You’re here because you’re, somewhat innocently, looking for some options to untap your Shorikai, Genesis Engine, am I right? That’s a reasonably busted commander, so you’re not that innocent after all. Maybe you’re here for your Chromatic...
Read moreTransmute is the secret to getting your tutor game on from all the way back in Ravnica: City of Guilds. Make no mistake, these are far less powerful tutors than the greats, like Vampiric Tutor or Mystical Tutor, but you can get in the ballpark...
Read moreDeath in MTG involves a card in play being put into its owner’s graveyard. A death trigger is something that triggers when that happens.
Read moreWhat’s better than blue cards? Blue cards with blue people on them, of course! It’s vedalken time, and this is your introduction to the most underutilized creature type in the game.
Read moreAlthough there have been cards called “sorcerer” since the beloved Sorceress Queen in Arabian Nights, only now with Lorwyn Eclipsed are sorcerers an official creature type in MTG.
Read moreLands don’t really have a color in traditional MTG. But in Commander, a card’s color identity is determined by the colors of pips on the cards, which restricts lands to the color identity of the deck’s commander. So “white” lands are just lands...
Read moreSpirits can be a powerful force on the battlefield, with more and more spirits being printed across all colors. Have a look at one of the most well-supported creature types in MTG!
Read moreGrandeur sounds like it’ll be good. It sounds like it’ll be the best. Hence my disappointment when I did an image search for “grandeur” to try to explain the vibe of this word and saw many pictures of Hyundais. Not that that model of car isn’t...
Read moreChoices are always great in Magic card design. We’ve seen plenty of modal options with commands, spree cards, and so on, but we’re looking at the most charming modal cards in Magic today!
Read moreBlue is perhaps the worst color at removal, whether targeted removal or board wipes. It feels like bad news if you’re building a mono-blue EDH deck and you’re looking for something besides the Cyclonic Rift that your LGS or playgroup has...
Read moreThe idea of giving your stuff to other players is a more recent addition to the Magic playbook. It seems counterintuitive at first, in a game of card advantage, but there are good reasons for this effect, and quite a number of commanders built to...
Read morePrismari Artistry isn’t a deck for the timid, to be sure, but it has some awesome stuff and plays like no other deck. A few key inexpensive changes and you can whip this into fighting shape.
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