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I play several in my Ephara <2 power flash deck! It is really nice to use Assemble’s “once per turn” on every turn of the turn cycle, often in response to Ephara’s draw trigger :p -E

Assemble the Players {1}{W}
Enchantment
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.
“All will soon be made clear, but I can give you this: our killer is here with us, in this very room.”
—Alquist Proft

Illustrated by Evyn Fong

Errant and Giada {1}{W}{U}
Legendary Creature — Human Angel
Flash
Flying
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast spells with flash or flying from the top of your library.
2/3
Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

The Reality Chip {1}{U}
Legendary Artifact Creature — Equipment Jellyfish
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn’t a creature.)
0/4
Illustrated by Campbell White

Ephara, God of the Polis {2}{W}{U}
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and blue is less than seven, Ephara isn’t a creature.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you had another creature enter the battlefield under your control last turn, draw a card.
6/5
Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A friend convinced me to try it.. it has not yet convinced me that it is worth playing -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

👀 I’m looking so respectfully I swear 👀 👀 👀 -T

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My first cube! A low-mid power artifacts cube. I tried for a variety of archetypes, and removal is great (except for blue’s) because black can destroy creatures and every other color can destroy artifacts -E cubecobra.com/cube/about/7...

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Cube Cobra: The Rats' Artifacts Cube

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do not forget Multiversal Passage and Thran Portal! :> -E

Multiversal Passage
Land
As this land enters, choose a basic land type. Then you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
This land is the chosen type.
Illustrated by Daren Bader

Thran Portal
Land — Gate
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
As this land enters, choose a basic land type.
This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.
Illustrated by Sarah Finnigan

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They have never heard of the three-day cycle (estradiol benzoate) (discontinued in the US for good reason, but it sure is cheap) -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Bracket 3” with a third of the deck being Blood Moon <.< -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I built a complete set of Star decks when MOM released and standard had five relatively-viable and unique mono-color decks. White Knight-Errant aggro, blue Djinn tempo, black Sheoldred midrange, red Swiftspear prowess, and green Invasion ramp. I never played it :< moxfield.com/lists/R4N5q-... -E

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MOM Standard Star - List

5 decks • Five mono-color lists from MOM standard for the Star format. • Curated by The_Rats.

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Enough babies” like they randomly age up XD -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I immediately slotted it into my Esper artifact list for all the reasons above, plus one is a critical mana value to pod into Sword of the Meek and Thopter Foundry :> -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Downside: the mana dork is extremely killable. EDH players hate planeswalkers more than they hate attacking -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My lowest is 37 (no MDFCs) (down from an average of 39.5 with MDFCs) and I feel it every time. Even if it floods out after the engines are online, it sometimes misses a land drop getting there, which is unacceptable for a control deck <.< I probably should at least add Angel of the Ruins.. -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw some fascinating tech with prepared creatures, particularly the emeriti, that you might want to use: Many of their spells exist as their own cards and are strong enough to justify maindecking to enable an enchantment that usually does not work in commander :> -E

Pyromancer Ascension {1}{R}
Enchantment
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that has the same name as a card in your graveyard, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell while this enchantment has two or more quest counters on it, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Illustrated by Kev Walker

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Way of the Necromancer Aristofriends. I am going to instantly ultimate a planeswalker or two :> -E

Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion {2}{W}
Legendary Creature — Gith Warrior
If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
3/3
Illustrated by John Stanko

Scion of Halaster {1}{B}
Legendary Enchantment — Background
Commander creatures you own have “The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card.”
Most see the Mad Mage as a deranged menace, but you recognize the genius behind his paranoia.
Illustrated by Milivoj Ćeran

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Parnesse’s trigger is a may for the opponent. Whichever one you target can stop the loop whenever they want, as well -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can combat this by spending less than a dollar per page at your local library, each of which is nine Magic cards of any price mtgprint.net -E

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MTG Print

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We already have Swans of Bryn Argoll with the draw effect, so I imagine the blue one will be “return up to that many target nonland permanents to their owners’ hands”. If it comes in a non-standard set, perhaps without the nonland restriction >.> -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Please me that you lost a bet and had to post this. It is a perfectly fine win condition and the only proper one in my B2 Ephara list. All it does is stall with annoying flash creatures, no locks, and dig for Approach (or Solve). Small sample size this year, but it has had no problem winning -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Divination has been powercrept; three mana to draw two being instant speed is the new going rate. However, the main point is that relentless cards should not be the going rate. With that said, I cannot wait to play ~10 of these in a standard control deck :> -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone is suggesting more tokens per token, so these are the silly cherry on top -E

Warp World {5}{R}{R}{R}
Sorcery
Each player shuffles all permanents they own into their library, then reveals that many cards from the top of their library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren’t put onto the battlefield on the bottom of their library.
Illustrated by Ron Spencer

Over the Top {5}{R}{R}
Sorcery
Each player reveals a number of cards from the top of their library equal to the number of nonland permanents they control, puts all permanent cards they revealed this way onto the battlefield, and puts the rest into their graveyard.
Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

Depthshaker Titan {5}{R}{R}
Artifact Creature — Robot
When this creature enters, any number of target noncreature artifacts you control become 3/3 artifact creatures. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.
Each artifact creature you control has melee, trample, and haste. (Whenever a creature with melee attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each opponent you attacked this combat.)
5/5
Illustrated by PINDURSKI

Craterclaw Colossus {4}{R}{R}{R}
Artifact Creature — Beast Construct
Haste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts you control.
Some puppetbeasts are monstrous machines. Others, works of art. The best are both.
5/5
Illustrated by Mark Zug

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Your OCs, when you post about them, are not mediocre. It is always nice to see Demo or Saya make an appearance in my feed, or the hellhound from the mod on which you have been working, lately :> -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So the broken digital-only cards remain legal in Historic/Brawl and the good rebalances, e.g. the ones buffing unplayable draft chaff to have a second life and nerfing the One Ring and Bowmasters, are being undone? I would like Arena to have parity with paper, but this is a very odd half-step -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Elves are French :nod: -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Theorist Slenderman be like collect my Jaces -T

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How does one shave another’s head accidentally? -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sol Ring as a game changer with no exceptions for B2 would allow WotC to distinguish between brackets for precons. B2 precons would not have Sol Ring, B3+ precons would keep it -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was done months ago, but nobody seemed to notice -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sol Ring as a game changer, allowing future precons to establish themselves as bracket 2 by not having it, bracket 3+ when they do -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am sure your playgroup is large, and you have many in your life you consider close <: The link to a larger sample is appreciated, in any case. I would love to add my data to it, but they strangely do not seem to be accepting further records. -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This entity with every Feign Death effect and some sacrifice outlets, especially Altar of Dementia, would make those cards shine :0 -E

Carnage, Crimson Chaos {2}{B}{R}
Legendary Creature — Symbiote Villain
Trample
When Carnage enters, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains “This creature attacks each combat if able” and “When this creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it.”
Mayhem {B}{R}
4/3
Illustrated by Lordigan

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Data from 111 games this year suggests otherwise. Player 4 has the second highest win rate, and player 3 is the lowest by far. -E

A pie chart of player wins by seat from my Google Sheets records.
P1 WR: 30.6%
P2 WR: 24.3%
P3 WR: 18.0%
P4 WR: 27.0%

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jace has always been a little fragmented. It is a strategy he has employed before, such as on Innistrad. With that in mind, being split into many by his failure is not unusual. To me, the jumbling is one alter overpowering the others and taking over, something that has not happened before -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes, but the Theorist was reined in on moral grounds by the other Jaces, such as the Guildpact. He did not like this and “carve[d] out the parts of himself that disagree[d]” -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Re-Game Changer Urza. The card is an auto-win for artifact decks, even if it is not the commander. Also, please revisit hybrid mana. I know the proposed change was divisive, but I still think it would be great for the format. -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

He jumbled himself up. Intentionally. This *is* Jace making a huge mistake. -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My reply is as follows. It is on you to read the whole thing: P̵̤̅̇͌̈́͗r̸̰̪̮̰̜̲̆͒̿̐̎̚e̶̡̧̠͉̜͉͔̺̋͋̚s̵̜̔e̶̢͔̮͍̼̼̙͂͆̌̂̕̕͠n̶͚̈̀̾͋̐̓̃t̸̯͝a̵̼̰̝͎̓̾̓̌t̵̡̡̺̣̙̫̽͒̽̈̽̿͂͗ȋ̴̝͙̮̠̽̔̍̂̔̾̒o̵̧̨͇̊̽n̴̲͚͌̑ ̴̗̊͑̚m̴̰͔̹̬̃ͅa̵̧͈̞͖̫̪͜͝t̷̬͔̘̼̙̼̊̄́͝ṫ̴̯͔̭ḛ̷̭̜͌́ŗ̴̖͈̇͊s̵̨̺̺̾̀͐͝.̵̢̼̰̤̝͉̰̎̈́̈́̒̏̓̐͋͜ ̵̟̭͓̋̎̊̔I̴̜̔̊̀̔́̈͝ͅ ̸̬͋͘h̴͙͍͎̭̆͑͗͂̈́̓̋͝o̸̻̘͈͕͙͊͑̋̄͒p̸̗̩̮͍͍̾́́e̵̘͈̽̾̓͌͘ ̷͈̽́͂̚t̸̜̪̘̫̉͊͌̄h̵̡̛̹̠͕̎͗i̸̛͙̥̽́̓͌͋ŝ̴̝͔̝͍̄̒̀ ̴̺̙̮͖̘̘̱̣̌̏̅͛̏̕͝ḯ̶̞̫͜l̵̡̪̳͙͇̣̏l̷̞̰̤̺͕͉̠̂̂̽u̶͉̮̮̲͔̒̎͘ś̸̥̟͓̈̏͊̉͜͠ͅt̶̨̢͙͙̞̪̗͋̍͑͒̐̊ṛ̸̜̞̈̏a̵̡̫͊́t̶͓͕̻̗͎̲͇͊̒̑̏̔̾ͅę̵̺̲̉̿̃s̸̮̫̥̯̹̯̭̎̊͗͑̔̈́ ̷͈̌͂͑͛́̋̈́͠m̶̡͕̰̟̖̐̿̐́̽ý̵̨̼͖̖̳́ ̸̜̜̠̓͘̕p̵̦̮̹̤͔̈́͌̾́͝o̵̧͎̥̟̯̲̿̃͘i̵̧̨̭̋̾̀ń̸͎̤̯̤̟̻̩̄̈́͂̎t̵̬̙̙̻̤̦̙̄́̕͜.̵̨̹̜̰͓̭͓͑͆ͅ -E

TRADE OFFER
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you receive:
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The man offering the trade is Flowery's clapping sprite

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It was in text that makes it hard to read, especially when attention is being pulled to the image below ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

mtgprint.net is a good place to start, supplying the correct card sizes and any existing card/token as a base. Then, use any image manipulator to cut, paste, add, or alter as you please :> -E

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MTG Print

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

AI cannot lie because it does not know what truth is. And yet, we have humans tasking it to determine what is true <.< -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

happy birbday deer ! sleep good u deserve it -A

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s okay we got a new one but I’ll always accept hugs 😸🤍 -T

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi I’m the dumbass immune system that took out a kindergartener’s pancreas -T

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Craterhoof is a combo finisher. Simply having ten tokens is the maximum setup it needs. That is sometimes not enough for Time Sieve to get itself online, and the latter is a bracket-four-exclusive combo piece -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Knowing that deer often refers to herself in the third person, this sentence caused quite the double take -E

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The Rats @the-rats.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Emul’s vocal tic.. SLF S1 was peak it had so much Emul so much desuwa…. -T

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