Of the handful I have, I think so. Don't know what the consensus is, though

I won't play with them and always trade them of they're valuable. The only time I ever play with them is in limited, and I hate it.

I live in a dry environment and they curl an insane amount in less than 5 minutes. They curl through sleeves, and even double sleeves. You can uncurl them in a tupperware with a wet sponge for a few days, but they will not stay flat so what's the point.

Yeah, it wasn’t all of them but a few blocks when I played standard did that. Sometime between Khans of Tarkir and an Ixilan block. You could open a pack and before the foil hit the table, it would start curling. Some cards you could put down and watch it curl. It was a really bad time for foils and there has been a lot of improvement.

I really dig alt and special art a lot. I have a gorgeous Obzedat, Ghost Council that was painted on by an artist, I got it at a Vegas Magic con for my Ob deck. I’d probably drop a little more for one of those over a foil if I’m buying singles.

Ohh so the fancy foils have less problems?

Bending immediately sounds quite extreme..

Special arts are indeed a nice non-curly option for a flashy card. (Until that's a foil too ^^ )

Searchability is an interesting practical aspect

Hate when they curl and hate when the treatment is so poor you can't read them or make out the art. I do like a lot of the newer premium treatments that don't have those issues, and those are nice. But I specifically avoid "standard" foiling for singles, and I'll even pay more in the rare case that foils are cheaper.

I like foils if I have them, but I don’t really go out of my way to chase them. I double sleeve my commander decks, so most curling isn’t an issue, but some cards out there are really bad. I’ve had them curl immediately upon opening a pack.

If I’m buying a card for a deck, I’ll probably go foil or special art, but it depends on the price. I play casually with friends, so it’s more to show off cool cards with them.

I avoid them as much as possible due to the curling and bending and glare when playing with sleeves on them.

I tolerate them because it’s not worth spending more money on a non-foil when I pull one, but if I’m buying singles I go out of my way to not get foil.

It’s just not good quality and gives nothing to the card that I care about

I'd rather not have foils because they're more delicate and I have to take more care to prevent them from curling.

When I used to play constructed formats, I'd sometimes entertain the thought of getting foils of only certain key cards as a signal to help me recognize them faster. I had a similar thing with my old Modern Tron deck, where my Tron lands were the only white-border cards, so they were really easy to pick out while searching my library. I never ended up doing that with foils, though.

I dislike using them inside my decks because of how often they curl. However for my Commander I will often try to spend the extra money for an extra shiny card since they almost never get shuffled into the deck

However I am a little disappointed how often the foiling is just not that impressive. Coming from playing Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid I do miss their more bombastic foil cards

I'm not sure if this is still the case, but it used to be that if you had any foils in your deck and took it to a tournament, you had to either foil the entire deck, or replace all foils with non-foils. This became problematic for cards that were only available as foil, like M19 Nexus of Fate (from what I remember).

Personally, I only play casually anymore. Foils don't matter to me at all. If a card is foil, then it's foil. If it isn't, then it isn't. I only care about its playability.

Some foils do bend really badly, but I've been fortunate enough not to run into that problem yet.

If you like spell slinging and big spells, might I suggest checking out Lorehold, the Historian? He's not one of the precon commanders, but he's from the new set and I've been really enjoying my miracles deck

Quandrix has been my favorite of the Strixhaven colleges and it continues for this set. I'm already interested in a deck with the new Primo.

Good to know! I’ve yet to goldfish any of the decks yet. I just liked Lorehold’s style.

I’ve been wanting to build an aristocrats deck already and the Witherbloom deck contains a lot of cards I’ve already been eyeing. Do, I’ll maybe pick that one up.

I’ve read that the Quandrix deck is busted out of the box, but the whole +1/+1 counters thing isn’t really my thing.

I was very interested in Lorehold too because of the face commander, but after goldfishing the decklist it doesn't seem to play like I would want it to. I guess I'll just make my own Quintorius deck 😁

Prismari is the one I'm most interested in, I like spellslinging and big spells

I love that the little buttons actually work. The one for Pauper takes you to exactly 5 cards. Perfect!

Thanks for the heads up! I'm fairly conservative when it comes to cosmetics, but these do pack some charm ^^

Ok but this is unironically better than 99.9% of webpages

It's beautiful.

"This is your home?"

"It was, and it was beautiful"

Well this is a bummer, I thought the site would load under Windows 3.11 with Internet Explorer 5.. ☹️

Edit: I actually tried LOL!

But there’s good news for people who don’t want to spend $250, no matter how great Sanderson’s love letter to Magic is. In a comment shared with Polygon, Subterranean Press confirmed that a larger, unsigned run of the book, 5,000 copies in total, will be available to order next month and further noted that “Sanderson and his team are also working on creating an even more widely available version, as well as working on getting the ebook back up again.”

Most relevant part probably.

I love Brando Sando and i even own some pf his hardcovers but that price is insane.

$250, with a portion going to charity. Saved you a click.