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 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 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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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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Rankings for the 32 Best Foundations Commanders
Foundations looks like one of Magic’s more powerful core sets I can remember, and Foundations Jumpstart has a much wider selection of powerful commanders than is typical for recent Jumpstart sets. Is there a new banger like Allosaurus...
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The 12 Best Set Boosters You Can Buy
In Mark Rosewater’s article that introduced the Set booster, his question was: “How does one make opening a booster more fun?” Let’s see if the Set boosters lived up to their promise.
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Everything You Need to Know About Targeting in Magic
If you play Magic long enough, you’ll end up in an argument with someone at your LGS over the concept of targeting. What counts as targeting? What’s “failing to find?” What about any target?
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