Commander has long been a place friendly to the idea of making tribal decks, now called typal, that stack a bunch of creatures of the same type together to head off to fight. It’s a classic fantasy trope, straight out of The Hobbit’s Battle of...
Read moreMagic can be a game of intricate planning, long turns, and baroque strategies. But sometimes you just want to be a buffet dishing out knuckle sandwiches. Figuratively.
Read moreLhurgoyf 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?!”
Read moreEvery 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.
Read moreMagic 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...
Read moreAfter 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...
Read moreSultai 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...
Read moreProduct 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.
Read morePegasus 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.
Read moreEnergy 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?
Read moreChanging 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.
Read moreFoundations 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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