{"id":867377,"date":"2025-12-18T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/NYtQbTDgGwtCSdmi9oZwcm"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:11:28","slug":"oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I like to play Magic&apos;s Commander format, because it lets four people sit round a table slinging nonsense at each other and that&apos;s a good time. It&apos;s a social game, where the above-the-table deals between players can be as important as the cards in your hand. I also play Standard, usually in Arena, because I like to pit a deck I&apos;ve built\u2014or modified from somebody else&apos;s decklist\u2014against the internet and see how it measures up. But the wild proliferation of other Magic: The Gathering formats? Leave me out.<\/p>\n<p>I tried Historic\/Vintage, where all those old cards from before the designers understood &#8220;balance&#8221; are legal, and it just meant being thrashed by people with cards I&apos;d never heard of that did things I didn&apos;t understand. Modern, which lets you play older cards than Standard but newer cards than Historic\u2014the cutoff point is 2003&apos;s eighth edition\u2014didn&apos;t appeal to me at all. It&apos;s less likely to end in a turn-one wipeout than Vintage, but the cards and combos are still more powerful than the ones in Standard? Nah, I&apos;m good.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I thought, and then I watched a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7AWQgFxG4iQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half-hour documentary about Modern Horizons 3<\/a> and my defenses crumbled.<\/p>\n<p>Regular Magic expansions have a theme, like cowboys or murder-mystery or fairytales, and part of the fun is seeing how that theme is interpreted as new mechanics and cards. The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/magic-the-gatherings-lord-of-the-rings-set-gives-the-card-game-a-mythic-resonance-other-crossovers-lacked\/\">Tales of Middle-earth<\/a> expansion leaned into the things that make Tolkien&apos;s work different from other fantasy, which meant it wasn&apos;t just a great Magic set, but it also changed the way I think about The Lord of the Rings. That&apos;s cool! The Modern Horizons sets don&apos;t do that. Each one is just about coming up with new cards, or reprinting old ones, specifically to suit the Modern format. That means they need to be high-power and competitive, and that&apos;s all.<\/p>\n<p>But as that documentary highlighted, this gives designers a chance to take their gloves off and make some real haymakers. It also means every new card is \u00a0somebody&apos;s idea of a fun thing to add to Magic. Nobody has to make a card for Gollum because you have to have a card for Gollum. It&apos;s all stuff that will be fun to play.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Reef Worm, one of the reprints (pulled in from Commander 2014). Its stats are 0\/1, the lowest they can be without being dead. When the Reef Worm inevitably dies though, you get a free 3\/3 fish. And when that fish dies, you upgrade to a 6\/6 whale. And when the whale dies? You get to drop a 9\/9 kraken on the board, because there&apos;s always a bigger fish. Other cards are entertaining because of how many options they have. Thraben Charm lets you pick from three different things it can do, while Kozilek&apos;s Command lets you choose two out of a list of four possibilities. Other sets have cards like this, but less of them, and for more mana.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery inline-layout\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-wrap\" style=\"display:flex; flex-flow:row nowrap;\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 1 of 7<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"qEb2KBRXexucz9vawu5A8D\" name=\"KozileksCommand.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Horizons 3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 2 of 7<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"RiQjG94gs3S6WjbTHHKidC\" name=\"ThrabenCharm.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Horizons 3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 3 of 7<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"UCBNJ4cj5dwg5AX7v8wxDC\" name=\"SlingGang.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Horizons 3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 4 of 7<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"pS8BSynxTAtMHKuG7sQpsC\" name=\"Phlage.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Horizons 3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 5 of 7<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"woVtgMVYQBZvhcBGb36nHD\" name=\"ReefWorm.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Horizons 3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with-4.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 6 of 7<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ZxQPhrhZYELKxiFSE2zASC\" name=\"UlvenwaldHydra.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Horizons 3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with-5.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 7 of 7<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"5FBWEgibUwh2sWK3TzP4zb\" name=\"KaaliaVast.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Horizons 3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with-6.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I went to a prerelease event for Modern Horizons 3 with an open mind, and found out that, yes, a set full of cards designed to be fun is a fun set to play. I played my Kozilek&apos;s Command to summon four spawns, then followed it with Thraben Charm, choosing the ability that does two points of damage for every creature you&apos;ve got. Swinging for eight points of damage like that feels real good.<\/p>\n<p>I still lost the match though, because my opponent had a deck of cards that were just as powerful, Which is the part I hadn&apos;t expected to enjoy. It wasn&apos;t just that I had a hand full of Eldrazi nonsense and giant fish, it was seeing what my opponent could do in return. Which turned out to be a lot, because these cards cost less mana so you can take more of those swings per turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don&apos;t know if I&apos;d want to play Modern all the time, because I imagine the shine would come off once my expectations shifted and this level of combo became my baseline, rather than a fun holiday in Crazy Town. But I&apos;ll definitely try it again, and helpfully this is the first Modern-only expansion to be released in Arena, so I can play it in the digital realm as well.<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/products\/modern-horizons-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modern Horizons 3<\/a> will be out in paper form on June 14, and is available in Arena now.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/card-games\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to play Magic&apos;s Commander format, because it lets four people sit round a table slinging nonsense at each other and that&apos;s a good time. It&apos;s a social game, where the above-the-table deals between players can be as important as the cards in your hand. I also play Standard, usually in Arena, because I like to pit a deck I&apos;ve built\u2014or modified from somebody else&apos;s decklist\u2014against the internet and see how it measures up. But the wild proliferation of other Magic: The Gathering formats? Leave me out. I tried Historic\/Vintage, where all those old cards from before the designers understood &#8220;balance&#8221; are legal, and it just meant being thrashed by people with cards I&apos;d never heard of that did things I didn&apos;t understand. Modern,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[3083,748],"class_list":["post-867377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-card-game","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I like to play Magic&amp;apos;s Commander format, because it lets four people sit round a table slinging nonsense at each other and that&amp;apos;s a good time.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I like to play Magic&amp;apos;s Commander format, because it lets four people sit round a table slinging nonsense at each other and that&amp;apos;s a good time.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-18T10:11:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"344\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"headline\":\"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-18T10:11:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":851,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"card game\",\"games\"],\"articleSection\":[\"PC Gamer\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/\",\"name\":\"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with | Arcader News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-18T10:11:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"description\":\"I like to play Magic&apos;s Commander format, because it lets four people sit round a table slinging nonsense at each other and that&apos;s a good time.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg\",\"width\":344,\"height\":480,\"caption\":\"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"description\":\"Free Arcade News from the Best Online Sources\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\",\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Arcade News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cricketgames.tv\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/author\\\/arcade-news\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with | Arcader News","description":"I like to play Magic&apos;s Commander format, because it lets four people sit round a table slinging nonsense at each other and that&apos;s a good time.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with | Arcader News","og_description":"I like to play Magic&apos;s Commander format, because it lets four people sit round a table slinging nonsense at each other and that&apos;s a good time.","og_url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/","og_site_name":"Arcade News","article_published_time":"2025-12-18T10:11:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":344,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Arcade News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Arcade News","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/"},"author":{"name":"Arcade News","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839"},"headline":"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with","datePublished":"2025-12-18T10:11:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/"},"wordCount":851,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg","keywords":["card game","games"],"articleSection":["PC Gamer"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/","name":"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with | Arcader News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg","datePublished":"2025-12-18T10:11:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839"},"description":"I like to play Magic&apos;s Commander format, because it lets four people sit round a table slinging nonsense at each other and that&apos;s a good time.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with.jpg","width":344,"height":480,"caption":"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-no-now-i-like-another-magic-the-gathering-format-i-have-to-keep-up-with\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/","name":"Arcade News","description":"Free Arcade News from the Best Online Sources","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839","name":"Arcade News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Arcade News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/cricketgames.tv"],"url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/author\/arcade-news\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430888,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867377\/revisions\/1430888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}