Any long-time Magic: The Gathering player knows how expensive the hobby can be. Go ahead, ask your friend with a decade-plus of MTG experience how much they’ve spent on cardboard in the past 10 years. Make sure you bring a tissue for when they...
Read moreThe Pauper metagame is incredibly diverse with such a slim power margin between the top decks and those that barely make the cut, which allows players to experiment with a wide range of commons.
Read moreMultiplayer Magic has existed since the game’s inception, but it’s only relatively recent that we’ve seen the explosion of the Commander format as the most popular way to play with three or more players.
Read morePolyhedral dice continue to be the trademark item at all LGSs across the world. Entire walls are devoted to housing row upon row of plastic dice bricks. Buckets of loose dice of every shape live in front of the register, tempting customers to...
Read moreWhile the simple act of fetching a land from your library to the battlefield can fix your mana, the best targets for your fetch abilities enter untapped or have additional effects when they hit the field.
Read moreOne turn they’re here, and then poof they’re gone! Magic’s vanishing mechanic puts a time limit on your permanents and forces you to use time as a resource.
Read morePauper has spread its budget-friendly deck building to Commander in the form of Pauper Commander, the commons-only casual format designed to capture the essence of multiplayer Commander games on a budget!
Read moreThe graveyard need not spell the end for your artifacts! There are so many options for returning your artifacts from the graveyard across every color.
Read moreBasic lands are practically free. You can grab them out of a land box at your local game store or Grand Prix. They’re very cheap in their most basic form. But people love to bling out their decks, so it makes sense that even the simplest thing...
Read moreThere are plenty of incentives for drawing your second card each turn, but why not go bigger and reward yourself for drawing three cards a turn! What’s next, FOUR cards?
Read moreA number of cards use the vocabulary “exchange” to swap life totals, control of creatures, and control of spells, creating a surprise upheaval that can cinch up the game. When exactly are these effects useful? And which ones are the best?
Read moreThe infamous Birthing Pod spawned an entire genre of MTG decks and altered an entire generation’s meta. This green artifact would run rampant in Modern for four years before catching the ban alongside Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise.
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