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Ai assisted deck building is lame

One of my favorite mtg content creators recently did a collaboration with an AI deck building tool and I was honestly just disappointed. I won’t mention the name, because I’m not tryna bully anyone. I just saw so many folks justifying it and it was crazy.
I’m biased against generative AI as an artist, so I’ll try to keep this short.

My biggest gripe is that using AI tools to generate or “optimize” decks will only make the player base dumber. I don’t say that to be mean - I WANT to play against knowledgeable players. Researching and comparing cards is how you understand your deck and WHY it works. I can hand a 5 year old a cEDH deck, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to play at a cEDH level. A new player can generate a deck, but that doesn’t mean they’ll understand how it works.

Deck building is part of the hobby. I personally enjoy it, though if youre new, or just don’t want to: buy a precon, find a list online, or go to your LGS and talk to people. I build decks and give away cards all the time. My bf wanted to get back into magic when we started dating and I spent multiple days building him a deck just because. I love playing against it (even when he kicks my butt)

Anyways, I hope this isn’t too much of a tired complaint. Now I want to use my superior, meaty, (albeit, sometimes smooth) human brain to build a BOS deck.
Ad Victoriam, Clankers.

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u/Agreeable-Review6490 — 23 hours ago
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This Archivist Has Saved 175,000 Articles from 30 Years of Writing about Magic: The Gathering

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u/404mediaco — 23 hours ago
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I DID IT

If someone cared abt my last post i got a brand new eraser and i want to buy acrylics to make cool proxies of very expensive cards! If you have advice for my future proxie i will hear them!

u/Otakussss — 23 hours ago
▲ 215 r/mtg

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks: "Next year we'll have the debut of our new Magic animated series."

u/Meret123 — 1 day ago
▲ 51 r/mtg

Question about exiling my commander.

If I have Loot as my commander, then he dies, and I use cauldron to exile him, and put him back in the command zone, what happens if I play him again? Does cauldron still remember that I had Loot exiled with it?

u/ImmobileEarthApple — 1 day ago
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Help me settle a debate

I don’t think the art of Narset from [[Shiko and Narset, Unified]] looks anything like Narset from previous renditions of her on other cards. I realize that different artists have different interpretations and she’s a little older but this Narset looks like a completely different person to me. My buddy on the other hand thinks I’m tripping dick and says they look exactly the same. Am I actually tripping or is he blind?

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Secret lair is flawed

New gen MTG player here, but I've heard that secret lair used to be a time based system and not stock based. Was there a real reason for this not being the case anymore?

u/Worried_Yogurt_714 — 1 day ago
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Ozai, the phoenix king.

Wanting to build a commander deck using Ozai, below is the list I have so far. What other cards would you add?

Aggravated Assault
Ashling, Flame Dancer
Avatar Roku, Firebender
Deflecting Swat
Diabolic Intent
Dolmen Gate
Doubling Cube
Dualcaster Mage
Electro, Assaulting Battery
Embercleave
Fiery Emancipation
Gratuitous Violence
Insatiable Avarice
Jeska’s Will
Koh, the Face Stealer
Mana Geyser
Moraug, Fury of Akoum
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
Rogue’s Passage
Savage Beating
Secret Tunnel
Seething Song
Twinflame Tyrant
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
Vampiric Tutor

u/ParsnipNo4531 — 1 day ago
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+1/+1 multiplication question l

If I have both artifacts on the battlefield and i cast a creature spell that says to add one +1/+1 to target creature does that mean i get three times +1/+1 counters or four +1/+1 times counters

u/JeffnTempest — 1 day ago
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Will I make friends or be hated if I bring this guy to EDH table?

u/Lovbringer — 1 day ago
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I think we can all agree

I personally think that making Secret Lairs (all of them) limited time offers and not limited print like they are doing right now. Sure it won't eliminate all the scalpers but I like to imagine that if Goblin Storm for example was sold for a week instead of just until theyre out of stock, those who wanted it would have it and scalpers would probably end up with a surplus that only those unfortunate to not have the money during that week will have to buy from. That amount probably won't be enough to warrant the hundreds of boxes their shitty bots got them and they end up going broke in the end. Ideally.

Now of course I am not a economist and maybe I am seeing a problem here. One being a longer delay between buying of the product and retrieving of it since this'll mean its print on demand, but wouldn't WotC just end up selling more copies this way?

u/AllOfTheRats — 2 days ago
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William Shatner ripping on the art for the Captain Kirk card.

u/GangstaRPG — 2 days ago
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Am i doing sonething wrong?

I tried to proxing a card by using a sharpie like i saw in a video, but with mine i'm not capable, i thought it have should been more black.

Is another tipe of sharpie? something with the card? The sharpie is with little ink remained? Did i missed something?

u/Otakussss — 1 day ago
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Arrived, don’t know what to do

Hi all. This just arrived at my house. It listed the address but no recipient. I have never bought MTG products, although I did play with friends a long time ago. Is this worth anything? Is it something worth keeping sealed? Am I going to get the pinkertons sent after me for having this?

u/Dhepburn634 — 1 day ago
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I’m over it. And you should be too if you’re not.

I left the above feed back. I’m tired of this company and its predatory practices. I’ve literally only ever bought two secret lairs but I wanted goblin storm pretty bad. There should be no reason I can’t have it without putting a $700 dollar whole in my finances. Screw scalpers. Screw WOTC.

u/True-Ad4395 — 2 days ago