I've experienced something similar where I have imported a deck from somewhere because it looked interesting, crafted it on MTGA, played couple matches against the bot to familiarize with it, just to learn later that more than half of the deck is not standard legal... Well at least now I know that I should check what format that deck was built for. Luckily it was a budget deck with no rares.

Does sound like you would end up with a pretty functional deck. I can see this doing rather well especially in the casual format.

For me it's usually as follows:

• Find a card or theme I'm interested in
• Add some other cards that go well with the theme or card I chose first
• Add lands and dual lands for the colors I'm using
• My friend tells me that this card is banned or these ones aren't format-legal
• Start over from step 1

I'm here and there about them but I have to admit they really hit the exact feeling of bulky plastic 80s/90s appliances. It's so ugly I desperately want to spray paint them black just to escape their look

Same, I'm totally obsessed with Duskmourn's lore and wish there was more of it. Only wish they'd redesign some of the tackiness with the survivors/tech so that it makes more sense with the worldbuilding

Valgavoth and duskmourn are easily my favorite things to come out if magic in the past decade. The idea of a demon being trapped in a box exploiting the rules to expand that box until everything else was trapped in it too is just so good.

Bummed that I'll probably never get to play it 🙃 but this one time someone at my LGS got mystery booster 2 and I got to draft it - so there's a chance.

I've been trying to buy my own box for a bit, but I don't want to pay for a scalped one

I double sleeved when I began playing because I thought that’s just what people did.

But at this point, if my cards aren’t double sleeved they feel weird in my hand.

So I double sleeve, but mostly out of imagined peer pressure and habit.

There are now 133+ card cases to better fit double and triple sleeved commander decks.

I do only for cards I know that hold a lot of value, and I might want to sell in the future. Cards above 10 euro's in general. For 5 cent fillers I dont like the extra hassle, and extra plastic usage. I dont feel like I can feel the difference between them when shuffling or looking at my deck, but for me expensive cards are an exception, so max 5 high worth cards per deck.

This is awesome, so glad they’re bringing this back. Curious what motivated it now after all these years but it’s a good thing nevertheless.

Sadly though I think the requirements exclude Shahar Shenhar who has long been one of the best players left out. Back to back worlds winner! He doesn’t 2026 requirements which look like they’re intended to backfill players who should’ve made it had the HoF existed in the last 7 years, and he clearly won’t meet the 2028 requirements designed for newer players.

All three of the in-universe sets for 2027 feel like absolute bangers, and given the focus on them with the trailers it feels like WotC is trying to apologize for all the UB lately. Of course, there's still 3 UB sets planned next year so not like they're actually gonna change anytime soon

I think the 59 unique cards defeats the spirit of Mystery Boosters, and The List.

Was excited for this until I saw that it's only available at events. Those 59 unique cards are going to be expensive as hell. And who knows when we'll get another dedicated reprint set

I imagine it will depend on what boosters stores decide to use for the draft, since it sounds like Chaos Draft + Leyline of Anticipation

Gaint Kaiju stomping through not Tokyo fighting giant robots?

Ok, I'm in.

Looking forward to Zhalfir. I hope they print some lesser known folkloric monsters and spirits and don't just stick to human cultures. I wanna see some cool African inspired creatures.

Also, please make a playable Anansi stand-in. Trickster deities are sweet and lead to fun card design

Mutate + ninjutsu could be really interesting in combination, but I feel there won't be enough room for non-mech kamigawa mechanics. They're gonna have some really big vehicles

Homarids are back, baby. World building on this one is gonna be sick, it's the most open of the three sets next year, they could do some wacky things. I really hope it's not just a reskinned Guild set too

I don’t know who out there is dying for a return of cephalids, but whoever you are, this set is likely your last, best hope.

Yesss

What will the cost be I wonder?

tl;dw: everything's underwater, so no flying!

Mapping Ikoria/Kamigawa onto Kaiju/Mecha is a stroke of genius. Someone in R&D deserves a raise.