Heavenly Inferno is one of the five original Commander precons, a Mardu deck centered on Kaalia of the Vast. It does not hold up by today’s standards, but a small overhaul can help catch it up to speed.
Read moreSome threats are unkillable creatures that pose a challenge to spot removal like Doom Blade and sometimes Path to Exile. They’re creatures that survive wraths or are indestructible, or that offer some advantage in case the board gets wrathed.
Read moreMagic’s existence as a digital game has allowed designers to overcome some paper limitations, like tracking changing card stats or applying random numbers, so tons of digital-only cards have been created with their own array of...
Read moreAs long as there’s a rule, there will be cards that break or bend it, so today we’ll cover cards that bypass the legend rule.
Read moreWorld of Warcraft is a slam dunk for an MTG Universes Beyond set. Let me prove it to you.
Read moreAs weird as it sounds, in Magic sometimes you’d rather have a card in your graveyard than in your hand. The main culprits are [REPLACE CARD]Golgari Grave-Troll[/REPLACE] for dredge 6, Griselbrand alongside Animate Dead, or Arclight Phoenix in...
Read moreEsper colors naturally lend themselves to value, card advantage, and a control game, and the color trio’s mythic rares take this to the extreme.
Read moreSplicers are the artisans of New Phyrexia, formerly Mirrodin. These Phyrexian artificers have a common characteristic: Their main body is weak, but they bring a stronger 3/3 golem with them, which makes the splicer excellent as a blink and...
Read moreWith the release of Bloomburrow and dozens of bird cards, birds return to Standard and make a breakthrough in other formats like Pioneer. Every MTG set has a bird or two, so it’s always an excellent time to rank all of Magic’s best birds...
Read moreHesit is a digital-only mechanic developed to fit the flavor of Outlaws of Thunder Junction and its namesake outlaws, and to bolster the crime mechanic. It’s a somewhat complicated mechanic, but it’s a powerful one.
Read moreYou could’ve gone your whole Magic career and never even noticed the trilobite creature type. That’s going to change today.
Read moreOf the many themes a Commander deck might have, one strikes me as very curious: additional combat phases. These EDH decks are very attack-oriented, as the name implies, but isn’t attacking a bad proposition in EDH? Usually yes, because you leave...
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