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...
Read moreLet’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.
Read moreThere aren’t many cards out there that create or interact with flood counters, but the mechanic is a great blend of flavor and function.
Read moreWe 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.
Read moreYou’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...
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