All 16 Lhurgoyfs in Magic Ranked
Lhurgoyf was my first MTG love. I started playing in Ice Age and this was the first build-around card my baby Magic brain understood. “Wait… it’s actually okay that my things go to the graveyard?!”
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The 16 Best Decks in Timeless on Magic Arena Ranked
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
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
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 10 Cards That Most Deserve Unbans In Magic Ranked
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 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
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
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
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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All 23 Pegasus Cards in Magic Ranked
Pegasus is a creature type that first appeared in Alpha with Mesa Pegasus, and primarily shows up in white. Since we’re ranking all pegasi in MTG, the bottom of the list is going to be rough, but we’re gonna have a good time here.
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Living Energy Upgrade Guide: 14 Easy Changes You Can Make
Energy keeps creeping back into Commander. Does moving to a Temur commander with Living Energy simplify things? How are we going to use green, one of the star colors of the Kaladesh block, to add to the winning formula?
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Type-Changing in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards
Changing the text of a card in Alchemy has proven unpopular, and oracle text adjustments remain grump-inducing, but when a card lets us do that as part of Magic, we love it! It feels like cheating, but in a totally safe way.
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