Looking for your next creature type to build around? Enjoy gaining life and attacking with massive flying creatures? You may be in need of a little divine intervention. Let’s look towards the heavens, where we’ll find a fan-favorite typal...
Read moreWerewolves are one of Magic’s most effective uses of transforming double-faced cards. They’ve become a beloved typal strategy for players that want to build up their pack and become the alpha of their Commander table, so let’s see which are...
Read moreEven though we never got a proper story for Theros Beyond Death, it’s safe to assume that the set was about Elspeth escaping from Theros’ underworld. And we got a new mechanic to go with this theme: escape.
Read moreUsually, the “unknown” in Magic is in the opponent’s hand or their library – which is threatening, for sure – but what if that element of surprise that could be anything was already on the battlefield, attacking your opponent? That’s the niche...
Read moreMagic is a game with a lot of different formats, each with their own distinct power levels and format identities. Due to the wildly varying power levels across these formats, the average price of a Magic deck can depend heavily on the type of...
Read moreI’ll be making the case for one of my favorite color combinations, especially in Commander. Naya is the color combination of dangerous lands, giant dinosaurs, and wide boards full of creature tokens, to name just a few of its possibilities.
Read moreBurn is a decidedly red effect, with red cards like Lightning Bolt and Fireball defining red’s identity in Magic’s very first set, Alpha. Burn spells aren’t just for burn decks, and many burn cards find their home outside of them.
Read moreWe were all new Magic: The Gathering players at one point. For a lot of us, that probably feels like a long time ago, and Magic feels like a different game than it was then. Over the years, Magic has both changed gradually over time and...
Read moreSo many commanders are value engines that snowball out of control, and they require their players to jump through hoops to reach that point. Some Commander games feel like four players playing their own mini-games until the table itself collapses...
Read moreFor players who love the challenge of the whole table uniting to defeat them or who just want to live out the fantasy of working together to defeat a big-bad, Archenemy pits a team of players against one extra-powerful “archenemy.” With some...
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