Serpents have been lurking in Magic’s oceans almost since the beginning as enormous blue creatures, usually with some pretty big drawbacks. Thankfully, serpents have improved quite a bit since Magic’s early days.
Read moreDiscard is an integral part of Magic. It disrupts other strategies, like combo or control. Effects that make your opponents slowly discard cards are nice ways to get an edge in grindy matches or fight opponents with a hand full of cards.
Read moreEnchantments are an amazing card type. There are fewer ways to remove enchantments than creatures and so you compile formidable board states by layering enchantment after enchantment that impacts the board.
Read moreCascade is one of my favorite mechanics in Magic. It offers good value and interesting deckbuilding constraints. For example, you can’t really run countermagic with cascade cards. It can also lead to innovative deck designs.
Read moreAtla Palani, Nest Tender is a Naya commander that creates egg creatures and synergizes with eggs. Rukh Egg is, well, a creature with the “egg” creature type. There are some creatures in Magic that are also eggs, eleven to be precise...
Read moreHuman beings like to simplify things, and we tend to explain things in more streamlined terms. That’s where keyword actions come in handy for Magic.
Read moreSeven-mana commanders take time to come down, but they often make up for it with explosive power. Them arriving from the command zone is like the main character showing up to a fight; things are about to get serious.
Read moreBlue did well in Reality Fracture, probably because the set was built around a blue character… though, funnily enough, the interesting blue cards are planeswalker or creatures, not instants or sorceries.
Read more“Budget” is mostly about working around the incredibly expensive cards like original dual lands and fast mana options, and decks can still operate without those, though at the cost of deck efficiency.
Read moreWith Commander being Magic’s most popular format, it’s no surprise that lots of players search far and wide for commander rankings to pull ahead of their opponents. Rather than $40 precons, today I look at the commanders at the helm of EDH decks...
Read moreMagic has been around the block for a while, more than 30 long years at this point. The folks at Wizards of the Coast have been toiling away releasing new sets of cards every few months for almost the entire history of the game.
Read moreReality Fracture is an explosive set on basically every axis. Let’s see if that carries all the way up to the set’s mythic rares.
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