Proxies aren’t real Magic cards and aren’t suitable for tournament play. Why proxy, if you can’t actually use them? Well, there are some places where it’s perfectly fine to run proxies, but you just need to be aware of when it’s appropriate.
Read moreIncidental damage and lifegain each add up quickly, especially in a format like Commander with super long games. Combining them into one effect gives you a strong advantage—but which of them are the best for you?
Read moreAuras have become a solid enchantment type that infiltrates many decks and formats. These permanents provide a wide range of benefits from buffs to removal.
Read moreIsn’t it frustrating when you’re in the middle of a Magic game and a player forces you to sacrifice a permanent or take a bunch of damage to the face? There’s an answer for dealing with those unfortunate mishaps, and that’s cards that give you...
Read moreThere are many, many ways you can exploit the graveyard, including casting spells from it to using it as a source of card advantage. However you want to leverage your graveyard, there’s a commander for you.
Read moreNot every card type in Magic: The Gathering can become a creature, but what if you could turn your favorite artifacts into powerful win conditions? Today, I’ll cover the best ways to animate artifacts—whether as a bonus effect or the core of an...
Read moreTrample is an evergreen keyword ability that I’m sure we’re all familiar with. It’s all about continuing to deal combat damage even through blockers. There are so many great cards with trample such as Ghalta, Primal Hunger, but why should they...
Read moreRebels in Magic have a distinct mechanical identity that popped up more than 25 years ago before getting a brief resurgence with Phyrexia: All Will Be One. But what’s the difference, and what did those classic cards do? Let’s find out.
Read moreLands tend to be the bland side of Magic, a way to get to the fun part of slamming down creatures and raining instants and sorceries upon our enemies. But then we have utility lands: lands that do something else, which can go from making more...
Read moreMagic has more than 100 cards that have or relate to double strike, and today we’re trimming down that list to the best ones. Stay with me until the very end, and we’ll see which double strike cards are worth playing.
Read moreI first started really getting into uncommons as commanders when I opened Slimefoot, the Stowaway in a Dominaria pack, and it’s been a bit of a collector obsession of mine since. If you share my interest in what can feel a bit like hipster...
Read moreWith vehicles came pilots, but there are a lot fewer pilots than there are vehicles. There’s now pilot typal support, but does that mean the creature type as a whole is a dud? Or is it just a very specialized group of cards?
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