Source is https://www.instagram.com/p/DbFMMeLDkNL/

Oil on Masonite, 16” x 20”

I started playing Magic in 1998 and it was a big part of my life for well the majority of it at this point. I remember I signed up for the guru program when I was like 10 just because I wanted the free starter kit so I could have more cards than the two precons I'd managed to afford. They never showed up, but I got 5 basic lands randomly a year afterwards, hooray stupid lands.

Anyway I want to get rid of the last of my collection, its a bunch of stuff I forgot I had stored after I sold off my main collection back in 2018-19, it was bulk, but since I got out these scanner apps have popped up, so I scanned through four or five boxes, enough to give me a head ache and a sore neck. I wasnt expecting much value but .. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kK0dKjirJUIq4ChalqXbShYl2TU7BgEW/view?usp=drivesdk

I'm out of touch with the community the LGS I used to haunt closed shop, my younger family and friends kids arent the type, I can't just throw them away because they're Magic cards and their importance is still some kind of core part of me apparently regardless of how I feel about the game these days. Plus I'm - not rich, a human and not zealously charitable. I also want them to go somewhere they'll be exciting or cool or whatever to someone again. I could just sell off the stuff I put in binder based on the info from the app, but that's only like 600 some cards out of maybe 2500 that I looked through and there's well over 10k total.

Are there any groups that go for big collections or should I try to find like a convention to take them to? What would you do in my shoes?

Oh and the Guru lands aren't in this, my mother burned my first collection..

I’m fairly new and looking for playmats, I found this one on jankmats but I’m worried that the bright pink colors are a bit too distracting and the cards might get hard to see/jumbled in the art. Any opinions on this? Have you ever had or had another player with a distracting playmat? Is jankmats a good website to buy from? Should I go with a more subtle, less colorful and more minimalist playmat? Thanks in advance!

Currently on the TCGPlayer yt channel, Frank Karsten (Pro Tour hall of fame and phd in game theory and probability theory) is doing a series on the mathematics of mtg. He goes very in depth with some interesting concepts that I have found to be very helpful for my deckbuilding and gameplay strategy. I thought I knew a lot, having learned about the hypergeometric distribution and reading his article on how many sources of each color to play, but I've learned a lot more through this series. Haven't seen many people talking about this, so I highly recommend checking it out. I've linked my favorite one so far, which talks about how many copies of a card you should run.

https://b23.tv/hwqvOzB

Source is https://www.polygon.com/mtg-the-hobbit-exclusive-orcrist-thorin-sword-equipment/

Your choice whether you interpret this for the lore, the gameplay, the feeling...

Anything goes, expect two or more cards.

Source is https://www.thegamer.com/magic-the-gathering-hobbit-exclusive-card-preview/

From the article:

While highlighting the announcement of the three in-universe, first-party sets from this past weekend’s MagicCon: Amsterdam preview panels, Cocks also touted the unannounced Universes Beyond sets coming in 2027. He said the IPs, which there will be three of next year, are really strong and that fans will be thrilled by them.

“One thing I will say on the Universes Beyond partners that we have next year is that they will be a bit more fantasy adjacent,” Cocks said. “And I don’t think any of them take place in New York City, because we definitely have gotten that feedback from some fans.”

Link: https://articles.starcitygames.com/magic-the-gathering/magic-the-gathering-marvel-super-heroes-sets-record-for-day-1-and-month-1-revenue/

Revealed by Jim Pavelec on his Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbERrGGyZcN/