While most cards from the set are going down, two cards have had dramatic price spikes: the comic cover Doctor Doom and comic cover Ant Man. Doom is the third most expensive card, and Ant Man is the fourth, as long as we ignore the serial Mind Stones. My reasoning is that Marvel Collectors are after them, but I don't know why those specifically. What are your thoughts?

Hello everyone, I'm very new to Magic the Gathering (only have about 2 weeks of experience). I love how versatile the game is compared to a lot of the other card games I know of. Not to mention the art on these card is fantastic (understatement). I currently bought the Wakanda Forever pre-con and having a lot of fun with it. It's my only deck right now and I want to do more now that I understand the game better.

I love horror a lot and I was wondering if there are any horror-themed decks out there that anyone could recommend me. I was looking for something like Zombies and Cosmic Horror.

For the zombies, I was thinking about generating hoards of zombie that overwhelm my opponent(s). Give them passive damage as if the zombie virus is airborne. Make even more horrifying mutated zombie. Doesn't matter if zombies die, I can just make more.

As for "cosmic horror", something like "instills unshakeable fear into the opponents so they are too afraid to cast spells and they inflict damage onto themselves for every spell they want to cast (and have their spell cost more to play)"

I hope this makes sense!

I'm not sure where to start. I've been looking at certain cards, but I don't know how to build a deck. I'm fascinated by Eldrazi for cosmic horror, if anything.

Thank you in advance for the help!

Now that we’re half way through 2026 how has everybody’s commander games been going? Are your new decks working out like you thought they would? Are your old decks still putting up the same numbers as last year or maybe the year before?

I love stats and even though I don’t keep crazy stats like I used to I do still keep some that I think will be useful to me at the end of the year for my deck progress tracking.

With that being said I thought I’d share some with you all today just to see how I have stacked up to everybody else so far.

Each deck I make could be regarded as bracket 2 up to a mid bracket 3. The decks I’ve played against have ranged anywhere from bracket 2 up to bracket 4. Tbh idc what others play and I just play whichever deck I’m feeling at the time regardless or bracket level.

Each of the games recorded are only games with full 4 person pods. I did not include 3 pod games or 5 pod games.

Overall W//L record for Jan-Jun 2026:
Jan- 11 Games 3-8 (27%)
Feb- 12 Games 5-7 (41%)
Mar- 11 Games 3-8 (27%)
April- 11 Games 3-8 (27%)
May- 11 Games 2-9 (18%)
June- 16 Games 8-8 (60%)
Overall- 72 Games 24-48 (33%)

W//L by table position:
1st- 20 (1st 5x, 2nd 8x, 3rd 3x, 4th 4x)
2nd- 20 (1st 6x, 2nd 6x, 3rd 4x, 4th 4x)
3rd- 19 (1st 10x, 2nd 6x, 3rd 1x, 4th 2x)
4th- 13 (1st 3x, 2nd 8x, 3rd 1x, 4th 1x)

Average Game Length Per Month:
Jan- 1H 8M (68M)
Feb- 59M
March- 1H 13M (73M)
April- 1H 16M (76M)
May- 1H 17M (77M)
June- 1H 8M (68M)
Overall- 1H 10M (70M)

To preface this stat I mainly play at two LGS on a regular basis with two separate playgroups, and then other times I’ll play games at my friend’s houses or at another random LGS in town.

W//L by Location:
LGS #1- 11-19 (36%)
LGS #2- 10-23 (30%)
LGS #3- 1-1 (50%)
Friends House #1- 2-3 (40%)
Friends House #2- 0-2 (0%)

Decks with an * are new decks that were made in 2026.

Decks played W//L records:
Migloz, Maze Crusher* 1-0 (100%)
Winter Solider, Icy Assassin* 1-0 (100%)
Safana/Feywild Visitor- 11-6 (64%)
Omnath, Locus of All- 5-3 (62%)
Flamewar, Brash Veteran 2-4 (33%)
Reki, the History of Kamigawa 1-2 (33%)
Witch-Maw Nephilim 1-3 (25%)
Caradora, Heart of Alacria* 1-6 (14%)
Jyoti, Moag Ancient* 1-7 (12%)
Patchwork Automaton (P) 0-1 (0%)
Thanos, the Mad Titan* 0-1 (0%)
Zahur, Glory’s Past* 0-1 (0%)
Coram, the Undertaker* 0-2 (0%)
Lonis, Cryptozoologist* 0-2 (0%)
Abdel Adrian/Master Chef* 0-3 (0%)
The 3rd Doctor & Dan Lewis* 0-2 (0%)
Grismold, the Dreadsower 0-5 (0%)

Type of wins or loses:
Combat Wins- 47
Non Combat Wins- 18
Alternative Wincon- 3
- Lab Man
- Maze’s End
- Twenty Toed Toad
Commander Damage- 3
Mill- 1

Top 5 most loses by color identity:
Izzet- 8
Mono Black- 6
Bant- 5
Golgari- 4
5C- 4

Like I said nothing crazy as I like to keep things fairly simple these days but thanks for reading and let me know what kind of starts you’re keeping for your own decks!

Also if anybody is interested in diving deeper into my stat sheet just let me know and I can send you a link to my whole spreadsheet.

If there's 2 things in MtG I'm a sucker for they're cubes & well curated basic land bases. There's so many to choose from & a massive hunk are super neat in their own special way.

My most prized card is an Arabian Nights Mountain signed by Douglas Shular (the artist), Dave Howell (Production Manager at WotC during Arabian Nights), & Vic Wertz (Project Coordinator at WotC during Arabian Nights).

The past few days I've been browsing thru basic Land cycles bc I'm building my 5th cube & trying to figure out what basic lands to pick for it.

I have a policy when I'm building decks n cubes that all basics have to be from the same cycle. So far:

The Un Cube: OG Unglued Full-Arts (single handedly my most expensive land base. Took about 4yrs to complete)

Humans Cube: Dominaria United Stained Glass

(Tazri, Beacon of Unity) Party Tribal Commander: Theros Beyond Death Nyx

Textless Commander: Full-Text

CardKingdom Starter Cube clone: Chinese OG Portal

100 Ornithopters: Brother's War Mechs (still technically "building" this deck bc I want 100 Kaladesh Inventions Ornithopters & I only have 67 ATM. If you have some you'd be down to trade - holla atchya girl. The worse the condition, the better)

Classic Slivers Cube: Phyrexian Oil Slick Lands

The only build that doesn't have a predefined cycle of lands, is my Premodern that has Quinton Hoover's Forest from 6th Ed (as far as I'm aware it's the only basic Hoover illustrated) & Eric Peterson's Plains from Odyssey bc those were my favorite art for those particular lands when I started playing.

At some point I'm going to build a Mystery Booster: Redux Edition cube where I cut back the 1800 cards from the Tournament Edition card pool into a draftable 360 w/ lands from the Duel Decks. However, that project is so far in the future the idea of working on it is silly.

Also I've been gathering the land-base for a cube that's the Astrology Lands. No idea what I'll do with them, but I'm a sucker for building a cube, so I'll figure it out. I'd love to have a cube w/ the Guru lands, but holy hell Batman that'd be expensive. For context, the Guru Lands in G quality cost on CardKingdom:

- Forest: 559.99 (×40=22,399.60)

- Island: 1,329.99 (×40=53,199.60)

- Swamp: 524.99 (×40=20,999.60)

- Mountain: 524.99 (×40=20,999.60)

- Plains: 524.99 (×40=20,999.60)

Total land base cost for a cube: $138,598.00

For context, the most expensive competitive Vintage deck build in the 2026 season so far is Workshop which on average costs $28,521 to build in paper (according to MTGDecks(dot)Net). I would have to trade 5 Workshop decks for 1 Guru cube land base.

If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs.

Any ways -

what are some of y'all's favorite basic land cycles?

What land arts are y'all's favorites?

What's some nifty trivia about basics?

Tell me.

Talk lands to me :)

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I didn't see a flair for card ideas but I just thought this up and I wanted to share it with you all. I am sorry it is not presented as an actual card with proper formatting and artwork, I just thought of this and have never attempted to make a card before.

Card Names: Quest Giver

Creature Type: Human (not Legendary)

Mana Identity: Colorless

P/T: 1/2

Mana Cost: 4 {C}

Rarity: Common

Text Box: All creature cards in your hand gain "Go on a Quest 3 {C} Sorcery - Adventure. Create a tapped Treasure Token. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)"

Thoughts and thank you for allowing me to post this.

-Itonhammer33

Hey everyone! I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for webcams to play on Spelltable/Convoke. I am hoping to use it both for work calls and MTG and am getting confused with all of the choices. Thank you!

I’m wanting to buy some cheap singles from the new marvel set but everything I look up is like $4 when it should no more than 80c. Where do I go to gets cards that aren’t ripping people off?

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> I opened a card from a different set in my booster pack, is this unusual?

Don't worry, this is completely normal. If you opened a set booster, you have a small chance of obtaining a bonus card from a previous set. This is an extra card that does not replace any of the other cards in your pack, and is from a curated set of past hits that Wizards of the Coast has selected, which they call "The List".

You can view the contents of The List on Wizards of the Coast's official website. For example, the contents of The List for Streets of New Capenna boosters can be found here.

> My foil card has a shooting start symbol over the bottom left. I can't find anything about it online.

All old-bordered foils have the shooting star symbol. Most sites that display card images just overlay a generic foil graphic over all foil cards, which doesn't include the shooting star. Your card is normal.