The 40 Best Card Draw Payoffs in Magic
Cards are the literal building blocks of Magic. Of course you can’t just play Divination while your opponents cast creatures. You need to do something useful with those cards.
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Imprint in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Imprint is the complicated older cousin of cipher, which is itself a pretty complicated mechanic. It’s one of Mark Rosewater’s “all-time favorite mechanics,” but it has thus far topped out at 24 cards.
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The 40 Best Black Card Draw Cards in Magic Ranked
Although card draw is theoretically only a secondary ability in black’s color pie, there are enough powerful black card draw effects to make it into your Commander deck. Let’s delve into the dark depths of black card draw and find the...
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All 68 Charms in Magic Ranked
Choices are always great in Magic card design. With the return of Charms in Streets of New Capenna, this is a good time to rediscover the charm of Charms!
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The 40 Best Red Card Draw Cards in Magic Ranked
Red has the worst card draw of any color. The other four have creatures that enter and draw a card, or have card draw as a passive effect, or have an activated card drawing ability. But red? No dice.
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Seton, Krosan Protector Commander Deck Guide
Seton, Krosan Protector is hipster elfball. It’s a rare choice as a commander and sometimes feels a bit like you’re playing elves on hard mode. But I have more fun winning with Seton than any other green deck I have.
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Cipher in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Magic has a string of cards and mechanics that allow you to durably alter a creature after it’s already been cast. Cipher is one of those experiments that seems to have exhausted its narrow design space between under- and overpowered.
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Specialize in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Double-faced cards work in various ways in Magic. With specialize we’re confronted with a digital-only mechanic for Arena that allows the player to permanently flip a card if a cost is paid.
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The 25 Best Blue Green (Simic) Lands in Magic
Dual and specialty lands are the bread and butter of competitive Magic. In no color pair is this truer than in Simic.
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Theme Boosters vs. Jumpstart Boosters: Which Should You Get?
The experiment of the Magic theme boosters, which began with Dominaria in 2018, is coming to an end with Dominaria United. They’ll replaced by a more regular release of Jumpstart boosters, another experiment that started in 2020.
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All 11 Outlast Cards in Magic Ranked
“Outlast has the problem where the cards look worse than they actually are,” wrote Mark Rosewater of the unpopular Khans of Tarkir mechanic. Maybe these 11 cards are more useful than you remember?
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All 18 Artifact Lands in Magic Ranked
Magic released Mirrodin in 2003, the first artifacts-themed set since Antiquities. And nowhere was the feel of that new plane more visceral than in a new cycle made for the set: artifact lands.
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