Lord of the Rings Jumpstart Spoilers and Set Information
Jumpstart is one of the best ways to onboard a new MTG player. Lord of the Rings Jumpstart may be the perfect vehicle for teaching a friend how to play Magic.
Read moreJumpstart is one of the best ways to onboard a new MTG player. Lord of the Rings Jumpstart may be the perfect vehicle for teaching a friend how to play Magic.
Read moreBaba Lysaga, Night Witch is so much fun to play in Commander. This deck can win if you can survive long enough to get to the 1v1 phase. Trying to make that happen while running a deck full of otherwise bad cards that make Baba tick is the...
Read moreGhost movies are, for me, the scariest subgenre of horror. At the same time, ghosts are the least scary import from horror into the fantasy genre of all the monsters. Maybe it’s because a haunting is most scary when you’re alone, and that can’t...
Read moreClash is a mechanic often remembered as a failure, if it’s remembered at all, more than a dozen years after the last clash cards were printed. But Mark Rosewater’s elegy for the mechanic is more nuanced: “I consider it a noble but failed...
Read morePerhaps the humblest of aims is breaking the rule set right there on one type of card. Walls, and later defenders, can’t attack. If you read that and think, “But what if I really want them to?”, this article is for you.
Read moreThere are more than 250 unique planeswalkers. Given the massive quantity of planeswalkers, it’s time to break down one color at a time. Today I’ll be looking at the best blue planeswalkers in Magic’s history. Expect plenty of card draw...
Read moreWilds of Eldraine is here, and it’s got some new lands for you. In addition to some sweet full art basics, we’ve got the start of an interesting cycle and a key piece for adventures decks.
Read moreFor a time, good faerie decks were the backbone of constructed Magic. I have good news for those who remember those days with fondness instead of dread. Fae Dominion and Wilds of Eldraine are going to make faeries decent in Commander for the...
Read moreEveryone has a kind of candy they don’t like. And if I offer you one, you might just take a look and say, “Ah, no thanks.” But if I toss a bunch of candy in a piñata and it all spews to the ground on the vessel’s dramatic destruction, you might...
Read moreThere are a variety of ways to punish opponents for drawing cards in Magic, and sometimes there’s just a good old-fashioned group hug in Commander. Let’s explore this underexplored part of Magic while ranking the top 66 cards of this kind.
Read moreDeath in MTG involves a card in play being destroyed and put into its owner’s graveyard. A death trigger is something that triggers off that. They have been templated in various ways over the years including language about “when a creature dies”...
Read moreOne of the things that has always set Magic apart from other card games is the commitment to interesting art. And one of our hopes every time a reprint set like Commander Masters comes around is that some old favorites get a shifted setting, an...
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