r/CasualMTG

Did you know MTG even had an official cookbook? Does the idea of MTG themed recipes sound fun?

Hi! I'm the Vintage Cube Chef, and I run a YouTube channel dedicated to two of my favorite things: Drafting Magic the Gathering and Cooking Food at Home. With the Official MTG Cookbook in hand I have started a new series called Cooking Magic where I walk through a recipe from the book as I make it and then rate in on difficulty and taste. The first video of the series came out today and it covers Jade Toast, an Ixalan spin of the classic Mexican open-face sandwich called a Mollete!

Right now most of my channel is dedicated to the MTG and drafting side of things, with a big focus on how to learn to draft and grow your skills in the arena or anywhere else you play! However, the channel recently hit 250 subs (woohoo!) and I do a recipe video every time we hit a major benchmark. From here until who knows when each new benchmark will add to the series, with the next being at 500 which we are somehow already nearing!

I am also very open to ideas and recommendations for any MTG themed recipes you want me to look into! The book covers 10 of the most famous planes so if there is a plane you would want to see featured, just comment it on the video.

Note I am in no way at all a professional chef or Pro MTG player- I just have a lot of passion for cooking up decks AND meals with my friends!

Hello, this is an update on me asking for help with my high school TCG club. (99% magic and like 1 pokemon player who we have now made a mtg player) I'm new to reddit so don't know if an update like this normally goes attached to the original post or something. We have aboult 12 regular players, about half of them don't have reall/legal decks. We just got a ok sized box of commons and uncommons a day ago for club use that people can make deccks out of and keep but don't know what else to do with it other then that. If anyone has any suggestions, ideas or advice I would love to hear it. I got my sponser teacher to reach out to magikids but it is unlikely that will go anywhere for a bit.

Looking for more people to play magic with 24F

I created a new format and created a ruleset as best I could. I'm open to engagement and pointers to make it even better!

I call it "Skirmish Champions", this is just a working title, though, so you all can, again, give me pointers on that front.

Okay, so you know that creature in your collection that just does work every single game but can never be a commander because it isn't legendary? I made this format because a) I was running out of legendaries to use in my collection and b) I wanted a super quick format to play with my wife for before I go to work.

Basically, Skirmish Champions is a 1v1, or free-for-all multiplayer, singleton format built around promoting any non-legendary creature to Champion status. Same thing as the Commander. But, no legendaries required. If it consistently does disgusting things and you've always wanted to build around it, now you can.

Building Your Deck:

- One non-legendary creature is your Champion. They start in the Command Zone and lead your deck. Everything else follows their colors, same as Commander color identity rules.

- 60 cards total. Your Champion plus 59 singleton cards. Basic lands are the only duplicates allowed. You know the drill.

- There are two restrictions that define the format. I know I've said it before, but this is an actual rule: no legendary cards of any type anywhere in your deck or sideboard, and nothing above CMC 6. Games move fast here. Your deck should too. It should feel like you all are ripping into each other in a battlefield as fast as you can.

The Sidebar:

Up to 7 cards in your sideboard. In best-of-three you can swap freely between games. Your Champion stays put though, that's non-negotiable. Every sideboard card follows the same rules as your main deck: matching color identity, no legends, nothing above six mana. Blah blah blah.

How It Plays:

-Everyone starts at 30 life.

-Your Champion can be cast directly from the Command Zone. If they'd ever hit the graveyard, hand, library, or exile from anywhere, you can send them back to the Command Zone instead. Each recast after the first costs an extra one generic mana per previous cast rather than the standard two. It should feel like your Champion wants to stay in the fight, at least that's how I roleplay it. Don't judge, lol.

Another thing that is the same as Commander but a little different: 15 points of combat damage from a single Champion kills a player. Close out games or get closed out, fast and grueling and gory. And fun, hopefully. You're going to be playing that deck a lot if it's good, so make sure you won't get tired of it, but if you wanna challenge yourself like that, go ahead, I do it, too.

The Formats:

Skirmish Champions is straight 1v1, rotating out if people wanna play winner. Fast, focused, usually done in 7 of a player's turns, but that's just for me so far while I've been testing it. I've done more turns before but that's if you have to come back from a bad hand, and I've done less and that's only with a lucky hand. I'm sure if y'all chase cards, it could go quicker as you get more efficient at building as aggressive of decks as you can.

Skirmish Champions: Colosseum is the multiplayer version for 3 or more players. Free-for-all, last Champion standing, same exact rules. Scale it up however you want.

The Championship Rule:

This is the part that makes the format actually feel like a championship.

When you win, you don't get to swap decks. Your Champion holds the arena until someone knocks them off. Doesn't matter if you're at someone's kitchen table or at a full tournament. The winning deck stays locked in until it loses. You won, now prove it wasn't a fluke.

For casual home play it's simple. The winner stays on their deck, everyone else can pull from whatever they brought to find the best counter. Whoever finally dethrones the Champion becomes the new one defending.

For tournaments, bring as many pre-built decks as you want but lock your roster before the event starts. The moment a deck wins it becomes your active deck until someone beats it. The player whose Champion is still standing at the end of the event wins. Not the most wins overall.

Tournament organizers can issue situational bans for their events. There is no official ban list yet. You guys can also have homebrew ban lists for kitchen table play.

Let me know what you guys think!

Hi, I have been playing Magic for 4 years now and just managed to get a club started at my high school. He have been playing for about 5 months now and have a large number of new players without decks, plus more people who have never played a TCG and are refraining from joining the club because they don't have a deck. I'm posting to see if anyone has suggestions on ways to get dcks for the club and also other thing to do to join the club. I tried getting the spiderman welcome decks but they would only give me 2 (probalby because of the face card value) so could only give 4 people a 30 card half they are currently using to play commander.

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Hi everyone!

I’m a casual Magic player and I’ve been working on a side project called AetherSearch

The idea came from a personal struggle: keeping up with the constant flood of new releases and finding functional reprints or "hidden gems" for my decks without reading every single card ever printed.

What it does: It analyzes a card and tries to return the most similar alternatives based on its effects and role.

I need your help: The tool is definitely not perfect yet. AI and algorithms can sometimes miss the "flavor" or the specific mechanical synergy that a human player sees instantly.

I’d love to get some feedback from this community:

Are the results relevant for the cards you search?

Any "weird" results that made no sense?

You can check it out here: mtgsimilarcards.com

I’m doing this to support my own deckbuilding and hopefully yours too. If you have any suggestions or find any bugs, please let me know in the comments!

Thanks for the support!