Momir is a Stupid Magic Format
17 January 2025
This week “Magic the Gathering Arena” had momir as it’s midweek magic
challenge. In this format you are given a deck of 60 snow lands, 12 of each
color. You have an emblem that lets you pay X mana and discard a card to get a
random creature token with mana value X at sorcery speed once per turn. I find
it terribly unsatisfying due to the amount of random luck involved in this
format. I would find it more interesting if it took the best that magic has to
offer (that I have to pay attention to my opponents turn and they can do things
to me on my turn).
A Diagram to Explain the Various Magic the Gathering Formats
26 March 2024
I was struggling to explain the various formats of magic the gathering to my
friend, so I made this diagram using d2lang, a nifty diagram creation
language. There’s about 5 commonly played formats on paper and then there’s the
digital formats. Each format has different card pools and its own banlist to
enhance the health of the meta. Each format may also have different set
construction rules, but the only special one is commander.