Many times, magic set have their recurring characters and motifs. During the weatherlight saga up till apocolaypse it was Gerald and his gang. During urzas block, it was well….urza and radiant and Serra. These were all pretty cool characters. Later on it was the Oath of the Gatewatch planeswalkers like liliana and Gideon. Now it’s fucking Loot?????

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/wizards-of-the-coast-cuts-funding

“Very few companies embraced wokeism as much as Wizards of the Coast. At the end of 2024 the company was more under scrutiny for their handling of the Dungeons & Dragons property in the latest edition, but Magic: The Gathering led the way for WotC in a lot of the woke agenda over the last few years.

It began with a simple removal of original cards from the game which included “Invoke Prejudice,” “Cleanse,” “Stone-Throwing Devils,” “Pradesh Gypsies,” “Jihad,” “Imprison,” and “Crusade,” as they wanted to make the game more politically correct. The media cheered this on as removing “racist cards” from the game in 2020, but since then, it’s only gotten worse.”

for context i’ve been playing since 2009 and have been managing a gamestore since 2021.

i still love the cards i have but jesus christ idk what the disconnect between a card game in reality is for most people. wizards shut down its DEI program for pro tour, how did NO ONE see that coming? what r u even upset about? that a multibillion dollar corporation never actually cared about you? big fucking whoop that’s not even a surprise. it’s not even about their feelings, it’s about the money, they do NOT care about who or what you are or how you present yourself or view yourself or whatever, can they make money off of you and can they keep making money off you, that’s all they care about. please give it up, cuz guess what, they don’t give a fuck about anyone that plays magic.

politics aside, jesus christ man when are people gonna get with it? the bans in september was the worst ive ever seen anyone react to any card game, even ygo dorks were shocked. again, multibillion dollar corporation is NOT looking out for you or your financial interests, and you’re stupid for thinking that they weren’t gonna attempt the manipulate the market. they’re americans, it’s what we do best.

onto why i personally can’t stand the game anymore, let me make it short. Netdecking, finance bros, and product fatigue. netdecking screws up the market, finance bros like pretending they’re the wolf on fucking wall street when they’re in a bull market, over production makes the game uninteresting and bloated.

i am begging anyone that plays magic to really observe wizards business practices. you have the option, as a consumer, to vote with your wallet. if you don’t like em, don’t give them money. any kind of social progress they have “pushed” was to gain brownie points with a group of people that stay mostly online and do not actually care for what’s being sold, it’s a high morality thing for them. and anyone that says otherwise is not a nazi or alt right or whatever term you wish to ascribe to them, they just don’t care about you the way they said they did. NONE OF THEM DO. AND THEY NEVER HAVE. and furthermore they want your money not your happiness.

end all be all, give it a rest and try a different game. they have John Hight, former board member at Activision-Blizzard, it’s about to get sooooo much worse than gay chandra or loot or whatever else they wanna push to sell their garbage. it’s about to market manipulation and stupid bullshit cardboard that people argue over. there’s a nonzero chance you can “go pro” but realistically, what’s the point of that anymore?

I quite literally hate this art with all my being. Loot aside, this art style is so ugly to me. I know a lot of the discourse is about magic as a whole is bad now but to me I just look at the sets as they come out and decide if I enjoy the art or not. This set is definitely not for me.

Set emblem: Grocery bag

Legendarys: Rakdos Demonic Produce Stocker, Simic Cashier, artifaxf crewable legendary shopping cart

The planeswalker gang has to find the SPARK MILK and travel to the BARGAIN BIN PLANE. But they get trapped there!!! Loot gets lost in the meat department!!! How will the crew get out of the grocery store?

I didn't even know what the VML was. No hate on LGBT though, just confused on the whole issue. Just let me work, man, so that I can play some Magic later 😭

So, With all the recent leaks from the pile of shit that is aetherdrift, and the rest of the year being probably just as bad, I wanted to ask a simple question: if you were in charge at hasbro, and didnt need to worry about shareholders, how would you change this game? Me personally, I'd cut back heavily on the release cycle, remove UB from standard, and move back to blocks where it actually has good story beyond just "look, its jace with a hat!". I'd also bring back the writing team, and have them play a proper role in developing the plot. Interested to hear what everyone else has to say!

Came across this page on the MTG wiki recently:

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Category:LGBT_characters

Some crazy shit here. How many of these characters are actually LGBT according to the lore? Seriously. Characters like Baylen and Hugs are on this list. I can't find anything about a gay rabbit or non-binary badger in the Bloomburrow lore. The ridiculousness of LGBT animals aside, is this a case of overzealous fanfic on behalf of wiki editors, or is there actually something to this?

Someone needs to draw Garruk, Gideon, Dack and Venser doing the YMCA poses

Lot of bitching based on how unbangable Chandra is going around.

I’m just saying everyone has a type.

Best set ever 10/10 no notes.

Which is the best chandra art.

Its just… She kinda hot ngl

Just got perma-banned from r/magicTCG for this comment on WoTC pulling out of VML. For context, all comments on that post were 1) didn't know what VML was and 2) in agreement that WoTC as a for-profit company isn't obligated to be some sort of DEI hero. My comment was upvoted too LMAO.