Toughness is a stat that goes beyond just blocking. There’s more emphasis on assigning combat damage via toughness these days, as well as rewards for playing creatures with obscene amounts of backend.
Read moreWith so many dragons in a single set, we have a simple mechanic to ease high mana value cards into a regular deck curve: Omens.
Read morePeople usually play MTG to win, to have a fun time, or at least try to win until the last possible opportunity. But what about cards that straight make you lose the game? Let’s take a look at all the ways you can “lose a game” and the avenues...
Read moreLet me introduce you Peasant Cube, a format in which you only play commons and uncommons. The gameplay is surprisingly deep and interesting, and some players enjoy it because you’re not losing to that bomb rare each game.
Read moreHistoric is one of MTG Arena’s Eternal formats. Historic is similar to Legacy in the sense that you can play almost all the cards ever released on Arena, minus a ban list.
Read moreCycles are an important part of Magic’s story and gameplay, and they show different situations from different perspectives of MTG’s color pie. Designers use cycles to show how different colors like red, black, and green see and feel the same...
Read moreWe saw the release of four Standard Challenger decks and four Pioneer Challenger decks in 2022. The objective of these precons is to be competitive right out of the box in a given format, to at least challenge your friends and at the FNM...
Read moreLots of MTG decks have a very heavy sacrifice component, where you’re actually sacrificing your own permanents for value. You’ll want a mix of cards that allow you to sacrifice, cards that want to be sacrificed, and today’s subjects: the...
Read moreMost Golgari planeswalkers follow the classic black planeswalker pattern of having creature removal and condiitonal draw as their main abilities, with a nod towards their green identity in other forms.
Read moreAffinity is one of MTG’s most broken mechanics, alongside storm and others, and the term is synonymous nowadays for playing a lot of artifacts. Affinity for artifacts decks saw a lot of play in plenty of Constructed formats to the point of...
Read moreToday, we take a look at all the Karn planeswalker cards printed in MTG. Some are pretty powerful and format-defining, while others are hardly so.
Read moreDeath and exiling are fundamentally different actions in Magic. So, what’s the main difference, which one’s better, and how do these differences impact players’ strategies?
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