Constructed players have worked out that you can make a sticker deck that guarantees at least one 4-vowel name sticker per game, and as such I have put Guacamole Goblin in my pauper mogg warts list

tl;dr: stickers are just Very Fancy Counters that stay on the card when it moves between public zones. Ergo, cards that copy other cards do not copy them (just like they don't copy counters), and TDFCs will maintain the stickers (exactly like how counters work with TDFCs)

Notable exception to "stickers won't copy" is making a "photocopy", which does copy counters, attached cards and stickers.

Mutate is still one creature, at the end of the day. So I assume that the stickers just float around the top, giving whatever effect they give to the stack.

I would expect the stickers to stay with the creature they were first put on. This sounds like 'art matters' mechanics, and stickers description would lead me to believe that they stay with the first creature until the end of the game. Are there any cards that remove stickers as a mechanic?

@@SuperBigChops not directly, but "return to hand" strips all stickers.

@@SuperBigChops If a stickered card ends up in a non-public zone (i.e. it is technically indistinguishable from other cards in that zone; e.g. hand, library, face-down exile), all stickers on it return to their sticker sheet. Hmm, that results in the question: What happens with stickers when turning a permanent face-down? Counters on a face-down permanent stay and have an effect, and face-down permanent need to be distinguished based on how they got there. I guess it's just the same thing as a counter on a TDFC, so stickers just switch to the side that's currently up.

@@TheRealWormbo There's actually a ruling on this one that stickers stay on whichever side they were placed on.

You probably hate the fact that Initiative is wrecking Vintage & Legacy too, huh? If you don't like it, make a deck to beat it, then. I'll be busy over here, putting this 10/10 sticker on my *Slippery Bogle* ...

May I suggest playing a different format?

Maro has literally said it’s a result of people repeatedly asking to be able to use cards that work within the rules in legal formats. Unstable and even previous Un-sets had plenty of cards like this, but couldn’t be separated from the other cards just because of their border.

What are you talking about? Why would you "need" an attraction deck and a sticker deck? Even if you did, shuffling is not hard.

You are in no way *required* to use either mechanic.

@@LRRMTG Stickers + Attractions are 100% upside, 0% downside, for 100% of legacy, vintage, and commander decks. Why would I bother taking 20 cards I have no intention of using to a game to play magic? 1) Bluffing. "Why does my opponent have attractions? Maybe I should sideboard in artifact hate." 2) On the off chance you gain control of an opponent's card that uses stickers and/or attractions. Now, MaRo will tell you (2) isn't realistic, because he's designed the cards not to see competitive play. But you know what? They're not silver bordered, so (some of them?) are legal. You can't have you cake and make it black border, too. That said, several of the cards dealing with these mechanics are specifically pushed to be constructed playable, and/or build-around Commanders. And if my opponent has a commander that deals with stickers, and another opponent is playing chaos cards, then I need a sticker board... and I need to make a show of randomly revealing 3 of them before every match. Is (1) realistic? Ask the Commander Rules Committee, that banned Lutri. 100% upside, 0% downside for 99.999+% of Commander decks. Banned before release, on day of reveal. The only difference is that the benefit of Stickerboards and Attractions has practically no upside besides making your opponent play around the cards; but while everyone can read Lutri and knows what he does, no one will know what any attractions do, let alone how often they do it. It's like beginning every magic game with a sub-game of "Guess the rules text on Alchemy Questing Beast," where whether you win or lose likely won't matter, but you still have to do it. Oh, and then don't forget to sufficiently randomize your sticker board. :/

@@Eggmojii I'm going to direct your attention to YuGiOh, which introduced an Extra Deck into their game. Now 100% of YuGiOh decks feature Extra Deck cards (max 15). When you introduced a free resource into a game, there is no downside to using it. What's the upside? Well, making your opponent wonder if they should sideboard in artifact hate when you have an Attraction Board seems like a pretty tangible thing. And wasting 2 minutes shuffling your sticker board that you have no intention of using but want to trick your opponent into playing around seems like a genuine strategy.

@@williamsimkulet7832 if you’re comparing yugioh’s extra deck, an indelible part of the game, with the attractions deck, a moderately powered mechanic for commander and unplayable in legacy due to power level, you’re catastrophizing. There’s no bluff there. If legacy players had found a way to make attractions usable, we would’ve heard about it by now, so there’s going to be zero cards in their deck that do anything with it or stickers. And shuffling an attractions deck for 2 minutes in a tournament setting is slow play and can be brought to a judge’s attention.

No it isn’t. But I guess you won’t elaborate.