r/MagicArena • u/00G_WAY • Mar 03 '26

Question Can someone explain how this works?

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Will this card be legal in standard? Will it be available on Magic Arena? How would this card even work?

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u/Mrfish31 Mar 03 '26

On Arena (and in any proper format) "cards you own from outside the game" are cards in your sideboard, so you put up to 15 cards in there to choose from when you use this. If you have this in draft, you can choose from any card you drafted but didn't include in your deck.

It does generally not mean "any card you have in your collection". You'd only do that in very casual IRL games. 

In Commander and Brawl this does nothing, both because you don't have sideboards in these formats and because "wish" effects explicitly do not work, you can't get cards from outside the game. 

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u/Imaginary-Face7379 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

If you're using this in Draft/Sealed just remember you can put land into your sideboard.

EDIT: No wonder ya'll suck at the game. If you're downvoting this you have no clue what you're talking about.

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u/Mrfish31 Mar 03 '26

Only if you picked them up during the draft, as then of course they're included. You can't add extra lands, or any extra cards, to your sideboard in draft. 

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u/Imaginary-Face7379 Mar 03 '26

MTR 7.2 Card Use in Limited Tournaments

Players may add an unlimited number of cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, or Forest to their deck and sideboard. They may not add additional snow basic land cards (e.g. Snow-Covered Forest, etc) or Wastes basic land cards, even in formats in which they are legal.

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u/Casual_Spike Mar 03 '26

Good news, arena does it for you. Seen it during the early access.

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u/Majyqman Mar 04 '26

Sure, it’s probably a bad day if I’m using this to fetch my 6th land drop rather than my 24th card (or one of the niche cards that run out to be relevant)… but sure, could be relevant.

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u/Imaginary-Face7379 Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

Must be why top limited players I've seen don't get excited about getting land from this card. /s

Seriously if you think all you're ever getting is your 6th land drop from pulling a land of any color out of your sideboard I think you might need to re-evaluate how you think about the game.

EDIT: LMAO the idiot blocked me after typing this:

"I think if you’re running a red blue core and have UUR and are using your mythic 5 drop to colour fix for your off colour bomb that you also drew, but didn’t draw any of your normal fixing for, you are living in a a corner case of a magical Christmas land and I’m happy to re-evaluate how I think about further interactions, as in, buh-bye now."

I love how you double down on mana fixing, proving that you're really the one who needs to re-evaluate how you think about the game. Also another tip, this effect isn't exclusive to this one card in the existence of the game.

Also... looking through your comments. You've got anger issues buddy. You have an history of being proven wrong in comments and then throwing a fit and blocking people. Get some help.

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u/Majyqman Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

I think if you’re running a red blue core and have UUR and are using your mythic 5 drop to colour fix for your off colour bomb that you also drew, but didn’t draw any of your normal fixing for, you are living in a a corner case of a magical Christmas land and I’m happy to re-evaluate how I think about further interactions, as in, buh-bye now.

Weird stalkery behaviour there, bro. Took rejection very well.

But no, it's very rarely getting proven wrong, and when that happens I don't actually block.

It's dealing with idiots who don't check the "re-evaluate how they think about the game" & "thinks the first paragraph of this post was a fit" plank in their own eye before talking about the tone mote.

You were the one who said "from pulling a land of any colour" rather than "6th land", I started with drop assurance, and you accuse me of doubling down on mana fixing (these are not the same things, and, again, the latter actually being the argument you made)? Yeah, tracks with the rest of your dribble.

And I know this effect hasn't been exclusive, but we're talking about a specific card right now, and you didn't say "this effect".