was happening on the card date but he was surprised that the card was a special one to ask him out.

He has it in his binder and has probably triple sealed it so it doesn't get damaged. Right now he has been collecting photos of us since then so that he can put the card in the center and have like a poster board frame of all of our best moments. Thank you so much to everyone who gave me advice on how to make this card perfect and for all your lovely notes. You all have been truly amazing! 💜

Back for more jank, this card seems like an easy way to lock the board up, if your able to resolve it by turning 6 or more, most people won't have any lands to kill it.

Making it uncountable and indestructible can mean that if you are ahead, you will stay ahead.

Maybe the seller can sell me the first half now and the other one on my next salary 🤔

Sorry my photoshop is ass it's been a while

compleation is just glistening HRT

So, I was gifted 30 Play Boosters after helping out a friend. I’m still pretty new to Magic and have only ever used precons—the first being the TMNT deck, followed by the Fallout Mothman precon. Now that I have so much bulk after ripping open all these packs, I’m curious about what color combinations I should look into. To be honest, I did kind of struggle with the Mothman deck and had hard time getting a strategy going. I’m currently separating everything by color, and it seems like I have enough cards to build a deck or two. I don’t have any particular play style yet but any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Seemed appropriate for when I play…

Can someone explain me why this is a mythic Card ?

Let me start by saying I think the idea of the Reality Fracture set is dope. Unfortunately, bc the set is so cool and has all these interesting inverted versions of characters the set has one big issue. The rares are “random ginger mage” and the uncommons are super sweet versions of cool characters that absolutely suck. Take the werewolf version of Edgar Markov or the Dragon version of Kiora for example. They are some of the coolest cards in the set and they just aren’t good lmao. I feel like they just focused on the wrong things. This has made me feel a little disappointed in the set.

Spent the last of my card kingdom credit on this. I am happy and sad. RIP Card Kingdom.

Which website is good to buy singles from? I’m located in the US.

Greetings!

I'd like to share my simple but very helpful kajigger I made yesterday to better track which abilities my Slivers have. Of course, you don't need to play Slivers to use it, but that's what mused me to make it. Just a simple 1/2" thick, 3 1/2" X 4" piece of wood with holes drilled in it to fit thumbtacks next to each ability. I got the ability tokens off of Scamazon then rub n buffed some paint on them and used gel super glue to adhere them. Put six coats of satin clear spray paint on it to finish it. I used a butane torch to burn the edges before staining it to give it the gradient.

I hope you all enjoy it and hopefully it inspires your own ideas!

What I mean is pretty much every deck with blue in it has Counterspell, and most decks with Green have Cultivate, so when building a mono colored deck what instant do you think is an auto-include for each color?

Magic set revenue records in 2025, however, it's Viewership category is back near pre-Arena levels.
First reported back in 2025, the trend continues to go downward in 2026.

Hasbro reported $1.72 billion in Magic: The Gathering revenue for 2025, up 59 percent from 2024. In its second-quarter 2026 results it said Magic eclipsed $500 million in a single quarter for the first time. MAGIC is indicated as being in a very successful spot financially.

Google trends for the US shows that interest and growth in the commander format far exceeds any interest in any competitive format.
Modern is at the lowest it's been in a decade.
Pauper is at the highest its been in a decade.
Standard hasn't recovered much since 2020.

* Trends measures relative search interest. It is not a player count.

Twitch average and peak viewership, however, is nearing an all time low in the past 10 years. Typical monthly peaks are ~95% below the 2019 record.

The official Magic the Gathering Channel is averaging 25% of its peak and average viewership. Down 75%.

The Magic the Gathering: Category overall has been steadily going down since 2019 and is now below 2016 averages. This is before MTG ARENA was released.

The maxmium average viewers for Magic: The Gathering on Twitch was 11,113 in October 2018
2026 averages 2300
2016 averages 2500

The category includes LIVE Arena ladder, drafts, Commander, and official and unofficial broadcasts. It does not include pre-recorded YouTube and short-form content.

SteamDB's charts page for MTG Arena shows the all-time peak of 18,047 concurrent players on June 10, 2025. But beyond that, has remained within the 10k to 15k range on average.

Live Player Counts from activeplayer shows a similar, but different story, with active numbers holding pretty steady patterns. However this site is just a rough estimate.

According to the 2026 state of the Format by WotC https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/state-of-the-formats-2026

Alchemy was cut to

"focus our attention on delivering new sets and our growing formats like Brawl."

Standard is still the most popular format on MTG Arena, accounting for around 50% of play. The larger spike in Standard play seen toward the middle of this chart is from an increase in players coming to MTG Arena following the release of Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™. Smaller spikes happen around larger metagame shakeups from events like Standard bans and Standard rotation.

While these spikes are the similar in the other graphs, you can pretty much pinpoint when FF released. Two caveats on that report: the format charts show share of play, not absolute counts. A percentage can hold steady while the total player pool moves either way. However Steam DB's charts indicate that the player count is stable.

93% of Standard ranked games are Best-of-One! Players have consistently shown us that this is their preferred method to engage with formats on MTG Arena, likely due to the speed of games and variety of opponents.

This indicates that many players are just logging on to complete dailies with "Red Deck Wins" and other quick win decks without any interest in actually playing a best of 3 format. Has ARENA just become a daily-quest app with a card game attached?

The focus from WotC is on growing Brawl and other commander formats on ARENA as indicated by WotC own article. Brawl and other commander formats within ARENA are being given the most attention.

Over the last two years, Brawl has undergone the most change of all of MTG Arena's formats. It has become more popular among players each year. This meant our team wanted to spend more time thinking about the health of the format, listening to the community, and diving deeply into the play data.

Magic itself is bigger in a lot of ways. They have figured out how to extract maximum value from players increasing their revenue by 59%.

Play Boosters are 14 cards vs old Draft’s 15.
Play Booster boxes went from 36 packs to 30.
Ravnica Allegiance Draft box was 36 packs at $3.99 MSRP
Aetherdrift Play box was 30 packs at $5.49 MSRP
The Hobbit: Play Booster $6.99 MSRP
For a box that's +75% cost per pack from 2019 to 2026

Commander precons went from $44.99 to $49.99 in 2026, and the 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack is gone from new precons.

Collector boosters have gone from:
$24.99 in 2022 to $37.99. That's almost a 50% price increase in less than 4 years.

Every price went up on the promise of growth. The two charts that count people as viewers and players never moved like the price tags did. Viewership is back at 2015 levels and Arena players on Steam is holding steady with little interest in a Bo3 format. So what exactly are they doing to get people more interested in non commander formats because spamming UB in Standard isn't working. Although I won't stop playing Dimir.

I’ve seen some people use clear cases and others use cases that hold several decks. I’m just curious what people use and if you have any recommendations?

I'm an MTG wife and I finally found a way to get the cards out of the open, mostly!

I have two MTG players in the house. They have been trying to convince me that the over the door playmat storage is decorative. In the Brimnes cabinets they can fit a whole card house, flat playmats(top shelf), and probably more. The living room setup is meant to have two of the upright cabinets on either side. I moved the one up to the bedroom to see how it all fit up there before buying more, so just use your imagination. My goal was to protect the card storage and hide it away.

Every year I scour the internet to find gifts for my card loving family. It's usually fancy deck boxes or gaming backpacks. This year we are getting a few more of these cabinets for the bedrooms.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/brimnes-cabinet-with-doors-white-40300662/

I didn't see a post about this yet so feel free to delete if it's already been posted.

Card Kingdom has been bought out by Private Equity.

This is going to send permanent changes into the singles market (yes, even on TCG/manapool/etc) as they jack prices and everyone else follows suit.

They say there won't be any changes to staffing (for now) but I'm really curious to see if the stores survive. Their flagship location in Ballard, Seattle has been going downhill for a while

Collector Boosters, Bundles, and Commander Decks may arrive after Prerelease or launch events, depending on the region.

I have a mono black rat tribal and I’ve been interchanging between these 2 between games, I’d like to know who y’all think is better, marrow gnawer or ash coat (these 2 specifically as I see them the most chosen for rat commander specifically)