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HomeAuthor page: Steve Vrooman

Author page: Steve Vrooman

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The 16 Best Decks in Timeless on Magic Arena Ranked

The 16 Best Decks in Timeless on Magic Arena Ranked

Steve Vrooman May 26, 2025 Collecting, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

The MTG community adopted Arena’s Eternal-lite format pretty enthusiastically, which is surprising because there are perennially unpopular Alchemy cards in the mix. To compete in Timeless is wildcard draining, especially to play the fetch...

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The 24 Best Hats in MTG Art Ranked

The 24 Best Hats in MTG Art Ranked

Steve Vrooman May 23, 2025 MTG Cards, MTG Fashion

Every year seems to be a good year for MTG fans to complain about Magic, but 2024 was special. It was the Year of the Hat. There are some over-the-top masterpieces in the more than 3,000 cards with hats in Magic.

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The 36 Prettiest and Most Beautiful Magic: the Gathering Cards Ever

The 36 Prettiest and Most Beautiful Magic: the Gathering Cards Ever

Steve Vrooman May 22, 2025 Collecting, MTG Cards

Magic is a game whose objects are beautiful. I like beautiful things that aren’t parts of games. I play plenty of games with un-beautiful pieces. So a game that merges those two things is a feat, in digital gaming, board gaming, and in card...

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The Best 2-Mana Commanders in Magic Ranked

The Best 2-Mana Commanders in Magic Ranked

Steve Vrooman May 12, 2025 Collecting, Commander, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

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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The 34 Best Blue Ramp Cards in Magic Ranked

The 34 Best Blue Ramp Cards in Magic Ranked

Steve Vrooman April 23, 2025 Collecting, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

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 10 Cards That Most Deserve Unbans In Magic Ranked

The 10 Cards That Most Deserve Unbans In Magic Ranked

Steve Vrooman April 22, 2025 Collecting, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

After the unbanning of Preordain in Modern and Mind’s Desire in Legacy, the MTG community is awash with lists of good candidates to unban in various formats. It seems like everyone has a favorite card that they’d like to see unbanned in one...

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Sultai Arisen Upgrade Guide: 19 Easy Changes You Can Make

Sultai Arisen Upgrade Guide: 19 Easy Changes You Can Make

Steve Vrooman March 29, 2025 Collecting, Commander, MTG Products

Sultai graveyard stuff. Going back to Tarkir, of course we’re revisiting this iconic, if unfocused archetype in a Commander precon. Precons usually have a few focuses smashed together anyway, and as you might expect with Sultai, there’s even more...

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The 18 Jankiest Commanders in Magic Ranked

The 18 Jankiest Commanders in Magic Ranked

Steve Vrooman March 26, 2025 Collecting, Commander, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

What counts as “janky” in MTG? Looking at the origins of the word in African American slang, most dictionary etymologies guess it’s a version of “junky” from the ‘80s, but an interesting deeper dive suggests it might have started as a version of...

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The Ultimate Guide to the Old School Magic Format

The Ultimate Guide to the Old School Magic Format

Steve Vrooman March 21, 2025 MTG Formats

Product fatigue. Universes Beyond fatigue. Just plain old fatigue. It happens. If you long for a simpler time, the Old School format might just be for you.

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The 50 Best Uncommon Legendary Creatures and Commanders in Magic

The 50 Best Uncommon Legendary Creatures and Commanders in Magic

Steve Vrooman March 19, 2025 Collecting, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

I first started really getting into uncommons as commanders when I opened Slimefoot, the Stowaway in a Dominaria pack, and it’s been a bit of a collector obsession of mine since. If you share my interest in what can feel a bit like hipster...

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The 37 Best Artifact Enters the Battlefield Cards in Magic

The 37 Best Artifact Enters the Battlefield Cards in Magic

Steve Vrooman March 7, 2025 Collecting, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

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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All 30 Untap Artifact Effects in Magic Ranked

All 30 Untap Artifact Effects in Magic Ranked

Steve Vrooman February 13, 2025 Collecting, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

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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