I wanna say Wizards of the Coast is a shit company for a lot of reasons but they must be commended for one thing and that is their commitment to making Oko the sluttiest planeswalker in existence.

He's been mewwing all day

New MtG animatic!

When Oko decides to [+2] instead of [+1].

THEY WHITEWASHED OKO!?!?

I will never forgive WotC for making him an unsexy whiteboy. This is a major loss. They wronged us.

At least he’s still Whasian and sexy on the booster art.

Newsflash: biggest asshole you ever knew just got even sexier

Oko, Thief of Crowns

Artist: Yongjae Choi TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BRACKET, FIELD OF 32 PART 2!

It's a couple of meanies duking it out! Will Dihada's mass temporary steal beat Oko's permanent king-catching? Let's find out!

Make your choice!

unsleeving my Oko, Thief of Crowns in order to be more lore-accurate

I don't like the argument that because original Oko is at a higher rarity on a bonus sheet, it's impact in Limited is minimal so it's fine. Not everyone plays on Magic Arena and does Limited events dozens of times. Some people only play Limited in paper a couple times or at a pre-release and it's extremely discouraging when the one or two times you play limited, you get bodied by a notoriously OP card that isn't even a mechanically new card. Magic makes numerous different products, various products where they can reprint cards that aren't also used for Limited (i.e. collector boosters, FNM promos, Secret Lair, pre-constructed Commander decks) or even high powered reprint Masters sets that can be drafted. I don't see why Oko needed to be in the Play Boosters and I thought the same about Ragavan in March of the Machine. If it's thematically important to release the reprint associated with the set, then why not just do it in collector boosters? One thing I don't like about all of these bonus sheets is it means in nearly every limited environment with them, the best and most powerful cards are oftentimes old cards that I'd played with or against rather than the new cards I want to be excited for.

Let's see what the Question Mark's think about this specific topic.

fuck marry kill

aurelia ([[Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice]])

ashiok ([[Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver]])

oko ([[Oko, Thief of Crowns]])

all right. this took a bit but i have my answer!! this is based off vibes purely and not lore.

i would marry aurelia the warleader

she is first off super hot. secondly shes a woman and i love women. third she is a woman in a position of power. i have a very strong desire to play second in command to a strong (usually evil) woman and while aurelia doesnt seem inherently evil based on vibes (she seems like a bit of a warmonger tho) i would very happily help her accomplish her goals. also shes an angel and i would love to play with her wings >:3

i would fuck ashiok

ashiok is my favorite planeswalker, but probably wouldnt be an amazing partner. i feel like they would give me nightmares if i slept near them every night. i would kill for the chance to fuck ashiok tho it would be such an interesting experience. they are so twinky and i find their nightmareish horns attractive and really cool and i want to grab them and pull on them. i love ashiok so much and i want to kiss them so bad.

i would kill oko

i find oko pretty attractive but he is no ashiok or aurelia. hes very cute and i bet that he is a very fun guy and i would like to be a friend of his but the game calls for blood. and it unfortunately has to be his. hopefully he doesnt try and elk me i dont want to be a 3/3

Outlaws of Thunder Junction and Modern Horizons 3

I know these have been out for a couple of weeks but I never really got around to writing about them until now. I've been busy with work and it was my birthday last month and I went on a trip to Las Vegas where I first saw these. So here are my thoughts:

Outlaws of Thunder Junction

I've been looking forward to this set since it was revealed late last year because we've never had a wild west set before. After the war with the Phyrexians and Omenpaths now a thing which nonplaneswalkers can use to get to other planes it was kind of given that we would see other characters in this set like Tinybones and Fblthp. Fblthp seems perfect for this set because he's always ending up in places he shouldn't be and with Omenpaths I'm expecting to see him pop up in other places (assuming he doesn't die in this set). I'm not surprised to see Oko in this set since he was in the preview art but his Planeswalker card is a little underwhelming which to me is a good thing. This is nowhere near as powerful as Thief of Crowns (remember when he was all over standard before he got banned in Standard, Modern, AND Legacy because he kept turning things into elks?) but he has potential. I've already come across a three-card combo with him with Doubling Season to get infinite Oko tokens and card draws but I can't remember the third piece. I'm also not surprised to see Vraska in this set for the same reason as Oko. I like the artwork that's been revealed so far with her sitting at a poker table with everyone else petrified. I also can't tell if she's still compleated but with her tentacles she might still be. One of the cards I'm most excited for is the new Sword. I have a Sword collection of all 11 Swords (including Sword of Dungeons and Dragons) so I'm excited to add a 12th Sword to my collection. I can definitely see myself putting it into Kess because it fits right in. I can't wait to find out more about this set. We already know what crimes are (for those that don't know you commit a crime is when you target something of your opponent's with a spell or ability) but I'm curious to learn what Plot is as seen on Fblthp but based on the text it's an alternate casting cost of some kind.

Modern Horizons 3

Here we go for round three of Modern Horizons and from what we've seen so far it's going to be as good as the previous two. Hopefully it won't be as format warping as the last one but we still have a lot to find out about it. First of all I'm glad we're getting allied fetchland reprints. They're long overdue for a reprint and since we got the enemy set in two it's fitting we have allied in three. Considering they usually go for $20 to $40 right now these are much-needed. Just like last time it also seems there's a cycle of cards that you can pay an alternate cost for. So far all we have is the green one but it seems like you have to sacrifice a nontoken creature. For the debuts from vintage sets I'm glad to see Priest of Titania getting reprinted in this set because it'll really go well in my elves deck I built way back when I played at Tradesmart. It was my first "netdeck" and was recommended to me by another player because I built a general elves deck using cards from the Freyalise commander deck. It still has a place in my heart because one of my favorite colors is green so I might have to find room for it. Laelia I'm a little surprised to see in this set. I play Magic Arena on a daily basis and sometimes I see her in historic mono-red. She has potential in modern in some decks like mono-red prowess but we'll have to see.

That's all for now. My next post will be when we have more cards spoiled from Thunder Junction or MH3, whichever one comes first.

Assuming Oko is the planeswalker for Outlaws at Thunder Junction, they should name his card “Oko, Thief of Towns” and just make it a fixed version of Oko, Thief of Crowns. I think that would be really funny :3

Eh, 'Tasigur, the golden fang' is fine but he was a lil shit and got Dragon'd (See 'Dragonlord Silumgar' for him being worn as a fashionable necklace.) Now 'Oko, thief of crowns' is veering wildly into twink country with the brakes cut. 👀

This uninspired tiefling wannabe got abs like bubblewrap lmao

How... just how many cards are there in that game? But I guess I choose Alesha, who smiles at death because it sounds so poetic. Fey Steed has been a close second though. Seriously, I can't get over how many cards there are.

Hey Lanarion!

Not counting lands and unique prints, at the time of this answer, there are 23,156 Magic: The Gathering cards registered on Scryfall, with many more sets soon to come.

Anyway, let's start with Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. She's our canon trans woman and she chose her name after killing a dragon, naming herself after her grandmother. She also turned a transphobe into a staunch ally in the course of her story. We love to see a girlboss win, and I mean that unironically.

As a card, she is a 3 power, 2 toughness Red First Striker for 3 energy. Whenever she attacks, you can pay 2 White, 2 Black, or a mix of the two colors to return a weaker creature (power 2 or less) from the graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking. Her flavor text is a quote of hers, saying "Greet death with sword in hand."

So naturally, I would make her the focus of a spell to ease a trans woman's dysphoria. Since she's a Legendary Creature, I feel safe saying that one would call upon her (treating her as a spirit or archetype) for courage to exist as one's true self and protection from transphobes.

As we've established, I love me some good rocks, but let's play around with plants and other things for this. We really only need one Red energy (so the other two can be generic), so let's go for cactus spines for an offensive protection. For the other two, how about a candle in a gender-affirming color for the dysphoria relief and uhhhh does red pepper for courage make sense? I don't know, I don't use plants. Anyway, a triple-dose of Red energy would be more than enough to fuck up anyone that looks at a trans woman sideways.

Now, let's talk about Fey Steed. This was one of the Elks that made me almost make my Elk deck tri-color (RIP double-Oko, Thief of Crowns; you and your 3/3 Green Elk army will be missed). It's a 4 power, 4 toughness White creature for 4 energy (a double-White with 2 generic). When it attacks, another attacking creature you control becomes Indestructible until end of turn. When a creature or planeswalker you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you have the option to draw a card.

Now, this is a tricky one, because I have trouble with White energy. I've always struggled with it. And I don't want to keep pumping out protection-based stuff, so let's give the Elk a gun.

So someone done fucked with you and your buddies. You may or may not want to harm them, but then you think it would be even funnier to bless everyone around them instead so they're left wondering why their own luck sucks in comparison. So get yourself some kind of deer/elk memorabilia (farm supply stores often have little animal statues, start there), some blessing plants (rosemary? rice? I don't know, I don't do plants, but those are both White-aligned), and you light them fuckers up and wave the animal statue in the smoke. Then you tell your little deer or elk (or delk, or perhaps eer) to go bless everyone around that person but not them, and you put that little toy somewhere safe so it can work in peace. Outside of your house? By a window? Who knows! I don't! I'm a wizard on the internet, I don't live in your house!

So now you've got this little magic animal that's hitting everyone except the jackass with Blessing Bullets. Fuck yeah, Elks.

...I may have gotten a little unhinged in that last section. Anyway have fun with your Elk Gun.

~Jasper

Magic: the Gathering has a whole format dedicated around the idea of forcing you to build your deck around a personality trait or theme instead of a traditional meta; it's called Commander. Also, Magic prints thirst-traps in every set now, so as long as you can get yourself sensually immersed by art that's printed as 60x45mm, the job is easy. I don't know what that other ask is on about

Look up Enthralling Victor (2015, Winona Nelson) / Oko, Thief of Crowns (2019, Yongjae Choi), and Earthbind (Quinton Hoover, 1993)

I only ever played MTG on a couple of computer games (although I'm interested in the color system) so I didn't know that. It sounds like a potentially-fun way to play but I don't know enough about the mechanics to say.

I know Past Me was White/Blue, but I think Current Me is more Blue/Black...

The Trivia Contest Write-Up (AKA I Got Obsessed)

One of Unfinity's Attraction cards, Trivia Contest asks you to name a card (or plane, creature type, etc.) from a given starting letter that's in one of eighteen different categories. Naturally, as a trivia nerd, I had to be the one to bust it. Is the effect even worth all the effort? Who cares, we're here to have fun.

Before getting into the lists, there's a few base things to get out of the way.

There's a lot of overlap between names, since every card has to fall in at least two categories. For a fun side fact (of course there's fun side facts), Reaper King falls in the most as far as I can find, fitting eight categories (all five colors, legendary, artifact, creature) (and since it can be cast for colorless, you might fudge it into nine depending on your debate skills). A good few cards do share names with mechanics and sets, yet the only ones I feel are really notable are Conflux (which hits seven!), Future Sight, Hour of Devastation, Time Spiral, Channel, Fabricate, and Flash.

Some first letters appear much more often than others, namely those on basic lands, from here on being referred to as the FIMPS (Forest, Island, Mountain, Plains, Swamp). If there's anything to memorize from each category, it'd be FIMPS, since about a third of the cards you'd mill in limited are one of those. After that, I'd go for cards which are the only valid option (here on denoted with a * for the ones I can feasibly check) since they're harder to pull off the top of your head, and then the classic letter order (your RSTLNE's and such). Depending on how the set breaks down, you might not even need to worry about X's and Q's.

We'll be abusing the overlap considerably--all planeswalkers are legendary, after all, so why remember the same thing twice? Reused cards will be italicized, while new cards are bolded. Cards will be chosen generally off of EDHRec rank since Scryfall can tally that, although deviating based on name rememberability and number of overlapped categories. I opted to layer planeswalkers-legends-colors and colorless-artifact-creature, then take everything else as it stands. Acorn cards are included since Trivia Contest is acorn, but other types are not--sorry, Inzerva. Feel free to deviate from this for cards you remember better--I did opt for one-word names over more popular cards. Focus on titles for the legends--you need the full name to count. Onto the study guide!

PLANESWALKERS: Ajani Goldmane; Basri Ket; Chandra Nalaar; Dovin Baan; Elspeth Tirel; Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury*; Garruk Wildspeaker; Huatli, Sun's Champion; [NO I]; Jace Beleren; Karn Liberated; Liliana Vess; Mordenkainen; Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God; Oko, Thief of Crowns; Professor Onyx*; [NO Q]; Rowan Kenrith; Sarkhan Vol; Teferi, Time Raveler; Urza, Academy Headmaster; Vraska, Golgari Queen; Will Kenrith; Xenagos, the Reveler*; [NO Y]; Zariel, Archduke of Avernas*

LEGENDS: Ajani Goldmane; Basri Ket; Chandra Nalaar; Dovin Baan; Elspeth Tirel; Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury; Garruk Wildspeaker; Huatli, Sun's Champion; Iroas, God of Victory; Jace Beleren; Karn Liberated; Liliana Vess; Mordenkainen; Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God; Oko, Thief of Crowns; Professor Onyx; Queen Marchesa; Rowan Kenrith; Sarkhan Vol; Teferi, Time Raveler; Urza, Academy Headmaster; Vraska, Golgari Queen; Will Kenrith; Xenagos, the Reveler; Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow; Zariel, Archduke of Avernas

WHITE: Ajani Goldmane; Basri Ket; Cleansing Nova; Dovin Baan; Elspeth Tirel; Farewell; Generous Gift; Huatli, Sun's Champion; Iroas, God of Victory; Justice; Karma; Land Tax; Merciless Eviction; N; Open the Vaults; Path to Exile; Queen Marchesa; Rout; Swords to Plowshares; Teferi, Time Raveler; Urza, Academy Headmaster; Vindicate; Wrath of God; [NO X]; Yoked Ox; Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

BLUE: Archaeomancer; Brainstorm; Counterspell; Dovin Baan; Expropriate; Force of Will; Growth Spiral; High Tide; Intuition; Jace Beleren; Keep Watch; Laboratory Maniac; Mordenkainen; Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God; Oko, Thief of Crowns; Ponder; Quench; Rhystic Study; Swan Song; Teferi, Time Raveler; Urza, Academy Headmaster; Vivisection; Will Kenrith; Xenograft; Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow; Zephyr Charge

BLACK: Assasin's Trophy; Blood Artist; Crypt Ghast; Demonic Tutor; Exsanguinate; Feed the Swarm; Grim Tutor; Harvester of Souls; Infernal Grasp; Jumbo Imp; Killing Wave; Liliana Vess; Merciless Eviction; Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God; Opposition Agent; Professor Onyx; Queen Marchesa; Reanimate; Sign in Blood; Toxic Deluge; Urza, Academy Headmaster; Vraska, Golgari Queen; Waste Not; Xathrid Necromancer; Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow; Zulaport Cutthroat

RED: Anger; Blasphemous Act; Chandra Nalaar; Dockside Extortionist; Earthquake; Faithless Looting; Gamble; Hostility; Iroas, God of Victory; Jeska's Will; Kaboom!; Lightning Bolt; Magmaquake; Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God; Obliterate; Pyroblast; Queen Marchesa; Rowan Kenrith; Sarkhan Vol; Thrill of Possibility; Urza, Academy Headmaster; Vandalblast; Wheel of Fortune; Xenagos, the Reveler; Young Pyromancer; Zariel, Archduke of Avernas

GREEN: Assassin's Trophy; Burgeoning; Channel; Doubling Season; Explore; Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury; Garruk Wildspeaker; Huatli, Sun's Champion; Incubation Druid; Jarad's Orders; Kodama's Reach; Lure; Masked Vandal; Naturalize; Oko, Thief of Crowns; Plummet; Quirion Ranger; Rampant Growth; Sarkhan Vol; Tireless Tracker; Urza, Academy Headmaster; Vraska, Golgari Queen; Wood Elves; Xenagos, the Reveler; Yavimaya Elder; Zendikar Resurgent

COLORLESS: Akroan Horse; Burnished Hart; Crashing Drawbridge; Duplicant; Etched Oracle; Foundry Inspector; Gingerbrute; Howling Golem; Iron Golem; Juggernaut; Kuldotha Forgemaster; Leveler; Meteor Golem; Night Market Guard; Ornithopter; Plague Myr; Quietus Spike; Rust Elemental; Solemn Simulacrum; Thopter Assembly; Universal Automaton; Viseling; Walking Ballista; Xanthic Statue; Yotian Soldier; Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

ARTIFACT: Akroan Horse; Burnished Hart; Crashing Drawbridge; Duplicant; Etched Oracle; Foundry Inspector; Gingerbrute; Howling Golem; Iron Golem; Juggernaut; Kuldotha Forgemaster; Leveler; Meteor Golem; Night Market Guard; Ornithopter; Plague Myr; Quietus Spike; Rust Elemental; Solemn Simulacrum; Thopter Assembly; Universal Automaton; Viseling; Walking Ballista; Xanthic Statue; Yotian Soldier; Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

CREATURE: Akroan Horse; Burnished Hart; Crashing Drawbridge; Duplicant; Etched Oracle; Foundry Inspector; Gingerbrute; Howling Golem; Iron Golem; Juggernaut; Kuldotha Forgemaster; Leveler; Meteor Golem; Night Market Guard; Ornithopter; Plague Myr; Quirion Ranger; Rust Elemental; Solemn Simulacrum; Thopter Assembly; Universal Automaton; Viseling; Walking Ballista; X; Yotian Soldier; Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

ENCHANTMENT: Abundance; Burgeoning; Courser of Kruphix; Doubling Season; Exploration; Felidar Retreat; Ghostly Prison; Hardened Scales; Iroas, God of Victory; Jace's Sanctum; Kenrith's Transformation; Land Tax; Mystic Remora; Nyxbloom Ancient; Outpost Siege; Propaganda; Quest for the Goblin Lord; Rhystic Study; Sanguine Bond; Thopter Spy Network; Underworld Breach; Valakut Exploration; Waste Not; Xenograft; Yet Another Aether Vortex; Zendikar Resurgent

INSTANT: Assassin's Trophy; Brainstorm; Counterspell; Dark Ritual; Entomb; Force of Will; Generous Gift; High Tide; Intuition; Jump; Keep Watch; Lightning Bolt; Magmaquake; Naturalize; Opt; Path to Exile; Quench; Return to Nature; Swords to Plowshares; Thrill of Possibility; Utter End; Veil of Summer; Wear // Tear; [NO X]; You Are Already Dead; Zap

SORCERY: Approach of the Second Sun; Blasphemous Act; Cleansing Nova; Demonic Tutor; Exsanguinate; Farewell; Gamble; Harmonize; Idyllic Tutor; Jeska's Will; Kodama's Reach; Life from the Loam; Merciless Eviction; Nature's Lore; Obliterate; Ponder; Quasiduplicate; Reanimate; Sign in Blood; Toxic Deluge; Unearth; Vindicate; Wrath of God; Xander's Pact; Yawgmoth's Will; Zombie Apocalypse

LAND: Ancient Tomb; Breeding Pool; City of Brass; Desert; Endless Sands; Forest; Godless Shrine; Hallowed Fountain; Island; Jungle Hollow; Karoo; Lotus Vale; Mountain; Nimbus Maze; Overgrown Tomb; Plains; Quicksand; Rogue's Passage; Swamp; Temple Garden; Unknown Shores; Volcanic Island; Watery Grave; Xander's Lounge*; Yavimaya Coast; Zoetic Cavern

SET: Amonkhet; Battle for Zendikar; Conflux; Dominaria; Eldritch Moon; Fate Reforged; Gatecrash; Hour of Devastation; Ixalan; Jumpstart; Kaldheim; Lorwyn; Mirrodin; New Phyrexia; Oath of the Gatewatch; Planar Chaos; [NO Q]; Return to Ravnica; Shadowmoor; Theros; Unfinity; Visions*; War of the Spark; [NO X]; (Year of the Tiger 2022?); Zendikar

MECHANIC: Affinity; Banding; Channel; Double strike; Explore; Flying; Graft; Haste; Indestructible; Jump-start; Kicker; Lifelink; Menace; Ninjutsu; Overload; Prowess; [NO Q]; Reach; Shroud; Trample; Unearth; Vigilance; Ward; [NO X, Y, Z]

CREATURE TYPE: Angel; Brushwagg; Cat; Dragon; Elf; Fish; Goblin; Human; Insect; Juggernaut; Kraken; Leviathan; Mime; Ninja; Ooze; Phyrexian; [NO Q]; Robot; Shapeshifter; Thopter; Unicorn*; Vampire; Warrior; [NO X]; Yeti*; Zombie

PLANE: Amonkhet; Bablovia; Capenna; Dominaria; Eldraine; Fiora*; Gargantikar; [NO H]; Ixalan; [NO J]; Kaldheim; Lorwyn; Mirrodin; New Phyrexia; Obsidias*; Phyrexia; [NO Q]; Ravnica; Shadowmoor; Theros; Ulgrotha*; Vryn; Wildfire*; Xerex*; [NO Y]; Zendikar

Some final comments (and fun facts):

There's actually two planeswalkers with cards whose names start with Y--Yanling and Yanggu--but neither are printed as such (being Mu Yanling and Jiang Yanggu in all incarnations). Whether your opponent allows them to be named is up to them. Their homeplane is also the Plane of Mountains and Seas, which is the other major contender for the P Plane--if you count that sort of name as valid, anyhow.

As for playing against Trivia Contest, it's ideal to name plane, mechanic, or set, as those have several gaps and fewer options overall (not to mention several one-ofs). Planeswalker may seem like a good choice, missing a FIMPS and having the most one-ofs, but it's likely far easier to name a planeswalker card with a more common letter. I'd still go for it if you were playing green or blue and if you felt like being risky, but otherwise land is probably a better choice. For the other two, just follow your gut.

H is a significant gap in planes--I count 3 'H' cards in Unfinity so far--yet there might be one in 'Hell'. It's listed as a plane in my source, being connected to Dominaria and Innistrad and having been visited in older parts of the story, but I don't think anybody will actually count it. Your mileage may vary.

Similarly, the only Y sets are the Chinese New Year promos--the cards themself are listed as 'PRM', yet Scryfall categorizes them under the 'year of the' names. There's no Y cards in Unfinity as of yet, so hopefully we're safe from that discussion.

This list doesn't account for the cards in Unfinity itself--maybe they'll add a mechanic that starts with Q, but more likely you'll remember the cards in your deck more than anything on this list. Do remember you can name Trivia Contest itself for a T artifact!

Correct me in the comments if I slipped somewhere--I spend three late-day hours on this, and I do not have the energy to do a full review.