Recursive creatures have a long history in Magic, providing midrange players with the grindy cards they need to win the late-game long after their opponents have emptied their hands and are limping along. Let’s figure out the best recursive...
Read moreWith the release of Bloomburrow and dozens of bird cards, birds return to Standard and make a breakthrough in other formats like Pioneer. Every MTG set has a bird or two, so it’s always an excellent time to rank all of Magic’s best birds...
Read moreEveryone knows that feeling when you open a pack and see that deep orange symbol instead of a gold one, and Orzhov mythics are some of the best around.
Read moreLands are among the game’s most vital resources. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have even more of them? Replay land effects that get lands back from the graveyard can maximize your mana base.
Read moreThere are plenty of incentives for drawing your second card each turn, but why not go bigger and reward yourself for drawing three cards a turn! What’s next, FOUR cards?
Read moreLet me give you a simple, though not all-encompassing, heuristic to improve your Magic play: When faced with multiple options for game actions, take whatever line spends the most of your mana in each turn. In general, the player who spends all...
Read moreThe magic of building a Magic: The Gathering Commander deck is finding the cards that synergize best together to help pave the way to your desired win condition. As you build your Commander deck, you want to incorporate enough creature spells to...
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 moreToday, we’ll look at the best mythic rare cards Gruul has to offer. Hard to collect and sometimes quite expensive, these mythic cards tie many Gruul builds together.
Read moreYou could’ve gone your whole Magic career and never even noticed the trilobite creature type. That’s going to change today.
Read moreWhite’s mythics touch on everything the color cares about: tokens and aggro, angels, lifegain… if white does it, there’s a mythic card that reps the ability.
Read moreOf the many themes a Commander deck might have, one strikes me as very curious: additional combat phases. These EDH decks are very attack-oriented, as the name implies, but isn’t attacking a bad proposition in EDH? Usually yes, because you leave...
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