Alex, Who Embraces the World @storycircle@wubrg.social

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/welcome-summer-legend-2021-05-06

Highlights:
- Urza's Saga as a Saga
- Basic lands with box text
- Tiamat as a 5c dragon tribal legend (with a very short name for a legendary creature card; she's just Tiamat! I was sure she'd have titles.)

Lowlight: Having Tiamat in the D&D set makes me about as anxious as having Vorinclex on Kaldheim. Then again, she also makes me want to brew for Commander.

Apparently they're printing a Saga card called Urza's Saga

I can just hear someone at the back of R&D going "this is why we called them sagas, right?"

https://great-collapsing-hrung-disaster.tumblr.com/post/650083361049690112/brawltogethernow-roach-works-powerburial

It would not occur to me to wonder why tournament-legal Yugioh decks can't be larger than 60 cards, since Duel Monsters began life as Magic the Gathering with the serial numbers filed off, but it turns out the rule is a response to some epic tournamen trolling.

I can't believe it took them almost three decades to make a card called [[Mage Duel]]

If a dragon collects knitting supplies, is that a Hoard of Notions?

Don't talk to me or my son ever again

so I bought some duel decks

omg

[[Tangled Florahedron]] is a fixed [[Dryad Arbor]]

update: I have been informed that Kiora calling herself Callaphe was nothing more complicated than identity theft

I like my version better

I got excited about the flavor implications of [[Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea]]

like she's clearly based on Odysseus, so is the epithet ironic, or did Thassa have a mortal girlfriend, or

then I learned Callaphe was a name Kiora used when she was dicking around on Theros, and got disappointed

but I just realized it can work both ways. If enough people believe a thing on Theros, it becomes true. So the stories about Kiora may have created a "real" Callaphe.

Go show LoadingReadyRun some love on Twitch and Twitter if you have the chance. They had a lot of people being real shitty about a product reveal they're doing at the end of the Pre-Prerelease, and I refuse to let that be a representative sample of the player base.

update: I have been informed that the legendary fractal is not Standard legal

and now I'm sad I can't do Brawl fractal tribal

and honestly, the idea of needing changelings to fill out a tribal list does not appeal to me this season

LEGENDARY FRACTAL

https://scryfall.com/search?q=t%3Afractal

Does it bother anyone else that Learn is a rummage effect and not a loot effect?

@ajanionthespot https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-real-book/

The original bookleggers sold unlicensed jazz sheet music