Loyalty Counters in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Planeswalkers ebb and flow in importance as Magic shifts its priorities, but they all share one thing in common: loyalty counters.
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The 34 Best Soldier Commanders in Magic Ranked
Warriors are more fun. Soldiers are organized and disciplined and part of a hierarchy, working together toward a common goal that dwarfs each person’s significance. Still, there are some really interesting soldier decks and soldier commanders in...
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Amonkhet Invocations: Full Set Information
Before the bonus sheet boom, WOTC experimented with rarer inclusions like the Masterpiece Series. Unfortunately, Amonkhet’s Invocations put an abrupt end to that.
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The 39 Best Blue Ramp Cards in Magic Ranked
Blue isn’t really known as a ramp color, but various prints throughout the years have given the color a few surprising ways to get ahead on mana.
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The 43 Most Disturbing and Scary Cards in Magic Ranked
“Magic was too scary,” was something I heard a number of times in my game design classes from students when I asked them about their earliest experience with TCGs. Not because of the rules, but because MTG’s wide ranging use of disturbing art...
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The 42 Best Artifact Enters the Battlefield Cards in Magic
The most well-known iteration of a trigger when a permanent enters the battlefield in Magic is landfall, but there are equivalents that aren’t keyworded. There’s “creaturefall” on The Great Henge, “enchantmentfall” on Verduran Enchantress...
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The 35 Best 2-Mana Commanders in Magic Ranked
Let’s talk 2-drops. Commanders you can reliably get out early are great, and if they have some power in 2-color synergies, so much the better.
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Flood Counters in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
There aren’t many cards out there that create or interact with flood counters, but the mechanic is a great blend of flavor and function.
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The 21 Most Reprinted Cards in MTG History
We have many cards with so many reprints! I think that’s worth celebrating, because it means more people are playing this great game. My version of celebrating is to count down the most reprinted cards in Magic history.
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All 34 Untap Artifact Effects in Magic Ranked
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...
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Transmute in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Transmute 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...
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The 50 Best Death Triggers in Magic Ranked
Death in MTG involves a card in play being put into its owner’s graveyard. A death trigger is something that triggers when that happens.
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