As painful as screw and flood are in MTG, there are cards you can run to let you bypass these minor upsets by manipulating the cards you draw. So today, we’re going over Magic’s best card selection cards.
Read moreAlternate arts are one of Magic’s best features. Many of the cards are story pieces, exposing bits of lore. Alternate arts give us another peek at these moments. They’re also a fantastic way to add character to a deck, not to mention potentially...
Read moreI love a good tweak to the typical Magic card frame, especially when it achieves something thematic or builds on the lore and world-building of a set. Not every frame is a hit, but with so many to choose from, let’s focus on the most...
Read moreWarriors are more fun. Soldiers are organized and disciplined and part of a hierarchy, working together toward a common goal that dwarfs each person’s significance. Still, there are some really interesting soldier decks and soldier commanders in...
Read moreIf you’re looking to start playing Magic or want to introduce someone to the game through Commander, you need the right decks to do it with. Start with decks that are easy to understand but also have some hints of more complexity so they can work...
Read moreBut, of course, you have to put those tokens in play first. And since we can’t include them in our decks, we need cards for doing so: token generators. A type of MTG card that Wizards of the Coast is really happy to print, there are well...
Read moreYou might remember some of the ape cards you’ve played with in MTG battles, but I bet you can’t remember them all. Truthfully, they aren’t all worth remembering, but I still want to take a close look at the ape creature type.
Read moreCycles are an important part of Magic’s story and gameplay, and they show different situations from different perspectives of MTG’s color pie. Designers use cycles to show how different colors like red, black, and green see and feel the same...
Read moreSacrificing creatures for value is a time-honored tradition hailing back to the very first days of Magic as a core tenet of black’s desperate bids for power, regardless of the rites and costs associated.
Read more“Magic was too scary,” was something I heard a number of times in my game design classes from students when I asked them about their earliest experience with TCGs. Not because of the rules, but because MTG’s wide ranging use of disturbing art...
Read moreBest cards, plural, may be overstating this keyword ability a bit: as it turns out, there’s exactly two cards with the fortify keyword in all MTG. The same is true for fortification, the artifact subtype associated with the fortify keyword...
Read moreRed has the worst card draw of any color. The other four have creatures that enter and draw a card, or have card draw as a passive effect, or have an activated card drawing ability. But red? No dice.
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