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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Day 12 - Poison Designed for Drachenheim. Part of a Mythic cycle, elder dragons trigger on hoarding (what's that, maybe you'll find out later this month), and a effect that enhances it if you have Superiority. Drachenheim is about being the BIGGEST.

A custom MTG card.

Sildreth Biletongue 2BB
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon - Mythic
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever you hoard a card, you gain 2 life.
Superiority - Whenever you gain life, if you control the creature with the greatest power, each opponent loses that much life.
4/3

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You see what happens when we put in nothing challenges, we get sent off. It's so clear that the officiating threshold for what constitues a yellow if it's by us is so much lower than anyone else. What's the point in being horrible to play against when referees send you off for nothing?

The best teams in the world are also horrible to play against. Liverpool aren't horrible. They're an easy touch at the moment. They have too many players that are nice and they have to change that part of the game.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The referees cabal once again. Ignores the 60-odd minutes of City either only conceding free kicks or in some cases, not even that for more blatant acts of SPA. Remember, Doku was in his own half and there were 8 Liverpool players between him and the goal. Guehi avoids yellow for handball. 🤷

Darren Cann
Former Premier League assistant referee

Referee Chris Kavanagh was correct to send off Ryan Gravenberch. In refereeing, that kind of offence is known as an ‘SPA’ – stopping a promising attack.

Gravenberch perhaps didn’t need to make the challenge, but once he did, the referee had no option but to issue a second yellow card.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Day 11 - Resolute Designed for Khesgard. Want to continue the Omni- super cycle, didn't like FRA's Omnipresence so wanted to move away from the free spell aspect. Omnipotence is in the God set for theme. I actually think this card is something that they will print for this title one day.

A custom MTG card.

Omnipotence 6WWW
Enchantment - Mythic
Spells you cast from your hand can't be countered.
Permanents you control have indestructible.
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Day 10 - Bold Designed for Khesgard. First little showcase of the potential mechanics for this set. Gods are a major component but I don't want 60-odd God creatures. Glorify gives me the option of having more "possi-Gods".

A custom MTG card.

Gnarjur, Emboldened by Faith 1RG
Legendary Creature - Minotaur Warriror - Rare
Menace, trample
Worship - If you control a God or Shrine that shares a color with Gnarjur, other creatures you control get +1/+1.
Glorify 3RG (You may cast this spell for its glorify cost. If you do, it enters with a God counter.)

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

First a UB set I care about, second a UB precon I care about? This looks like it was designed for me.

Packaging for a MTG precon for the upcoming Marvel: Darkhold Destiny expansion. It shows Doctro Strange in a blue/red costume, with golden runes coming from his hands.

the White, Blue and Balck MTG symbols are above a title "Strange Academy", under which are the words Spellcasters and Blink.

Four tier Vince McMahon meme image.
Step one saying Esper
Step two saying Spellslinger
Step three saying Blink
Step four saying Doctor Strange

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Day 9 - Blood Designed for Drachenheim: Domain of Dragons. Drachenheim, as the name suggsest, is a Dragons focused plane, where power matters. Territorial is a riff on evolve that also checks opposing creatures entering.

A custom MTG card.

Haemospine Despot 2BR
Creature - Dragon - Rare
Menace, lifelink
Territorial - Whenever a creature with greater power than this creature enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
3/3

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Day 8 - Bubble Experimental design for Untitled Set 1. This set has transform as a core component due to the plane existing in two parallel timelines at once. Landmarks are meant to be something permanent, install is sort of like Fortifications but don't grant the land any abilities.

A custom MTG card.

Temporal Spheres 2
Artifact - Landmark - Rare
Ward 2
Transforming permanents you control have ward 2.
If this Landmark is installed, whenever a permanent you control transforms, draw a card.
Install 3 (3: Attach to target land you control. Install only as a sorcery.)

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 7 - Cauldron Designed for Khesgard. Stadiums are often referred to as cauldrons and shrines. Khesgard, being populated by Gods, has a shrines theme. I really like Aggravated Assault but it's becoming easier and easier to go infinite with. This gives you a bonus, while limiting the combats.

A custom MTG card

The Combat Cauldron 2RR
Legendary Artifact Enchantment - Shrine - Mythic
Creatures you control have first strike and haste.
1RR: Untap target creature you control. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Activate only as a sorcery and only once each turn.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Day 6 - Boil Cycle designed for Lux Choralis/Benthim. The goal with my custom sets is to craft a fully playable constructed environment. Part of that is mana. The first two sets have the Shocklands, but I wanted something different for fetches. I feel these are still good but not format warping.

A custom MTG card.

Boiling Pools
Land
{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if that land is a basic land and/or you control three or more other lands, untap it.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A noble attempt to temper such an absurd commander, but yeah, this kind of mana base just doesn't function without the crutch of Cultivates. I'd suggest the Vivid lands since they retain the Lorwyn flavour, but give you a couple of outs to at least get the game going.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Day 5 - Fire Designed for Benthim. Benthim is a High Seas set focused on a waterworld style plane, dominated by priates and explorers. I had a more flavourful version of plunder which stole cards from opponent's libraries, but that ended up reading clunkily (and likely hard to balance).

A custom MTG card

At Close Quarter 1R
Sorcery - Uncommon

At Close Quarters deals 3 damage to any target. If excess damage was dealt to a permanent this way, plunder. (Create a tapped Treasure token or amass Pirates 1.)

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 4 - Trouble Designed for Innovara. This is a simple flicker spell, that can then be kicked to become a mass protection spell like Eerie Interlude. Not a flashy design. I've had the art in the file for months, but never got the flavour of previous designs right.

A custom MTG card.

Avoid Trouble 1U
Instant - Uncommon
Kicker 1U
Exile target nontoken artifact or creature you control. If this spell was kicked, instead exile each nontoken artifact and/or creature you control. Return each card exiled this way to the battlefield under their owner’s control at the beginning of the next end step.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 3 - Toil Designed for Innovara, which is a Cyberpunk Corpotocracy. I felt the acronym TOIL was well placed here. The set already has burnout counters (which turn off activated abilities, except mana abilities, of permanents that have them). GWU is a counters manipulation archetype.

A custom MTG card.

Time Off in Lieu GU
Enchantment - Mythic
Flash
When this enchantment enters, you may put two burnout counters on any number of target nonland permanents you control. If you do, put a hexproof counter on each permanent that had burnout counters put on it this way.
1GU, Remove a counter from target nonland permanent you control: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 2 - Double Designed for Khesgard: Battle for Faith Khesgard is a plane where various pantheons compete for the faith of very small, largely nomadic groups of mortals. Who has the most faith has the most control of the plane. Naebu just tries to double as much as possible within URs colour pie.

A custom MTG card.

Naebu, Double Minded UR
Legendary Creature - God
Flash
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay 3. If you do, copy it. (The copy enters as a token.)
When Naebu enters, copy target instant ot sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets fot the copy.
If you control exactly two permanents named Naebu, Double Minded, they each get +1/+1, have double strike and the "legend rule" doesn't apply to them.
1/1

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 1 - Witches Two designs today. Witch's Thread is a design for Allvori Emergence, which uses Vivid and is a colours matter set. Crone of Crows is a bonus, as it has no home at the moment, but I like the art, and the effect came pretty naturally.

Custom MTG card.

Witch's Thread 1R
Sorcery
Gain control of target creature if its power is equal to or less than 1 plus the number of colours among permanents you control until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.
Cycling R

Custom MTG card.

Crone of Crows 2B
Creature - Human Warlock
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.
Whenever one or more players discard a card, create a 1/1 black Bird creature toke with flying and menace.
1/1

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The 2026 Moxtober prompts have been released. This time it's Macbeth themed, awkward because witches don't form a major part of any of my roadmapped custom sets. However, I'm still committing to each design being part of the proposed sets I have planned. Each post will contain the set name.

Orange text in Beleren font, over the art for Witch's Cauldron by Jason A. Engle
Moxtober 2026
1. Witches
2. Double
3. Toil
4. Trouble
5. Fire
6. Boil
7. Cauldron
8. Bubble
9. Blood
10. Bold
11. Resolute
12. Poison
13. Toad
14. Eye
15. Newt
16. Knock
17. Wood
18. Beware
19. Wing
20. Something
21. Wicked
22. Share
23. Sting
24. Salt
25. Maw
26. Laugh
27. Pain
28. Secret
29. Midnight
30. Hemlock
31. Thane

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely loved playing Reality Fracture this evening. It's a running joke that I play more than 40 cards at prerelease, but this time, I think it was justified. Such a wild amount of removal in this pool, with just enough win conditions to help me close out a 3-0, 6-0 tonight. #MTGFRA

Screenshot of a Magic: the Gathering companion rankings table.

In first place is me, with 9 points, a 3-0-0 record, and 55.4% OMW.

The rest of the player names have been scribbled out for privacy.

Photo of a Magic: the Gathering sealed deck. There are 50 cards total.

Lands (20)
6 Island
3 Swamp
6 Mountain
2 Stingerquill Annex
1 Theorix Annex
1 Innovative Commons
1 Theorist's Sanctum

The spells are laid out by mana value.

2 mana.
1 Twinned Vision
3 No Admittance
2 Last Gasp
1 Theorix Charm
1 Stingerquill Charm
1 Way of the Pyromancer
1 Fatehold Chronologist / Peer Review
1 Proft, Consulting Detective
1 Theorist's Proxy
1 Stingcaster Mage

3 mana.
1 Fulminous Forte
2 Wrath of the Blood mane
2 Mindseeker Oculus
1 Danitha, Spear of Agony
1 Gideon the Pathless
1 Chandra, Chill of Compliance

4 mana.
3 Extended Absence
1 Violent Echoes
1 Traxos, Academy Guardian

5 mana.
1 Rise of the Death ringer
1 Way of the Mind Sculptor
1 Jace, Reality Sculptor

6 mana.
Apex Witchstalker

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A few months back, I lost a Pokemon USUM Hardcore Nuzlocke on the champion fight, on the last mon. Today I completed the redemption runback. Champion Team: Backpack the Flygon Dungarees the Scrafty Plum the (Purple) Minior Hood the Decidueye Princess the Jellicent Roko the Naganadel

A screenshot of the Champion Screen for Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon. The character is female with blonde hair and a blue/white ensemble. In the background is a Flygon on the left, and a sliver of a Scrafty on the right.

The words "Congratulations! You are Alola's first-ever Champion!" are displayed above Flygon, with white body and a gradient rainbow outline.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

First test run of the Kwia shell this evening, thanks to @chronomagistrate.bsky.social @badatgender.bsky.social and new friend Jo. Hit a Soul's Attendant engine early and then was able to neatly follow up with Well, Kwia and then PL. Definitely helped by the more creature driven decks at the table.

Soul's Attendant W
Creature — Human Cleric
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
1/1

Well of Lost Dreams 4
Artifact
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Kwia Vigorbloom 3GWW
Legendary Creature — Elder Sphinx
Flying, vigilance, lifelink, ward {2}
Whenever you gain life, create a colorless artifact token named Lotus with “{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add three mana of any one color.” This ability triggers only once each turn.
6/6

Parallel Lives 3G
Enchantment
If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here is every mono-black that gives target (or enchanted) creature -N/-0, that isn't itself or specifically a creature an opponent controls. You might want to get an alter/not play Mourning due to the artist. There are other cards that modify toughness but all these will keep Loot at 4.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What? *looks at mana cost* *looks back at textbox* *looks at mana cost* What?

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So many good memories of an era of my Magic past that I enjoyed immensely. Nothing quite matches this on a personal level.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*(Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery and weather are card types.)*

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The extent of the contact Sky are making out could be a second yellow, was Macca compressed the air in the very tip of the player's boot. No actual contact was made on any part of the person.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This meant I took more Sauron commander damage that game than I took total damage (even with a T3 Descent into Avernus in play). And the table was right to do this, I was setting up for an Avacyn, into Time Wipe, into Thassa to blink Lavinia of the Tenth to lock down mana. Enabled by The Core.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lost last night's game in perhaps the most unique way I've ever lost. Managed to go from 5 to 23 Sauron, Lord of the Rings commander damage through a Teferi's Protection, because the Rubinia Soulsinger player granted the Sauron player an extra turn with a gifted Perch Protection! Just wild stuff.

Teferi's Protection 2W
Instant
Until your next turn, your life total can’t change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they’re phased out, they’re treated as though they don’t exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi’s Protection.

Perch Protection 4WW
Instant
Gift an extra turn (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they take an extra turn after this one.)
Create four 2/2 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. If the gift was promised, all permanents you control phase out, and until your next turn, your life total can’t change and you gain protection from everything.
Exile Perch Protection.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I can't believe you'd even consider saying THAT in public, absolutely heinous thinking. Daru Warchief is a Bottom 10 uncommon and you know it!

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Absolutely Fragmentize at the moment. So many high impact engines are artifacts and enchantments now, and many of those come down at 4 mana or under. Ceiling is single W to take out a Smothering Tithe, Rhystic Study. Put also picks off the early Sol Ring. Lots of targets between that it picks off.

Fragmentize W
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact or enchantment with mana value 4 or less.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cloning is also being diluted more and more because the clones have less and less flexibility, Clever Impersonator is a long time ago (12 years to be accurate). It's another "support" piece rather than a full blown part of how blue operates in the game. Therefore it's 0.5 of the identity.

Clever Impersonator 2UU
Creature — Shapeshifter
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.
0/0

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Huh, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, Graeme must've just missed the booking for Hornicek in the 90'+3 for time wasting, and the substituion to bring on Schar in the 90'+5. Maybe, just maybe it was those stoppages.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If we're being totally honest, my answer for FYBF will always and forever be Cyclonic Rift. But after that, then Mizzium Mortars, Toxic Deluge or Delayed Blast Fireball. I like my sweepers to be flexible in EDH.

Cyclonic Rift 1U
Instant
Return target nonland permanent you don’t control to its owner’s hand.
Overload 6U (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change “target” in its text to “each.”)

Mizzium Mortars 1R
Sorcery
Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don’t control.
Overload 3RRR (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change “target” in its text to “each.”)

Toxic Deluge 2B
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Delayed Blast Fireball 1RR
Instant
Delayed Blast Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If this spell was cast from exile, it deals 5 damage to each opponent and each creature they control instead.
Foretell 4RR (During your turn, you may pay 2 and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Definitive proof that they did in fact print Edge of Eternity to butter us all up for Star Trek.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For sure, I picked up a copy on a whim while looking for mono-blue replacement commanders. The main trigger to really go for it though was Helmut Zemo, Mastermind. It added just enough redundancy for this kind of effect, which I think is key for these more left-field archetypes.

Helmut Zemo, Mastermind 2U
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain
Whenever Helmut Zemo attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to his power from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. If you cast a spell this way, put a +1/+1 counter on Helmut Zemo.
2 / 2

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

An In-Universe legend in Grixis, in 2026?! Is nature healing?!

The Madcap Jester 1UBR
Legendary Creature - Clown Wizard R
Whenever The Madcap Jester attacks, each opponent exiles the top card of their library.
Whenever a spell or ability you control causes one ore more cards to be exiled from an opponent's library, you may play those cards until the end of your next turn. Mana of any type can be spent to cast spells this way.
3/2

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Cards like Gigantic Big Bear force decks to play creatures (and often lots of them), and pray that they can make resource negative trades. That and put a massive premium on wraths in limited, which continue to get more expensive to cast, while GBBs get cheaper. It's wholly poor for the game.

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There's basically no interesting play pattern to giving a massive creature this combination of effects, there's no windows of gameplay where you can be punished for trying to cast the 7 mana spell. Even Hullbreaker needs its caster to sequence it alongside a second spell / around interaction.

Hullbreaker Horror 5UU
Creature — Kraken Horror
Flash
This spell can’t be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don’t control to its owner’s hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner’s hand.
7/8

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These 3 abilities on the same card is infinitely more detrimental to the essence of Magic than first strike, deathtouch, and trample would be on a single card. But people aren't prepared to have that conversation because it would mean recognising that they're what they claim blue players to be.

Screengrab of a MTG card that says, "This spell can't be countered. Hexproof, haste"

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cryptic, dingus, egg (moxtober 2026) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

But imagine the furore is they dared give blue a counterspell this good at 2 mana in this day and age? Blue's last piece of uniqueness is being eaten up by white.

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