MTG Weekly Price Spikes: 8/21 – 8/28
Two weeks after release, Magic’s The Hobbit crossover is still doing most of the heavy lifting in the Magic card market.
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All 12 Indestructible Lands in Magic Ranked
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if our homes and properties never broke down? On the fantasy planes of MTG, there are such places.
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The 39 Best Hexproof-Granting Cards and Enablers in Magic Ranked
Hexproof fits the magic-slinging theme of MTG to its core. When you target me, I respond with some protection. We’re taking a look at the best cards that provide your creatures and permanents with the protection of hexproof.
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The 49 Best Charge Counter Cards in Magic Ranked
While charge counters might seem like a new mechanic from the upcoming Edge of Eternities set, they’ve been around in Magic: The Gathering for quite a while. They add a unique layer of strategy to the game and lead to some really cool...
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Exiling in MTG: Rules, History and FAQs
Did you know that “removed from the game” effects have been in MTG since the original Alpha set? What about the huge rework to change it to what we know now as exile? Let’s dive in.
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The 42 Best Walls in Magic Ranked
Walls are one of the simplest creature types in Magic that have stuck around since the beginning of the game. The creature type has a few distinct characteristics: low power, high toughness, and the defender keyword forcing them to play...
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Limited Mana Bases: How to Determine Your Lands for Draft and Sealed
Have you ever drafted a deck or built a sealed pool and just let Arena or MTGO tell you what basic lands you should run? What happens when you go to your local store to do your first in-person Draft and you don’t have an algorithm telling you...
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[Guide] How to Use and Set Up SpellTable
While many turned to MTG Arena as an alternative to FNM or casual gameplay in recent years, some players, especially Commander players, turned to play via webcam and VoIP. One way to do this is through SpellTable, an official way to play paper...
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[Guide] 3 Steps to Fix Curled Foils in Magic: The Gathering
Have you ever opened a new Secret Lair Bundle only to find out that some, if not all, of your precious and pricy cards have a weird shape, like they were Pringles?
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The 27 Best Vehicle Commanders in Magic Ranked
Vehicles are now considered a deciduous mechanic, which means we’re going to continue seeing them in new MTG sets as time goes on. So let’s take the temperature on who your vehicle commanders can be as of Modern Horizons 3, including some who you...
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The 36 Most Expensive, High Mana Value Cards in Magic Ranked
Cards with high mana values are usually weak because the risk of having one rotting in your hand is very real. However, MTG has many ways to make expensive cards competitively playable.
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Draftsim Design Experiment: Reality Fracture Cards We’d Love to See
With Reality Fracture on the horizon, we got to thinking…what our the colorshifted classics we want to see most? So, we designed a few cards of our own.
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