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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@gavinverhey.bsky.social I would like a Jund legend that eats counters off its controller (e.g., poison, energy, exp, tickets) and spends or reprocesses them somehow. Into resources or convert them into poison for others?

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@gavinverhey.bsky.social I want a Jeskai flicker legend. The issue with the Azorious flicker cards is that the things I want to flicker are all red. Jane Foster hitting Chainsaw and Mjolnir rules. To be clear, I don't want a good Jeskai target to flicker, I want a jeskai card that flickers stuff.

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Wizards' strategy for well supported Magic archetypes (e.g., Landfall) is just to print into them harder and deckbuilding choices center around which auto includes to cut because you can't use them all. It's bizarre to me that "Iron Man" is now one of those "well supported archetypes."

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

@wotcmatt.bsky.social is the wording "cast a spell that targets" mechanically distinct from "becomes a target of a spell." That is, if one were to give this guy the Spellskite ability, that sort of targeting would not trigger him in the same way Coalition Flag enchanting him would.

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

@danaroach.bsky.social @josephmschultz.bsky.social curious if your win percentage went up when you started tracking? I was inspired by your discussion to do it myself. This year my win % is around 45% so far, and I *feel* like it had to have been in the low 30s before. Lots of year left though...

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hey @wachelreeks.com, RE: your discussion on free mulligans, I'm curious how often you have personally used the "for content" mulligan rules when you play for camera? Are your decks consistent enough that you don't even use it then?

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

@wotcmatt.bsky.social how come Delina, Wild Mage is not included in the great Sorcerer errata of 2026? She is canonically a sorcerer...

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

@gavinverhey.bsky.social The most unheralded (unbeheld?) mechanic this year was Behold. I pulled out a deck I designed earlier this year around type shifting everything into dragons. It enables beholding meek-looking creatures. Beholding a fox glimmer was everything I wanted it to be.

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

@gavinverhey.bsky.social I've come fully around on hybrid costs. It used to be that hybrids had some color bends that felt weird, but as more cards get printed, the bends have felt less weird. The main card that drives my interest is Zirda. I play lots of R, and little W. I want Zirda in nonW decks

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

@ethanfleischer.bsky.social was there ever a universe where this Nissa had "Partner with" a Chandra? I really wish I could run it as a commander with the addition of red color identity.

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

@gavinverhey.bsky.social Kudos to whomever greenlit a Jund -1 counter legend. I've been asking for this for this since the Sultai Volrath was printed in an unfortunate color combo.

Image of a new Lorwyn Eclipsed commander deck packaging called Blight Curse themed on "creature combos" and "-1/-1 drain."

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

@ethanfleischer.bsky.social can there be a card that cares about when +1 and -1 counters annihilate? Like to make them explode... Maybe do damage to the permanent's controller + board = to multiple of the number of counters that annihilated and/or exile the card that had counters?

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

@attackoncardboard.com why is there a difference in trigger resolution between Hangarback Walker receiving lethal -1/-1 counters (still makes thopters) and a Vincent Valentine that observed the Hangarback Walker die (gets no counters)?

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

@attackoncardboard.com Hi, in the combination of Nahiri's Lithoforming and Horizon Explorer do timestamps matter?

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

@wotcmatt.bsky.social Is sephiroth's emblem trigger something that goes on the stack and can be responded to? Or is it all part of the 4th resolving front side trigger? More particularly, is the creation of the emblem an effect I can copy?

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

@gavinverhey.bsky.social I would like a Mardu legend that has the Valakut Exploration effect (e.g., bottle draw that ends up in GY), but triggered off of cards leaving your GY instead of landfall. My Black-Lorehold deck is starving and Celes is a Kill-on-sight, tryhard monster.

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

@wotcmatt.bsky.social does Deadpool's entry modification and the resultant text box he has count as a copiable value, or with respect to itself, is it a text modification? Stated another way, does a copy of Deadpool enter with a previously stolen text box, or does the copy get to exchange anew?

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

@daneenart.bsky.social what did the art director tell you for this card? "I want the buff Shiba Inu meme, but make it Abzan"?

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

@wotcmatt.bsky.social I attach Aetherspark to a creature (let's say, Colossal Dreadmaw) and then I attach Luxior to Aetherspark. What result? Does Aetherspark remain equipped to Dreadmaw without a reconfigure ability? What if Luxior is attached first? 301.5c doesn't feel explicit here.

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Colin Fowler @colinssocial.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

@wotcmatt.bsky.social Does this spell have no effect if cast outside of a main phase?

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